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The Hit List: Worst Loose Powder
What’s the Worst Loose Powder…?
What brand/product wins this category? Any particular reason it wins?
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Bare Essentials original loose powder foundation when it first came out. Ever since then I avoided loose powder. It broke me out. I’m skeptical about trying out the new formula. I have oily skin, so it’ll slide off after several hours. 🙁
i completely agree 110%!! i don’t know what’s in it but it made my skin sooo itchy! i had it on for like an hour and had to go wash my face.
i think it was that horrible excuse for a brush… i really hate bare minerals. it did NOT worth $60.00. would have rather tossed my money out the window… XD
I heard it’s the bismuth that makes it itchy. I made the mistake of wearing a full face of Bare Essentials on a hot summer day… I almost scratched my face off… haven’t used it since :-/
Hmm. I used to have a cheapy drugstore brand of loose powder-Coty maybe? I don’t recall the name. It had a bizarrely reflective shimmer that continually made me look powder masked, sweaty, and metallic, if a woman really CAN look like all that at once.
I used to use pressed powder a lot more, before I got my MUFE loose powder. That stuff is awesome. Want the pressed powder rants? i have a PILE of them!
loreal bare naturale…crap!
Agree 100%. That stuff was horrible! LOL
Covergirl. I cannot stand the SMELL of the product. Always smells like cold cream. Yuck!
The Body Shop. It’s drying and packaging is unhandy.
I have not tried too many but my current one, Almay translucent loose powder (the “natural” kind”) is not a good setting powder and I think it makes me feel greasy after a few hours (I have dry skin).
Also, it is NOT translucent. Granted, I am very pale, but it was still disappointing how dark and yellow it was.
alot of people dont like mac iredescent powder but i LOVE it!!!!! 🙂
L’Oreal Paris Bare Naturale Gentle Mineral Foundation.
It literally made my skin look grey.
And I’m extremely pale, so I looked like a corpse!
It also looked extremely cakey and felt heavier than stage makeup!
i have a list…lol …may i? :
revlon mineral powder, physicians formula organic powder, and covergirl are crap.
loreal bare natural. (last year i switched to it because i ran out of my BE and it was cheaper and going to the store rather than mall was easier….anyways, worked . o. k. for a little bit then i had a horrible allergic reaction to it and stopped wearing it)..sucked.
BE is great, im suprised it didnt work out for some of you. it did actually itch me a little (not unbarable though) the first couple of days but i gave it a chance and been wearing it for 2 years now.
oh yea! MUFE HD finishing is amazing too.
NYC Is absolutly atrocious! I used to wear it in junior high before I really knew much about makeup.
Covergirl is Crap too! Queer smell and itchy as heck!
However I do Love Rimmels Pressed Matte Powder + Minerals. I can wear that all by itself and have lovely coverage.
MUFE HD Powder. Yeah, it’s great, but it’s 100% pure silica, and it’s what, $30 for 10g? Silica is $3.50 for an ounce at somewhere like Coastal Scents or TKB Trading, or any other big mineral wholesaler. It’s not a finished product, it’s ONE INGREDIENT, and it’s not any better than generic silica.
Loreal Bare Naturale! Its horrible! I have fairly tan skin, and I bought it in Classic Tan (470) and it seriously made me look like I had just gone outside and rubbed dirt on my face. The brush it comes with is horrible as well – very scratchy.
For some reason I still have it…
Bare Essentials is horrible! Itchy skin right after i applied it. I was hesitant to try any others but after testing Laura Merciers tinted moisturizer the MA put the loose powder on over it. I love it but couldn’t stop there. I tried the MUFE HD finishing powder a couple of months ago and that now has become my daily staple in my makeup.
I’ve only used one loose powder and it was the shine free one from maybelline.
i love it and not planning on using any other unless people recommended it.