7 silky-smooth, non-drying powders designed for dry skin

A blurring powder is always a friend to a dry skin type – it’ll gloss over flakes, pores and lines, leaving skin silky smooth and perfectly set.

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This option uses complexion-correcting beads and radiance-revealing flakes (plus jojoba oil) to both perfect your base and dial up your glow.

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If your skin type is dry, but your preferred finish is natural matte, this sheer, velvety powder is your winner; its vibe is ‘polished but still alive’.

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This guy’s loaded with 50 per cent water and glycerin, so you know it’ll be as moisture-boosting as it is blurring (and it’s plenty blurring).

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A light-reflecting, colour-correcting powder with a dash of pigment housed in a touch-up friendly travel case? We’ll most certainly take it (like, literally everywhere).

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This buildable delight sits on top of foundation like an actual dream (a silky one at that, even on thirsty skin), and the emollient-rich formula comes with a welcome side of natural glow.

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Prefer translucent powder? We’ve got you. Or rather, this weightless micro-fine Tom Ford option does; it’s so hydrating that it’s practically part-makeup, part-moisturiser.

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Luminous isn’t in the name for nothing, and as the powder counterpart to the cult-classic smoothing foundation, there’s no doubt it’s a winning formula.

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