The trouble with wearing mineral foundation, compared to liquid foundation and loose powder, is that my skin tends to secrete more oil and sebum on my T-zone. Even with my oil-free Laura Mercier Foundation Primer, I’d still sport a shiny nose after an hour or so.

When Silk Naturals came out with an oil control primer, I was pretty eager to try this out. Who knows, I might be able to find something to control the oilies.

Description:

Our Oil Control Primer is all oil controlling ingredients- Calcium Carbonate, Silk Powder, and Silica- so it’s wonderful for absorbing the oilies, and blurs pores like you wouldn’t believe. Just a slight dusting under your makeup will make it last longer and look better. You can wear it all over your face, or just where you tend to get oily.

Ingredients: Calcium Carbonate, Silk Powder, Silica

The untinted powder is translucent, which is suitable for light to not quite medium skintones. As for those with darker skintones, you might want to go for the tinted primer, as the translucent powder can cause your face to look ashen.

So, did it work for me? I’m so glad to report that it did! And very well too, in fact. It kept my skin matte and oil-free for at least a couple of hours. With my bloody oily T-zone, that’s pretty much a miracle. The ingredients of the primer powder absorb the oil, leaving the skin matte and oil-free. So far I’ve only tried this with mineral foundation and not my liquid foundation. I shall give y’all an update when I do try it out with other types of foundation.

As with mineral foundation, you’d need a little powder per application. Don’t use too much though lest you look like a ghost! Apply it with a kabuki brush, and then mineral foundation. Easy peasy 🙂

A 20g jar of the Silk Naturals untinted oil control primer costs USD8.95, and is available on the Silk Naturals website. It’ll last you ages as you’d only need a light dusting of the powder prior to application of foundation.

What I like about it: The primer controlled my oilies very well. Whee!

What I did not like about it: Nothing … yet.