The first thing I learnt when playing around with this was don’t even bother trying to use the special brush it comes with; cheap, crappy, and scratchy! I don’t even have much to cover in terms of ‘bad’ skin and I could barely get ANY coverage with it. I tried a few other brushes and interestingly found my No7 Foundation Brush worked best (as opposed to my beloved Bobbi Brown one). It’s quite a thick fluffy foundation brush so you could really work the product into it. And working the product into it I did! Unlike most foundations, where you start of with a little and build, I literally swirled my foundation brush in the compact, and then applied straight to my face. This worked really well and I managed to get a really good, even coverage.
What I noticed when applying it was that is it incredibly weightless, and feels very silky on your skin. It did dry to a powder finish, but luckily not so severely that it dried my skin out in the process! With a bit of concealer it made my face flawless, made up but flawless. A little bit unusual for me as I tend to go for quite light dewy foundations so this finish was a really new experience.
The lasting power is pretty good, admittedly I found around my nose it wore off more quickly but I get that with every foundation so that’s fine. I did feel the need to touch up just to freshen it up a little bit half way through the day, not the sort of product you can apply in the morning and then forget about it till bed time, but this led me to discover that it was great for building with – even hours after original application. Didn’t cake in the slightest. Neither did my skin feel particularly parched either, which was really surprising.
I’m not sure if my skin could take wearing this everyday, especially for days which start at 8am and finish at 1am; my skin would just collapse from dehydration on day 4. But it’s definitely great for evenings where you want to look made up and have a powdered finish matte base. Obviously, if you have oilier skin then you could probably (happily) get away with wearing this everyday but dry skin needs a little bit more nourishment. However, in general this is good matte, powder finish product that even dry skinned gals can get away with using on occasion! Just make sure you slather on the richest night cream when you go to bed to put back some of that moisture into it at night time!
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