Best Luxury Setting Powders For Long-Lasting Makeup
Setting powders offer a range of benefits, including extending the wear of your makeup, creating a flawless appearance, and eliminating shine.
However, not all formulas are created equal. Luxury powders often boast higher-quality ingredients, lighter textures, and a more advanced oil-control formula for a long-lasting, flawless finish. Discover our favourites…
1. Meteorites by GUERLAIN
1987 was the year Meteorites was born. The inspiration reportedly came from a trip to China, where Guerlain’s then-creative director came across a box of white power pearls and pictured a product that could do more than illuminate the skin.
Meteorites Pearls were designed to offer an all-in-one powder that sets, colour-corrects and brightens. Now made with 95% naturally derived ingredients, each pearl colour combination is set out to create the most even, flawless complexion along with 12-hour lasting radiance and 8-hour shine control.
The special, premium experience of using Meteorites is hard to beat. This is an icon, from the expensive design and feel of the tin to the violet-scent Meteorites you get hit with as soon as you open the pot. It’s up there with the best.
Fact: We love that each pearl is hand-finished to ensure its perfect shape. The process was inspired by how tablets are made to ensure each is completely uniform in its spherical design.
2. GIVENCHY Prisme Libre
2006 is when Prisme Libre set the beauty industry alight with its luxury loose powder with 4’in’1 benefits: mattifying shine, blurring imperfections, brightening the complexion, and setting your base products for lasting wear. What’s extra special about this setting powder is its colour-correcting ability and high-end design, straight from the GIVENCHY masion.
1 Mousseline Pastel is the hero shade, counteracting redness and dullness while adding radiance. Even though this powder has been a classic for over a century, social media has recently gone crazy after Kylie Jenner was spotted using Satin Blanc.
Rumour has it that Le Prisme Visage, a four-in-one face powder launched in 1989, might be an earlier version or inspiration for the Prisme Libre.
3. YSL All Hours Hyper Finish
New to line-up, this 2024 launch has taken the beauty world by storm. All Hours Hyper Finish is finely milled and enriched with plumping hyaluronic acid for a smooth blend and soft finish, plus added skin-refining niacinamide; this powder mattifies skin and sets your foundation for up to 24 hours.
The packaging and design are beautiful, too. The black faux leather case is similar to the YSL Lou Lou bag, making it feel like a super luxe experience whenever you pull it out of your bag.