Powders have had a makeover. No longer are they the heavily mattifying things that you use begrudgingly only when you know you are going to need your makeup to last forever; they're changing for the better. Skin-perfecting, color correcting and brightening injecting - you name it - they're doing it all nowadays and there's one that has particularly stolen my heart recently.
Enter the Bobbi Brown Finishing Powder in Porcelain Pearl, a new release for the new year as part of their Brighten, Sparkle and Glow collection and perfect for a fresh and glowy spring appropriate look. From the very first look you can tell it's going to be special. A palette made up of six pastel shades, each one of them correcting certain tones, green for redness, pink for blue shadows, etc they are designed to be applied all together all over the face with a big fluffy brush to blur perfections and add a nice glow.
When you swatch it on your finger it looks like a white, pearly powder, as the name would suggest and once applied to the skin it does a great job of blending everything out and making your skin appear much more perfected. The effect is subtle and adds a little glow, but it's definitely a product better suited to those of us whether fairer skin tones as I don't know how much it would show on those who are darker. Housed in a luxurious Bobbi Brown compact this is definitely a beautiful luxury item and one that would make a perfect gift or addition to your collection - maybe not quite a necessity though.
For those searching for something similar but a little cheaper, I've seen a couple of people say that this one from ELF is a good alternative, but it obviously won't have the same luxury factor, you can pick up this powder from the Bobbi Brown Makeup Section at Harrods.
What do you think of this, could it be the powder to convert you?