MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation: a Guru Score of 67%

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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~Nay

"I have found that to be the case with a lot of Nars foundations. There are other brands that have also had this problem. I do feel like MAC tends to like lean that way. Even their olive tones tend to be like a little bit too yellow and orange."

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"I have found that to be the case with a lot of Nars foundations. There are other brands that have also had this problem. I do feel like MAC tends to like lean that way. Even their olive tones tend to be like a little bit too yellow and orange."

THIS replaced THAT

"MAC Studio Fix is just like a heavier foundation. I haven't used this in a while. I'm going to use this. And I picked it up and then I immediately was like, wait, I like have a couple tiny little breakouts, like around my temples. Do I really want to wear a heavy foundation? And like, yes, my face will look flawless while I'm like at the dinner or the event or whatever the hell it was, but it's just going to suffocate those blemishes and they always ended up like becoming bigger. Always."

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"I've sort of stopped using any other foundations other than MAC Studio Fix because they just feel really heavy on my skin. And to me, they provide a beautiful amount of coverage that is buildable and it evens out my skin tone enough and creates a beautiful and flawless looking finish that works really nicely as a base so that I can go in and spot conceal."

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"I love this foundation, it just wears so well. There's honestly a bunch of different foundations that I love and that I use and I just kind of cycle through, but this one is just such a go-to. It just lasts all day long and it creates a really flawless base."

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"For my foundation I'm going in with MAC Studio Fix. The point of this makeup is for the finish to look flawless like melted into your skin but I want that staying power, which is why I chose this foundation because this foundation wears so beautifully. It doesn't move, it doesn't change. You can wear it all day long and it just looks so incredibly stunning."

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"I'm using my MAC Studio Fix foundation for specifically covering up the brows and I believe I used it on the rest of my face as well just to keep the color cohesive. MAC Studio Fix, as beautiful as it is and I love that foundation, it's not the perfect color match for me. It is a little bit of an orangey yellow tone."

Robert Welsh

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~Mixed

"There's a lot more kick up than usual with the Studio Fix Powder, but nothing too crazy. I have to be honest with you, I'm not... it's not majorly different. Like, I'm not stunned into how could they do this to me. The only thing I am finding is I'm gonna have to build up a few more layers of a new one versus the old one. I would never recommend applying your powder foundation with a sponge anyway. It's always nicer with a brush. It's fine, but I think the shade is off. I should have gone for NC15. I'm not overly disheartened, to be honest with you. I am looking at my face now and I'm thinking, okay, that does look like powder, which it is. Maybe if it was closer to my shade, it would be a little bit more less noticeable."

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"There's a lot more kick up than usual with the Studio Fix Powder, but nothing too crazy. I have to be honest with you, I'm not... it's not majorly different. Like, I'm not stunned into how could they do this to me. The only thing I am finding is I'm gonna have to build up a few more layers of a new one versus the old one. I would never recommend applying your powder foundation with a sponge anyway. It's always nicer with a brush. It's fine, but I think the shade is off. I should have gone for NC15. I'm not overly disheartened, to be honest with you. I am looking at my face now and I'm thinking, okay, that does look like powder, which it is. Maybe if it was closer to my shade, it would be a little bit more less noticeable."

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"Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation is still an OG iconic foundation. [...] It gives you levels of coverage. You can brush it on and get it sheer and veil-like, but then you can take the sponge and really build it up. In the late nineties, early two thousands, Studio Fix was really popular. Still is, but it was super popular then because everyone wanted to look matte. [...] When that natural matte finish trend started to change and people started to want things that looked a little bit softer and more skin-like, people still wanted to use their Studio Fix. So if you prep your skin a certain way, you can still use Studio Fix, and it can warm up nicely, but it may take several minutes of wear for it to start to absorb some of your skin's excess oils and settle down."

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"They did just recently change their MAC to Studio Fix Powder formula, which doesn't seem to be going down so well."

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"When I used to work at Mac, a trick I used to do with Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation is if someone wasn't really looking to buy their foundation but they wanted to wear the powder foundation, I would go one shade lighter than their skin tone and then I would drench it in fix plus."

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"Mac Studio Fix Foundation, they have been trending since the beginning. Products didn't trend. They just became iconic."

Jamie Genevieve

975k subs

~Mixed

"I've got the new Mac Foundation to try I've got the new hourglass skin tint feel like we've not had Good Foundations actually for a long time"

What the evidence says.

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

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Frequently asked.

What is MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation?

A pressed powder foundation available in a range of shades, designed to provide buildable coverage with a smooth, long-wearing finish that sets into the skin.

Is MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation worth it?

The gurus mostly approve it, but with enough reservations to keep it in the middle at a Guru Score of 67%.

What is MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation's Guru Score?

MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation holds a Guru Score of 67%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 3 expert reviewers we have collected.