I'll be honest I haven't seen the magic photoshop effect myself. DH usually will compliment me if my skin looks different. However it does keep me matte all day. I've been using it over my maybelline bb cream which usually will get greasy mid-day but w/ this powder I stay shine free all day. Which Chanel powder do you use? I still use the discontiued tient innocense found but never used the loose powder.
I use the Poudre Universelle Libre #40. I love this powder above the Laura Mercier and MUFE HD because it does some of the things you guys said the Nars loose powder does for you. It makes my skin look soft and even. It doesn't look like I'm glowing, but I don't look matte. I guess you can say it gives a satin finish to my skin. The Nars tinted mosturizer, which I love, gives me a glow and when I put the Chanel loose powder over it, it tones it down just a bit. The Chanel Perfection Lumiere, which can be a little drying for me, looks beautiful and natural with the loose powder on top. That foundation works better with that Chanel powder than any other powder I've used it with. I think it has something to do with the slight pigmentation of the powder. It's not white, but it's not so dark that anyone my complexion (NC45) or darker couldn't use it as a setting powder. I took a chance on the powder a few weeks ago after some youtube raves and I'm so glad I did. I love Chanel, I love that huge, expensive looking jar. I can't even imagine running out. So, I think I'll just stop looking into loose powders from now on. It's just HG for me. I have normal/dry skin, by the way.
THANK YOU Shontay----I appreciate you taking the time to share your experience with the Chanel loose powder. No way will I give up the NLRP, but I'll definitely be putting it on my list of products to try in the future!
You're welcome. There's no need to give up a thing. :lol: I already had a couple of great powders before buying the Chanel powder. That's because I can't help myself. :haha:
which LM Loose powder do you have?
Secret Brightening Powder #2 If a beauty powder is a color like peach or pink, I use it as a blush after powder. If it's a natural color (Like Tahitian Sand by Mac), I use it as my setting powder.
Thanks a bunch for your review. I'm going to ask my Chanel SA for a sample. I love Chanel products and have no idea why I never tried it. Right now I'm also sampling the LM secret brightening powder. I will say that the Nars makes my bare skin look smoother . I'm going to see if I get those results from the other powders as well. I never wore foundation on a regular before so I never had use for a loose powder. I just set it w/MAC blot powder. So now I'm in the market for a HG loose. I have feeling it might be Chanel. I agree w/ that same feeling you have about the huge expensive looking jar LOL I have a jar of that feerie powder on my dresser that i have never ever used but for some reason i just get this fuzzy feeling every time i look at it.
you put your blush on after powder?
Yup. Always have unless it's a cream blush.
I think Elegant-one, master enabler who turned us all on to this (so glad she did) powder has both. I love the loose powder but I'm going to order the compact ASAP, just because I'm anal that way. I love this stuff and I want it in my purse. Mind you, I have NEVER had to reapply it but I like to be ready! In my mind, it's a necessity!
after all the enabling, I just HAD to buy this! Just ordered from Sephora yesterday and its on its way now!so excited!!! I can't decide how I will apply it though...I have a MAC 150, would that work? or should I use a 182 to buff it into the skin? TIA!
I had no idea there was a #2. My Sephora only had one so i assumed it was universal. Nordies has the #2 though. Thanks again!
Me too. I also put cream blushes on top sometimes, because I lightly powder my face. Doesn't look cakey and makes the color stand out!
I have both but I don't have either of the ones you own so cannot compare to those. I actually prefer the loose but I knew I would. I have been carrying the pressed in my bag but if I leave home without make-up I don't think to put on powder... I should see how it works with no mascara etc. I am sure it would at least make my skin look better. The loose is very long lasting so touch-ups were unnecessary for me. I have dry skin and am prone to eczema with oily t-zone. Not a slip and slide oily t-zone but the strawberry pores on nose. Might be due to a couple of decades of smoking. Which I have stopped.
Aww girl, you're so pretty it wouldn't matter if you used powder or not
Elegant-OneI just ordered the NARS Light Reflecting Pressed Powder. Let's here it for team 2/two/++. Love this powder so much I needed both iterations of it!!
Not a problem! I'm glad you do that too
Vampy - I tried to multi quote you too but it disappeared. I do the same as you do with the powder & cream blush.
