Best overall
Rare Beauty
Soft Pinch Liquid Blush
8.5Great
A weightless, highly pigmented liquid blush where one dot is enough, now in 16 matte and dewy shades.
Blush5$25.00
Finish & Wear · Finish
Matte
8 products we review are built for matte — 38% of them complexion. The ingredients doing most of the work: vitamin e, vitamin c and niacinamide. Most are made for oily skin, combination skin and sensitive skin.
How makeup looks and lasts: matte to dewy, all-day wear, sheer to full coverage.
Top rated
The matte podium.
The ingredients behind it
Key actives in the products that deliver matte — tap one for what it does and how strong the evidence is.
Often paired with
Benefits that tend to come along for the ride.
8 products
Every matte pick.
8 products
Community favorite
Laura Mercier
Translucent Loose Setting Powder
8.3Great
The benchmark loose setting powder: finely milled, truly translucent and long-wearing, though it contains talc and costs $43.
Powder4$43.00
Best value
Maybelline New York
Fit Me Matte + Poreless Foundation
8.2Great
A $11.99 oil-free matte foundation in 40 shades that remains a go-to drugstore pick for normal to oily skin.
Foundation4$11.99
Community favorite
Anastasia Beverly Hills
Soft Glam Eyeshadow Palette
8.1Great
A 14-shade warm-neutral palette of 9 mattes and 5 metallics that creators still return to for everyday-to-evening looks.
Eyeshadow palette5$48.00
Cult favorite
Benefit Cosmetics
Hoola Matte Bronzer
7.7Good
The long-running matte powder bronzer: soft, natural warmth with no shimmer, now in seven shades.
Bronzer5$36.00
Estée Lauder
Double Wear Stay-in-Place Foundation
7.6Good
The long-wear matte icon, reformulated in 2026 with 36-hour claims and skin-balancing actives; longtime fans are split on the change.
Foundation5$52.00
Budget pick
Neutrogena
Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch Sunscreen Lotion Broad Spectrum SPF 55
7.6Good
A cheap, water-resistant drugstore classic with a fast-drying, non-shiny finish; it is fragranced, and white-cast reports are mixed.
SPF 552
Cult favorite Trending
Charlotte Tilbury
Matte Revolution Lipstick in Pillow Talk
7.5Good
The best-known nude-pink matte lipstick: comfortable, flattering and long-wearing, at a luxury price.
Lipstick4$37.00