You Beauty! Chantecaille’s HD Perfecting Powder

Powder is back. It adds polish and élan. It perfects and reflects with lustre rather than shine. It grooms and finishes and sets. Yes, I know, when you think of powder you think of grannies squinting into knackered old compacts and dabbing on mouldy powder three shades too light before spitting on the same tissue to scrub away at some bit of smut on your face. Hurl.

Do yourself a favour and think again because the newest generation of powders are micro-fine and entirely imperceptible. They make your face a better face. Or, at least, a more photogenic one.

So if you are anticipating a situation where a lens may be thrust in your face, try Chantecaille’s HD Perfecting Powder, which was brewed with High Definition cameras in mind.

I tend to swoosh it on after base and before bronzer to set and complete a canvas that reads as immaculate, even though I’m actually being quite slapdash. It’s a curious concoction. Light as a whisper, it blends like fluid, filling in pores while dodging fine lines, which is a quality I have never observed in a powder before.

I wore it out over Bobbi Brown Tinted Moisturizing Balm (genius) on Friday night. I was knackered and spotty and couldn’t be bothered with proper make-up. ‘Your skin!’ they cried, men and women alike. I assume it wasn’t in horror. But, of course, I can’t be sure.

Chantecaille HD Perfecting Powder, £62, at liberty.co.uk