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On GLAMOUR Tries this week, Associate Social Media Manager Luca Wetherby-Matthews is putting flour to the test. Nope, not to see how it performs in the kitchen, but to see what it’s like as a setting powder in her makeup routine.
“So there’s a TikTok trend at the moment where people are setting their makeup with flour, flour, instead of powder because apparently that’s what they used to do back in the day. Not sure if that’s true, but I’ve got my self-raising flour and we’re going to try it.” Luca says.
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“As you can see I’ve had my makeup on all day, I’m quite oily, so this should be a good indicator of whether it works,” she says. “I’m taking a damp beauty sponge and I’m just going to put it on,” Luca applies the flour to her under eye on one side as she would normally with her setting powder.
She then does the same to her forehead, nose, chin and eye lid, and also sculpts out her cheekbone with some of the flour. “Um. It’s definitely mattified. It feels… not very nice,” Luca says. “It feels very grainy, not very comfortable, and you can see grains of it where it’s not blending into my skin. It’s also left a bit of a white cast on my face, but does it get rid of shine? Yes. If it rains, will it go mushy and gloopy on my face? I don’t know.”
Luca finishes setting her whole face with the flour to give it a fair judgement. “Ok, this is the finished look. As I said, it’s kind of given me a white cast, it definitely has mattified but it also feels disgusting on my skin. Maybe if you’re in a life or death situation and you only have flour and you need to bake – literally – consider it, otherwise don’t do this. It’s not worth it.” She says.