Best overall
Real Techniques
Miracle Complexion Sponge
8.3Great
The orange drugstore sponge long pitted against the Beautyblender, and Byrdie's 2026 pick for blending cream products.
Tool4$5.47
Finish & Wear · Finish
Natural
8 products we review are built for natural — 38% of them sunscreen. The ingredients doing most of the work: vitamin e, glycerin and chemical uv filters. Most are made for sensitive skin, dry skin and normal skin.
How makeup looks and lasts: matte to dewy, all-day wear, sheer to full coverage.
Top rated
The natural podium.
The ingredients behind it
Key actives in the products that deliver natural — 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 natural pick.
8 products
Cult favorite
Anastasia Beverly Hills
Brow Wiz
8.0Great
ABH's ultra-fine retractable brow pencil for hair-like strokes, in 11 shades; a long-time favorite whose $26 price invites dupes.
Brow4$26.00
Community favorite
Physicians Formula
Murumuru Butter Bronzer
8.0Great
A drugstore cult bronzer with a creamy-feeling powder and soft glow, in eight shades for $16.99.
Bronzer5$16.99
Cult favorite
Beautyblender
Beautyblender Original Makeup Sponge
7.9Good
The original pink, edgeless blending sponge, still a benchmark for a seamless damp-sponge finish, though cheaper rivals now come close.
Tool3$20.00
Cult favorite Trending
Supergoop!
Unseen Sunscreen SPF 50
7.9Good
The cult clear-gel primer sunscreen, now SPF 50: invisible on every skin tone and makeup-friendly, but pricey per ounce.
SPF 504$38.00
Best value Trending
Bioré
UV Aqua Rich SPF 50 (US formula)
7.8Good
The US-legal take on Japan's cult watery sunscreen: light, invisible and cheap, but fragranced, alcohol-based and not the Japanese formula.
SPF 505$15.99
Sensitive-skin pick Trending
Tower 28
SunnyDays Tinted SPF 30
7.7Good
A gentle 100% mineral tinted SPF 30 with buildable light-medium coverage and an NEA seal, in 17 shades.
SPF 305$32.00
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