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L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum Foundation
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About this product

A lightweight tinted serum foundation with hyaluronic acid, designed to provide sheer-to-medium coverage while maintaining a skin-like finish and hydrating benefits.

Full ingredients

Aqua/​Water/​Eau, Isododecane, Dimethicone, Alcohol Denat, Trimethylsiloxysilicate, Butylene Glycol, PEG-10 Dimethicone, Perlite, Sodium Hyaluronate, Nylon-12, Isopropyl Lauroyl Sarcosinate, Diisopropyl Sebacate, Disteardimonium Hectorite, Hdi/​Trimethylol Hexyllactone Crosspolymer, Bis-PEG/​PPG-14/​14 Dimethicone, Magnesium Sulfate, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Ethylhexyl Hydroxystearate, Phenoxyethanol, Cellulose, Dipentaerythrityl Tetrahydroxystearate/​Tetraisostearate, Silica Silylate, Disodium Stearoyl Glutamate, Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Tocopherol, Moroccan Lava Clay, Glycerin, Empetrum Nigrum Fruit Juice, Aluminum Hydroxide, Silica, Potassium Sorbate, Ci 77491, Ci 77492, Ci 77499/​Iron Oxides, Ci 77891/​Titanium Dioxide, Ci 77163/​Bismuth Oxychloride )

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Guru Score

73%

Mixed

8 experts · Strong agreement

What the gurus are saying

This tinted serum earns consistent praise for its skin-like finish and lightweight feel, with gurus repeatedly noting it looks like bare skin rather than makeup. The formula hydrates and blends seamlessly, making it a drugstore standout that works especially well on oily and combination skin, though one reviewer flagged the denatured alcohol as potentially problematic for very dry skin. The main catch is the glass bottle (heavy and not travel-friendly) and a packaging flaw where product pools on the dropper tip without a wiper to contain it.
Synthesized from 8 expert reviews · most recent take October 2026

What they liked

  • Skin-like finish without looking like makeup
  • Glowy but not oily
  • Lightweight and barely-there feel

What they flagged

  • Dropper packaging is messy
  • May not last long on oily skin

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Type

FoundationLiquid

Key actives

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeContains drying alcohol

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What the gurus are saying.

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Allie Glines
Allie Glines
829k subs
~Yay
"The L'Oreal True Match Tinted Serum. This is one of the best drugstore complexion products ever, ever, ever. I love this for everyday. It looks so skin-like. [...] I would choose this for complexion just because it's been a tried and true favorite for me for forever and the price is right with this one."
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"I fell in love with the L'Oreal True Match Nude Tinted Serum this year. I didn't try it this year, but I used this like crazy. It is so beautiful."
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"I'm still in love with this, the L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum. I just love this so much. The formula feels kind of skin-like, skincare-esque, and it really does help keep my makeup on longer, which as a mom of two is very important for me. [...] I've been using this product for years."
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"To even out Rachel's skin tone, we're using the L'Oreal skin tint, which is one of my favorites for everyday. It really just looks like skin. [...] I've personally found this combo, the Maybelline primer paired with the L'Oreal skin tint actually play really well together. And you get the longevity from the primer, but then you still are left with a finish because of the skin tint that just looks like skin."
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"This is the L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum from the drugstore. I love love love this stuff. The shade match is impeccable on me for this. I wear the shade 0.5 to 2. My favorite thing about this is how skin-like it looks. It really does not look or feel heavy, which is why I gravitate toward it on basically a daily basis. Right now, especially because I'm eight months pregnant, this foundation has come back into my routine like nothing else."
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"This has not left my makeup bag. I love this, but it fully came back into my routine a couple of months ago and I haven't stopped using it. It's from L'Oreal. It's the True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum. I wear the lightest shade currently, 0.5 to two. It's pretty sheer but I love it. It gives just the right amount of coverage I feel, especially for everyday."
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"This is the L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum Foundation. A great thing about this as well is it's very, very skin-like and just foolproof. I'm not trying to look snatched and change my appearance entirely. I'm just trying to make sure that when I see myself in the mirror, I look like myself and I just look a little more polished and a little more healthy."
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"The way that I feel about this is unmatched. I'm able to really take this from day to night. You can build up the coverage, but if you want to sheer it out, it looks like skin. It's hydrating. It's a very balancing formula, meaning it's not too glowy, not too greasy, and it's also not drying. You don't get mega longevity with this as you would a more mattifying foundation, but I like that about this."
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"The L'Oreal Skin Tint is one of my holy grail products."
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"For makeup what's in in 2024 is skin tints. I have a couple that I feel like are great, one from the drugstore is the L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum Foundation. This stuff is so beautiful."
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"This is called the True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tint and Serum. I'm sure you guys have heard of it, heard me talk about it. I wear the shade 0.5 to 2. The only thing I don't love is the packaging. It is a disaster to work with, but I still love the formula so much so I keep using it. You can see how glorious my complexion looks, but it still literally looks like my skin."
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"The only thing I don't love about this is the packaging. I feel like it just gets so messy. What I love about the skin tint is first of all I feel like the shade match is so great. Second of all I feel like the coverage is really really nice, especially for everyday. It's not going to make you look too over the top. It's going to suit any sort of occasion or situation because you can also build up the coverage if you want to. It's such a good product."
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"Full coverage isn't for me. At 37 with two kids I need something quick and easy. This serum is my favorite."
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"This is the L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum. I'm going to take this on the back of my hand and then I'm going to take it and really lightly just buff over all the contour concealer or like highlight that I put underneath. And then when you underpaint and then you apply your complexion product over, you can see it still keeps that structure, but it looks like it's coming from your skin versus a contour kind of sitting on top of the skin."
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"The L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum is a great product for what you were expressing. It does give a little more coverage but the wear is really amazing on this, and you can really customize the coverage by how much you use."
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"It actually gives pretty good coverage for a skin tint and it just feels like skin care, it feels like it meshes into your skin. L'Oreal has been really stepping up their game with foundations. A lot of their foundations are just as good as high-end ones. The formulas are so affordable and even the packaging, this nice glass packaging, it's so great. I love this one."
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"I wear mine in the shade 0.5 to two. I really wish it wouldn't have a dropper applicator though because I feel like it just gets so messy, but it is what it is. [...] This is going to give you like a bit of coverage. It's just going to tint the skin slightly, which is what I look for in an everyday product in general. It's going to add a little bit of glow and a lot of hydration, but I find that this doesn't like look greasy by the end of the day on me."
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"This is one of my personal favorite foundations ever. [...] It looks so skin-like but it is buildable and looks great in photos as well."
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"I'm back on the L'Oreal True Match Nude serum, this stuff is so good. My packaging is a little busted though, so I just have to take the dropper and put it on the back of my hand. I love the freshness that it adds to the skin. I love that it has quite a bit of coverage though, so you kind of get the best of both worlds. I feel like it works great for every day, but you can also build it up for a little bit more of a glamorous situation, and it just wears well."
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"I think that the L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum is one of the best drugstore products ever to exist. It is so beautiful. I feel like it's got very gorgeous buildable coverage. It's not going to look super heavy and makeup-y. You can build it up, so it's really nice and very versatile. I would recommend this for more dry to normal or combo skin."
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"This one I've loved for years now. [...] This was one of my most worn complexion products for an everyday basis. It just was practical for me this year and it's honestly foolproof. You really can't go wrong and I love that it's from the drugstore."
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"The L'Oreal Paris True Match Hyaluronic Tinted Serum is one I highly recommend if somebody wants to start into complexion products. The drugstore is a great place to start for beginners."
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"Let's go with something a little more sheer, shall we? Let's go into this L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum. This is one of the best products ever, but especially for summer time. I'm just going to layer that right on top. I don't want like too much coverage. I just kind of want to even out the redness on my cheeks."
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"This is the L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum. I would recommend this if you have more dry skin and you want a little bit less coverage."
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"I think this is one of the best skin-like foundations or skin tints on the market. I personally get great coverage with this. It's going to give you more of a sheer to medium coverage depending on how much you apply. [...] When it's spread out all over the skin, it's going to make you look very healthy and glowy. This is something that truly looks like skin, and it's one of the best out there on the market. The fact that it's from the drugstore makes it that much better."
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"The L'Oreal True Match Tinted Serum. This is one of the best drugstore complexion products ever, ever, ever. I love this for everyday. It looks so skin-like. [...] I would choose this for complexion just because it's been a tried and true favorite for me for forever and the price is right with this one."
Skin Obsessed Mary
Skin Obsessed Mary
33k subs
~Yay
"If I had to choose a budget alternative, I'd probably go with the L'Oreal True Match Hyaluronic Tinted Serum. Now, this is such a beautiful product. It gives me that fresh, radiant, my skin but better look. And that's from the drugstore. Like it really is very good."
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"If I had to choose a budget alternative, I'd probably go with the L'Oreal True Match Hyaluronic Tinted Serum. Now, this is such a beautiful product. It gives me that fresh, radiant, my skin but better look. And that's from the drugstore. Like it really is very good."
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"I can swear to you I wore nothing else but this until it was practically gone. I've repurchased this foundation twice and I very seldom repurchase foundations. [...] This is one of these holy grails, it was at the top of my 2023 purchases. [...] If you want lightweight, barely there, but better makeup, then this is perfect. The [...] one serious downside to this product is the packaging. It comes in a glass bottle which is fine, but it's heavy and it's not great for travel."
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"I loved this foundation. It's a drugstore product which means it's affordable. It just makes me look better. You're not wearing a lot of makeup, it just smooths everything out a little bit. It's very hydrating on the skin. The only thing I don't like about it is that it's glass, which is really heavy to travel with. But this was just [...] one of my favorites. [...] I mean, if I finished it, that's an indication because that just doesn't happen very often."
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"I'm using my True Match by L'Oreal, this is the tinted hydrating serum. I love it. So I hated the dropper, so I replaced it with a pump myself. It seems to have covered that up. If you wanted the under-painting, which is where you put your blush and your contour and all that stuff underneath your foundation, you would probably need to layer this up a bit more because I'm not seeing it really much at all. It's quite light, it's a very light makeup."
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"Last year I discovered the true match nude hyaluronic acid tinted serum and it is Holy Grail status. I mean I absolutely adore it so much so that I actually finished the whole thing up and I never finish foundation. [...] The tinted serum comes with a dropper which is horrible, so I went to Amazon and bought one of these little pumps and just replaced the dropper and it worked a treat."
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"I adore my L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum Foundation. It only costs 16 bucks, [...] but it comes in a glass bottle, which I don't like when I'm traveling and I do a fair amount of traveling, so this is the one that I actually take with me on the plane when I'm doing a long haul flight. [...] Every time I use this product I go, oh my gosh, why didn't I use this yesterday or the day before? [...] I put this on [...] and my skin feels so soft and so hydrated."
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"At least that's what they call it in the U.S. where I pick this up. It's called something slightly different over here in Europe, but this has just been my go-to forever. I picked it up I think in February in the US and I've worn it more than I haven't. It makes my skin look great. It's barely there. It just barely kind of blurs all the imperfections. It's gorgeous."
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"This is the L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum. I liked this too, I like it a lot, but it's in a glass bottle and I actually had to replace and put this thing on here because the lid on it was stupid and it spilled everywhere. It's like a dropper, hated that. Very nice formulation, but this is not easy to travel with."
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"I find that even on the days that I'm not wearing makeup, and there are a lot of days, half the days I don't wear makeup, I might just put a tiny bit on because it just makes everything better. I can just put a little bit right here and it's like all my redness disappears. You don't even notice it's there. It is super lightweight, and I have definitely worn this more than any other foundation. [...] I did a video about this a couple of months ago and I hated the format of the bottle."
Beyond50Skin
Beyond50Skin
32k subs
~Nay
"For coverage I gave it a three out of five - it's really highly pigmented, especially when it dries down. It's a little bit too pigmented for me for a skin tint. The finish I gave it a three out of five - it's radiant when it first goes on but then it kind of dries down and looks a little bit more satin or matte finish on my skin. The texture I gave a four out of five - it's lightweight, it's easy to blend and it feels very breathable on the skin."
Mixed Makeup
Mixed Makeup
1.46M subs
~Nay
"This is the L'Oreal skin tint. I do love this formula, I do too, but unfortunately L'Oreal didn't invest in a wiper. Usually when you have a dropper like this you will have a wiper, and the wiper's purpose is to actually wipe down the excess formula from around the pipette so you don't get this mess. L'Oreal did not invest in a wiper, and as such you can see there's a huge amount of product collecting on the pipette itself and therefore spilling out around the bottle neck."
Robert Welsh
Robert Welsh
1.11M subs
~Yay
"True Match, the serum, because it is just beautiful. I've got a really good match. [...] I love the bounce on this. You [...] can go over one area multiple times and there's no added texture or anything like that. That looks really nice. It blends so naturally."
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"I didn't want to stop using it. That was the first thing. Really easy to use. But [...] when I took my makeup off later that day, this has so many skincare benefits to it. My skin genuinely looked plumped. [...] L'Oreal Paris True Match Serum. I know why this went viral. This foundation is beautiful. It is like painting my face with my own skin. So nice, lightweight, really good on my oily skin as well."
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James Welsh
1.58M subs
~Yay
"I've tried better tints, like the Summer Fridays, where that one is really, really nice and really fluidy without that kind of dry powderiness. But maybe that's something you're just going to get because it's makeup. But I like that, for the price and accessibility, I think that's pretty good."
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Nipun Kapur
412k subs
~Yay
"I like the hyaluronic acid tint by L'Oreal. [...] I absolutely love the coverage, I love how lightweight it is. It's expensive but it's really nice. [...] When you look at anti-aging makeup, one area is your foundations. It just melts into your skin."
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1.23M subs
~Yay
"This is fantastic. If you loved L'Oreal True Match but it was just a little bit too makeupy for you, definitely give this a try. I think it held up really well all day considering I had a mask on for like an hour and it didn't really rub off that badly. I thought this one really looked great on my pores. I thought it really smoothed out my texture. It's a perfect shade match for me. I loved it then and I wear it a lot."
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"This is fantastic. If you loved L'Oreal True Match but it was just a little bit too makeupy for you, definitely give this a try. I think it held up really well all day considering I had a mask on for like an hour and it didn't really rub off that badly. I thought this one really looked great on my pores. I thought it really smoothed out my texture. It's a perfect shade match for me. I loved it then and I wear it a lot."
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"This is the L'Oreal True Match Nude, it's a tinted serum. This is flawless, not sparkly, not glittery, glowy without looking oily. If I could only have one in my kit for the rest of my life and price was not an issue, I'm not going to lie, pick this one. I love it, drugstore win. This is gorgeous. I've used it on multiple clients over the age of 50, 60, 70, it wears and looks gorgeous on mature skin. It is absolutely beautiful."
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"This looks so skin like and so beautiful. [...] It's a lot more natural looking than the original True Match which can be a little makeupy and a little heavy. However, it does have denatured alcohol which is third on the ingredient list, so if you have super dry skin you may want to stay away from this one. If you have normal, combo, or oily skin it could be fine. But I still think it's a good foundation and I love the finish on it."
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"However, I've only had this for about six or eight months and I've already gone through half a bottle of [...] it, which shows you how often I reach for this and how much I love this. This is around the ten to twelve dollar price point and offers light to medium coverage. It has one percent hyaluronic acid in it which is supposed to be hydrating. This does contain SD alcohol that is number four on the ingredient list, so if you [...] have super dry skin I wouldn't really recommend this for you."
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"I checked the ingredients, the first few ingredients are very very similar so it's a very similar formula. Both have SD alcohol featured fairly highly on the ingredient list so they can be a little bit drying for people with drier skin, but if you have textured skin they sit beautifully on the skin. They're really lightweight and natural looking. As far as the finish goes I don't really see a difference between them. [...] They're both kind of a demi matte."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Sunscreen filters

Sun protection is the best evidenced way to slow visible ageing, and the filters are what does the work. Mineral and chemical filters both protect when a product is applied thickly enough and often enough, which is where most people fall short rather than on the choice of filter.

Source: DermNet

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum Foundation?

A lightweight tinted serum foundation with hyaluronic acid, designed to provide sheer-to-medium coverage while maintaining a skin-like finish and hydrating benefits.

Is L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum Foundation worth it?

The gurus are split. 6 of the 8 gurus give it their stamp of approval while 2 would skip it, which lands it in the middle at a Guru Score of 73%.

What is L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum Foundation's Guru Score?

L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum Foundation holds a Guru Score of 73%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 8 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.

Who is L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum Foundation best for?

L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum Foundation is generally suited to dry skin, normal skin and sensitive skin.

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