NARS Soft Matte Complete Concealer
by NARS · makeup
Editor's Take
Mostly silicone blur and dense pigment, this earns the soft-matte name but lands nowhere near clean standards’s side of the aisle.
Four-pillar formula scores
- Efficacy: 8.2 / 10
- Modern Tech: 7.5 / 10
- Clean Beauty: 2.0 / 10
- Sustainability: 5.6 / 10
The Verdict
On skin, this is the kind of pot concealer that makes sense: grip, coverage, and that powdery blur NARS shoppers come for. The catch is what buys that finish: a silicone-heavy base with Nylon-12 and petroleum waxes, plus skincare-adjacent extras like Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5 and acetylated hyaluronate. Those actives help the comfort story, but they are not the main event; the main event is smooth, matte camouflage. Worth it for high-coverage makeup performance, not for a kit built around biodegradability or clean-beauty standards.
Full INCI list
Dimethicone, Water, Glycerin, Butylene Glycol, Nylon-12, Paraffin, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Dicaprylyl Carbonate, Peg-10 Dimethicone, Iron Oxides, Peg-400, Silica, Sorbitan Sesquiisostearate, Aluminum Hydroxide, Phenoxyethanol, Polysilicone-2, Microcrystalline Wax, Barium Sulfate, Mica, Distearyldimonium Chloride, Palmitic Acid, Hydrogen Dimethicone, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-5, Ascorbic Acid, Tocopheryl Acetate, Retinyl Palmitate, Alumina, Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate, Tocopherol.