Translucent Loose Setting Powder.

Powder & Setting

About this product

A finely milled translucent loose powder designed to set makeup, control shine, and create a smooth, blurred finish without white cast or heaviness.

Best for

Oily skin

Type

Powder & SettingPowder

Key actives

Vitamin CVitamin E

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

Full ingredients

Talc, Magnesium Myristate, Nylon-12, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Zea Mays (Corn) Starch, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Methylparaben, Lauroyl Lysine, Propylparaben, Polymethyl Methacrylate, Butylparaben, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Tocopherol, Methicone, Ultramarines (Cl 77007), Iron Oxides (Cl 77491, Cl 77492, Cl 77499)

Guru Score

84%

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9 experts · Strong agreement

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What the gurus are saying

This powder earns consistent praise for its sheer, lightweight texture and lack of flashback in photos, a standout feature that keeps gurus coming back. It controls oil and blurs pores without looking cakey, though the experts who tested it stress that less is more, a light layer applied with a brush and tapped on, rather than packed, delivers the best flawless finish and works especially well for mature skin. A little truly goes a long way.

Synthesized from 9 expert reviews · most recent take January 2026

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What the gurus are saying.

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Darnell Cox | 50+ Healthy Aging Expert

54k subs

✓Approved

"Rarely do I use powder, but if I do, I like this by Laura Mercier."

Beyond50Skin

31k subs

✓Approved

"I just have a little mini of the Laura Mercier translucent powder. So, I'm going to powder my brows. And apparently, this soaks up some of the oils so that the products we're going to put on next stay better."

Dr. Sam Ellis

863k subs

✓Approved

"I've used for over 10 years, and this is the mini. It goes with me when I travel, is by Laura Mercier. It's their Translucent Loose Setting Powder. This one is not tinted, but just incredibly sheer and makes for a very flawless application and finish. Now, the key with any loose setting powder is you don't want to just pack it on. I like light layers. If you're sensing a theme, light layers is the way to work for mature skin. So, what I will do is I will pour a little bit of powder into the cap and then I will take a densely bristled brush and I will swirl it in the powder and then tap off the extra. Swirl and tap. And I will actually be pressing that powder into the brush so that when I go and distribute it on my under eyes or on my midface, I'm just getting the slightest but very even sprinkle of powder. Less is more. It will still work beautifully, but you're going to have a lot less cakeiness."

Top Pick: setting powder

Dr. Aleksandra Brown

131k subs

✓Approved

"The Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder is a finely milled setting powder that sets makeup while brightening the complexion. You need very little of it. Its super lightweight, silky texture smooths, blurs those imperfections and helps makeup last longer without any cakey or heavy look or feel. The key ingredients are the vitamin C and light reflecting pigments."

Dr Sam Bunting

240k subs

✓Approved

"The Laura Mercier translucent powder, I haven't gone back from this because it doesn't give flashback. If you take a photo you won't see a white cast around your eyes or face, which is so upsetting when you've worked really hard on your makeup and then the camera does that and you look like a ghost. I've gone through so many of these."

Robert Welsh

1.11M subs

✓Approved

"If you have any areas you know get especially oily, you can also go in with a thin layer of a loose translucent powder such as Laura Mercier. I usually like to apply the powder step with either a damp sponge or a small setting brush."

Dr. Jenny Liu

318k subs

✓Approved

"It's super popular, it lasts for a long time, really great at controlling shine and kind of has this pore blurring effect and also creates kind of this no flash effect when you are filming or photographing. So just really nice to use regularly or for special events. A little bit goes a long way and I basically just set my eyebrow, my eyes, my T-Zone on a regular basis when I film or when I have special events, and then certainly you can use it all over too. Ingredient wise it contains vitamin C and vitamin E, great antioxidants, also has skin conditioning powder as well as pore blurring powder that really kind of helps to coat the pores and reduce their appearance and gives that kind of silky smooth skin finish. Highly recommend if you're looking for an awesome, amazing, long lasting setting powder."

Dimma Umeh

531k subs

✓Approved

"I'm just going to set my forehead and down the bridge of my nose with a brush."

Allie Glines

830k subs

✓Approved

"We are going to set the face with the Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder. You guys know I love this one, so I was really happy to see that this won an award. It's so good. I'm going to press that underneath the eyes and through the T-zone, then I'm just going to take a fluffy brush and kind of dust that along the sides of the face."

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Doing My Makeup Like It's 2016 🥹 (haha this is a fun one)

"I'm going to go in with the Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder. This is the original formula. They've since launched a few different ones, like a luminous one and a blurring one, but I'm just going to go ahead and tap this all over the eyelid to prep for eyeshadow."

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Common questions

Frequently asked.

What is Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder?

A finely milled translucent loose powder designed to set makeup, control shine, and create a smooth, blurred finish without white cast or heaviness.

Is Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder worth it?

Yes. All 9 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 84%.

What is Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder's Guru Score?

Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder holds a Guru Score of 84%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 9 independent expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.