Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
Thank you so, so much for joining me.
Please ignore this lash on the inside.
I accidentally, like, crimped the rib so
it's like... on the inside corner.
That's not our focus today.
We are focusing on powders because
TikTok has been shoving two particular powders
and a certain tool in my face.
And I have to try it because
I'm just like, you know what?
I'm so sick of this [ __ ] viral,
viral, viral.
So today we are trying the
this looks really nice.Maybelline 20... Superstay 24 Hours Foundation.
Plus, we are trying HMB Cosmetics Soft Focus Loose
Powder, which has been deemed by one user in
particular as an answer to filler.
Impossible.
We'll get into that later.
And the... what is this?
O Pretty? Cpretty? Opretty, I think.
Complexion puff.
That again, another tool
people are like, oh my God,
it's going to change your life.
I don't think so, but we'll see.
I'm really having a rough time here.
So let's get into that.
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Let's get into it.
We're going to do shade 40 in the Superstay Foundation.
Now, straight up, there's a few things
I want to say about this powder. Like this.
There's a pad underneath and it comes with a mirror.
Should I wash my hands?
I have lash glue on my hands. That's fine. Whatever.
If you are going to make a powder foundation
or a foundation or any product that comes with a
sponge or a puff underneath, we need air holes.
We need air holes under here so that
thing can breathe and not get all moist
and weird and all that kind of stuff.
We're going to start getting hard pan on the top here.
If we're going to use like a damp... not a damp, but like
a sponge with oil on, it's not going to be a good time.
Just a few air holes, just around the edge, perhaps.
However, I won't be using this today.
Okay, so my skin is primed how I usually prime it.
It's hydrated.
And I've given my skin time to absorb what it needs to.
Honestly, these lashes are giving
me so much [ __ ] grief. They're so long.
Look, they're like touching my things.
Oh, well.
I...
Holy [ __ ].
So I'm going to use a powder brush.
I personally like to apply powder foundations by circling
outwards and building up like a good coverage.
We've seen claims that this can go
full coverage and be absolutely fine.
So let's do it.
And I'm going to try and build this up
as much as I can.
Let's try and get full, full coverage and see how it goes.
Okay, in all honesty, and being real
this looks really nice.
It looks really, really nice.
I really had this feeling I was going to not like it.
This is a really nice powder.
It's really smooth on the skin.
It looks beautiful.
Like, I really... close up as well
It's not drying.
I was concerned that I was going to have
some dry patchiness around here, and here.
There is a little bit
perhaps, like, clinging here.
You see where it kind of bunches up a
little bit, but that's because it's powder.
It's completely matte.
What I like to do with
powder foundations is completely hydrate it.
So I would cover my face in the powder
and then completely hydrate it with a hydrating mist
and then just leave it like that.
So,
I'm going to put in a wear test for you
here before we go into the next powder so you can
see what it's like, because that is... I'm impressed.
I'm surprisingly...
Like, I would consider taking this to an event with me
and wearing this because this is beautiful.
I'm so shock... I'm actually shocked.
Not that powder foundation is nice, because
I like powder foundations, but that this
one in particular is nice.
I really like it.
In terms of coverage. You know what?
Let's do it. Let's try and build up a lot more coverage on my cheeks
and see how we go.
The only drawback is of using a brush like this,
is when you kind of get all the product out.
It is kind of like, going everywhere, and
that's probably why it comes with a pad.
But I just prefer brushes.
So I'm just going to pat the powder onto the area. Let's see.
Like, you see, I've got, like, this little scar here.
Let's try and see how much
coverage we can really get there.
Okay, so it's not like crazy, crazy full, full coverage.
Let me just brush it out my beard quickly.
But it does look...
It does...
Oh, my God, it's everywhere.
It looks nice.
I actually really like that.
I'm very surprised.
Very surprised.
Okay, let me put this wear test
in here for you right now. Take a look.
Morning.
Oh, one of my lights isn't on,
but it doesn't matter for this.
Okay, so wear test today.
We're going to do a wear test of...
Should I turn a light on?
Yeah, that's probably better.
We're doing a wear test of the powder today.
I've hydrated my skin.
I've done, like, my normal.
I just kind of let it sit for a few minutes.
I'm going to go over...
How I like to do my powder foundation is
I'm going to go over with a Beauty... ah.
A Beauty Blender.
I'm just going to blot away any excess moisturizer, whatever's
hanging around my skin just so it doesn't interfere with
the powder, because I want to be hydrated, but we
don't want patches of excess moisture on the skin to
kind of clog up the powder, basically.
So, yeah, let's do it. Let's get applying.
I'm not doing anything crazy today.
I'm recording a podcast.
I'm doing cleaning.
I think cleaning a bit. Which usually gets
me kind of like hot and sweaty because
I'm going to Hoover, I'm going to vacuum. Same thing.
Do all this other stuff.
I really, really like this powder.
I think it's so smooth and so beautiful.
Let's see how it sits throughout day.
One thing I would like to say is if you are
going to use a brush, it is very, very dusty.
Oh, look at my t-shirt.
Light Year. Isn't that cute?
This is from, this isn't an advert but I always
buy their t-shirts. I'll put it here.
Fantasy Feelings, the brand. So beautiful.
They're Disney shirts.
If you're a Disney fan, you have to, you
have to get some of their t-shirts.
They are so so cool.
Yes. So let's see how it does.
But I like it, straight up,
first of all, I like it here.
Let's see how it does... a few years?
It's not going to be that long a video.
A few hours later.
Okay, listen, I'm not even joking when I say it's been like
a minute since I recorded that thing upstairs.
Look how oily I am already.
Actually, it's not terrible.
It's not really bad oily.
I'm in my corner where the lighting is kind of good.
It looks quite smooth.
When I mentioned... when I mentioned...
When I said why I like to, like, hydrate my...
Sorry, I just remembered I saw a spider up here yesterday.
When I said how I like to hydrate my skin with
a hydrating mist, is because, can you see on my nose
I have quite a large pore here and on there.
They're just always like that.
It's because I remember powder really sits on my skin.
So when I hydrate it, it's not as bad.
You can't see it those like detailed as much.
But I'm going to let my skin do its
own thing today because like I said, I'm oily.
And look, I'm kind of shiny already compared
to how matte I was a minute ago. Still looks fine.
Still looks like skin.
This is quite good lighting.
I've never filmed here before.
Yeah, again, quite shiny.
So maybe I would even go in with a powder.
This is the same time, by the way.
I just wanted to try a different light.
Maybe I would go in with a powder again.
Just to...
Normally just to set this.
But so far, so good. The color...
It's okay. It's okay.
I can just imagine it getting pretty
dark, like most powders do on me.
Actually, I forgot to mention as well, usually when I
use a powder foundation, I go one or two shades
lighter than my actual skin tone because I know
within a few minutes I'm going to look like, it's
going to look too dark for my skin. And then I get this
really horrible, like, obvious divide. Okay.
Okay, so it's 10:10, so I will update you.
I'm recording a podcast, so I'll see. I'll see.
Hi, it's a good time later.
What's the time? It's now 12:17.
So... oh, that's almost like, what,
2 hours and ten minutes.
I'm extremely oily on my nose, but one
thing I've noticed is it doesn't look like
the foundation itself has broken up.
It just looks like the powder has become shiny.
Whereas usually if I wear a foundation and my oil
comes through and starts to get involved, especially with liquids,
it looks as though it's separated on my nose, whereas
this looks just like, it's just shiny.
I'm very tempted to powder it or even go in and
touch it up with the powder, which I don't usually do.
But this is as oily as I'm going to get.
There's no going back.
So I'm thinking, do I just try and
touch up a little bit and see?
I'm going to do it anyway.
I'm going to take the puff.
I'm just going to tap it on top.
I would never, by the way, do this usually.
I would blot a little bit more and then go on.
But I just want to see how this will
sit on top of a really oily skin.
I hate, I really hate...
Like, see what I mean?
It kind of sits if you're going to
use a pad on top of moisture.
So I'm just going to use my brush and brush it in.
It's not bad.
It's not bad at all.
I would now, again, hydrate with a hydrating mist.
So that was 2 hours before I became
incredibly oily, but it didn't ruin the foundation.
I really feel like I could blot it even with
a blotting powder and then go back on it.
It would actually be better to go on
with a blotting powder than with the foundation itself.
But even if you wanted to go back in
with a foundation, I don't think it's terrible.
Let's see how this looks in a few more
hours, and I'll keep you updated there as well.
Okay, last check in of the day.
It is now, like, two pasts three.
To be really specific.
It is looking a little bit like,
clunky, where I built it up on top of
its own oil, which is to be expected.
But I'm incredibly, incredibly
impressed with this powder.
I really, really like this.
I think it's a really good powder foundation.
There's a lot of stuff out there for oily skin,
and I feel like even the powder foundation's for oily
skin tend to disappoint a little bit as well.
But I really feel like this has hung around.
It's done its thing.
Even my forehead still feels, it doesn't feel
dry, but it feels a bit tight.
And again, as an oily person, I think that's
a blessing to be this far in a day
and still have, like, a tight feeling forehead.
I think it looks still good on my skin.
I'll go to the other light in a minute.
But I do really, really like it, and I think a
few touch-ups throughout the day with a translucent powder
wouldn't have gone amiss and a hydrating mist.
And I think it'll be looking really, really good.
I even think on drier skins, I think it
will be okay if you really hydrated beforehand.
Again, blotted away that excess
moisture, powder, hydrating mist.
I think it'll be really good.
I don't think this is an excessively dry powder.
I'm very impressed.
Back in this light again, because I
thought this was really good lighting.
It looks really, really good.
I would go to that window where I did the Mario one,
but there's no point because when I did the Mario one, it
was sun coming in, and it's just the same as this now.
But I'm really impressed. The only downside
to this, I think, would be the packaging.
I want it to breathe, that sponge to breathe.
And it's dusty when you use a brush.
And that's me being picky.
I really like it.
I don't know what else to say, honestly,
I didn't expect to like it this much.
I thought it would be okay.
I thought it would be changing color, getting darker.
But it's good. I like it.
It's a good powder foundation.
Okay, so next up is the bane of my life.
Can't stand it.
I can't stand it.
The HMB Cosmetics Powder.
No hate to the brand.
It's not their fault that people have
been saying things that is like, misinformation.
Oh.
A lot of powder on my lashes there. That's fine.
I should have thought about that before.
Anyway, so I have translucent, and I
actually do have a color as well.
But I thought we'll try the translucent one first.
Soft focus powser... powser?
Soft Focus Powder, loose.
Now, there have been claims online that by
using this puff, this very one in particular,
and I quote, can replace tear trough filler.
Tear trough filler is what they put here to
make your under eyes appear, like, fuller.
They physically put something in to fill it out.
What powder and a puff cannot physically do.
It is impossible.
It cannot replace.
And it is not an alternative for filler in any way.
Powder and a puff cannot physically bring
your skin or any features forward.
That fact, it physically cannot do that.
Can it give the appearance of smoother skin? Yes.
Give the appearance of.
Can it make pores disappear? No.
We all know what I think about this.
It's lighting.
Not any individual's particular lighting. It's science.
It's how lighting works for anyone, anywhere.
What I am going to do is hydrate my
whole face, because this is usually done on a
face where underneath the eyes is moist and hydrated
and you can see a physical shine.
But what I need is to mimic what they do
online, where under eyes is, like, shiny and glossy.
And then they mattifying it and they're like...
Clean my eyelashes.
No. You know what?
I'm going to have to take the makeup
off for it to be a fair test. Right. Bear with me.
I've done it.
I've put on foundation and concealer.
I've hydrated under my eyes nicely because one common thing
throughout the comments on these videos, right, people are like,
I bought it and it didn't work for me.
It looked really powdery and cakey.
And the persons was like, yeah, you
need to hydrate under your eyes.
So I've kept my under eyes really hydrated.
One thing I want to say as well is
that is, of course, anything is going to make your
under eyes look smooth when it mattifies, it.
And if you have really smooth under eyes.
However, if you have eyebags or like me, like deeper under eyes, then
unfortunately there's not really much you can do,
in all honestly.
Except get filler or get implants.
You can lighten that area with concealer, but
it's not a powder and a puff.
Two basic materials we've had this whole time throughout
our whole lives of makeup, haven't just suddenly become
tools to magically cure your under eye darkness.
Okay, so here's the powder.
Here's the puff.
Okay, so I'm taking the Cpretty puff and
I'm putting it in the powder...
Cpretty or Opretty?
I can't even see it.
And I'm loading it up quite a bit
because that's what they always say in the
videos, to load it up quite a bit.
Okay, let's go.
So it has just mattified one side, which
means it's not going to show up detail.
Let me turn off this light.
So this is the eye with the powder.
It's just matte.
You can still see like details and stuff like that.
And throughout the day that's going
to get drier and matter.
We can do a wear test on this too.
It's just mattified.
And if I was to mattify the other
eye, it would be the same situation.
This puff is really soft.
Again, this is no hate to the brand because
it's the people that are giving out misinformation.
And also if you want to
look smooth on camera, then great.
But what I'm talking about is real life, people
looking for answers to their real life issues.
So if you want to look like incredibly smooth on camera
only, or in low light, then that's great for you.
It's just an under eye powder.
You don't need that puff.
You don't need that thing.
You can use any beauty sponge and
it applies any powder exactly like this.
That's just how it is.
And it's going to change in every kind of lighting situation.
It's not going to be the same.
This is really nice and really soft.
You can probably use this for a
liquid foundation or something like that.
It's beautiful.
It's a beautiful puff.
And actually I would use it again.
I think it's really, really nice for other things.
But yeah, here's the deal, right?
When you're shopping online, especially for powders, please
just remember there is no miracle product that's
going to do something as crazy as filling
in whatever. We have been doing makeup for
centuries, actually thousands of thousands of years, people
have been using makeup.
We have not just suddenly just discovered a
technique to fill in under the eyes.
Thanks to TikTok and its
low quality potato quality videos.
That's all I'm ever going to say about that ever again.
Ever.
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