Rimmel London Stay Matte Pressed Powder Review

For my often dry skin, this product isn't ideal but I do like it for its mattifying powers over my few oily spots. I use the transparent shade so I don't have to worry about the colour matching my skin which is brilliant. A downside for this powder is that it has a crap load of sparkles. For a matte powder, doesn't the sparkles counteract its purpose? Without the sparkles, this product would be almost perfect. Overall, for its price, this is a very decent product.

I can see why people rave about this product. Its a great price and does all the things a powder is meant to do.

This was just a bit of a ho hum powder for me though. The translucent worked well for my quite fair skin, when testing the colours instore they all seem too dark for me. Can look a little cakey if not careful. The packaging is seriously annoying as the lid is forever falling off unless stored sitting flat on a surface, lid also would break easily if dropped. Seems to be quite a little amount of product as I used it up very fast. Personally I didn't repurchase but I suppose I would if I had a low budget and was in need of a powder.

I loved this when I first purchased it, but after a while, I feel like it became too used to my skin? This is great to use during the summer time or if you have oily skin, however, in a strange way this powder made my face go oily at the end of the day and I have combination to dry skin.

I really like this product from first glance and first couple of uses. But once I got to half way I started to notice pecks of glitter and reflection on different lighting, at first I thought it was some hair spray that had got on my face but turns out there are tiny bits of glitter, almost barley noticeable, in the powder. It doesn't annoy me too much but be aware for anyone who doesn't want this.

I love the embossed powder it just looks so neat!!

I swirl my brush around and tappa tappa tappa it over my face. Shine be gone! Its probably a bit too matte though and sticks to my dry skin like a dung beetle to his beloved ball of.. well. You know what.

Wouldnt repurchase, sadly!

It does what it says it does, but its nothing amazing. I've started getting the essence translucent version of this and it's just as good as it lasts the day.

I have been unfortunately blessed with oily skin and have been looking for a product for awhile which would combat my oily t-zone whilst not having to reapply it through the day. Rimmel matte powder really does what it says it does, it adsorbs oil throughout the day keeping you looking fresh, and it is absolutely fantastic for the price. Although I do have a nit picks about it, i find it can come out looking quite powdery/cakey on the face. Also the colours are quite difficult to match correctly, seeing this I went for the transparent shade and it can make me end up looking super white and ghost-y

I'm 'blessed' in a way to have normal-dry combination skin so I don't have to worry about my makeup slip and sliding unless I'm working/sweating - there are days that I want to change up my makeup routine and have a matte finish (although probably not the best for my skin type) and this is the perfect powder! I use it in the shade translucent to give me a matte finish with or without a liquid foundation underneath. Its affordable - especially on ASOS for under $10 - about $5 when its on sale with discount too.

I used to like this powder until I've tried other better powders and realised this is just an 'okay' product. I have oily skin so I like mattifying products. This doesn't last a long time and I could never finish/hit pan because it forms a hard layer on top of the powder so I couldn't get any more product. I've repurchased it a few times and it always happened. I feel like it was a waste of product although it is quite inexpensive.

After using this product I have decided I don't like the matte finish as I find it looks cakey. However it does give the matte finish it claims to give so no complaints on that behalf.