Setting powder for combination skin

Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder has the best record for combination skin, with 21 of 22 shoppers saying it controlled shine without looking dry or cakey on their dry areas. Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder follows at 24 of 26 and is the best pick sold on Amazon, then Fenty Beauty Invisimatte Setting Powder at 15 of 16, while the four powders behind them are nearly level, from 72% to 73%. Each record counts just shoppers who said they have combination skin.

  • 222 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Dec 2013 to Sep 2026

Updated . How we count

Did it control shine without drying? What shoppers said
  1. Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder 22 said either way
  2. Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder 26 said either way
  3. Fenty Beauty Invisimatte Setting Powder 16 said either way
  4. bareMinerals Original Mineral Veil Powder 22 said either way
  5. KVD Beauty Lock-It Setting Powder 22 said either way
  6. Laura Mercier Translucent Powder Ultra-Blur 18 said either way
  7. Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder 15 said either way

Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for shine or dryness. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.

Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder Best record Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder 21 of 22 say it controlled shine without looking dry or cakey on their dry areas See price & reviews on Amazon
Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder Best pick on Amazon Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder 24 of 26 say it controlled shine without looking dry or cakey on their dry areas See price & reviews on Amazon

The ranking, product by product

Praise and complaints are the points reviewers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.

1 Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder

Huda Beauty

Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder

21/22 say it controlled shine without looking dry or cakey on their dry areas

Blurring is the draw for this loose baking and setting powder, praised in 43% of its 30 reviews, and 33% say it keeps makeup in place.

What buyers praise

  • Blurs pores and texture 43%
  • Keeps makeup in place 33%
  • Doesn't settle into lines 10%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 21 of 22
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light6 of 7
  • Light-medium to medium8 of 8
See price & reviews on Amazon

Share of 30 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

2 Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder

Laura Mercier

Translucent Loose Setting Powder

24/26 say it controlled shine without looking dry or cakey on their dry areas

Staying power gets mentioned in 23% of its 43 reviews, with 19% praising the blurring. More shoppers stated a result for it than for any other powder here.

What buyers praise

  • Keeps makeup in place 23%
  • Blurs pores and texture 19%
  • Doesn't settle into lines 7%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 7 of 7
  • Sephora 17 of 19
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light9 of 11
  • Light-medium to medium4 of 4
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Said it worked5 of 5
3 Fenty Beauty Invisimatte Setting Powder

Fenty Beauty

Invisimatte Setting Powder

Best for photos without flashback

15/16 say it controlled shine without looking dry or cakey on their dry areas

Of its 24 reviews, 17% report no flashback in photos, 21% praise the blurring and 21% say it keeps makeup in place.

What buyers praise

  • Blurs pores and texture 21%
  • Keeps makeup in place 21%
  • No flashback in photos 17%
  • Natural finish 8%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 3 of 3
  • Sephora 12 of 13
See price & reviews on Amazon

Share of 24 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

4 bareMinerals Original Mineral Veil Powder

bareMinerals

Original Mineral Veil Powder

16/22 say it controlled shine without looking dry or cakey on their dry areas

It has the same record as KVD Beauty Lock-It Setting Powder. 21% of its 33 reviews say it keeps makeup in place, 18% praise the blurring and 6% call it good value.

What buyers praise

  • Keeps makeup in place 21%
  • Blurs pores and texture 18%
  • Natural finish 6%
  • Good value 6%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 1 of 2
  • Sephora 15 of 20
  • Brand site 8 of 11 shown, not counted
5 KVD Beauty Lock-It Setting Powder

KVD Beauty

Lock-It Setting Powder

16/22 say it controlled shine without looking dry or cakey on their dry areas

10% of its 30 reviews mention flashback or a white cast, while 23% say it keeps makeup in place and 10% call the finish natural.

What buyers praise

  • Keeps makeup in place 23%
  • Natural finish 10%
  • No irritation 7%
  • Good value 7%
  • No flashback in photos 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Flashback or white cast 10%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 16 of 22
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light12 of 14
  • Light-medium to medium3 of 6
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Said it worked8 of 9
See price & reviews on Amazon

Share of 30 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

6 Laura Mercier Translucent Powder Ultra-Blur

Laura Mercier

Translucent Powder Ultra-Blur

13/18 say it controlled shine without looking dry or cakey on their dry areas

This Ultra-Blur version of Laura Mercier's translucent powder is praised for blurring in 29% of its 28 reviews and for a natural finish in 11%.

What buyers praise

  • Blurs pores and texture 29%
  • Keeps makeup in place 14%
  • Natural finish 11%
  • Good value 7%
  • Doesn't settle into lines 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 3 of 5
  • Sephora 10 of 13
  • Brand site 4 of 4 shown, not counted
7 Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder

Hourglass

Veil Translucent Setting Powder

Best for a natural finish

11/15 say it controlled shine without looking dry or cakey on their dry areas

Shoppers praise the finish as natural (38% of its 34 reviews) and 18% say it doesn't settle into lines, while 9% complain about messy packaging. Its share of 73% is just above the Ultra-Blur version's, but fewer shoppers stated a result for it, so it ranks last.

What buyers praise

  • Natural finish 38%
  • Keeps makeup in place 21%
  • Doesn't settle into lines 18%
  • Good value 9%
  • Blurs pores and texture 6%

What buyers complain about

  • Messy packaging 9%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 1 of 1
  • Sephora 10 of 14
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light3 of 5
  • Light-medium to medium6 of 7
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Said it worked7 of 9

Where these numbers come from

The 7 products ranked here carry 54,991 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for shine or dryness and read the newest matching reviews, up to 40 per product and store, posted between Dec 2013 and Sep 2026.

A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (0 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.

Ulta also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. They run much more positive than store reviews of the same products (across 19 products with both, 76% of brand-site reviewers said the product solved the problem, against 55% of Ulta shoppers), so we show them on product cards but never count them.

Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.

Skin type, skin tone and age splits use what reviewers chose on Sephora's review form (and age on Ulta's when given). We only show a split when enough reviewers fall on each side.

Amazon buttons appear only on products that most reviewers here say fix the problem (at least 60%, with enough reviews to trust it). Everything else gets no buy link.

An AI model labels each review against a fixed list of points, and we spot-check the labels before publishing. We publish counts, never the reviews themselves.

Read the full method

Product pages we read

  1. Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  2. Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder Ulta and Sephora (43 reviews counted)
  3. Fenty Beauty Invisimatte Setting Powder Ulta and Sephora (24 reviews counted)
  4. bareMinerals Original Mineral Veil Powder Ulta and Sephora (33 reviews counted)
  5. KVD Beauty Lock-It Setting Powder Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  6. Laura Mercier Translucent Powder Ultra-Blur Ulta and Sephora (28 reviews counted)
  7. Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder Ulta and Sephora (34 reviews counted)

Questions buyers ask

Which setting powder works for combination skin?

Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder has the best record (21 of 22), followed by Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder (24 of 26), Fenty Beauty Invisimatte Setting Powder (15 of 16), bareMinerals Original Mineral Veil Powder (16 of 22), KVD Beauty Lock-It Setting Powder (16 of 22), Laura Mercier Translucent Powder Ultra-Blur (13 of 18) and Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder (11 of 15), in that order. The ranking weighs how many shoppers stated a result, so a powder with a slightly higher share can rank below one with more shoppers behind its record.

Should I choose Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder or Translucent Powder Ultra-Blur?

Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder has the stronger record for combination skin, at 24 of 26 against 13 of 18 for the Ultra-Blur version. The Ultra-Blur version gets more blurring praise, in 29% of its reviews against 19%, though 7% say it costs too much.

Which setting powder looks natural or avoids flashback in photos?

Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder gets natural-finish praise in 38% of its reviews, against 11% for Laura Mercier Translucent Powder Ultra-Blur and 10% for KVD Beauty Lock-It Setting Powder. For photos, 17% of Fenty Beauty Invisimatte Setting Powder reviews report no flashback, while 10% of the KVD Beauty reviews mention flashback or a white cast.

Which of these setting powders are sold on Amazon?

Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder is the best pick sold on Amazon, at 24 of 26. bareMinerals Original Mineral Veil Powder, Laura Mercier Translucent Powder Ultra-Blur and Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder are also sold on Amazon by the brand or Amazon itself. Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder, Fenty Beauty Invisimatte Setting Powder and KVD Beauty Lock-It Setting Powder are sold there through third-party sellers.

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