Merit The Uniform Tinted Moisturizer SPF 50: Guru Score 77%

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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✓Yay

"Merit's the Uniform Sunscreen is an SPF 45, and it comes in a bunch of different shades. It has 15% zinc oxide. I'm wearing the shade 22. [...] If you're looking for a great mineral sunscreen and you like to use one just as a standalone, you don't want to put makeup on top of it, this is awesome."

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"It's very natural looking. I just love this. And the other thing I loved about it is if you do wear it as a sunscreen and you want to touch up your sunscreen later in the day, you can just put on more of this. I [...] had a full face of makeup on and I had been in it for [...] five or six hours and I was like, [...] I need to touch up the sunscreen. So I just put on more of this and it blended right over the top of everything else so beautifully, so seamlessly."

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"Using like a quarter of a teaspoon, it doesn't look heavy and madeup. That is just like a revelation in makeup because a lot of them you put on that much and it's so heavy and it's so madeup looking that it just doesn't look good. And this is beautiful. But if you also have on a different SPF underneath, you can put this on top as makeup and it is really really pretty. So I fell hard for this one this year. I like it a lot."

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"I did a head-to-head smackdown between the Merit the Uniform and the E.L.F. Halo Glow Skin Tint, and for me, the Merit was the winner hands down."

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"Merit's the Uniform Sunscreen is an SPF 45, and it comes in a bunch of different shades. It has 15% zinc oxide. I'm wearing the shade 22. [...] If you're looking for a great mineral sunscreen and you like to use one just as a standalone, you don't want to put makeup on top of it, this is awesome."

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"This does feel slightly drying on me at the end of the day, but this comes in such a broad shade range that it's really awesome. You can pick your shade. This does have a little bit more coverage than the Kopari."

AliceintheRabbitHole

59k subs

✓Yay

"This is probably the best version I've seen of a skin tint slash sunscreen, where you can actually apply a lot of it and it still looks decent, though it still feels a little heavy, which I think is what you'd expect. I use about this amount twice, which is the amount you need to actually get the SPF advertised, and they have a full shade range, I use shade 28."

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Beyond50Skin

32k subs

✓Yay

"I also love the new drop that they did. This is their Merit the Uniform. You can prep it with their skin care."

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"I also love the new drop that they did. This is their Merit the Uniform. You can prep it with their skin care."

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"For the first four hours, my skin felt really hydrated. I'm pretty impressed with the lack of breakup of the product, the lack of settling of the product in my fine lines. The uniform is a win for wearing as sunscreen. When I first put it on, it felt a little bit too much makeup for me personally, but I think for the average person who wears light to medium coverage is really going to appreciate this for the SPF factor that it gives, plus the coverage that it gives with the tint."

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"It's also super hydrating if you have dry skin. [...] When I want just a little bit more coverage and a little bit of an elevated evening look, this is the one that I reach for."

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"This is in the color 26. It's their new uniform launch. Now, this is a skin tint that got a lot of debate earlier in the summer because people were saying, 'Is this a sunscreen? Is this a skin tint?' It does do okay as a sunscreen. It is an SPF 45. So, if you wanted to wear it as a sunscreen, it does have a mineral sunscreen filter in it. I did actually prove that you can apply enough of this sunscreen to get the 45 SPF claimed on the product in a video earlier this summer."

The Budget Dermatologist

724k subs

✓Yay

"I am using a Merit SPF tint. It's called the Uniform. It comes in a ton of colors. It's all mineral SPF 50. It is all I wear on makeup free days because it's just enough tint to cover my redness and then give me a good amount of sunscreen."

The Style and Beauty Doctor

222k subs

✓Mixed

"I'd say it's okay. They got to get the tint better. I think the formula, and with it maybe turning, you know, being more of a matte finish, wouldn't be as bad if the color was better. So if they work on the tint, this might be nice, but until then..."

Dr Dray

2.69M subs

✓Nay

"It's expensive for what it is. [...] They also sent me a sunscreen last year [...] that was horrible. A lot of people liked it, but it was just so matte. It felt like I had put calamine lotion all over my face. Did not like that at all."

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Frequently asked.

What is Merit The Uniform Tinted Moisturizer SPF 50?

A tinted moisturizer with SPF 50 sun protection, designed to give light to medium coverage across a range of shades.

Is Merit The Uniform Tinted Moisturizer SPF 50 worth it?

Mostly yes. 4 of the 6 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 77%.

What is Merit The Uniform Tinted Moisturizer SPF 50's Guru Score?

Merit The Uniform Tinted Moisturizer SPF 50 holds a Guru Score of 77%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 6 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.