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
Love the natural sheer finish...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...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.
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: 0.1 oz/3.5 G·ITEM: 2485472
Color: See Sheer - grapefruit pink
$33.00
The color payoff is super sheer, more like a tinted lip gloss than a true lipstick.
What it is: A lightweight, sheer lipstick that delivers high-shine, buildable color with 8-hour wear and long-lasting moisture.
Formulation Type: Lipstick
What Else You Need to Know: This silky lipstick glides on for sheer, buildable color and a lustrous finish. A blend of Jojoba, Raspberry Seed, Coconut and Organic Extra-Virgin Olive Oils nourishes, while Shea Butter conditions and Hyaluronic Acid helps lock in moisture. The result? Comfortable color with long-wearing shine.
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: 0.10 oz.·ITEM: 2730083
Color: 13 Blinding Pink
$22.00
Beautiful sheer lipstick!...It's also so affordable which I love about Sephora Collection makeup....Beauty sheer tint...My lips feel soft and hydrated, it’s definitely conditioning providing a beautiful sheer tint. I absolutely love this shade it’s perfect for every day makeup.
What it is:
A lightweight lipstick with eye-catching prismatic shine that provides lips with a sheer flush of color and a 12-hour moisturizing, balm-like texture.
Formulation Type: Lipstick
What Else You Need to Know: This lipstick contains pigments with unrivaled power to reflect light, for maximum prismatic shine.Their special structure reflects the light more intensely than traditional pearls while the sheer coverage balm formula coats the lips with a long-lasting feeling of hydration. Available in a wide range of shades that compliment all skin tones with a sheer flush of eye-catching color.
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: 0.12 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.
$27.00
love love love this lipstick for those days when i’m not wearing too much makeup. i quite enjoy this one because usually sheer lipsticks are glossy and shiny and i find them uncomfortable sensory wise but i have no problems with this...I have 2 colors and they’re a perfect sheer mate lipstick. U can build the color or leave sheer.
What it is: A sheer-matte lipstick with sheer, buildable pigment for a just-blotted, softly diffused, blurred lip look with a comfortable, cushiony feel.
Formulation Type: Lipstick
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Sunflower Seed Wax: Feels smooth and cushiony on lips.
- Blue Agave: Locks in moisture for comfortable wear.
- Soft Focus Elasto-Powder provides the unique mattifying-but-not-drying effect.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, a
