If you have dark skin, it's important to use setting powders that are designed for your skin type. The wrong powder can make your skin look shiny or cakey. Fortunately, there are many setting powders on the market that are specifically designed for darker skin tones. Here are some of our top picks.
Size: Standard Size Translucent - .36 oz / 10.5 g·ITEM: 2071769
Color: Translucent
$72.00
In this photo, I am using medium to deep. The powder is lightweight and sets the makeup beautifully...Really great product keeps my skin set all day and looks really smooth throughout the day. ...My go to powder for dark skin girls
What it is: An ultra-refined, talc-free loose powder that is designed to give skin a naturally flawless finish.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is cruelty-free.
Finish: Natural
Formulation: Loose Powder
Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily
What Else You Need to Know: This finely milled, weightless powder is formulated with soft-focus light-reflecting particles to instantly blur imperfections and minimize the appearance of pores, fine lines, and wrinkles for effortlessly smooth skin.
Size: 0.17 oz / 5 g·ITEM: 2570372
Color: Pink Bubble - for light complexions
$105.00
Westman Atelier Pressed Powder...The powder did set into some skin imperfections I have which was a negative. ...The best translucent powder ever!...I have dark skin and this power works wonders for me!
What it is: A weightless clean setting powder packed with protective, skin-refining actives for an instant diffused look and healthier-looking skin over time.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Natural
Formulation: Pressed Powder
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Quinoa Seed Extract: Minimizes the look of pores and retexturizes the look of skin.
- Vitamin C: Neutralizes free radicals, visibly evens tone, and supports natural collagen.
- Probiotic: Enhances skin’s natural defense mechanisms.
$44.00
It’s everything you want. The setting powder will brighten under eyes, blur, and sets the makeup flawlessly while leaving a silky and smooth touch to the skin. ...The Live Tinted Hueskin Brightening Core Setting Powder blurs imperfections, brightens skin, and sets makeup flawlessly while feeling light and silky.
What it is: A lightweight, silky hybrid finishing powder that sets makeup, blurs pores, and controls shine with an innovative brightening core to color correct.
Coverage: Full
Finish: Natural
Formulation: Pressed Powder
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Perlite Powder: A naturally derived mineral absorbs excess oil for a matte look.
- Phytosqualane: Improves hydration, restoring suppleness and bounce to skin.
- Natural Mica and Light-Diffusing Microspheres: Deliver a natural glow to the skin.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclo
Size: 0.3 oz/7.95 g·ITEM: 2901981
Color: Pumpkin - brightens deep skin tones
$53.00
This brightening powder is great for dark under circles and it also helps get rid of some of the creasing look on my face. ...doesn’t crease for medium dark skin...[I received this product in exchange for my honest review] the best pressed powder i’ve tried yet, the peach is perfect for my skin tone as a brightening powder and cancels out dark circles has color correcting abilities.
What it is: An ultrafine pressed powder that extends foundation and concealer wear all day.
Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily
Skincare Concerns: Dark Circles, Oiliness, and Uneven Skin
Formulation: Pressed Powder
What Else You Need to Know: This is brightness in a compact that wakes up your face. In a range of shades, this powder gives all skin tones life—instantly. The blurring grip-powder technology smooths and blurs for a soft-focused finish. It locks in makeup and adheres to skin for sweat- and humidity-resistant wear.
Size: 0.53 oz / 15 g·ITEM: 2797009
Color: 4.5 Medium Dark Honey
$60.00
Makeup by Mario has mastered the art of soft-focus beauty, and the Soft Set Collection is no exception. The Soft Set Setting Spray and Soft Set Powder are designed to lock in makeup while maintaining a natural, airbrushed finish. ...a must-have powder!...The Makeup by Mario Soft Set Setting Powder in Shade 2 Neutral Light has a finely milled texture that blurs and sets makeup beautifully without looking heavy.
What it is: A talc-free, pro-performance loose powder that sets makeup up to 12hrs, blurs & smoothes the complexion with a natural finish & all-day shine control.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Natural
Formulation: Loose Powder
Highlighted Ingredients:
-Light-Diffusing Spherical Powders & Smoothing Amino Acid: help blur lines and pores
-Kaolin: helps with all-day shine control
- Squalene: known to nourish the skin.
- Squalane: Nourishes skin.
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
Size: 2 x 0.22 oz/2 x 6.5 g·ITEM: 2904894
Color: Cherry Peach - cherry blossom cake (sheer soft pink) & peach pie (light peach)
$53.00
Custom Powder for Dark Skin...All my black girls to the front!! This is thee powder for us. It’s an amazing formula and feels comfortable on the skin. ...This setting powder is the truth !!!!! As a medium tan to dark skin girlie scared that the pink pumpkin would be too dark for me but to my surprise it was perfect especially for colour correcting
What it is: An iconic loose powder duo for 18-hour wear without flashback, featuring pink to visibly brighten and peach to visibly correct.
Coverage: Light
Formulation: Loose Powder
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Micronized Powder: Allows you to layer without caking.
- Vitamin E: Moisturizes and strengthens the skin barrier for a smooth application.
- Rice Starch Powder: Absorbs excess oil and visibly blurs pores.
What Else You Need to Know: The long wear flashback-free formula blends seamlessly into the skin with a blurring, airbrush matte finish for 18-hour wear. This oil-absorbing color correcting powder comes in two duos: one for light to medium skin tones and one for tan to rich skin tones. The innova
Size: 0.24 oz / 7 g·ITEM: 2808830
Color: Chestnut - for mahogany to espresso skin tones
$52.00
I get annoyed when products don’t include an applicator with theirs. This setting powder worked great to set my undereye make up. ...Who the ones that know me, can tell that I love makeup, I love to try new products and follow many different techniques, my skin tone is not dark but I love to use this powder when I’m contouring my face and skin, it was so complicated before to find one that doesn’t leave blurry details, or caky, and finally Tarte hear my petitions, this product not only for people with beautiful dark skin but also for the ones that love to play with different products, I absolutely adore the results.
What it is: An loose setting powder with puff included for a natural, brightened under-eye that will stay all day.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Amazonian Clay: For better, truer, longer wear.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This setting powder gives you a smooth, sweatproof finish that lasts up to 16 hours, with no flashback, just fabulousness. The powder ke
Size: 0.58 oz/ 16.6 g·ITEM: 2476927
Color: Haute Hickory - rich brown: for deep skin tones
$47.50
It’s a good powder. I enjoyed using it. It’s a bit too dark for my under eye but I used it all over. ...It’s crazy how the neutral in my skin is displayed instead of warming it to a yellow color like other powder.
What it is: An ultra-fine loose powder that sets makeup with a non-cakey, matte, transfer-proof finish and makes your complexion look like magic.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Matte
Size: 0.53 oz/15g·ITEM: 2866093
Color: Mocha - for deep - with warm undertone
$53.00
If you're looking for a setting powder that sets your makeup beautifully while also blurring fine lines and imperfections, give the Fenty Beauty Set It Down Superfine Blurring Setting Powder a try. ...[I received this product in exchange for my honest review] I really like the Fenty Beauty Set It Down Superfine Blurring Setting Powder. It feels so smooth and lightweight on my skin, and it sets my makeup really well with a nice blurred finish.
What it is: A light-as-air setting powder that extends your makeup wear, defends against sweat + humidity and mattifies shine while diffusing the look of pores.
Formulation: Loose Powder
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Chia Seed Extract: Controls shine.
- Hyaluronic Acid: Retains moisture.
What Else You Need to Know: This waterproof formula extends makeup wear and resists humidity and sweat. It blurs the look of pores with soft-focus and mattifying powders. Chia seed extract controls shine, and hyaluronic acid retains moisture. The non-cakey, smooth texture feels and looks undetectable.
Size: 0.39 oz/ 11 g·ITEM: 2439479
Color: 5 - deep brown
$36.50
Before I discovered this one I was setting my entire face, undereyes included with the Laura Mercier dark setting powder. ...Best setting powder in the game! This looks so beautiful when I use it to set my concealer!!!
What it is: A micro-fine, flashback-free powder that mattifies, blurs, sets and corrects.
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. It is also vegan and gluten-free.
What Else You Need to Know: Evolution Powder Setting Powder was designed to help lock in your makeup and absorb excess shine without drying out your skin.
