LAURA GELLER NEW YORK Award-Winning Baked Balance-n-Brighten Color Correcting Powder Foundation - Light - Buildable Light to Medium Coverage - Demi-Matte Natural Finish

I genuinely love this product! Some background: I have combination skin and often have difficulties finding a good color match due to time faded freckles all over my face. I am in my early thirties and I feel like my skin is in that weird in between phase where I am starting to get a few fine lines and my skin is starting to lose a little bit of its glow. I want to make sure I’m using products that are going to be gentle as my skin ages but also help me get some serious natural looking glow back. So I’ll list the reasons this product is now my everyday go to! 1. The coverage is buildable and isn’t heavy. I also have the kabuki brush and I like that I can have variations of coverage in different areas and it will all still blend together seamlessly. 2. I use a liquid concealer for my eyes. This powder blends over it well and doesn’t cause the concealer to cake up underneath like some other products I’ve tried. 3. The blurring and brightening effect is just beautiful! It has given me my natural glow back. 4. I use shade medium and I find it works very well with my freckles and complexion. It doesn’t mismatch my neck or look too light/dark. ANDDDD it doesn’t show up orange! Big win! 5. I don’t really need to use liquid foundation anymore because I get such good variation in whatever coverage I want. 6. Touch ups are very easy. I can go from less coverage during the day to simply adding more coverage at night before I go to dinner or anything like that. 7. Easy to travel with. I have started keeping it in my bag every day. 8. It doesn’t irritate my skin. 9. For a powder, it holds well throughout the day without clogging your pores. I don’t need a setting spray. 10. Because of the formula’s versatility, I feel that this is a great powder for ALL age types. My mom (age 65) now uses it and so does my younger coworker (age 26). Overall, great quality, versatility, broad coverage range, brightening, shade matching, and skin gentleness. Pricing is very reasonable as well. I’m truly grateful I found this as my new everyday foundation!

All women at least over 50 should try this amazing powder. We already have a beautiful face & this powder enhances our natural beauty. I do not use any other powder now that I tried this. I am 60 & I am told that I look like I am in my late 40s. The product goes on nicely with the brush & it does feel nor appear that I have to much makeup, you look bright and you have a nice finished look. It stays fresh all day long, as well as adventurous times at night. It does not come off on pillows during hose times when you cannot remove before bed. You still look fresh! No skin irritation, texture great & it does not look too thick on your face, it blends in with all of your earned wrinkles & facial scars, the product does not highlight those features you might want to hide. I love the product, I wish I had used it years before.

I really like this powder foundation overall. It goes on very nicely and smoothly, and it blends easily into the skin. It gives great coverage without feeling heavy, and it leaves a natural, even finish that looks polished but not cakey. The only downside for me is the scent. I can definitely smell it while I’m wearing it, which isn’t my favorite thing. It’s not overpowering, but it’s noticeable enough that I wish it were fragrance-free. Other than that, it’s a great powder foundation and one I’ll continue to use.

I'm almost 60/F, some wrinkles and a fair amount of discoloration, red spots, and sun damage, esp. on cheeks. This foundation (baked balance and brighten, color FAIR) is really easy to use. Feels like nothing, even when building. I used only basic, soft, fluffy brushes I had on hand; they worked well for light coverage, but I do think a denser brush option - like a retracting kabuki, as recommended - might work better for building. Very good coverage on bare skin (moisturizar only), pracrically perfect over an inexpensive primer. Almost all my flaws disappeared, even without concealer. Did not settle in wrinkles, either. I FEEL PRET-TY, OH-SO PRET-TY!...or, at least, "not bad for an old broad, not at all!". I do find that using primer is better over large pores and significant discoloration, such as have I. I used a budget brand with spf 30 and the foundation went on perfectly. It's FAST, too. The longest part if the process is waiting for the primer to dry, maybe 1-3 minutes. Found it difficult to shade match - but to be fair: When is it *not* difficult? Would be a very nice thing if Laura Geller Beauty offered an inexpensive "sampler" (say, $5.00 for just enough product for 1/2 face in two adjacent shades) to help in this process. I tried "PORCELAIN" first, but it was just a tad too light. The model wearing "FAIR" looks like an olive tone to me, whereas (I think?) I'm more peachy, like the "LIGHT" model - but I'm super pale...but ... but.. hem ..haw.. Seems really wasteful to open, use once and return a full product to try a color that isn't quite right, as I have. "Samplers" would really help reduce the volume of product returns, not to mention reduce waste and carbon footprints - just sayin'. Step up,😀Laura Geller. Make the planet as beautiful as you have me!

I really wanted to like this but sadly, the fair color was too dark and too bronzy for me. I used a BK Beauty Large brush meant for powder foundation, so it wasn't the tools I was using. I swirled in the pan, tapped the excess off and swirled on the face in a buffing motion, as one does with powder foundation. It just was NOT the right color for me, and I wear 210 in Haus Labs foundation so I'm typically a light/medium shade, not even a fair shade. I suppose I could try the porcelain shade since it doesn't have the bronzy shades in the pan, and the bronze shades are replaced with pink/cool shades marbled with the skin tones. I do not have discoloration in my skin, just some marks from previous pimples, and I am a true neutral shade with a peach complexion due to neutral/cool and olive undertones. My skin looked orange after using this and I ended up gifting this to my mother, who is slightly darker than I am. She loved it and is a faithful Laura Gellar wearer now at 75! I'm 40 and perhaps this truly is meant for "mature" skin as my skin is more like a 30-year-olds (having acne made me a dedicated skincare junkie from the age of 15 and I've worn sunscreen every day of my life since 18.) Hopefully the porcelain truly is for fair shades or else this line would not be appropriate for women with fair complexions as the fair color was too dark and orange/bronze for me. It looked like I used a bronzer for fair shaded people all over my face. I think a big problem is that the product is marbleized so there is always the possibility of too much of the darker shade being marbleized in some people's pans and thus, we get that "orange" complexion appearance when applied as suggested. I suppose I could have gotten a smaller brush and only used the product where it was MY skin tone but then it really defeats the purpose of using this product and doing that is just not practical.

I'm 70+, so I was absolutely leery about using a powder foundation, but the commercial convinced me to look at reviews. And I read a lot in hopes it would help me with color choice. I read in one that light was a summer tone. I was looking for something to bring some light but not overwhelming color. I found a deal to purchase both the Double Take and the Balance and Brighten in Light. I am very pleased with both. I have a kabuki brush which made it easy to apply a light foundation and build on. It gave a such a nice, silky, coverage that evened out my skin tone and perfect for a more natural daytime look. The Baked Balanced and and Brighten which is matte gave more coverage for nighttime. I love both. I like that you can build the color to your liking. It stays on well and did not settle into any areas on my face. I think the kabuki brush truly helps attain that finish.

Just received other day after getting on sale half price. I was impressed with the finish compared to most powders, there does seem to be shimmer, so good to keep in mind if you aren't looking for any shine. I agree with other reviews that it does have a little more orange/bronzing effect than I would expect for regular foundation shade and after using this is now my perfect go to for pairing with green color corrected balm since it perfectly balances out the green notes in red reduction color corrector giving you a natural balance. I would classify this as more of a color corrector balancing product than a straight foundation, if applied lightly it gives you a nice balanced effect evening out skin tone and could be great for adding a little more contour to face on light makeup days or with an otherwise very flat toned foundation/powder. If you do go heavy with this, you will get more of bronzed orange pigment notes than expected since those pigments come out stronger in mix. I'm glad I got this though because it fills gap of other products allowing me to just use the green balm I like for color correcting and then a quick powder of this over that looks beautiful.

This is my second purchase of this compact foundation. I am a natural very light blonde & look best with yellow undertone shades of foundation. I had ordered the color 'fair' directly from the manufacturer along with coordinating products, such as their highlighting powder, primer, brushes & blush (I don't use the blush). The color fair was perfect for me & I was amazed at how fast the makeup went on & the finished effect. I could brush it on quickly, apply a quick flick of the brightener (which I found to be a lovely compliment), completing the whole process in less than a minute. This immediately became my favorite go-to. It goes on so FAST & so SMOOTH which I found astounding considering my past experience with powder type foundations. When I saw this on Amazon, I promptly ordered another, choosing the exact same description (be sure to read the back label) & color. However, this next compact I received did not have as much of the central brighten(er) marble streak that the first compact had, which essentially changed the color a lot for me. So. I would caution that if you are as particular of your shade of foundation as I am (& after all, isn't that one of the major reasons we wear face makeup to begin with?) you may not receive exactly the same shade each time, changing your finished effect - even though you order the same product. I went ahead & ordered the porcelain highlighter compact hoping to use it overtop of the 'fair' shade to lighten the color. The brightener's recommended use is to enhance the cheekbones, nose & chin areas after applying the initial foundation. But because I'm using it to lighten the shade-too-dark foundation, it becomes a different function & adds more layers as well as time to the routine.. Which kind of vetoed what I had found to be the best qualities of the makeup to begin with. And needing to buy the extra brightener compact was an added expense I didn't expect. So once these have been used up, I'm not sure I'll purchase it again since my former cream foundation is a perfect shade for me. Being a light skinned blonde I look for a shade that is closest to my natural color which is not an easy task. Just a tad darker & I tend to look very 'made up'. So, if you prefer more color to your face, you may want to try this. I've never had a product go on more quickly & evenly with so little effort. No lines or streaks. For that feat alone, I will say that this foundation is amazing.