Coloured transparent or translucent cosmetic composition

[Subject] Offer the transparent or translucent colored makeup composite. [Solution means]. At least one colorant of quantity in which the penetration of the layer of a makeup base transparent [the present invention] or translucent and the 10-micrometer-thick last composite will measure on absorption of colorant or one maximum wavelength of scattering peaks, and will be * [20% of] 80% is included. It is related with the transparent or translucent colored makeup composite for making up the skin, a lip, and an epidermal growth portion. The makeup composite which the present invention colored also has transparent or translucent appearance "as a whole" only in addition to the transparency of coloring capability and the obtained covering thing as the characteristic. The character of the transparency as the whole or a translucency means making it penetrate without the layer which has a thickness of 1 cm specified arbitrarily scattering light in a part of visible light, or (composite translucent as a whole) scattering light (composite transparent as a whole).