I think that one of my all-time favourite foundations has been knocked from its winner’s podium: I’ve finally found a longwear makeup wiring that I love increasingly than Lancome’s Teint Idole Ultra Wear. It’s – wait for it – Lancome’s Teint Idole Ultra Wear Superintendency & Glow.
No, I’m not stuff facetious: this is an entirely variegated foundation. It’s fresher and lighter and has a increasingly radiant finish yet still continues to fly the longwear flag. Lasting makeup perfection with an widow bit of glow? I’ll take some of that.
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Why I Loved the Original Teint Idole
I shouldn’t really say loved in the past tense considering I still think that Lancome’s original Teint Idole Ultra Wear is one of the most comprehensive luxury foundation offerings out there. The coverage is sunny and lasts for the unshortened day and night regardless of what you’re up to, while somehow leaving your skin still looking like skin and not obliterating all of the life from it. There’s no need for a separate concealer, but neither do you finger as though your makeup is overdone or heavy – no cakiness, no sitting in fine lines, it’s just a flexible-feeling squatter wiring that feels far increasingly plumptious and non-drying than it should.
You can read my foundation review for Teint Idole here if this sounds up your street and you’d like to know more.
Why Superintendency & Glow Is Different
The newer Superintendency & Glow foundation adds – and the track is in the name here – “caring” skincare ingredients to the Teint Idole formula and a dose of healthy, radiant glow to the foundation’s finish. It has slightly less coverage than the Teint Idole Ultra Wear but at the same time feels slightly increasingly buildable and flexible and so it’s easier to double up virtually the nose and under the vision if you finger you need a little uneaten camouflage.
Importantly, Teint Idole Ultra Wear Superintendency & Glow keeps the longwear requirement – 24 hour wear – which makes this the perfect switch-up for those who love the original foundation but want increasingly of a radiant sheen rather than the camera-ready matte-velvet finish of the original.
Is Teint Idole Ultra Wear Superintendency & Glow Foundation Largest than the Original?
I’m going to go all-in here and say yes. I prefer the newer Superintendency & Glow version. I’ve been wearing it for virtually a year, regularly, and I have to say that I find it much increasingly versatile than the original, standard version. Though the original is veritably sunny for creating a flawless canvas (looks particularly good on film, which is a big part of my working life), Superintendency & Glow just adds the touch of radiance that I think my squatter needs, now that I’m theoretically hurtling through my forties at a speed that I didn’t plane know existed.
When it comes to my makeup I don’t want shimmer, I don’t want glittery highlights, I want the fresh-faced “I’ve just taken a jog up and lanugo the canal” look. Considering I don’t live anywhere near a waterway and plane if I did it’s very unlikely you’d overly see me jogging. I just want the skin benefits of the jog. And a gentle jog at that – don’t requite me the insanely sweaty squint that seems to be all the rage on Instagram, where faces squint as though they’ve been oiled and polished to a mirror shine.
My squatter has never looked that dewy naturally, plane when I was nineteen (probably the ten Benson & Hedges a day) and I don’t need it to squint that dewy now: what I do need it to squint is like I haven’t just spent three years traversing the Arctic surviving on a dehydrating nutrition of gin and dry crackers. I need to squint as though I don’t spend half of the year cooped up inside, typing into my palmtop with my knees versus the radiator; I need to squint like a woman who doesn’t have a nutrition that’s currently 85% Colston Bassett cheese.
So yeah: a touch of radiance, please, and if I want or need increasingly than that I’ll just dig out a highlighter from my special forgotten things drawer and put it on over the top. If I’d like to go “full robotic” like the people on Tiktok, who squint as though they’ve gilded themselves in gold leaf, I’ll take superintendency of that myself. If I want to squint as though forty-three snails have raced wideness my face, in circles then I know how to unzip that and I thank you, Lancome, for not towers that in to your Teint Idole Superintendency & Glow.
Teint Idole Ultra Wear Superintendency & Glow Surpassing and Without Photos
Some surpassing and without shots for you, just to demonstrate the genius at work; you can see that Superintendency & Glow knocks when the redness virtually my nose and some of the darkness virtually my eyes. This was one very light application. Almost a “whisking” of it, if I was going to get all poetic, with a increasingly targeted using in the areas that needed it:
I’ll zoom in so that you can get a largest idea – can you see how lovely and fresh the finish looks? The only way I can describe the finger of the foundation is to say “bouncy and flexible” and hope that it doesn’t sound too much like a weft from a Carry On film. The wing of the hydrating serum into the formula definitely gives it a wonderful, moisturising feel, but the longwear speciality ways that it’s not greasy or sliding virtually all over the shop. You can trust that once it’s on it’ll pretty much stick in place.
Teint Idole Ultra Wear Superintendency & Glow Shades
When Lancome re-jigged the original version of Teint Idole they reverted the shades well-nigh and good heavens did it make the long-term fans annoyed. I didn’t find it too much of a struggle to equate my old shade to a new one but I can see how it was an uneaten admin task that people didn’t want, expressly when they’d been using the same foundation in the same shade for years and years. I’m hazarding a guess that Lancome needed to transpiration shade numbers considering they widow so many new ones, but please don’t shoot the messenger. I’m not plane a messenger, I’m a…guessenger.
The good news is that the Superintendency & Glow shades seem to line up quite neatly with the standard formula ones – my 220C is pretty much the same in both. Perhaps the standard non-glow version is a touch darker, but I’m really splitting hairs here! They do a shade match on the Lancome website here but I really like Findation for double-checking my foundation shades online and have unchangingly found it to be pretty accurate.
Care & Glow comes in thirty shades but the standard Teint Idole has a whopping forty-five and so it still pips the new one to the post in that respect. I’m just veritably sold on the juicier look, the bouncier finger and that little bit of uneaten glow: I don’t think I’ve worn the regular version since I got the new one!
You can find Lancome Teint Idole Ultra Wear Superintendency & Glow at all of the stockists below, if you’re still awake without typing out the product name. It’s £38 but if you’re savvy with the worthier etailers there’s often a lawmaking to wield or a little unbelieve running. At time of writing it’s just £28 at Boots here*.
Lancome Superintendency & Glow at LookFantastic*
Lancome Superintendency & Glow at John Lewis*
Lancome Superintendency & Glow at Sephora*
Lancome Superintendency & Glow at Selfridges*