The invention discloses a herbal compound hydrophile-lipophile balance liquid foundation for increasing the skin texture and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: firstly and uniformly mixing gellan gum, aloe gel and sodium methyl cellulose, thus obtaining a capsule wall material; uniformly mixing water, shea butter, herba centellae extract, arbutin, sargassum extract and hyaluronic acid, thus obtaining a capsule core material; then uniformly mixing the capsule wall material with water, using the mixed solution as a capsule wall solution, uniformlystirring after heating the capsule core material to 60 to 70 DEG C, carrying out homogenization treatment, using the homogenized capsule core material as a capsule core object, and preparing microcapsules by adopting a dropping method; mixing white veseline, lanum, cetearyl ether, isopropyl palmitate, propanediol, enhanceparaben and titanium dioxide, heating and carrying out homogenization treatment, thus obtaining a base mixture; mixing the microcapsules with the base mixture, thus preparing the herbal compound hydrophile-lipophile balance liquid foundation. After the herbal compound hydrophile-lipophile balance disclosed by the invention is smeared, the skin can be moist and clear, a concealing effect is good, the whole makeup is not greasy, the makeup is lasting, and a water-oil separation phenomenon cannot be caused during a storage period.