There seems to be a bit of a thing for longwear foundation launches at the moment, and I have a handful of those that I’m testing on rotation, but I wanted to kick off this run of reviews with Dior’s new Diorskin Forever Perfect Mousse. Although it actually is longwear, longevity isn’t even this foundation’s talking point – it’s forté, I suppose, is its light-as-air texture, its ultra-matte finish and its ability to create a sort of blurred “veil” over the surface of the skin.

But it would be remiss of me to go any further with this review without first making a direct comparison to another light-as-a-feather, blurring base. I wrote about La Roche-Posay’s Effaclar BB Blur at the beginning of last year and could find very little wrong with the formula – it was beautifully light, easy to blend, oil-controlling, pore-minimising, imperfection-blurring and shine-blotting. Perfect, really, on the face of it, and it gave the most amazing radiance to the skin (look at the before and after pics, they’re quite striking!) but the BB Blur had one major and disappointing flaw: it came in only two shades. Effaclar BB Blur Review
So when the press material for Dior’s Forever Mousse foundation came through I was instantly intrigued. It promised, on paper, everything I had seen the Effaclar BB Blur deliver – a light mousse texture, an almost imperceptible feel on the skin, a pore-blurring effect and a mat...