Ask any make-up artist about the best way to nail your base and they will unanimously tell you that it all starts with a good skincare routine. And once you've settled on a successful handful of products that help get your skin concerns under control you can be playful with your base. Thankfully complexion formulas have come on leaps and bounds in recent years and their INCI lists read much like hardworking serums.

These are our Ace The Base Skin Award winners which celebrate the very best . Don't forget to go and take a look at our other wonderful winners: , , , and . Earlier this year we sent the products to test and trial.

This group, a collection of some of the UK's best dermatologists, skin experts, doctors, facialists, content creators and journalists, set about scoring their products on efficacy, innovation and packaging. We collated their feedback and these are the results..