Dream Matte Mousse Foundation

The Dream Matte Mousse foundation is my new (since a month or two) everyday beloved product, for a day time good to go, natural yet polished look. As the name states, it provides indeed matte finish, and being of a mousse consistency, it is totally lightweight on skin and it feels silk and soft to the touch.

However, the first version of this foundation was bought back in 2008 and I had a love-hate relationship with it for 6 months, when I finally gave up as it got hard as stone in the jar. I think Maybelline did a great upgrade in this new formula, because my first version was very patchy, clumpy and hard to blend.

The new formula (as I refer the one I bought in 2010) melts on your skin, blends effortlessly and at the end of application you can almost believe you are wearing nothing, unless you look in a magnifying mirror at 5cm (-+2 inches) distance.

The coverage really surprised me too, I noticed a considerably improvement and it covers most of my imperfections, and oh lord, they are many, such as blemishes, pigmentation, redness etc, and I can classify it as medium coverage. It also does a brilliant job disguising my large pores on my T-zone and I guess it would be a good product for filling the fine lines, but thank goodness, I don’t suffer of this problem YET, so I can only tell as an option. For the setting part, just use your powder as usual if you have combination/oily skin and for dry skin, I would totally skip this step as it has the matte properties already.

The only two points on the down side are: It doesn’t stay perfectly on face for more than 6h, so you need to reapply it to get the same coverage you had when you first applied. It can be a problem, if you are the type of person who hates to carry your foundation bottle with you, especially if it’s made of glass, like this product, but I don’t see a problem in it. And if you don’t mind your foundation becoming a bit sheer at the end of the day, you could totally eliminate this part.

The other point is that the product loses its airiness (micro air bubbles that makes the mousse consistency) very fast. I reckon it’s due to the air exposure, so make sure you tighten the lid after every use. I have mine for about 2 months, and I’m starting to see the fluffiness going away.


Nevertheless, great foundation for day time, it goes on smoothly and attends my needs without looking like a mask., check out my video if you want to see a demo of myself applying this foundation and see what it’s all about!

Have you tried this foundation yet? Or any other Maybelline one? X