Review (5/5): Very thin, looks and feels like nothing on skin but sets makeup in place well!
I have loved a lot of the By Terry products I’ve tried. I tried a mini of the loose Hyaluronic Hydra Powder, so I was excited to try the pressed powder version of it. But, I recently tried the By Terry Hyaluronic Hydra-Powder palette that had 4 different pressed Hyaluronic hydra-powders in it. It had colored powders, not translucent like this one. I got the “Fair to Medium” so it contained a pale pink, a pale bone colored shade, a pale bronzer, and a light bronzer shade. I didn’t like the light colored shades at all for setting my makeup. They seemed to make my skin look so dry, which I thought was so weird since it’s just a pressed version of the loose Hyaluronic hydra powder, which I loved. But, the loose Hyaluronic Hydra Powder only had 2 ingredients - silica and hyaluronic acid. The Hyaluronic Hydra-Powder Palette had a lot more ingredients, so I’m guessing that’s where the difference came from. They were also colored and the loose powder was translucent. This pressed powder is also translucent. It does contain more than 2 ingredients, I guess since it’s in pressed form rather than loose. But not a ton of ingredients (full list at end of review). But, given it had more ingredients and they were similar to the ones in the Hyaluronic Hydra-Pressed Powder Palette I tried and didn’t like, I was worried I wasn’t going to like this one either. But, I’m glad I tried it because I ended up loving it!
This comes in a nice outer product box. It comes in a nice compact with clasp closure, a mirror in the lid, and a powder puff. I never use the powder puffs that come in compacts like this, but it seemed nice enough.
The powder is very thin. It almost seems like you don’t pick any up when you dip your brush into it, but you do. Usually when I dip my brush into a powder, I have to dab off the excess from the brush before applying it to my face. I don’t have to do that with this. It only picks up a light amount, which is just enough for a very light layer. I have normal to dry skin, more on the dry side with some extremely dry areas. This doesn’t dry out my skin like the powders did in the palette that I tried. This goes on smoothly, sets my makeup in place with a very light layer, and doesn’t look dry, powdery, or cakey on the skin. It lasts well throughout the day.
I did notice that if I applied too much, I could get a dry look and feel to my skin. It’s so thin that it’s easy to think you haven’t applied any and to add more, which is when I get the dry look and feel to my skin. With the Pressed Powder Palette I tried, I found those powders worked well with a thin layer and didn’t leave my skin looking and feeling dry, but they also didn’t seem to set my makeup in place unless I applied more, which ended up giving me the dry look and feel. With this powder, I can apply a very small amount and my makeup seems to be set in place well and I don’t get a dry look and feel to the skin. So, I’m not sure why I got such a different result with the powders in the Pressed Powder Palette vs this one. Given they have similar ingredient lists aside from the color ingredients, the only thing I can think of is that this one is translucent and those ones in the palette were colored so that much
Overall, I think this is a great powder! It’s very thin and looks like nothing on the skin, but sets my makeup in place. It doesn’t feel or look dry on my skin. It works really well!
FULL INGREDIENTS
Talc, Silica, Mica, Ci 77120 / Barium Sulfate, Octyldodecanol, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Magnesium Stearate, Triethoxycaprylylsilane, Diisostearyl Malate, Methicone, 1,2-Hexanediol, Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium Hyaluronate. (T3355a1).