Setting powder with no flashback

Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder has the best record on flashback: 50 of 53 reviewers who brought it up said it doesn't give a white cast in photos, and more reviewers weighed in on it than on any other powder here. It also holds up at both stores, 23 of 25 at Ulta and 27 of 28 at Sephora. Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder follows at 21 of 23.

  • 261 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Dec 2017 to Sep 2026

Updated . How we count

Does it flash back? What buyers said
  1. Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder 53 said either way
  2. Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder 23 said either way
  3. Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder 31 said either way
  4. Laura Mercier Translucent Powder Ultra-Blur 19 said either way
  5. ONE/SIZE Ultimate Blurring Setting Powder 29 said either way
  6. Laura Mercier Secret Brightening Powder 28 said either way
  7. KVD Beauty Lock-It Setting Powder 28 said either way

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

Best record Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder 50 of 53 say it has no flashback Check price on Amazon
What stands out

Flashback complaints jump after fifth place. They show up in 40% of Laura Mercier Secret Brightening Under Eye Setting Powder reviews and 43% of KVD Beauty Lock-It Setting Powder reviews, against 5% for the original Laura Mercier powder.

The ranking, product by product

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

1

Laura Mercier

Translucent Loose Setting Powder

Best for all skin types

50/53 say it has no flashback

Held up for oily skin (5 of 5), normal skin (6 of 6) and dry skin (4 of 5). 20% of reviews say it keeps makeup in place, and 7% say it costs too much.

What buyers praise

  • Keeps makeup in place 20%
  • Doesn't look cakey 13%
  • Controls oil and shine 11%
  • Natural finish 9%
  • Blurs pores and texture 9%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 7%
  • Emphasizes texture or lines 5%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 23 of 25
  • Sephora 27 of 28
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Normal6 of 6
  • Oily5 of 5
  • Dry4 of 5
  • Combination3 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light9 of 9
  • Light-medium to medium8 of 8
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Said it worked5 of 6

How often it comes up: about 1 in 46 of this product's 22,370 store reviews mention flashback.

2

Huda Beauty

Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder

21/23 say it has no flashback

52% of reviews say it keeps makeup in place and 30% say it blurs pores and texture. Ranked on Sephora reviews alone.

What buyers praise

  • Keeps makeup in place 52%
  • Blurs pores and texture 30%
  • Stops concealer creasing 22%
  • Controls oil and shine 17%
  • Doesn't look cakey 13%

What buyers complain about

  • Emphasizes texture or lines 9%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 21 of 23
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination9 of 9
  • Normal3 of 3
  • Oily3 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light4 of 4
  • Light-medium to medium9 of 9

How often it comes up: about 1 in 30 of this product's 14,064 store reviews mention flashback.

See it at Sephora

Share of 23 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

3

Hourglass

Veil Translucent Setting Powder

27/31 say it has no flashback

Price is the main complaint, mentioned in 19% of reviews, and 9% dislike the packaging. Reviewers who list acne as a skin concern had few flashback problems (9 of 10).

What buyers praise

  • Doesn't look cakey 19%
  • Blurs pores and texture 13%
  • Natural finish 13%
  • Stops concealer creasing 13%
  • Controls oil and shine 9%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 19%
  • Messy packaging 9%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 2 of 2
  • Sephora 25 of 29
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination12 of 12
  • Dry8 of 9
  • Oily4 of 6
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light9 of 12
  • Light-medium to medium10 of 11
  • Medium-tan to tan4 of 4
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Said it worked9 of 10

How often it comes up: about 1 in 26 of this product's 2,276 store reviews mention flashback.

4

Laura Mercier

Translucent Powder Ultra-Blur

17/19 say it has no flashback

A blurring version of the original. 33% mention blurring and 33% say it keeps makeup in place. On Laura Mercier's own site, 13 of 13 say no flashback, which we show but don't count.

What buyers praise

  • Keeps makeup in place 33%
  • Blurs pores and texture 33%
  • Controls oil and shine 24%
  • Good value 14%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 19%
  • Emphasizes texture or lines 10%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 2 of 2
  • Sephora 15 of 17
  • Brand site 13 of 13 shown, not counted
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination7 of 8
  • Dry4 of 4
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light8 of 9
  • Light-medium to medium3 of 3

How often it comes up: about 1 in 35 of this product's 3,707 store reviews mention flashback.

5

ONE/SIZE

Ultimate Blurring Setting Powder

22/29 say it has no flashback

Results vary by skin tone. Reviewers with fair-light skin tones reported no flashback (9 of 10), against 3 of 5 for deep skin tones, though both groups are small. 23% of all its reviews mention flashback.

What buyers praise

  • Keeps makeup in place 30%
  • Blurs pores and texture 23%
  • Doesn't look cakey 13%
  • Stops concealer creasing 10%
  • Controls oil and shine 10%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 7%
  • Too drying 7%
  • Emphasizes texture or lines 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 22 of 29
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination13 of 17
  • Oily4 of 6
  • Normal4 of 5
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light9 of 10
  • Light-medium to medium6 of 9
  • Medium-tan to tan3 of 3
  • Deep3 of 5
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Said it worked4 of 7

How often it comes up: about 1 in 33 of this product's 2,674 store reviews mention flashback.

See it at Sephora

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

6

Laura Mercier

Secret Brightening Powder

16/28 say it has no flashback

A color-correcting powder for under the eyes, and 40% of its reviews mention flashback. 27% say it stops concealer creasing.

What buyers praise

  • Stops concealer creasing 27%
  • Keeps makeup in place 20%
  • Blurs pores and texture 13%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 16 of 28
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination9 of 16
  • Oily2 of 5
  • Dry3 of 4
  • Normal2 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light5 of 9
  • Light-medium to medium6 of 11
  • Medium-tan to tan3 of 6
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Said it worked5 of 9

How often it comes up: about 1 in 37 of this product's 2,459 store reviews mention flashback.

See it at Ulta

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

7

KVD Beauty

Lock-It Setting Powder

15/28 say it has no flashback

15 of 28 reviewers said it has no flashback, the weakest record here. 17% say it keeps makeup in place and 13% say it controls oil.

What buyers praise

  • Keeps makeup in place 17%
  • Controls oil and shine 13%

What buyers complain about

  • Emphasizes texture or lines 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 15 of 28
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination8 of 14
  • Dry4 of 7
  • Normal3 of 6
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light7 of 12
  • Light-medium to medium5 of 10
  • Medium-tan to tan2 of 4
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Said it worked8 of 12

How often it comes up: about 1 in 27 of this product's 2,945 store reviews mention flashback.

See it at Sephora

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

Where these numbers come from

The 7 products ranked here carry 50,495 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for flashback and read the newest matching reviews, up to 30 per product and store, posted between Dec 2017 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 Amazon sells from the brand and that most reviewers here say fix the problem (at least 60%, with enough reviews to trust it). Everything else links to the store page, unpaid.

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

Read the full method

Product pages we read

  1. Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder Ulta, Sephora (55 reviews counted)
  2. Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder Sephora (23 reviews counted)
  3. Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder Ulta, Sephora (32 reviews counted)
  4. Laura Mercier Translucent Powder Ultra-Blur Ulta, Sephora (21 reviews counted)
  5. ONE/SIZE Ultimate Blurring Setting Powder Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  6. Laura Mercier Secret Brightening Powder Ulta, Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  7. KVD Beauty Lock-It Setting Powder Sephora (30 reviews counted)

People asking about it on Reddit

  1. My flashback is so bad in photos help! I need a new affordable powder r/MakeupAddiction, Jul 2024, 67 comments
  2. Setting powder that actually keeps concealer in place all day AND has no flashback?! r/MakeupAddiction, Apr 2025, 34 comments
  3. A drugstore loose TRANSLUCENT setting powder that doesn’t have flashback r/drugstoreMUA, Sep 2025, 12 comments

Questions buyers ask

Which setting powder has no flashback?

By the reviews we counted, Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder leads at 50 of 53. Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Setting Powder follows at 21 of 23, then Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder at 27 of 31.

Does Laura Mercier Translucent Setting Powder cause flashback?

Rarely. 3 of 53 reviewers who mentioned flashback said it caused it. It has the best record here at 50 of 53.

Does the KVD Lock-It Setting Powder cause flashback?

Often, by these reviews. 13 of 28 reviewers who brought up flashback said it caused it, which puts it last of our 7 picks.

Does Laura Mercier Secret Brightening powder cause flashback?

For a lot of buyers it does. 12 of 28 reviewers who mentioned flashback said it caused it, so it ranks sixth of 7.

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