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Bobbi Brown Brightening Finishing Powder
What it is: An all-over powder that instantly illuminates skin with a healthy-looking glow. What it does: Infused with a skin-brightening blend of mulberry, grape, scutellaria extracts, and the moisture-magnet sodium hyaluronate, this finishing powder helps skin stay fresh and smooth-looking. What else you need to know: The metallic, silver palette includes an interior mirror for perfect application and an elegant feel no matter where you touch up.
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Review 1 for Brightening Finishing Powder
Love..
-05.05.13
Quick Take: oil-absorbing, reduces shine, sheer coverage, brightening
This powder is amazing. It really brightens up the face, and you can you each color separately for individual needs!
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Review 2 for Brightening Finishing Powder
Porcelain Pearl is so pretty
-04.29.13
Quick Take: sheer coverage, brightening
I was shopping for a finishing powder. Bought this Porcelain Pearl finishing powder and the Hourglass Ambient Dim Light powder. The Bobbi Brown is way better. I love the subtle sparkles that brighten up my complexion. It doesn't dry out my skin or make my skin oily. Will definitely buy another one once this one runs out. For some reason, Dim Light made my skin so oily. I returned that.
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Review 3 for Brightening Finishing Powder
Bobbi Brown highlight powder
-04.26.13
Quick Take: oil-absorbing, sheer coverage, reduces shine, amazing
This product is amazing I love it! It will make your skin glow!
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Review 4 for Brightening Finishing Powder
Seriously Bobbi this is amazing!
-04.18.13
Quick Take: oil-absorbing, sheer coverage, reduces shine, brightens skin, skin softening
You have to try this product. I use it after applying my bobbi skin finish liquid foundation and it sets it nicely and leaves my makeup feeling weightless, and looking natural. It has a slight highlighting effect for me that leave my skin soft and glowing!
I usually breakout from new product when first trying and and my skin has to adjust but this bobbi brown product has seem to calm doen my breakouts leaving me extra happy. So plain and simple replace your setting powder or your powder with this product and you will be amazed cuz i sure was.
I usually breakout from new product when first trying and and my skin has to adjust but this bobbi brown product has seem to calm doen my breakouts leaving me extra happy. So plain and simple replace your setting powder or your powder with this product and you will be amazed cuz i sure was.
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Review 5 for Brightening Finishing Powder
LOVE LOVE!
-04.18.13
I am absolutely in love with this product, so much so, that I own both colors. I am fair with yellow undertones and this gives me a light flush of color, right now I use it as a bronzer. The shimmer is perfect...not chunky, not gritty. Use a light hand when applying this product..don't slap it on. Absolutely gorgeous! My new HG product.
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Review 6 for Brightening Finishing Powder
kristinasimone
Lovely! BUT SHIMMER SHIMMER!
-04.18.13
This is great but it is FULL of glitter ladies. Very small pieces that could not be seen by the naked eye. The glitter and shimmer bits are minuscule but seen in a compact by the user and say possibly a boyfriend. This could rub off of your honey. He'll shimmer too!
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Review 8 for Brightening Finishing Powder
For when bronzer needs a pick me up
-03.31.13
I have a light complexion and don't seek to tan. So, I needed bronzer + pick-me- up color that would brighten me up a bit, without being sparkly. This product is great, and even works with my BB cream.
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Review 10 for Brightening Finishing Powder
magillagorilla
Location:MA
Age:35-44
Messy
-03.23.13
That's the only thing keeping me from an "excellent" rating. A lot of wasted product as it's really dusty.
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Review 11 for Brightening Finishing Powder
Nice stuff, but a little pricey
-03.22.13
This powder is good, but still pricey for the effect. No actual sparkles, but it does brighten your skin. I don't agree with the reviews that say it's the best ever - it's a little thick and you have to have a light touch to keep from looking cakey. With that in mind, it does look pretty if applied carefully.
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Review 12 for Brightening Finishing Powder
Really underwhelmed--too sparkly for mature skin
-03.04.13
Quick Take: too sparkly for mature skin, way overpriced based on performance
I was really just going to buy this powder based on BB's reputation. I thought, How wrong could I be, after all it's Bobbi Brown? I tried this on in the store and so glad I did! I could see the little sparkles on my skin as I applied it. Not really what I was going for on my 56-year-old skin. I've had similar effects from powders that were about one-third the cost. The upside is that my face felt smooth, but I think this powder has the potential to look chalky. I'm not so sure that BB develops products for mature skin, except for a few foundation formulas, based on the amount of sparkle in her products and on the fact that the model for this powder is young enough to me my daughter, and that Katie Holmes is the new face of BB. Plus the price of her products compared with their performance is really putting me off BB.
+14points
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Review 13 for Brightening Finishing Powder
Curious what Bobbi Brown thinks sheer is.....
-03.02.13
The idea of this claims to be a sheer veil of illumination, but while that SOUNDS great, that description doesn't really match the product in it's usage.
First, let me say I love Bobbi products. My makeup bag is always stocked with new and old favorites from this line, so it's not an issue of being unfamiliar with the line or the way to use the product. This just seemed to be drugstore quality and very shimmery and pigmented without being "fine" or easy to apply. Despite being pale, I ended up looking actually pretty ashy when I tired to use the Brightening Nudes palette. I also looked really shiny in some areas, which was not the look I was hoping for.
I tried reapplying the next time with a different brush and a lighter hand. It just was a chalky mess again.
With so many great illuminating and perfecting powders on the market, even in this very line, there should be no reason you can't find a better formula out there.
Bottom line: A chalky, shimmering mess that was hard to get light handed even using a tiny amount. Not really brightening and better choices on the market.
+12points
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Review 14 for Brightening Finishing Powder
Not worth it!
-02.28.13
I love Bobbi products, and was really disappointed by this one! Reviews were mixed but I bought the Brightening Nudes anyway and was unimpressed. It provides very little coverage and goes on uneven. It also comes off the palette very easily causing a lot of it to go to waste!
+14points
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Review 15 for Brightening Finishing Powder
Better than a Bronzer
-02.22.13
Quick Take: sheer coverage
I bought this about a month ago, and have to say I am fair skinned and prefer this over a bronzer which makes me either look brown or worse orange. This is the best powder ever it's not too shimmery, and I have dry skin and it does not dry me out, it only gives me a healthy glow. Sometimes I skip blush and just use this instead.
+13points
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Review 16 for Brightening Finishing Powder
Beautiful
-02.21.13
Quick Take: sheer coverage, shimmery
I was looking for a cheaper alternative to Guerlain's Meteorites and ended up buying both two shades which ends up being much more than Meteorites...Porcelain Pearl is quite white, so a light hand with a brush if you don't have very fair skin. The Brightening Nudes is more flattering if you have light to medium or medium skin tones. It doesn't come out as white as Porcelain Pearl.
This is made in Japan, and is very finely milled, but quite shimmery if you aren't careful it will be a bit too much to wear in day time. If you use it very lightly you will like this - it gives a nice finish but again, no more than a light swirl and tap off any excess!
+49points
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