Huda Beauty

Huda Beauty Easy Bake and Snatch Pressed Brightening and Setting Powder.

Powder & Setting

About this product

A pressed powder designed to brighten and set makeup, formulated with a baked texture for application and wear.

Full ingredients

Mica, Boron Nitride, Nylon-12, Magnesium Myristate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Butyl Avocadate, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Hyaluronic Acid, Tocopherol, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Phenoxyethanol, Dimer Dilinoleyl Dimer Dilinoleate, Octyldodecyl Stearoyl Stearate, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Kaolin, Ultramarines/Ci 77007, Iron Oxide/Ci 77491, Iron Oxide Ci 77492, Iron Oxide Ci 77499

Guru Score

62%

Mixed

Early verdict · Few reviews so far

What they liked

Minimal, natural finish without heavy coverage
Shows texture and skin honestly in demos

What they flagged

Very drying on the skin

What the gurus are saying

This powder leaves skin noticeably parched, which makes it a tough sell for anyone already dealing with dryness or looking for a comfortable all-day finish. One expert saw it as fairly standard in performance, though they praised the brand's transparency in how the founder presents products unfiltered. Not much consensus yet on whether the brightening payoff justifies the drying effect.

Synthesized from 2 expert reviews · most recent take January 2024

Type

Powder & SettingPowder

Key actives

Hyaluronic acidVitamin E

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

Where to buy

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What the gurus are saying.

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Alexandra Anele

1.44M subs

~Nay

"I really don't get the powder that I use. The easy bake setting powder is so drying, so drying. It's not a good look."

Robert Welsh

1.11M subs

~Mixed

"It just looks like another powder. [...] I really admire how Huda Beauty, Huda Kattan herself, actually goes on these videos and does a lot of stuff unfiltered. The lighting is obviously set up nicely, but you can see texture and you can see the natural skin texture. [...] She's actually shown how very minimally a powder can give the appearance of smoother skin without overdoing it on a TikTok quality, kind of like low-quality camera."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is Huda Beauty Easy Bake and Snatch Pressed Brightening and Setting Powder?

A pressed powder designed to brighten and set makeup, formulated with a baked texture for application and wear.

Is Huda Beauty Easy Bake and Snatch Pressed Brightening and Setting Powder worth it?

The gurus mostly approve it, but with enough reservations to keep it in the middle at a Guru Score of 62%.

What is Huda Beauty Easy Bake and Snatch Pressed Brightening and Setting Powder's Guru Score?

Huda Beauty Easy Bake and Snatch Pressed Brightening and Setting Powder holds a Guru Score of 62%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 2 expert reviewers we have collected.