Styling Powders

What it is:
A collection of six universally-flattering finishing powders that recreate the most flattering light.

What it does:
Create the perfect illumination for your face with Hourglass Ambient® Lighting Powder. Infused with the innovative Photoluminescent Technology, each finishing powder captures, diffuses, and softens the look of the skin. The micron-size, color-correcting particles refract light and create transparent coverage, filtering out harsh light and refining the appearance of the skin.

What it is formulated WITHOUT:
- Parabens

What else you need to know:
“I learned early on how different types of light can truly flatter the complexion. Growing up, my mother had pink light bulbs in all of the lamps throughout the house. She loved pink light because it was the softest and most flattering, and she always wanted to look good. I used this concept of lighting in Ambient Lighting Powder.”—Carisa Janes, Hourglass Founder

Ambient® Lighting Powder comes in six shades:
Ethereal Light: An opalescent sheer, cool white powder that mimics a moonlit glow, even in broad daylight.
Diffused Light: A soft, warm, pale yellow powder that conceals redness and gives skin clarity like a soft ray of morning light.
Dim Light: A neutral peach beige powder that blurs imperfections and highlights a radiant complexion with the perfect balance of warm and cool tones.
Mood Light: A soft, sheer lavender pink powder that mimics the softest, most forgiving light and brightens the complexion.
Luminous Light: A champagne pearl powder that creates a soft, incandescent candlelit glow—day or night.
Radiant Light: A sun-kissed golden beige that enhances the overall complexion with believable, subtle warmth, and also extends a summer glow.

What else you need to know:
Hourglass products are 100 percent cruelty-free.

What it is: A lightweight, easy-to-apply, loose powder that blends effortlessly to set makeup for up to 16 hours of wear.
What Else You Need to Know: This award-winning powder locks in makeup for long-lasting wear without adding weight or texture. It absorbs oil and reduces shine all day, creating a flawless, matte finish with no flashback in photos. These truly-translucent shades work on all skin tones, and create a soft-focus effect to subtly blur fine lines and imperfections.
Translucent is perfect for fair to medium and tan skin tones.
Translucent Medium Deep is perfect for medium-deep to deep skin tones.
Clinical Results: TLSP was shown to have:
- No flashback in photos
- 16-hour long-wear
- Shine control up to 8 hours
In a consumer test on 32 women after 2 weeks:
- 100% said it is lightweight and does not look cakey on skin
- 100% said it controls and reduces shine
- 97% said it absorbs excess oil

What it is: An ultra-refined loose powder that is designed to give skin a naturally flawless finish.

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.

What it is:
A high-impact, light-reflective powder that gives skin shimmering, rosy highlights.

What it does:
Formulated with a clear base and highly-reflective pearl pigments, Highlighting Powder creates a flattering glow. Plus, the superfine, silky formula goes on smoothly and evenly and doesn’t settle into fine lines.

What it is formulated WITHOUT:
- Parabens
- Sulfates
- Phthalates

What it is: An award-winning Bronzer Powder in shimmering shades for a long-wearing, sunkissed glow.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban, and contains less than one percent of synthetic fragrances. This product is gluten-free.

What Else You Need to Know: The gold standard—glow all the way with award-winning Bronzer Powder in shimmering shades for a long-wearing, blendable, and indispensable glow.

What it is:
A version of the iconic Translucent Loose Setting Powder in a glow finish that sets makeup for up to 12 hours of luminous, weightless wear.

What it does:
Laura Mercier has taken their iconic, cult-favorite Translucent Loose Setting Powder and infused it with pearl pigments so you can lock in your look for up to 12 hours with a healthy, glowing finish.

This lightweight, innovative powder allows you to keep a natural glow, and extends the wear time of foundation by up to double, without adding weight or texture. It creates a healthy-looking, radiant finish with a touch of sheer coverage that resists settling into fine lines and pores. This no-flashback formula means you'll look great in photos. It also creates a soft-focus effect to subtly blur the look of fine lines and imperfections without looking cakey.

These truly translucent shades work on all skin tones—from the fairest to the deepest.

What else you need to know:
Renowned makeup artist Laura Mercier uses setting powder to set foundation and prolong its wear, so she applies it after foundation and concealer, and before applying powder-based color. As an added benefit, it also helps powder blush, bronzer, and illuminator go on more evenly.

What it is: A protective, talc-free setting powder that blurs pores, shields from pollution and blue light, and provides a translucent, soft-radiant finish.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles, Pores, and Dryness

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Silk Extract: Maintains healthy moisture balance for visibly smoother, more radiant skin.
- Silk Powder: Helps makeup last longer, blurs the look of pores, and reduces the appearance of shine.
- Anti-pollution and Blue-Light Ingredients: Shield skin from stressors that may cause the look of premature wrinkling.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This powder contains silk extracts, fibroin, and sericin, which nourish skin and help hold in essential moisture, minimizing the look of dryness and flaking. It also contains anti-pollution and blue-light ingredients, which help resist the clinging of pollution particles and shield blue-light rays that may cause the look of premature wrinkling and irregular skin pigmentation.

Clinical Results: Based on a clinical study of 41 subjects, using The Silk Powder on bare skin:
- 100% showed instant improvement in skin texture, the appearance of pores, the appearance of fine lines, and skin radiance

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