Straight out of the bottle in a full on swatch you can see that they look very differently: the texture is different and also the shades. The All Hours foundation is to the right. In the picture above you can see the YSL Touche Éclat on the left. And here you can see why being able to swatch a foundation and trying it in store is soooo important. Remember: both foundations are in BR20 Cool Ivory and in the bottle they look nothing alike. I thought that for the sake of the review I could at least put these two shades up against each other.
How does the Touche Éclat foundation compare to the All Hours foundation? So instead I decided it was not worth the hassle, kept the product and just hoped for the best. This would mean I would have to repurchase the foundation at full price or wait for another sale.
There weren’t even any testers around for the shades that you could only find online! Now, I could have sent this back to the warehouse, but online the store doesn’t do any exchanges: you can only return the product and get a refund. In fact, I found out that the shades listed as available in store were completely different from the ones available online and if you looked at the in store overview it was as if the shade I had purchased didn’t even exist. So an in-store exchange was not possible and the sale I had used to purchase this product had long since expired. Long story short: I could only return it by sending it back as I had bought it online (bluh) and because none of the lightest shades were actually available in store (double bluh). I decided to go for the latter option, waited about a week or so for stores to reopen and tried to exchange the product.
Now you should know that where I live, opened makeup cannot be returned, so I would either have to commit or make an exchange. But when I got it home and put it next to my All Hours, my heart sank: it doesn’t even look like it in the bottle! It looked promising in the pictures I could find and I have learned my lesson by now that super light shades aren’t always the prettiest on me. I couldn’t find great swatches online and since I own the All Hours foundation in BR20, I decided to go for that shade in the end. I ordered this foundation online as we were still in lockdown. What does this foundation have to offer?īut before we look at the coverage and round off this review, I have to come on here and tell you about my shade matching struggles. This was the case for any of the shades in the fair to light range, which is why this foundation was a bit of a gamble, but I will tell you more about that when we get to the shade match section of this review. It comes in 30 shades, but sadly many of these are not available from brick & mortar stores, but can only be found online. I actually bought this during a sale and I got 25% off, meaning I paid just under or over €40 for this. To be fair though, that’s not how much I ended up paying for this foundation. Because at €55 a pop, this foundation doesn’t come cheap. For years the All Hours was the most expensive foundation I had ever owned. Let’s stat where this foundation hurts the most and that is its price point. YSL Touche Éclat Le Teint foundation BR20 Cool Ivory It was a ride (how can you shade match when none of the lightest, or darkest, shades aren’t even in store) and today I am giving you my full review of how I feel about this foundation now that I have used it consistently for on a day to day basis for a full 1.5 weeks. So when I discovered YSL had updated their infamous Touche Éclat foundation to be repackaged and possibly reformulated, I decided that my next bougee foundation purchase would be this. It has great lasting power, the shade match is on point and I just love that thing to the moon and back. My all time favorite longwear foundation? YSL All Hours foundation in BR20.
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