The 16 Most Hydrating Tinted Moisturizers

Squalane, hyaluronic acid, and niacinamide join forces for Ilia's Super Serum Skin Tint. With the added benefit of sun-protective SPF 40, this thick, hydrating serum offers up light but buildable coverage you can rub in quickly and easily with your fingertips. 

Saie's Slip Tint Dewy Tinted Moisturizer gives skin tons of hydration and sheer, yet buildable coverage. The ingredient list includes hydrating hyaluronic acid and brightening licorice root extract. Plus, there's SPF 35 in the tube so skin is protected and dewy. 

Selena Gomez knew what she was doing when she launched Rare Beauty, specifically the  Positive Light Tinted Moisturizer. This lightweight formula comes in 22 shades and features a radiant vitamin E-infused finish.

The Maybelline Fit Me Tinted Moisturizer is a great drugstore snag. Coming in at only $11, this base product comes is weightless and conceals blemishes (without being too heavy). Plus, the formula holds glycerin to hydrate the skin.  

Tarte's tinted moisturizers have always been an Allure editor favorite, and its latest version is no different. The Maracuja Tinted Hydrator combines the skin-nourishing properties of maracuja oil with plumping hyaluronic acid and collagen, plus brightening turmeric, for skin that glows well after you've taken this off. 

This combination of BB and CC cream from K-beauty brand Cle Cosmetics isn't technically a tinted moisturizer — but it sure hydrates skin like it were one. Allure staff writer Nicola Dall'Asen reaches for it almost every day, thanks to its sheer yet effective coverage.

Even though its only available in a few light shades, Allure associate beauty director Sarah Kinonen loves this BB Cream Tinted Moisturizer for its hydrating ginseng and brightening fruit extracts. For those who are extra prone to redness, you can also turn to the brand's Best of Beauty-winning CC Red Correct. 

Ask any beauty fan and they'll likely tell you that Laura Mercier's is the first tinted moisturizer they ever used — and fell in love with. With its sheer, buildable coverage and moisture-packed formula, there's a reason this product is a cult favorite and four-time Allure Best of Beauty winner. It's noncomedogenic, but those with acne-prone or oily skin may benefit even more from the upgraded oil-free version of the formula.

This tinted moisturizer is free of pthalates, parabens, and 1,500 other ingredients that the cruelty-free brand has identified as potentially harmful or irritating, so you're left with only tried-and-true elements, like glycerin and sodium hyaluronate. 

"Both of these ingredients are humectants, meaning they draw moisture to the surface of the skin to keep cells hydrated," says Wilson. The creamy formula is more pigmented than most tinted moisturizers, so it does a great job of covering imperfections. One catch: Its thick consistency makes it a little difficult to spread, so you'll likely end up using more product than usual.

Sensitive-skinned girls, Nars has got one just for you. The silky-smooth Radian Tinted Moisturizer has a formula that's both oil-free and made without parabens or synthetic fragrances, so you won't have to worry about irritation or clogged pores.

"This is a really great product to apply with your fingertips; it's super sheer and easy to blend," says makeup artist Ashleigh Ciucci. "Or you can tap it on with a sponge to build subtle coverage." Its barely-there coverage might be a little too light for those with post-breakout redness or discoloration, though, so have a concealer on hand for touch-ups.

Allure contributing editor Marci Robin says that although the price tag on Iris and Romeo's Best Skin Days might be intimidating, it's still worth every penny. "I've been moving away from full-coverage foundation, but even lighter formulas still read as cakey and obvious on me recently," she says. "Best Skin Days somehow — I'm convinced by magic — simply makes my skin look confidence-boostingly better: glowy, awake, and with just enough coverage, all while moisturizing and protecting with SPF."

It's not shocking at all that a brand that Neutrogena could deliver one of the best tinted moisturizer formulas out there with ingredients like vitamins A, C, and E. On top of all those antioxidants, Healthy Skin Tinted Moisturizer also contains small pearlescent pigment that provide a glowing, dewy sheen.

Just like Clinique's beloved Moisture Surge cream, the Sheertint Hydrator penetrates deep beneath the skin to hydrate and calm the skin — that's thanks to its strong concentration of cucumber extract, aloe, and hyaluronic acid. 

Josie Maran's Protect + Perfect is less of a tinted moisturizer and more of a tinted sunscreen, and we'll take all the sun protection we can get. Alongside its SPF 47, this formula is very lightly tinted with pigments in one tan shade, giving it just enough color to mask slight skin imperfections and give its wearer and warm, sun-tanned look.