When you create anything, it’s essential to try and preserve it. After all, why would you want all your hard work to go to waste? That’s why we lock in our nail polish color with top coats or even use adhesive to keep finished jigsaw puzzles together. The same applies with makeup. We use setting sprays and powder to seal in everything and help keep our foundation, blush, or what have you intact
I use two kinds of powder to set my makeup. Either a powder with medium to full coverage for days that I feel my skin needs to look as flawless as possible, or a powder that’s sheer or translucent just for the purpose of setting my liquid base. The latter is what I use for most days. I prefer working with pressed powder too as it’s easier to control the amount you want and there tends to be less mess and wastage. Loose powders, if they’re not very finely milled and/or translucent, can easily cling to the drier areas of my face and blending them out once they’re there is a nightmare. There is a loose powder I have made an exception for though, and that’s the Sheer Velvet Mineral Finishing Powder from Ellana Mineral Cosmetics.
The powder comes in a sturdy, acrylic jar with a twist-off cap that holds around 6 grams of product. It’s a little chunky, but still quite small so it thankfully doesn’t take up much space. The beautiful illustration was done by the talented Soleil Ignacio who I had the privilege of meeting at the first Ellana event I attended last year. Her work was used for all the re-vamped packaging of Ellana products, actually.
If you’re not familiar with Ellana Mineral Cosmetics, it’s a local brand founded by professional makeup artist Theresa Carbonel and was one of the first cosmetic brands to introduce and popularize mineral makeup in the Philippines.