The Best Stick Foundations in Canada

Bobby Brown Skin Foundation Stick is one of the most popular and highly rated makeup product. It is no wonder, for despite middle-market price of $65 CAD, (compared to $115 CAD Tom Ford Traceless Stick), this foundation provides a luxurious coverage and feel.   

Designed to look like skin, Bobby Brown foundation stick combines a transparent base that easily blends in with your skin undertone, correcting and brightening up. Bobby Brown’s foundation stick is formulated with olive extract and shea butter. Those components are responsible for moisturizing. At the same time, this foundation is resistant to water, sweat and humidity, which makes it an ideal choice for anyone with oily skin type. Overall, you can expect to see matte, satin-like and even finish.  

While this foundation is preferred by anyone with oily skin, if you have normal or dry skin type, you can still expect a smooth coverage, only make sure to exfoliate and moisturize your face and neck prior to makeup application.   

If you are looking to test out a foundation stick for the first time and do not feel like spending much on it, yet want seamless coverage, give a try to Maybelline Super Stay. It can be used as a concealer, contour or foundation, and comes with a blender sponge for a flawless, easy application.   

Another idea for this affordable foundation stick is to keep it in your work cosmetic bag or your car for quick touch-ups whenever you are on the road.   

Maybelline Super Stay foundation stick features a creamy texture and a smooth matte finish, which is a preferable choice for anyone with oily skin.   

Tom Ford Traceless foundation stick is as luxurious as it can get. Surely, the price is rather high compared to such brands as Bobby Brown or Westman Atelier. However, most reviewers of this foundation stick say it is worth the price.   

“I have never liked stick foundation, it is usually dry, cakey, patchy and hard to smooth on, but this is a game changer,” noted a satisfied reviewer.  It lays beautifully on her skin tone, and goes on so smoothly, either straight from the tube or with a sponge or a brush. The foundation never oxidizes or cakes or patches, it stays on through a full day of work, she added. 

The formula is easily blendable, and even after building up layers, creates a skin-like texture. It feels comfortable to wear throughout the day.   

Dry skin is one of the most challenging types to work with whether you are a makeup artist or do your own makeup. If not moisturized properly it can resolve in a cakey, patchy texture, even when using liquid foundation. That is why choosing a foundation stick with hydrating formula is crucial for dry skin type.   

Wet’N Wild Photo Focus foundation stick provides long-lasting coverage that comes in twenty-one shades. The foundation is infused with Argan and Sunflower Seed oils—ingredients that allow seamless application and a silky finish.   

A reviewer who had never tried a stick foundation before, but read they were often more hydrating, more likely to give a dewy finish and offered more coverage, tried Wet’N Wild Photo Focus Stick Foundation. All true in the case of this product, she noted. Her dry-combination skin is infatuated. She continues explaining that she can even buff it under eyes because it is so hydrating.  

A new addition to the makeup market—Westman Atelier Vital Skin foundation stick is a creation of Gucci’s makeup artist. The formula is so lightweight and hydrating that it is barely noticeable on the skin. At the same time, it provides long-lasting coverage without creating cake texture.   

The reason many users with mature skin choose Westman Atelier Vital Skin foundation stick is because of its nourishing components like Berryflux Vita and Vegetable-Derived Squalane that moisturize skin and give it the most natural look.  

As per many reviewers who struggle with irritated skin, this foundation stick did not seem to increase that issue, and instead covered flawlessly any imperfections. 

Speaking of lightweight foundation sticks in an affordable, drug-store price range, L’Oréal’s Infallible Shaping Stick is a creamy, glide-on product. Compared to the heavier texture of the Bobby Brown foundation stick, this one melts into the skin. Despite a weightless finish, L’Oréal’s Infallible Shaping Stick provides long wear coverage. As per many users of this foundation, the build-up coverage lasts up to twenty hours.   

One of those reviewers was pleasantly surprised. L’Oréal’s Infallible Shaping Stick blends so well and is easily buildable, she noted. Yes, it is dewy, but more satin dewy. As someone with a brown skin tone, it is not easy to find the right shade, she continued. The reviewer wished she had found this before spending hundreds of dollars on expensive brands that did not work.  

Another one found this stick as the best coverage for the dark circles under eyes and sunspots on her cheeks. It stays on during hot Texas summer days and even still looks great after swimming in a pool, she added.  

Those who struggle to find a foundation for a combination skin might easily fall in love with this Milk Makeup Flex stick. It is another popular product on our list that is a vegan, cruelty-free formula which provides a seamless, silky finish whether you apply it on dry or oily parts of your skin.   

The Milk foundation stick formula is enhanced with moisturizing blue lotus and calming chamomile.   

A satisfied user said that she had used this product for about three weeks and had grown to love it. She has dry combo acne-prone skin and while using Milk Makeup Flex Foundation Stick, she did not notice any dry patches. “Be conservative with application and build as needed because it can get oily and separate after 10hrs wear,” she suggested.   

Have you been searching for a waterproof foundation that would stay on your skin while swimming in a pool or a sea? This Hourglass Vanish Seamless Finish foundation creates long-wear, natural-looking coverage.   

The formula is free of parabens and mineral oils, and can cover up blemishes and imperfections for up to twelve hours. Besides, Hourglass Vanish Seamless Finish adjusts to your body temperature which is especially useful in the summer heat.    

However, as per a few reviewers, keep in mind that while Hourglass Vanish Seamless Finish foundation gives a good coverage, it can feel a little heavy.  

Moisturizing your skin before applying makeup is essential. However, to increase the level of moisture choose foundations with a hydrating formula.  

This particular Nudestix Nudies Tinted Blur Stick is a lightweight formula that blurs pores and covers imperfections. Makeup artists say that if you often use CC cream and prefer glowy natural makeup, you will love the coverage of Nudestix Nudies Tinted Blur Stick. It is a versatile product that could be used as concealer or contouring tool.   

Enhanced with Vitamin E, this foundation stick nourishes and hydrates, while Green Tea improves skin tone and texture creating a youthful-looking complexion.