5 Drugstore Face Powders to Set Your Makeup On a Budget

May 17, 2022

By: Ariel Wodarcyk | Makeup.com by L'Oréal

Every beauty lover knows that a long-lasting makeup look is never complete without a final dusting of setting powder. After years of trying every setting powder on the market, we discovered that some of the best ones are from the drugstore. We’ve rounded up our top five affordable drugstore face powders, including translucent and tinted options, ahead.

Maybelline New York Lasting Fix Banana Powder

Instantly blur pores and give your makeup a soft matte finish with this brightening powder. The yellow shade helps cancel out dark tones you might be trying to conceal under your eyes, and the finely milled texture feels light as air on the skin.

L'Oréal Paris Infallible Pro-Sweep & Lock Loose Setting Face Powder

You won’t notice any flashback or white cast from this totally translucent powder, but you will notice a velvety matte finish that lasts all day. The micro-fine particles prevent your makeup from looking cakey.

NYX Professional Makeup Can’t Stop Won’t Stop Mattifying Powder

This powder comes in ten sheer-coverage shades to match your skin tone, as well as a translucent option and a peach hue that flatters medium to deep complexions. Oil-absorbing rice powder blocks shine and prevents transfer all day.

Milani Conceal + Perfect Shine-Proof Powder

Add a layer of medium coverage to your foundation with this tinted mattifying powder. It contains lily extract to help minimize the appearance of pores and bamboo powder to soak up excess oil.

Black Opal True Color Soft Velvet Finishing Powder

Best suited for medium to deep complexions, this airy finishing powder sets and blurs your complexion with jet-milled particles that never go cakey. It also offers a sheer veil of coverage that’s perfect for midday touch-ups.

Photographer: Chaunte Vaughn