Sheer makeup is a great way to cover up blemishes, dark circles under your eyes, and other imperfections. The main difference between sheer and full-coverage makeup is the amount of pigment in the products. Sheer makeup isn’t about covering everything up—it’s about blending away imperfections to give you a natural look. Here are some of our top sheer makeups.
Size: 0.42 oz/ 12.5 mL·ITEM: 2380343
Color: Fresh Faced - warm fawn pink
$37.00
I recommend applying with your fingertip or brush as it is very light and sheer. If you use a foam applicator it will get shucked right up. ...Too sheer for me...The blush was extremely sheer and I feel it didn’t add much to the over all look.
What it is: A water rich blush that melts into the skin, giving your cheeks a beautiful veil of soft-focus color.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Marrubium Vulgare Extract (Horehound Extract): Contains antipollution benefits.
Size: 1 oz / 30 mL·ITEM: 2536191
Color: Shade 2 - Light with Cool Undertones
$57.00
amazing finish, natural and ideal for no makeup makeup look. It’s in the sheer side and very liquid but i do add more for coverage....Im really like the Summer Fridays Sheer Skin Tint it’s lightweight and blends seamlessly with a sheer finish. ...very pretty, for the sheer girls...Love the natural sheer finish
What it is: A lightweight skin tint that layers beautifully for sheer-to-light coverage with a natural-looking finish.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Natural
Formulation: Liquid
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Tiger Grass: Helps soothe the skin and reduce the look of redness.
- Humectant Blend (Glycerin and Hyaluronic Acid): Helps to visibly plump fine lines and support a healthy-feeling moisture barrier.
- Rich Emollients (Squalane, Vitamin E, Safflower, and Avocado Oils): Lock in hydration and help the formula glide evenly over skin.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.
$64.00
Sheer perfection...I got to try this product for free via the Influenster app and I am thrilled about it! This sparkly sheer finish is the perfect addition to any makeup look. ...I was intimidated by the color at first but it sheers out perfectly and adds that perfect rosy touch to my makeup looks.
What it is: A lightweight, multiuse complexion enhancer for a dewy glow—use as a highlighter or mix with skincare or foundation for a radiant boost.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Liquid
What Else You Need to Know: Experience weightless perfection with this liquid formula, which melts into skin for a seamless finish, under or over makeup. Sheer, buildable coverage ensures mistake-proof application, allowing you to customize your glow. Available in versatile shades, it can be used as a highlighter, blush, or bronzer. You can also mix it with foundation for a radiance boost.
Size: 1 oz/ 3 g·ITEM: 2485472
Color: See Sheer - grapefruit pink
$37.00
Beautiful color, i love the sheer, shiny finish. It feels like a lip balm because it's very moisturizing. ...The color payoff is super sheer, more like a tinted lip gloss than a true lipstick.
What it is: A lightweight raspberry seed- and extra-virgin olive oil-infused lipstick that delivers sheer and shiny color with a long-wear finish.
Formulation Type: Lipstick
What Else You Need to Know: This lipstick provides immediate and long-term moisture to condition lips quickly and over time, so lips are left looking fuller and healthier while feeling softer, smoother, and more supple. It also provides up to eight hours of long-wearing color for the best lasting lipstick.
Size: 1 oz / 30 mL·ITEM: 2649101
Color: G12 - lightest
$41.00
Perfect sheer coverage look - very faint for a no makeup appearance...Truly a dewy sheer skin tint...Simple. Easy. Sheer. Dewy- all in which I love. It’s a perfect base for the no-makeup, makeup look.
What it is: A lightweight skin tint with sheer coverage that evens out the look of skin tone, minimizes appearance of pores, and leaves skin with a smooth, dewy finish.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Liquid
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Glycerin: Helps skin attract and retain moisture.
- Diamond Powder: Visibly minimizes the look of pores with a brightening and blurring effect.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance.
Size: 0.11 oz / 3.5 mL·ITEM: 2650059
Color: Palm - golden beige
$25.00
veryyyy sheer but pretty...this is a very pretty eyeshadow, and i like the cream formula, but it is very very very sheer...After a few minutes it kind of fades away. It does have a sheer, light colour from the start. Glossier is known for their sheer makeup so I knew it wasn't going to be super pigmented.
What it is: A buildable, liquid-to-powder matte eyeshadow for a tint of soft, diffused color that lasts up to 12 hours with no smudging.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Novatol: Bioavailable plant-based vitamin E blend with antioxidant properties.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.
Size: 0.12 oz/ 3.6 mL·ITEM: 2096949
Color: Peach Lustre - bronzy orange
$43.00
What it is:
A pen-style highlighter that efficiently brings a soft, sheer wash of color to the skin.
What it does:
With its precision application, Prep + Prime Highlighter adds radiance just where you want it. The formula goes on smoothly for cushion-soft wear. Use it over makeup for highlights or touch-ups, or under makeup to brighten and prime.
Prep + Prime Highlighter provides instant radiance that is lightweight, long-wearing, and non-drying. It is dermatologist-tested, ophthalmologist-tested, and non-acnegenic.
Size: 6 x 0.08 oz/ 2.4 g·ITEM: 2147015
Color: Medium Dark/Dark
$59.00
Been obsessed with the MAC Studio Sculpt & Shape Contour Palette lately 🤎 The powders blend like butter and give that pro-finish every time! A must-have for any makeup lover...I am not really a contour/highlighting person because I am typically turned off by seeing results that look overdone but this product completely changed my opinion. The fact that it's sheer but buildable helps a lot. I watched a few tutorials (Hindash youtube tutorial on "All Matte" is a must-see) and I was really happy how I was able to achieve this enhanced, glowy and sultry look that looks like I'm not wearing any makeup at all.
What it is:
An expertly-edited contouring palette with six shades to sculpt and enhance features.
What it does:
This expertly-edited palette contains three matte contouring powders and three subtly-shimmery highlighting powders to sculpt, shape, and enhance your facial features. Each highlighting shade contains soft-focus technology to softly reflect light while the contouring colors provide sheer coverage to create natural-looking shadows. The effect is maximum impact with minimal texture.
What else you need to know:
These shades provide smooth, even, silky application with a formula soothes and conditions skin. This product is suitable for all skin types, dermatologist-tested, and non-acnegenic.
Size: 0.35 oz/ 10 g·ITEM: 2093680
Color: Gold Deposit - soft reflective golden-bronze
$59.00
A must to have in your makeup kit
What it is:
A luxurious powder with M·A·C Multi-Mineral Complex that adds highlights to the face and body.
What it does:
This luxurious, slow-baked, velvety-soft, domed face powder offers a radiant finish. Strategically buff on to add highlights to the high points of the face, or blend all over for a sheer luminous polish to the skin. It features the M·A·C Multi-Mineral Complex and vitamin E.
What else you need to know:
This product is dermatologist and ophthalmologist tested and non-acnegenic. After adding product on your brush, mist brush with Prep + Prime Fix + and apply to high planes of face for a more intense, metallic highlight.
Size: 0.2 oz/ 6 g·ITEM: 2411668
Color: Passionfruit - warm coral luminescent pink
$50.00
It is very buildable, where you can go sheer or heavy. Peach/coral blushes are my go to because I love how it gives you a natural “flushed” look and not an obvious makeup look. ...I thought this color might be a little dark for me as I received a complementary but I have to say that it looks great. It’s a sheer buildable blush that delivers 10 hours of natural looking cheek color.
What it is:
A long-wearing, sheer powder blush that provides up to 10 hours of buildable, natural-looking cheek color for all skin tones.
What it does:
Blush Colour Infusion is a sheer, buildable, and silky-smooth cheek color that blends seamlessly with skin for the most natural, fresh look. Pure color pigments feel weightless and apply evenly to skin for a healthy-looking flush of color that lasts for up to 10 hours. Infused with micro-fine powders, this next-generation formula can build from a diffused, sheer hint of color to a bold color statement. It’s designed to layer as flawlessly with liquid or powder makeup as it does on bare skin.
