best loose finishing powder

Sephora customers often prefer the following products when searching for best loose finishing powder.

The objective of finishing powder is to keep your foundation in place while offering a subtle blur of pores, wrinkles, fine lines, and uneven skin texture after you've applied your makeup. Here are some great choices.

GivenchyMini Prisme Libre Illuminating & Color Correcting Loose Powder

Size: 0.14 oz / 4 g·ITEM: 2788560

Color: 05 Popeline Mimosa - for medium to deep skintones

2.1K Reviews

$31.00

Absolutely love everything about this product: packaging, size, coverage, texture, how it feels on my skin, the finish and even the scent. This is for sure one of my favorite powders and I will be purchasing the full size....LOVE! Oh my gosh, I am in powder love!!! The loose powder is light and delicate, with a softened matte finish to the skin. ...Favorite loose powder out there

What it is: A color-correcting loose setting & finishing powder that blurs, illuminates, and sets makeup for 12 hours, delivering a natural radiant finish & all-day shine control.


Coverage: Light


Finish: Radiant


Formulation: Loose Powder


Highlighted Ingredients: 

- Prismatic Light™ Technology: Combines soft-focus powder to blur and light-reflecting pearls to illuminate.

GivenchyPrisme Libre Illuminating & Color Correcting Loose Powder

Size: 0.4 oz / 10 g·ITEM: 2788602

Color: 03 Voile Rose - for light skintones

2.1K Reviews

$60.00

I've been using different types of finishing powder and this Givenchy Prisme Libre Loose Setting and Finishing Powder is what I'm looking for. ...One of the best loose powders!!!...One of the best loose powders I’ve used. I love the combination of the shades as well.

What it is: A color-correcting loose setting & finishing powder that blurs, illuminates, and sets makeup for 12 hours, delivering a natural radiant finish & all-day shine control.


Coverage: Light

 

Finish: Radiant

 

Formulation: Loose Powder 

 

Highlighted Ingredients: 

- Prismatic Light™ Technology: Combines soft-focus powder to blur and light-reflecting pearls to illuminate and enhance skin’s natural radiance.

MAKE UP FOR EVERMini Ultra HD Microfinishing Loose Powder

ITEM: 1911387

Size: Mini Size Translucent - 0.14 oz/ 4 g - Translucent

432 Reviews

$20.00

The best FINISHING powder!...This stuff is amazing! I never knew about finishing powders until I tried this. I thought all powders were heavier like setting powders. ...The only loose finishing powder I will use!

What it is:
An award-winning finishing powder that’s ultra-blurring and light-diffusing to create unfiltered perfection for all skintones—in every light.

What it does:
The last step in your make up routine, this finishing powder blur the look of your skin’s imperfections. Revamped and now more transparent, weightless, and blurring than ever, this is the ultimate finishing powder.

MAKE UP FOR EVERUltra HD Microfinishing Loose Powder

ITEM: 1911395

Size: Standard Size Translucent - 0.29 oz/ 8.5 g - Translucent

548 Reviews

$39.00

Look Awesome with this Finishing Powder...Love this product! This is one of the best loose powders I've used. Mattifies and blurs imperfections nicely. ...It's a finishing powder you guys... not a setting powder.

What it is:
An award-winning finishing powder that’s ultra-blurring and light-diffusing to create unfiltered perfection for all skintones—in every light.

What it does:
The last step in your make up routine, this finishing powder blur the look of your skin’s imperfections. Revamped and now more transparent, weightless, and blurring than ever, this is the ultimate finishing powder.

MAKE UP FOR EVERHD SKIN TWIST & LIGHT 24HR Luminous Finishing Powder

Size: 0.2 oz / 8 g·ITEM: 2670271

Color: 2.0 Medium - for medium skin tones

228 Reviews

$45.00

The three different colored powders mixing into the perfect finishing powder shade is like magic (color theory, haha) but I have dry skin and my skin always looks super matte with the powders I use and this one gives me that radiant finish that I’ve been using wanting!...Perfect Summer Finishing Powder...I am really enjoying this powder during the warmer months, as we're shifting to glowy and satin finishes for our everyday makeup.

What it is: A three-in-one, ultrafine loose finishing powder that blurs, color-corrects, and illuminates your complexion while delivering radiance and blurring.

Coverage: Light

Finish:
Radiant

Formulation:
Loose Powder

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Fine Flat Pearls: Reflect light in a linear way for a flattering, lit-from-within look.
- Spherical Powders: Diffuse light, creating a blurring, soft-focus effect.

What Else You Need to Know: This powder includes different shades: a skin-tone shade to even out discoloration, a correcting shade to neutralize undertones, and a color-reviving shade for a lit-from-within result. It is infused with flat pearl pigments and spherical powders to reflect and

Charlotte TilburyRefillable Airbrush Flawless Finish Brightening Powder

Size: 0.31 oz / 9 g·ITEM: 2613453

Color: Tan-Deep - yellow-toned

70 Reviews

$48.00

I think it is brightening and I love that it is a pressed powder rather than loose but I think there are better brightening powders out there. ...Best under eye brightening powder on the market!...Step 1: finish full Face eyebrows lips, eyes highlight, contour, setting powders creams.

What it is: A lightweight, microfine powder to visibly brighten, blur, and lift your eyes and face while setting your makeup for up to 16 hours—with no flashback.

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Hyaluronic Acid: Hydrates.
- Vegan Collagen: Visibly smooths.
- Vitamin C: Visibly brightens.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Inspired by her award-winning Airbrush Flawless Finish Setting Powder (sold separately),

$65.00

The perfect finishing touch...The perfect finishing touch , perfect is the best way to describe it. ...Best powder I’ve ever used...I’m usually more comfortable with a loose translucent powder but I was beyond impressed with this powder.

What it is: 

A soft-matte, pressed finishing powder in a couture clutch that sweeps shine, sets foundation, blurs imperfections, and resists sweat for up to 24 hours. 


Finish: Matte


Formulation: Pressed Powder


Highlighted Ingredients: 

- Hyaluronic Acid: Keeps skin feeling comfortable and looking smooth.        

- Niacinamide: Has skin-enhancing benefits.        

- Limetta: Has non-drying properties.    


What Else You Need to Know: This breathable finishing powder blurs imperfections and pores while smoothing skin.


MAKEUP BY MARIOSoftSculpt® Transforming Skin Perfector

Size: 0.31 oz / 8.8 g·ITEM: 2577922

Color: Dark - warms medium dark to dark skin tones

225 Reviews

$36.00

One of my best Sephora purchases...I’ve always been a fan of matte looks and finishes but this product leaves a glowy finish that looks just right and is super easy to use! ...Beautiful finish!...But after using it I realized that this is a bunch of things- a bronzer, a highlighter, a finishing powder- all in one, and that’s literally what it does… It perfects!

What it is: A three-in-one powder to perfect, illuminate, and set makeup for a radiant glow with an airbrush effect on skin.


Coverage: Medium


Finish: 
Radiant


Formulation: 
Pressed Powder


Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, mineral oil, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also vegan and cruelty-free.

SEPHORA COLLECTIONMicrosmooth Multi-Tasking Baked Face Powder Foundation

Size: 0.28 oz. / 8 g ·ITEM: 2730737

Color: 35 Bronze - medium with yellow undertones

176 Reviews

$20.00

I stopped using loose setting powder and transitioned to using only this. ...Similar to hourglass powders...I really enjoy this powder for dusting off any excess setting powder as well as adding a soft focus finish to the face.

What it is: A baked finishing powder with weightless, buildable coverage to instantly blur imperfections and even skin tone.

Coverage: Light

Formulation:
Powder

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also gluten-free, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: This versatile powder can be worn alone as a light, buildable foundation or applied on top of liquid complexion products to brighten, contour, bronze, and finish your makeup look to perfection

NARSSoft Matte Advanced Perfecting Powder

Size: 0.31 oz / 9 g·ITEM: 2647014

Color: Cove - light with warm tone

113 Reviews

$38.00

I was worried it looked too yellow, but she was right. The powder is thin and light but very effective. I set my foundation with loose powder anyway. ...Best blurring powder I’ve tried...I used it on top of a translucent setting powder as a finishing powder and I didn’t get oily all day

What it is: A multi-purpose, skin-perfecting powder that blurs imperfections, smooths the look of skin, and sets makeup for up to 24 hours.

Coverage: Medium

Finish:
Matte

Formulation:
Pressed Powder

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Cocoa Butter-Treated Mica Minerals: Allow the formula to glide on effortlessly, leaving skin feeling like silk.
- Niacinamide: Minimizes the appearance of pores and absorbs oil over time.
- Adaptive Oil-Control Technology: Dual-powder system traps excess sebum and mattifies oily areas.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLE

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