Now, what’s unsettling here is the powder (pardon my pun) that just couldn’t fill up my fine lines, thus making them appear even more obvious here. My right eye bag has always been bulgier and naturally, with deeper creases. Notice how the results vary between my left and right under eye. Ok, I have a love-and-hate relationship with this product. Both columns comprise distant and close-up shots. The “after” ones (right photos) are with the Laura Mercier Secret Brightening Powder applied over the concealer. The “before” (left photos) below are with concealer already applied on to the under eye areas. Retailing at Sephora stores and Laura Mercier counters in major Departmental stores at SGD$39.00 for 4 grams (14 oz). The powder feels light as feather and fine as icing has a little light-reflecting component in them if you could see it closely which is essentially the ingredient that gives luminosity to the skin. The other comes in a nude color (shade 2). This product comes in two shades but the Sephora outlet I bought this from sells only the white one (shade 1). For those of you who ain’t as anal as me on this, then maybe this is no big deal to you. So each time before you uncap the packaging, please remember to tap it down a few times, and shake it a little from side to side to sift most of the product down. It can be messy with some overflowing powder along the rim as well and if you attempt to screw the cap back on, you’d only force more powder to fall out. The next thing you realised when you open it was you get a snow mountain full of product you don’t need and all it takes was a slight gust of wind or a tiny puff of breath, some product’d be like, gone with the wind. There’s a perforated ‘sieve’ I’d like to call it as, if not for the purpose of filtering out (in this case, back in) most of the amount you don’t need yet, why is that feature there? The agonizing part is that the size of the holes are too big for the micronized powder pigments to come through slowly, so let’s say, you happen to bring it along for travelling and it got inevitably turned upside down along the way. You can use it to set under eye makeup such as primer and concealer so they last longer, at the same time brighten our under eye skin area so you can fake that amount of sleep the night before even though you could really be a zombie in disguise.Ĭomes in a translucent container, similar to their loose powder packaging, only smaller in size. Unlike the translucent loose setting powder, the Laura Mercier Secret Brightening Powder is made to brighten darkened skin areas such as dark under eye circles and in boosting dull skin in general. Laura Mercier Secret Brightening Powder – Light Reflecting & Makeup Setting Review We’ve heard alot about the Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder from beauty gurus and the likes but this little one here seems so much lesser talked about (hence deemed ‘secret brightening’ I suppose) even though it is formulated to target at one of the greatest beauty concerns – our under eye areas. I’ve been using the Laura Mercier Secret Brightening Powder for more than 6 months now and here’s my review of it.
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