Here's Why You Want To Add A Finishing Powder To Your Makeup Routine

Here's how to get that glow

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Living in hot and humid tropical Singapore means most of us are all too familiar with using a setting powder to lock our makeup in place and not have it slide off with sweat and sebum. But have you heard of finishing powders? According to Hourglass Global Artistry Trainer Vanessa Eckels, finishing powders are “designed to soften and diffuse light onto the skin to blur and minimise the look of pores, wrinkles, fine lines and uneven skin texture. It’s basically like adding an Instagram filter to your face”.

With the application, finishing powder comes after foundation and setting powder. Eckels recommends using a big fluffy brush to swipe the product all over the face.

Finishing powders also offered a variety of tones and finishes so you can customise and “be your own lighting technician”, as Eckels puts it.

Ready to have a filtered complexion IRL? Keep scrolling for our shopping picks right now.

Ambient Lighting Powder, $81, Hourglass

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Hourglass’s Ambient Lighting Powders have been highly raved about thanks to its Photoluminescent Technology that captures, diffuses and softens the light to create a soft, lit-from-within complexion. It is available in multiple shades and tones.

Perfecting Powder, $80, Sulwhasoo

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Sulwhasoo combines skincare and makeup to create this finishing powder formula that contains a slew of moisturising plant-derived ingredients. It is available in three shades.

Makeup High Definition Finishing Powder, $13, Nyx Professional

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Offering a fresh matte finish, the Nyx powder softens fine lines and pores. There are two shades available – use the translucent across the face to not alter the colour of your base makeup and use the banana shade to brighten the undereyes.

Airbrush Flawless Finish, $64.80, Charlotte Tilbury

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Another cult favourite product, the lightweight Charlotte Tilbury finishing powder is formulated with nano-blurring particles to minimise the appearance of pores, texture and imperfections without weighing down the skin. It is available in multiple shades.

Fit Me Loose Powder, $21.90, Maybelline

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The Maybelline Fit Me powder uses a mineral-based formula to control shine and smooth skin texture. There are various shades to choose from to match your skin tone and add slight coverage.

Ultra HD Loose Powder, $61, Make Up For Ever

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Spherical micro particles of silica are employed here to afford the skin a velvety finish and a naturally glowing, light matte complexion. It is also available in pressed powder format.

Météorites Compact Powder, $97, Guerlain

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Equipped with Guerlain’s Stardust Technology which uses light-reflecting polymers to impart a delicate radiance, this finishing powder has four colours to colour correct and improve skin tone and complexion.

Loose Finishing Powder, $29.90, Revlon

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Revlon’s finishing powder provides a healthy, soft focus effect while controlling shine and evening skin tone. The lightweight powder is infused with vitamin E and is oil- and fragrance-free. It is available in three shades.
Text: Ho Guo Xiong/Her World

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