Revlon ColorStay is the foundation buyers with oily skin most often say holds up all day: 27 of 29 who described its wear said it lasted. Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-in-Place is the most-discussed alternative, at 25 of 30.
Updated . How we count
Share of buyers who stated an outcome for wear on oily skin. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.
Praise and complaints are the points buyers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's first-hand reports.
Revlon
Best for a drugstore budget
Buyers mention long wear in 46% of reports, far more than anything else. Complaints are rare.
Estée Lauder
Best for full coverage
The best-known long-wear foundation. It holds up for most, but 8% of reports call it cakey or heavy.
L'Oréal Paris
Fewer reports, mostly positive. Buyers mention coverage (15%) and a skin-like finish.
No repeated complaints yet.
bareMinerals
Best for a powder foundation
The one powder foundation on the list. Shade matching is the most common complaint (11%).
MAC
Holds up for most buyers, with scattered complaints about wearing off (7%) and separating.
Armani Beauty
Best for a natural, skin-like finish
Buyers love the finish (13% say it looks like skin), but oily skin results are more mixed and the price comes up (7%).
IT Cosmetics
Best for coverage
Strong on coverage (27%). On oily skin, buyers mention it looking cakey (10%) or shiny (7%).
We scanned 42,972 comments and found first-hand reports in 174 public threads on r/Makeup, r/MakeupAddiction, r/Sephora, r/drugstoreMUA, r/beauty and r/muacjdiscussion, posted between Jan 2022 and Sep 2026.
A report counts only when the commenter says they used the product themselves. Recommendations repeated from someone else, questions and jokes are left out. One person counts once per product.
An AI model labels each report against a fixed list of points, and we review the labels before publishing. We publish counts and links to the threads, never the comments themselves.
In our count, Revlon ColorStay: 27 of 29 buyers who described its wear said it lasted. Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-in-Place follows with 25 of 30.
Mostly yes: 25 of 30. The most common complaint is a cakey or heavy look (8% of reports). On dry skin it does much worse: see our dry skin ranking.
Results were mixed in the threads we read: 9 of 18 buyers with oily skin said it held up, which kept it out of this ranking.
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