Flawless Powder Foundation

5 Reviews

1. 

   bubblyRat4

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   I’m liquid foundation gal but this powder has become very handy. Granted, I don’t use it as a base on its own but after applying blush and bronzer I dip in with a medium blending brush and buff around the edges. These couple of minutes do make a difference in how polished my makeup looks. The texture feels creamy and never gets cakey. The packaging albeit beautiful is unnecessarily large for me since I find the sponge superfluous, would have preferred the powder housed in a case like Tom Ford blushes.
   So overall I think it’s a great powder to blend any edges and does matify a bit while looking great but the price is ultimately too high to repurchase.

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   soreIguana8

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   I find this to be an exceptional powder foundation, along the lines of Chantecaille compact makeup, D&G powder foundation, and La Prarie Caviar compact foundation.

   Coverage is very good, but in such a way that it doesn’t go on heavily. I find it to go on with more coverage when using a bushy foundation brush, and more sheer when using the provided sponge (perhaps that is why the previous reviewer found it to be too sheer…) In no way does it go on cakey, which to me is good, as it is better to be able to add, vs. needing to subtract, the product.

   My skin is finicky and tends to cause foundations to separate and oxidize. This does neither. It goes on matte but absorbs to a beautiful undetectable finish. It does not exacerbate flakiness.

   4.0 Fawn is perfect for my NC20-25 skin.

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   shySeagull1

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   While I love Tom Ford’s cosmetics, I was really disappointed in this product. I found it to have no more coverage than the average pressed powder, certainly not the coverage one would expect from a powder foundation. I also found it difficult to blend. What’s worse, I’ve only tried it twice, and the TF embossed in the powder is nearly gone. If this were used as a primary foundation on a daily basis, I don’t expect that it would last very long.

   If you’re looking for a tinted finishing powder, you might enjoy this. If you’re looking for a powder foundation that can stand up on it’s own, skip this and try Burberry’s or Benefit’s powder foundations instead.

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   needyChile1

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   This is hart to rate, as it is perfect for me (thus 5 lippies), but I feel like I use this differently than most people would? I’m no way a powder foundation girl. But I was curious about this because my skin simply eats up every foundation. (Longwearing? Duh… All-day-whatever? Not for me). As I am touchup lazy too, I was looking for something convenient to reapply. This product does this perfectly. The finish this leaves on the skin is amazing. It somehow manages to give nice coverage, without looking cakey. No matter if you blott before or not. I expected the two sided sponge to be gimmicky, but it really works by one side providing sheer, the other side medium coverage. I’m still in the phase that I look at the sponge and think “Hm. Which does which again?!?”. So it might have been helpful to mark it somehow? Or did I just miss that? The powder looks nice as finishing powder as well, applied with a brush. But it hasn’t managed to crack my habit of grabbing for my Laura Mercier translucent powder, or to be more precise: I’m to lazy to fetch my makeup bag, as that is where I keep it and not in my bathroom. If you want this to be our sole foundation, I would be hesitant to take my 5-star-rating serious, as I mentioned before. But for touchups this is great, even though it’s pricey. But I guess we all know that. It’s Tom Ford after all…

5. 

   vengefulGatorade0

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   With the Estée Lauder Invisible Powder Foundation apparently discontinued I need something as my go-to powder foundation. I wear powder foundation when travelling or when I’m pressed for time I want to look polished quickly.

   After a less than great experience with the Traceless foundation by Tom Ford I decided to give this brand another shot, mostly because I like the packaging and the luxury feel of this, granted this is a product with an extravagant price and I’m more than sure that there are more affordable and similar products from a myriad of brands. That being said I want to treat myself after I got a bonus and I really REALLY wanted this one. Now onto the details:

   The packaging is, on the outside, exactly like the Shade and Illuminate duo, it features 7g of product and has a compartment to house a dual-sided sponge. The white flat side provides you with light to light-medium coverage and the beige flocked side gives you medium to medium-full coverage. The powder is “creamy” upon application and the product immediately blends in with your skin tone and masks imperfections, I pat it on the product and apply in sections inwards to outwards of my face and pat over small blemishes or discoloration if I need a bit more coverage.

   What does it do, it evens out your skin tone with a lightweight feel and doesn’t look cakey or give a feel of packed on product, my skin actually liked it and by the end of the day it was slightly faded (I have 10 hour workdays so I’m not expecting any miracles) and the only thing I don’t give this product a 5 lippie review is that after four hours of wear I was a bit shiny and I had to touch it up with my Touche Eclat Blur Perfector to matte it all out.

   The mirror is huge which is a plus for travelling and I don’t need any other mirror to carry around and carries the logo Tom Ford suede bag to protect the compact.

   No break outs or irritation and I’m pretty sure it would give me longer wear if I applied more product but wanting to look natural but polished I didn’t do that, also it’s so incredibly expensive that I want to make sure that this product lasts.

   I am wearing shade #1.5 in Cream, light neutral but not porcelain and I wear Tom Ford Traceless Foundation in Ivory, for reference I wear NARS Siberia Powder Foundation and Estée Lauder’s 1WN2 in the Invisible Powder.