A Hint of Rouge

I was looking for a good pressed powder to set my liquid foundation -- Revlon Age Defying Liquid Froundation (Still to be reviewed). I found this while window shopping a few days ago and I decided to try it. The shade that seemed to match my skin is Beige so I took that one.

I first tried it after wearing my foundie and it gave a matte look to my oily/combination skin. However, the matte-ness lasted only for about 3-4 hours, afterwhich, I had to reapply. It also gives light to medium coverage and is quite buildable but not cakey, which is good. However, I noticed that the powder looked ashy on my skin but I did get compliments from my coworkers about how great my skin looked so I may be wrong with my previous observation. This powder is also good on its own and still build-able and not cakey. It still gives a matte finish but needs to be reapplied after a few hours.

Overall, this powder is good for its price -- very cheap and does its job well.

Last summer, I was looking for a pressed powder to replace my Skinfood Cucumber and Lettuce powder (see review here.) which was too light for my skin. I can not stress enough that it's hard to find a shade that fits my dark morena skin and although Revlon and L'oreal both have a good collection of shades for face powders, they just won't fit my budget (that is when I'm sane. But when there's a sale, I hoard, so it doesn't help much). 

Luckily, while on an online shopping spree I found they had stocks of Almay TLC Pressed Powder in medium. I had read great reviews of this powder in MakeupAlley so I went and ahead and got myself one. And boy how wrong was I to get only one. I should have bought tons! LOL. I fell so deeply in love with this face powder that I forgot about Skinfood in an instant. 

The shade matches my skin. It's offers light to medium coverage and it's buildable. It lasts for the entire day -- except when I'm at work where I have to wear a surgical mask most of the time. I do hate that the powder sticks on the mask but I guess pressed powders do that.

What I don't like about this is that there's not much of the product in the compact and when you use it everyday (like me), you'll find that it will easily run out. 

I need to start looking for a supplier ASAP!