Because we have been thinking: "We really need something where we can give out stars!"

Beauty product: Benefit’s Some-Kind-A-Gorgeous foundation

What Sephora says its does: "This lightweight, translucent, foundation-like product smooths out imperfections and evens skin tone with a silky, smooth finish that’s super natural and super gorgeous."

What we think: We hate, we just hate, foundation, and we hate it not just for our skin but for pretty much everybody’s: It looks pasty, it looks creamy, it looks like just too much. We greatly prefer primer and some tinted moisturizer—we are a bit pseudo-science about this, but we always feel like foundation covers up flaws, and makes them worse (so you need even more foundation), while primer and moisturizer makes our skin feel healthier. So clearly, we were biased.

On first application, we felt like this was just one big foundation-y disaster: It looked gunky and streaky and fake. So we were quite annoyed, and we were thinking of taking it off, but then we realized our skin also looked a bit … crepey, we think the word is, and we realized it was all a bit dry. We slathered on a whole lot of Philosophy’s Hope in a Jar, and everything actually looked quite reasonable—at least reasonable enough that we didn’t feel the need to remove it. And then we took the subway home to Fresco Tortilla Grill and as we waited for our tacos to show up, saw our skin, and it all looked totally even and nice. And it wasn’t, as advertised, too heavy or anything.

Stars(!): * * * *. We would totally buy this, as long as bought the moisturizer along with it. Benefit’s Some-Kind-A-Gorgeous foundation, $26