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Sali Hughes on beauty: loose powders have had a glow up

No longer messy and cumbersome, a new generation of powders blurs, sets and mattifies without the faff I can’t remember the last time I wrote about loose…

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The Guardian reports: No longer messy and cumbersome, a new generation of powders blurs, sets and mattifies without the faff I can’t remember the last time I wrote about loose powder because, honestly, there’s been little point.

Pressed compact powders have become so sophisticated in formulation, so finely milled in production, that most of us rely on those to keep shiny bits matte and makeup looking fresh past lunchtime.

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Sali Hughes
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