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Surreal Skin Soft Blur Setting Powder.

Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Soft Blur Setting Powder
Powder & Setting

About this product

A loose setting powder designed to blur skin texture, set makeup, and control shine while maintaining a natural, skin-like finish.

Best for

Oily skin
Powder & Setting

The Guru Index verdict

83%

Approved

✓Approved · 83%
3Reviewers
3Approved
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What the gurus are saying

Gurus praise this powder for blurring texture and controlling shine without the flat, lifeless look that comes with heavier formulas, and note it wears long without needing reapplication throughout the day. The formula melts into foundation and cream products as skin warmth increases, staying fresh rather than dusty or caked. Those seeking a matte base or an airbrushed finish find it performs well, though the powder itself is on the heavier side, so people prefer to use a light hand or build coverage gradually depending on their desired finish.
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Mixed Makeup
Mixed Makeup
1.47M subs · 10k devotees
✓Approved
"Makeup by Mario Powder. The fair pink. It's phenomenal. Is it absolutely phenomenal?"
Sincerely Miss Ash
Sincerely Miss Ash
194k subs · 4k devotees
✓Approved
"This is one of my go-tos. I absolutely love the setting powder because it doesn't dry out your skin where your skin looks lifeless. It does its job with setting your makeup, setting your under eyes, getting rid of some of that shine, but it still allows your skin to shine through and giving more of that natural complexion. I have a lot of setting powders in my collection and ones that I've used over the years that matt out your skin completely, but then your skin just feels really dry and tight afterwards and then you look at yourself in the mirror and your skin just looks lifeless. It looks worse than what it did prior. I'm not for setting powders like that. This actually keeps your skin looking skin-like. It gives that longevity with your makeup and it does a good job to diminish shine. I just have to use this once and that's it. I'm good for the day. This does an excellent job."
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"This is one of my go-tos. I absolutely love the setting powder because it doesn't dry out your skin where your skin looks lifeless. It does its job with setting your makeup, setting your under eyes, getting rid of some of that shine, but it still allows your skin to shine through and giving more of that natural complexion. I have a lot of setting powders in my collection and ones that I've used over the years that matt out your skin completely, but then your skin just feels really dry and tight afterwards and then you look at yourself in the mirror and your skin just looks lifeless. It looks worse than what it did prior. I'm not for setting powders like that. This actually keeps your skin looking skin-like. It gives that longevity with your makeup and it does a good job to diminish shine. I just have to use this once and that's it. I'm good for the day. This does an excellent job."
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"I've been quite impressed with the Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Soft Blur Setting Powder. This blurs like a dream. I use this a lot underneath my eyes, I might occasionally set my chin if it's looking a little shiny, and I might do this around my nose area, but this for the under eyes is perfect. This does help to brighten because I have it in the shade one which is fair pink, so that pink undertone really does give that little brightness which I personally love for the under eyes. It's very longwearing. Once I set my under eyes, I don't have to set them again for the rest of the day or night."
Allie Glines
Allie Glines
830k subs · 36k devotees
✓Approved
"This powder is the best for like again that airbrushed look, which I'm going for fresh airbrushed. I'm taking this powder on my BK Beauty N14 and we're going to set the concealer with this, being more generous in the center right here where I have the most pores, most visible pores, I should say. I have pores everywhere, but that's kind of where I want to smooth things out. Also tap this in the center of the forehead. I also love putting a bit of powder in the brows. It just makes it easier for me to fill them in."
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"This powder is the best for like again that airbrushed look, which I'm going for fresh airbrushed. I'm taking this powder on my BK Beauty N14 and we're going to set the concealer with this, being more generous in the center right here where I have the most pores, most visible pores, I should say. I have pores everywhere, but that's kind of where I want to smooth things out. Also tap this in the center of the forehead. I also love putting a bit of powder in the brows. It just makes it easier for me to fill them in."
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"This powder looks nice. My skin looks very flawless. I have nothing bad to say about it. In fact, I really like how this looks. I am somebody who loves powder anyway, and I love a little bit more of a matte base to start with because I like to control the amount of glow that I have in other ways. So I'm really liking this. It feels good on the skin."
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"This is like holy grail status for me currently. It is so nice. I love to set the under eyes with this. Buff it around the T-zone. It just blurs the face. It sets really well. You can kind of build it up if you want to for a hint of coverage. But it just overall looks flawless and it makes my makeup last all day, which is what I look for in a powder obviously. And I never want it to look dusty or crepey or cakey under the eyes. And this one doesn't. It really honestly never does."
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"I knew powder was going to be extremely important so I went with my current favorite, this is from Makeup by Mario, The Surreal Skin Soft Blur Setting Powder in the shade soft pink. I really pressed the powder into the T-Zone because that's where I know I get the most oily throughout the day. Since I was going to be live for 8 hours I knew my makeup had a higher chance of expiring, so I made sure to really create an airbrushed look up front so that it just had better longevity."
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"This is one of my current favorites from Mario, but also in general right now. It's so good. I can't live without a loose powder. It is an everyday staple for me. I feel like when you use this many creams and skin prep, it actually melts down into like your foundation and concealer and cream products and then as your natural warmth and oils come through from your skin, it like freshens up and doesn't look dusty."
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"This is the Surreal Skin Soft Blur setting powder in the shade Fair Pink. The powder puff is very bouncy and extremely flexible, not as firm as some of the other ones that I usually use, which is kind of interesting. But together with this powder it's really creating a nice airbrushed effect which I love."
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"This Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Soft Blur Setting Powder is such a good classic feeling setting powder. It's a nice heavier duty powder that really locks in the makeup and it blurs and smooths. It's not like a super lightweight powder, but I like something like this because I feel like you actually have a little more control and you can take a smaller amount if you want a lighter feel with a powder, but if you need it to really lock in for hours and hours you have that capability with something like this as well. So loving this so much."
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