The Etude House Sweet Recipe powder is available in 2 shades, #2 Choco Chip and #1 Almond Chip. Almond Chip, the one I got, is a light beige shaded powder with light beige dots. Choco Chip seems to be a yellow shade with light brown dots. I think Almond Chip looks a bit unhealthy as a skintone, so I am curious to see some possible reviews of it, but I will stay away from it.
Packing: The Etude House Sweet Recipe Almond Chip Cookie Pact contains 14g (0.49 oz.) and comes in a round cardboard pot, which again comes in a cardboard box. Both are pink with white stripes and a cookie printed on it. It looks super super cute. I can't stop drooling over it. I like the packing even much more than the one of the Sweet Recipe Chocolate Smudge Liner, which came in a transparent plastic packing. I am a bit irritated that not only the outer packing, but the product packing itself is made of cardboard. It looks quite solid and I really prefer the look and feel of it over plastic, but it I think it is much more sensitive to damage and probably also not suitable for carrying it around with you in your purse. The cardboard might easily get smashed in, and you cannot wash it without soaking it wet should it get dirty. Since I don't plan on carrying it around with me it should be fine.
There is also a powder puff included in the packing, though it's a boring one. If I was designer for Etude products, I would have imprinted a cookie chip pattern on it! I don't really see me using the puff, but will use my powder brush, which works fine for me even with pressed/baked powder for a more natural appearance.
What Etude House says about this:
You're invited to the Sweet Cookie House with irresistible desserts and delicious colors. Etude House Sweet Recipe Almond Chip Cookie Pact.Scent: If you take a look at the ingredient list, which is luckily also imprinted in English, you will find all kinds of food/sweets ingredients on it, like peach, macadamia oil, anise or strawberries! Hmm... yummy! And now comes the craziest part. Did you see it coming? THE POWDER SMELLS LIKE COOKIES! Oh my gosh, who came up with this? I am not sure whether this is the most amazing thing ever or a catastrophe. I want to eat my face!Don't worry though, you won't have the smell of cookies in your nose all day after using this. The scent volatilizes almost instantly on your face.
This baked face powder with chips of illuminating pearls creates a smooth and radiant complexion.
Recipe for Smooth & Radiant Skin:
You need...Sweet recipe Almond Chip Cookie Pact, 1 Spoon of Smoothness, 2 Spoons of Radiance
Direction: Press into Pact with powder puff and sweep gently over the entire face.
Color: My greatest fear was that, since Etude described this as a powder for a "radiant complexion" and the "choco chips" dots are made of "illuminating pearls", the powder would turn me into a sparkling vampire like their Etoinette Crystal Powder. Luckily this isn't the case. The white dots are shimmering, but when mixed together with the powder and applied on the face you don't have noticeable shimmer on your face anymore. The shade is quite lighter than what I had expected, and, when swatched appears yellow-shaded (Makes me wonder how the Choco Chip one really looks considering it looks so much more yellow/gray-toned on the product photos.) However, it does adjust to my (rather pale) skin tone quite well, so this is definitely something for my pale fellows.
Coverage/ Oil-control: I never tried using it with the puff that comes with it, but with my powder brush and you can get the powder on the brush quite easily. You even have to be careful not to take too much of it or you might end up looking caked (no pun intended). The coverage is quite good too, so this isn't a powder just for a matte finish or for fixing your BB Cream/foundation, but also works well for an additional cover-up of possible blemishes.
For my extremely oily skin the oil-control is average, but I think it might do quite well on normal skin.
Overall this is quite a pleasant and solid product. The package design is amazing, the scent is sweet, but (at least to me) pleasant and the powder does what it is supposed to do.
