Imzadi
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I am a very pale person to begin with so I'm not looking for full on heavy face makeup.
You want to look for foundations or reviews that state they are "light coverage." More/heavier coverage is listed as: "Medium coverage" or "Full coverage," instead of saying they are "heavier.
Also, the number one tip I recently found out about as I've been looking for a foundation with better coverage, is that I've been applying it all WRONG. A friend is a makeup artist for film & TV here, so she matched all my MAC colors for me years ago. But, I wasn't looking in the mirror as she was applying it to see HOW she applied on the foundation, except to see she used a makeup sponge wedge, (dampened, then excess water squeezed out before dabbing the sponge into the foundation. The makeup sponge absorbs LESS foundation that way. You don't lose it all into a thirsty sponge.) I do remember her saying to make sure to only dab right under the eyes. But, I generally swiped on foundation and rubbed it in on the rest of my face.
As I was on YouTube, also looking to see how to use the new beauty blender sponges, and do I need to switch to them, I found over and over, that in the YouTube tutorials, every person DABBED on the foundation with either the sponge or a beauty blender and just kept DABBING. NO swiping and rubbing the foundation in to place. I immediately grabbed a dampened makeup sponge and started dabbing my normal MAC foundation and it went on and blended sooo much better.

Here is a YouTube video of someone doing it. This IS a full coverage foundation she is demoing. (Which you said is not what you want.) However, it certainly shows that when she has it all on correctly, that her face looks evenly covered by all the dabbing. I think, when someone shows the technique with a full coverage makeup and does it successfully, the same technique should work equally as well with a sheer or light foundation.
This person applies cream/liquid foundation with a couple different brushes. And she does swipe the brush around. I wanted to immediately go out and buy the brushes she uses, especially the under eye concealer brush.

I also saw a video where Rihanna was applying powder makeup and she was rubbing in and around that brush like there was no tomorrow. Going over and over the same places. It made me think I haven't been applying powders (from eyeshadows to blush) well enough and why they all seemed to not last. And I might need better brushes in general.

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