How to DIY Your Foundation with Cover FX Custom Cover Drops
I made a video to show you how to DIY your foundation with Cover FX Custom Cover Drops. CCD is really a game changer when it comes to foundation because you can take any skincare product or foundation that you own and customize it to be a better match for you. You can use CCD with oils, serums, moisturizers, primers, no matter if they’re oil-based, water-based or silicone-based. You can control the amount of coverage you get by using 1 drop for sheer, 2 drops for medium coverage, 3 drops for full coverage and 4 drops for total coverage. Each drop is super pigmented! Use the code DROPLOVE to receive 50% off of a face primer of your choice with the purchase of Custom Cover Drops. This coupon code expires March 31, 2015.
How to DIY Your Foundation with Cover FX Custom Cover Drops
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Cover FX offers many different types of primers. Shown above, left to right – Mattifying, Anti-Aging, SPF 30, Calming and Illuminating. All are great to combine with the Custom Cover Drops.
I’m still recovering from my PRK surgery. This means that I’m light sensitive so while filming this video if I look squinty it’s because the light was hurting my eyes. I also avoided putting foundation on my eyes (and carefully put it under my eyes), but for the most part I can’t touch my eyes right now. It’s very uncomfortable. The close face shots below have not been retouched in any way. I did this so that you can see how well Custom Cover Drops works with the various products that I tried out. You can see my skin with all its imperfections, plus what the foundation hides or evens out.
My first combination shows how nicely Custom Cover Drops plays with an oil like Paula’s Choice Moisture Renewal Oil Booster. I really love this combo because it feels like I’m wearing nothing at all. This is my second favorite combination.
This shows how Custom Cover Drops can customize a foundation that’s slightly too dark to make it a better match for my skintone. It also gives me more coverage to help hide the flaws in my skin.
Of all the products I’ve mixed Custom Cover Drops with, this has given me the most matte finish. It’s very comfortable to wear. It works well with Paula’s Choice SPF products.
This is Perfekt Skin Perfecting Gel in Luminous combined with Custom Cover Drops in N10. This combination does a nice job of smoothing out my skin.
This is the Illuminating Primer mixed with the Custom Cover Drops. I like the glow it gives my skin. 
This is the Illuminating primer and Custom Cover Drops. I also put on a bit of cream blush and a different lipstick.
I tend to like using Custom Cover Drops sheerly, so only 1 or 2 drops, but if you need more coverage you can certainly get it. My all time favorite combination with CCD is with the Illuminating Primer. However, the Paula’s Choice Moisture Renewal Oil Booster is a close second, followed by the PC4 Men SPF 30.
Don’t be afraid to experiment! Definitely try the Cover FX Custom Cover Drops with any of your skincare products or foundations to find your favorite combination.
Which combination is your favorite?
This is such a cool idea, I’m gonna have to pick these up! Also I love all of your figures, especially the Unicornos and I think I saw the Pop Cthulhu in there too?
Great Blog!
Love your post too!
Im a bit unsure which shade to go for? Either N10 or N20
I tried the shade finder on the coverfx website, which seemed to have minimal difference.
Any way my long winded question is, when mixing does the colour lighten at all, Im quite pale, however surprisingly I think N10 might be too pale for me (it looked a smudge light on the cover fx matcher!)
Im N117 in MUFE HD foundation if it helps.
Unfortunately this product isn’t in Australia yet, so I can’t try it.
Thanks so much 😉
What do you have on lips? It looks amazing!
Do you think the custom cover drops would work well to thin out the texture of a thicker undereye concealer without taking away pigmentation? I love the nars radiant creamy concealer but I wish it’s texture was a little bit thinner now that the tube is about finished. Also, could you spot conceal with just the drops on their own?
Hi Raquel, You can certainly try mixing CCD with your concealer but the product is not meant to change the texture of whatever you mix it with. Additionally, it is not meant to be used on its own. CCD are formulated to be put into another product, such as a skincare product or a foundation that is liquid-based, water-based, or silicone-based, to help provide coverage.
Thanks so much for sharing on the Home Matters Linky Party. I hope you will join us again this Friday ~ Door Opens at 12am EST. Have a great week!
This is great! Thank you so much for sharing on Found & Foraged. Can’t wait to see what ou link up tonight!
Argggh “DROPLOVE” isn’t working for me
Tell @phyrra:disqus what you have been mixing them with, I’m sure she can help you! She’s a Cover FX Brand Ambassador so she knows the products very well! From talking to them though myself, they did say that for some people, depending on their skin types, the CCDrops will work a lot better with some mediums than others. I.e. not so well with a more BB/CC Cream type product and better with a moisturizer. I would also say that if you have oilier skin, it might work to use a more mattifying product mixed with them. I am going to try mine with my Cover FX Mattifying Primer!
I emailed Cover FX to ask about this.
That’s amazing! NEED!
I love that you can mix it with any skincare product!
wow, thats actually pretty cool!
I think it’s really cool, too! You can basically use a primer based on someone’s skin type – oily, dry, etc, and then mix in a few drops that match their skintone and voila! Foundation!
Someday I have to try this. It looks awesome on you with each of the formulations!
Thank you so much Justina!
Perfekt SPG was one of my favs when I used to use foundation and I still love using it, so much so I still pick it up if I’m out.
It’s really great! I love the feel and the finish
I’m definitely getting this, but I need to get color-matched. I took the matching test, but I’m reluctant to rely on it; at that price, I can’t afford to make a mistake.
If you can get to Sephora, they will have testers so you can see what shade matches you. For me, I wear N10 in the Custom Cover Drops, Total Cover Cream and the Pressed Mineral Foundation.
Check stock online, first! I have 3 Sephoras near me, but only one carries CoverFX and this isn’t in stock… yet. The closest Sephora with this product in stock is over 2 hours away.
Hope you like it 🙂
Okay this product sounds amazing! I like the idea of having one color with custom coverage each time I use it. I was thinking about trying a bb cream but didn’t think I’d be able to find one with a high enough spf with my pale skin I need 30. I’d go for the matte look because that has been my constant goal with my skin when wearing make-up.
I would recommend putting on your moisturizer with SPF first, then putting on your foundation. You don’t want to ever skimp on the SPF to protect your skin.
Good advice, thank you!
I like the look of it with the illuminating primer. Your skin looks really glowy and healthy.
Thank you Kim!
Lovely DIY, I am going to try this 🙂
I love it with the Illuminating primer too. GAH your skin is looking PERFECT!! So happy for you! Definitely will be trying the CCD when I figure out what shade I am!
Thank you Amber! I’m pretty happy with it for once 🙂
I love DIY makeups!
Sometimes they’re so much fun 😉
This is such a cool product! And ahem, what flaws in your skin????
Hyperpigmentation and pores!
I’m so, so glad to see a post with different combinations of drops and moisturizers/oils/primers. I want the CCDs SO BADLY that I think it’ll be one of the first things I buy once I get work again. I love this because I also think we’re skin twins sometimes.
I may make a second one because I’ve already received 3 additional email requests for more combos 🙂
I think I’m sold. N10 in the drops and illuminating primer sound and look perfect.
Yay happy to hear it!
This is a great, in-depth and informative post. It can be customized for just about anyone.
Thanks Kimberly!
I never knew these existed! Such a cool idea. I love that you can mix it with a skincare product that is perfect for you and basically just make a foundation out of it and KNOW that it’s going to be good on your skin. I need these!
I really love that this mixes well with skincare products!
Wow, that’s pricey! And then you have to buy another product to use with it on top of that? And you have to guess at what shade you are and if you make a mistake… that would be costly. It’s an interesting idea, but not for me, thanks.
The Cover FX foundation matching system is definitely one of the best that I’ve ever seen. P = pink, G = golden, N = neutral. You can always pop in Sephora and get a sample to see what shade matches you best or use the Cover FX Shade Finder Quiz to find your match http://www.coverfx.com/virtual-makeover . As far as the cost, like I said in my video $44 for .5 oz is on the pricey side for a foundation for me, but the fact that I can mix it with other products I already own and love, like my SPF or facial oil, makes it a versatile product for me. As someone who has trouble finding tinted moisturizer that matches my skintone (everything is too dark and orange), being able to make my own with this product is perfect, especially for the hotter months here in Florida.
That’s an interesting concept! I love mixing my serums with foundation, but this one might work better for getting that dewy finish.
Definitely! With the illuminating primer it really gives you a glow.
They all look so natural! I love that you took the time to mix it up and come up with perfect solutions.
So happy you found it helpful 🙂
What an interesting concept!
It’s definitely a nice change!
Great solution for those who can never find a foundation that works perfeclty for them!
Agreed! I think for people who suffer from super dry or super oily skin, they’ll especially love it since if you’re super oily you can mix with your favorite mattifying primer. And if you’re super dry, with your favorite serum.
This is a game changer! I like it with the Illuminating primer and the matte finish best.
It definitely feels like a game changer to me too, Nidia 🙂
I think this is just what I need to add to my MUFE HD foundation for more coverage! It just isn’t enough for me on its own.
Will this be for sale @ Sephora?
Yes, this will be on sale at Sephora too 🙂
This is such an interesting product, the drops. I need to get color-matched. I would love to use them to get the right shade with some of the CC creams I own or wear it with some serums that I love. So innovative!
If you’re neutral, I want to say you’d be an N20? I think you’re just a little darker than I am?
I’ll look for N20 at Sephora next trip if that’s next in line from the N10 that you’re wearing. I am a little darker than you but rather than neutral, I am cool-toned with pink undertones.
Ok then you would be P20, is my guess.
Thank you! I’ll check out both shades just in case 🙂
That’s really cool that you can custom match it!
I think it’s pretty awesome 🙂 I love the versatility of using it with a serum.
I like it best with the Paula’s Choice PC4 Men because I like the matte finish but with the Illuminating Primer you’re absolutely glowing!
Yay, happy you like both of those 🙂