If you have an oily nose, it's important to find makeup that will keep your t-zone matte and not accentuate your natural oiliness. Fortunately, there are plenty of great choices from powders to foundations.
Size: 1 oz / 30 ml·ITEM: 2424679
Color: Shine Control - for oily, normal, combination skin
$41.00
I’ve used this primer a couple of times since I received it and when I apply it, it definitely mattes my face compared to the areas where I don’t apply it. I mostly use it on my t zone and find it works well. I have combination skin and mostly oily on my t zone and it lasts good through the day....I received complimentary from Influenster. My face is a bit oily especially around the T-zone. I really like how well it makes my foundation look throughout the day.
What it is: A mattifying makeup primer that absorbs oil to control shine, delivers a blurred, velvety finish, and extends makeup wear.
Finish: Natural
Skin Type: Normal, Oily, and Combination
Concerns: Oil
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Ginseng: Known to protect, promote radiant-looking skin, and maintain a smooth complexion.
What Else You Need to Know: Achieve a blurred, matte complexion for up to 20 hours with the Step 1 Primer Shine Control. This comfortable formula is made with mineral clay powder, absorbs oil, and controls shine while extending the wear of makeup.
Size: 1 oz / 30 ml·ITEM: 2424687
Color: Pore Minimizer - for oily, normal, combination skin
$41.00
As someone with combination skin, I often struggle with visible pores and fine lines, especially around my T-zone. The Make Up For Ever Step 1 Primer Pore Minimizer had a silky, lightweight texture that smoothed over those areas without feeling heavy. ...It settled into a natural matte finish, filled my pores beautifully and kept my makeup smooth and even for the rest of the day. It prevented my t-zone from getting too oily throughout the day but did not cause any dry spots around my nose and lips.
What it is: A smoothing makeup primer that visibly reduces the appearance of pores and fine lines for a smooth texture and blurred finish.
Finish: Natural
Skin Type: Normal, Oily, and Combination
Concerns: Pores
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Ginseng: Known to protect, promote radiant-looking skin, and maintain a smooth complexion.
What Else You Need to Know: Reduce the appearance of pores for up to 24 hours and instantly smooth skin's appearance with the Step 1 Primer Pore Minimizer. Innovative polymers and silica visibly blur and smooth fine lines and skin’s texture, while ginseng maintains balance. The translucent formula works on all skin tones.
Size: 1.35 oz / 40 mL·ITEM: 2572857
Color: Translucent
$38.00
Excellent t-zone primer for combo skin....Excellent t-zone primer! I use this primer on my t-zone and I use hydrogrip on the rest of my face. ...I have a very oily t zone and to add to it the Miami weather is too hot and humid.
What it is: A non-comedogenic makeup primer with skincare benefits that blurs pores, controls shine, and locks makeup for up to 12 hours with a soft matte finish.
Finish: Matte
Skin Type: Normal, Oily, and Combination
Concerns: Oil and Pores
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Niacinamide: Helps minimize the appearance of pores.
- Bakuchiol: Helps visibly smooth skin texture and even skin tone.
- Lentil Extract: Helps reduce shine.
Size: 0.21 oz / 6 g·ITEM: 2520088
Color: PomPom - pomegranate rose
$32.00
Great for oily, south Asian darker skin types...I have combination skin with an oily t-zone. You hardly need any product to get that “flushed” look. ...I’m excited to add this to my regular makeup routine — and I never really used blush all that often before.
What it is: A silky-soft, buildable, blendable blush that feels ultrafine and weightless and gives a soft-focus, airbrushed effect.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Freshwater Pearl and Synthetic Sapphire: Provide a luminous, light-reflecting glow for skin that looks smooth and radiant.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance.
What Else You Need to Know: Benefit Cosmetics’ WANDERful World Blush collection features a versatile shade range that’s bursting with color. These blushes are sweatproof
$26.00
I love using this on my nose and inner corners. 4 stars bc it doesn’t stay on for long....Easy application, works best when you put on what you need in one zone, and blend immediately before moving to the next area.
What it is: A satiny-pink liquid highlighter that accents cheek and brow bones for a dewy glow.
What Else You Need to Know: Benefit Cosmetics’ new doe foot applicator glides on easily for soft rose-gold radiance. This long-lasting formula can be used as a spot highlighter over makeup or wear under complexion favorites for a subtle glow.
$25.00
I have very tan skin and when I blend this out on my cheeks it disappears and just leaves like a shiny sheer sheen on it. which is fine for like no makeup makeup days but i did wish i t showed up more on my siin. i do like putting it on my lips too though!...I tried Spicy, which was a huge step out of my comfort zone for blush. I'm fair-skinned, so I usually only use pinks or shades of rose.
What it is: A blendable liquid-cream blush that melts in for a flushed-from-within pop of color.
Finish: Natural
Formulation: Liquid
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Elderberry Fruit Extract: Fights free-radical and environmental damage.
- Licorice Root Extract: Helps brighten the overall appearance of skin.
- Plant-Derived Glycerin: Powerful humectant known to increase skin’s natural moisture level.
Size: 0.27 oz/ 8 mL·ITEM: 2486967
Color: Infinity - dusty rose
$24.00
The product is long lasting and easy to apply. It didn’t make my t-zone oily which was a major plus for me!...I apply it on my cheeks and nose. A little goes a long way.
What it is: A liquid blush that can be blended sheer or layered for more intense payoff and is infused with hyaluronic acid and mushroom for a hydrated flush of color.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Snow Mushroom, Reishi Mushroom, and Hyaluronic Acid: Combine to hydrate for plumper-, smoother-looking skin.
- Plant-Derived Collagen: Helps improve the look of skin texture, elasticity, and firmness.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This weightless, buildable liquid blush is 90 percent natural, clean, vegan, and cruelty-free.
Size: 0.28 oz / 8 g·ITEM: 2577351
Color: Peach Glow - a swirl of pearlescent white and pale peach
$57.00
You want efficient top quality product that doesn;t fail, get the one from Bobbi Brown...I use my Bobbi Brown highlighting powder for the high points on my eyebrows & cheeks and t-zone area. I have tried using it on top of my eyeshadow and I was pleasantly surprised by how it popped up the whole eye makeup.
What it is: This cult-favorite highlighter powder creates a light-reflecting, shimmering pearl radiance for perfectly luminous cheeks and eyes.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, and sulfates SLS & SLES.
What Else You Need to Know: A silky gel-powder hybrid highlighter that glides onto skin with a cushiony bounce to smooth, brighten, and deliver a sheer, lit-from-within glow. Formulated with a clear base and highly reflective pearl pigments to impart a naturally translucent radiance.
$29.00
I use diffused light in the t zone and it gives the skin a beautiful, natural sheen. ...While this is not great for oil absorption, I use it to set my cheeks; with my fair skin it gives a really nice glow, and I use a different powder to set my T-zone.
What it is:
A travel-size Ambient® Strobe Lighting Powderan illuminating strobing powder designed to sculpt the face with light-creating depth and dimension for a refined highlight.
What it does:
Perfectly sized for travel, each mini compact of strobe lighting powder is formulated in a sheer base with concentrated ultra-fine micro pearl particles in varying sizes and refraction levels to give off a naturally luminescent highlight to the skin without a heavy metallic finish.
What else you need to know:
Hourglass products are 100 percent cruelty-free.
Size: 0.28 oz / 8 g·ITEM: 2520468
Color: Cookie - golden pearl
$35.00
This is the best highlighter out there totally worth the money I use it every day on my cheeks, nose, and eyes....This is my favorite highlighter yet, the pigment is there, my favorite place to put it is on the top of my nose, this highlighter looks good in all lighting I can even still see it on my nose in the dark!!!
What it is: A silky-soft, superfine powder highlighter.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance.
What Else You Need to Know: These powder highlighters feel featherlight, sweep on effortlessly, and build easily. Get Cookie for a warm, delicious golden shimmer. Go with Tickle for a perfectly tickled-pink, luminous look.