Complexion Cream
The ninety seconds that belong to you.
$54.95 30ml · spatula included
A cream that warms under your fingers and blends out seamlessly. Real coverage that never announces itself. Looks like skin, because it moves like skin.
Thirteen years of formulating led here. This is the one we'd hand you first.
Shade — N1 · Neutral Light
Not sure? You're covered by our Shade Guarantee.
Wore a Liquid Foundation shade? Find your replacement ↓
Try the included sample before opening your full size. Wrong shade? We'll swap it free.
Most customers choose
The complete complexion ritual.
Complexion Cream, the Multi-Purpose Foundation Brush and Complexion Silk — the three that make a base sit like skin.
Format — Jar
Not sure on the shade?
Try samples first — $2.50 each
Choose one shade or several, and add them all in one go.
Pick as many shades as you like, up to 3 of each.
before you see it.
Every batch
Most mornings ask something of you.
This part doesn't.
The jar opens. The steel is cool against the back of your hand. You take less than you think — a small scoop.
Then it goes on, and it keeps going. Further than you expect.
No dragging.
No tugging at the corner of your eye.
No stopping to fix what the first pass did.
Ninety seconds later your skin looks like your skin on a good day — and you haven't thought about your face once.
Then you close the jar, and that's the end of it.
You don't turn it over.
You don't look anything up.
You don't wonder whether the label meant it.
You've read enough labels. This is the one where you can stop.
The feel of it
It changes twice.
Once on the back of your hand, where the warmth gently softens it. Once on your face, where it stops being a product and starts being a finish.
Both of those are engineering, not luck. Three ingredients doing three jobs — the cushion, the spread, the disappearance — and a fourth softening the light coming off your skin so texture reads gently rather than sharply.
The slip of a silicone base.
Without the silicone.
That took years. It's the reason this replaced the Liquid Foundation rather than joining it.
Find your match.
13 shades. Tap to find yours.
Neutral
Warm
Cool
Olive
The shade guarantee
Your shade,
without the gamble.
Your full size stays sealed until you know.
Every complexion order arrives with a sample of your chosen shade. Try the sample first, wear it in daylight, and make sure it feels right. If it doesn't, we'll swap your unopened full size for a better match.
Wrong shade? We'll make it right.
No exchange fee. No awkward explanation. Just a better match.
What makes it
move like that.
Oleyl Oleate
The cushion. It's why the first touch feels like a balm rather than a liquid.
Isoamyl Laurate
The spread. The closest natural equivalent to what a silicone does, which is why there's no silicone in here.
Silica
The soft focus. Softens the light coming off your skin so texture reads gently.
Three of the list. The rest is on the ingredients tab, in full.
See the full ingredient list →The line we hold
Thirteen years.
The same answer.
Rebuilding the base was the moment to quietly let titanium dioxide back in. It's the cheapest way to get opacity, it's what the category runs on, and almost nobody would have noticed.
We rebuilt around zinc oxide instead. It's harder to disperse, it costs more, and it's the reason this took as long as it did.
That decision has been made the same way since 2013 — across every product, every shade, every batch. Not as a campaign. As the thing the whole house is built on.
Also free from silicones, talc, bismuth oxychloride, synthetic dyes, parabens and nanoparticles.
Every decision is written down.
Including the ones where the evidence is contested, and we've said so.
Read the Library →Recognition, not performance
Where the Complexion Cream lives.
A black jar, a small steel spatula, and the good light by the window.
You'll open this jar more times than almost anything you own.
That's the whole reason it was worth getting right.
It's the first one I haven't had to fight with. It just goes where I put it.
Verified Customer
The spatula
no fingers in the jar
Buffed out
edges gone
Your questions, answered
What happened to the Liquid Foundation?
This is it, rebuilt.
Same job. Better formula.
Rebuilding the formula meant revisiting the shades too. Most carried straight across. A few were reworked because they weren't doing anyone any favours — sitting too yellow, too flat, or a little off against real skin. So your replacement is the right place to begin rather than a guaranteed match.
Every full size includes a free sample in the shade you choose. If it isn't right, send the unopened jar back and we'll swap it — no fees.
“Beautiful coverage. For the price, it's a no brainer. Just order it.”
Danielle K · verified customer
Finding your shade
Three ways to find the one.
Every full size includes one in your shade. Confirm before you open the jar.
Three steps
Build your ritual.
Cream, brush, powder.
01 · The base
Complexion Cream
A spatula's worth, warmed on the back of your hand, then out from the centre of the face.
02 · The tool
Multi-Purpose Foundation Brush
Fingers work. The brush is what makes the edges disappear.
03 · The hold
Complexion Silk
A loose mineral powder over the top. Extra coverage where you want it, and it holds the cream in place.
Less than you think,
blended further.
Ninety seconds, properly done.
01 · Lift
Use the spatula, not your fingers
A small scoop onto the back of your hand. Fingers in an open jar carry oil and bacteria into it, and the preservative system has enough to do already.
02 · Warm
Work it on the back of your hand first
Ten seconds. It softens as it warms and spreads much further from there — which is how you end up using less than you expect.
03 · Blend
Centre outward, and keep going
Nose and cheeks first, then let the brush carry what's left toward the jaw and hairline. Blend past the point you'd normally stop — this keeps moving longer than most.
04 · Build, or set
A second pass, or Complexion Silk over it
Add a little more only where you want it. If you want it to hold longer, a light pass of Complexion Silk through the T-zone does more than a second layer of cream.
Ninety seconds, the way Kailah does it.
What's in it.
What isn't.
Full ingredients (INCI)
Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Zinc Oxide (non-nano), Glycerin, Oleyl Oleate, Isoamyl Laurate, Cetearyl Olivate (and) Sorbitan Olivate (olive wax), Squalane, Camellia Oleifera (Camellia) Seed Oil*, Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Wax, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Jojoba Esters, Silica, Althaea Officinalis (Marshmallow) Root Extract, Cucumis Sativus (Cucumber) Extract & Glycerin*, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499 (Iron Oxides).
Free from
No titanium dioxide · No silicones · No dimethicone · No talc · No bismuth oxychloride · No synthetic dyes · No parabens · No nanoparticles.
Every Ingredient.
Every Purpose.
Nothing is here because it's conventional or inexpensive. Each one does a job you can point at.
Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice (Organic Aloe Vera)
Our de-colourised calming botanical base. Aloe Vera delivers lightweight hydration while helping soothe and comfort the skin, creating the perfect foundation for daily wear.
Zinc Oxide (Non-Nano)
The coverage, and the calm. It settles the look of redness rather than painting over it. This is the ingredient doing the job titanium dioxide does in other foundations.
Glycerin
Draws water into the skin and holds it there, so a base with real coverage doesn't leave skin feeling tight.
Oleyl Oleate
The cushion, and the reason the first touch feels like a balm rather than a liquid. Of everything in here, this is the one you feel most.
Isoamyl Laurate
The spread. Plant-derived, and the closest natural equivalent to what a silicone does in a base — which is why this formula doesn't need one.
Cetearyl Alcohol & Ceteareth-20
The emulsifier system that holds the water and oil phases together. Not a drying alcohol — a fatty one, and the reason the texture stays stable.
Squalane
The finish. Weightless, and closely related to something skin already makes, which is why it disappears rather than sitting on top.
Capryloyl Glycerin/Sebacic Acid Copolymer
A flexible film former. It's what lets the base move with your face through the day instead of setting hard over it.
Sunflower Seed Wax
Body and structure. It replaced the cetyl alcohol that was doing this job, and gives a better texture at a lower level.
Jojoba Esters & Camellia Oil
Both carried low, both for skin feel. Jojoba is the closest of any plant oil to what skin makes itself.
Silica
A small amount, to take the edge off shine without making the finish flat.
Marshmallow Root Extract
Soothing, and added at cooldown so it isn't heated. Used across the range for the same reason.
Radish Root Ferment & p-Anisic Acid
The preservative system. A ferment and a plant acid rather than a synthetic — which is exactly why the spatula matters.
Tocopherol
Vitamin E. Keeps the oils stable so the formula doesn't turn over its shelf life.
Iron Oxides (CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499)
The colour. Mineral pigments, dispersed in-house — an undertone dispersion sets the family, a depth dispersion sets how deep it goes.
Not just renamed.
Rebuilt.
Wore a Liquid Foundation shade? Start here.
When we rebuilt the formula, we went back through the shades as well. Some were already doing their job and carried straight across. Others weren't doing you any favours — sitting too yellow, too flat, or a little off against real skin — and those have been reworked.
So this table isn't a list of exact matches. It's where to start. Each shade below is the one that replaces what you wore — closest in family and depth, and in several cases a better version of it.
Three shades are new: a true neutral deep, a genuinely cool light, and a deep olive. They fill gaps the old range never covered, so if you were between two shades before, one of them may be why.
N for Neutral. W for Warm. C for Cool. O for Olive. The number is depth — the higher it goes, the deeper the shade.
| You wore | Start with |
|---|---|
| Ivory Fair | N1 · Neutral Light |
| Creamy Natural | N2 · Neutral Medium |
| Warm Truffle | N4 · Neutral Deepest |
| Medium Glow | W2 · Warm Medium |
| Warm Honey | W3 · Warm Deep |
| Peach Bisque | W1 · Warm Light |
| Sand Beige | C2 · Cool Medium |
| Caramel Tan | C3 · Cool Deep |
| Olive Fair | O1 · Olive Light |
| Golden Olive | O2 · Olive Medium |
| new shade | N3 · Neutral Deep |
| new shade | C1 · Cool Light |
| new shade | O3 · Olive Deep |
Wear the sample first. Even if you've worn us for years.
This is the one thing we'd ask. Every full size ships with a free sample in the shade you choose — and because some of these have moved, that sample matters more this time than it ever has.
Wear it for a day before you open the jar. If it isn't right, send the unopened jar back and we'll swap it. No fees, and no need to explain.
If a shade never quite behaved, that's why it changed.
Sand Beige sounds neutral and sat cool. Caramel Tan sounds warm and sat cool. Warm Truffle has “warm” in the name and reads neutral.
The names were describing an idea. The codes describe the pigment — and where the pigment itself was the problem, we changed that too.
This translation guide will be here for the next 12 months.
