For skin over 40, the name of the skin game is hydration, hydration, hydration. “As we age, our skin naturally becomes thinner and more sensitive due to reduced collagen production, decreased lipid content and an overall weakening of the skin’s barrier function. This makes mature skin more prone to irritation, dryness and inflammation,” New York dermatologist Julie Russak, MD previously explained to NewBeauty. “For mature skin—especially as estrogen levels decline—maintaining hydration, restoring lost lipids and stimulating collagen production become paramount.”
When it comes to skin care, choosing a rich, nourishing moisturizer is the easiest adaption to make as aging skin gains texture and leans toward the drier side—but that doesn't mean you have to sacrifice your favorite multitasking face formulas. If you want your skin care to play double duty and blur texture, provide coverage without enhancing wrinkles and leave skin with a healthy glow, a hydrating tinted moisturizer is the key to a flawless face.
Where to start? You're in the right place. Below, the best skin-plumping, wrinkle-minimizing tinted moisturizers for mature skin, based on overwhelming enthusiasm from shoppers exclusively 40 years and over.
The Best Tinted Moisturizers for Mature Skin, Per Shoppers 40 and Over
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Best Overall
Danessa Myricks Beauty Yummy Skin Serum Skin Tint checks all the boxes. The formula pairs ceramides and collagen peptides to plump and protect the skin barrier. Squalane boosts hydration all day, leaving skin with a glowy finish. Shoppers also love how the light coverage blurs dark spots, sunspots and redness without feeling too heavy on skin.
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2 / 9
Best Smoothing
With ingredients like firming copper peptides, soothing zinc, smoothing saccharide isomerate and hydrating sodium PCA, BB Burst has become a hit among 40-and-over shoppers thanks to a light-as-air gel texture that smooths and blurs.
BUY ON KOSAS - $38
BUY ON SEPHORA - $38
3 / 9
Best for Sensitive Skin
Soothe redness and stressed-out skin with this fragrance-free, 100 percent mineral sunscreen skin tint. Prickly pear and aloe vera combine to repair, soften and smooth skin while maintaining a natural glow. It’s also the first and only complexion product with the National Eczema Association‘s Seal of Acceptance.
BUY ON TOWER 28 - $32
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4 / 9
Best Light Coverage
The iconic formula recently got an upgrade to include even more skin-loving ingredients like macadamia and kukui seed oils and tamarind seed extract for an effortless second-skin look with the prettiest sheer glow.
BUY ON SEPHORA - $50
BUY ON AMAZON - $50
5 / 9
Best Medium Coverage
Those who want more coverage than the usual sheer-to-light options will love Milk Makeup's Hydro Grip buildable coverage that still looks like skin. The gel formula uses three molecular weights of hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, squalane and aloe water to moisturize skin. The blue agave extract keeps the skin tint and any makeup you wear on top in place.
BUY ON ULTA - $36
BUY ON SEPHORA - $36
6 / 9
Best Radiance
Billed "5-in-1 skincare," this is one of the best hybrid makeup/skin-care products. Broad-spectrum SPF 30 UVA/UVB protects skin from UV damage, pollution and blue light, while sodium hyaluronate restores moisture and improves skin elasticity. Also, each tub is chock full of antioxidants that brighten, boost collagen and even skin tone, the latter shoppers say you notice instantly.
BUY ON IRIS&ROMEO - $48
BUY ON CREDO BEAUTY - $48
7 / 9
Best for Dry Skin
“One part next-gen moisturizer, one part intuitive skin tint.” U Beauty's THE SUPER Tinted Hydrator has 11 flexible shades that self-adjust to your skin for a truly seamless match. A formula of purified oat extract, peptides, shea butter, avocado oil, grapeseed oil and argan oil visibly improves skin texture, restores your complexion’s youthful bounce and helps reduce the look of lines and wrinkles.
BUY ON U BEAUTY - $108
BUY ON DERMSTORE - $108
8 / 9
Best Drugstore
Don't leave your next drugstore run without L'Oréal's True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum. The titular hyaluronic acid-rich serum delivers intense hydration plus luminous mineral pigments to give you a stunning glow in one step, according to its 12,000 five-star reviews.
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9 / 9
Newest Launch
Jones Road's Just Enough Tinted Moisturizer launched on April 8, but we had to give it an honorable mention. Bobbi Brown's latest launch expertly masters the no-makeup makeup look. With glycerin, sodium hyaluronate and vitamin E, it hydrates, evens skin tone and camouflages fine lines with a soft, airbrush-like finish. To read our editor's full review, click here.
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