Sali Hughes on beauty: loose powders have had a glow up

No longer messy and cumbersome, a new generation of powders blurs, sets and mattifies without the faff I can’t remember the last time I wrote about loose powder because, honestly, there’s been little point.

Pressed compact powders have become so sophisticated in formulation, so finely milled in production, that most of us rely on those to keep shiny bits matte and makeup looking fresh past lunchtime. Loose powders – messy, cumbersome and barely improved in decades – seemed trapped in the past. But there have always been times when one absolutely does benefit from a proper dusting. A fine coating of loose…