Chanel 160 PREFACE Poudre Universelle Compacte Natural Finish Pressed Powder Swatches & Review – Notes de Printemps Spring 2014 – Blushing Noir

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For the Spring 2014 Notes de Printemps Collection Chanel has released a limited edition shade of Poudre Universelle Compacte Natural Finish Pressed Powder in Preface.

What Nordstrom says about the Chanel Poudre Universelle Compacte Natural Finish Pressed Powder:

CHANEL POUDRE UNIVERSELLE COMPACTE pressed powder covers your skin in a translucent, natural matte finish while setting your makeup or providing you with an easy touch-up. The ultrafine, lightweight formula features light-reflecting pigments and a luxurious soft feel to give you a beautiful, radiant look.

The packaging is your usual sleek black compact with the white Chanel symbol and housed in a small velvet pouch.  As you open the compact up there is a full mirror on the top side.

Preface is a sheer, soft peach powder.  This powder is wonderful at providing a slightly matte finish to your face and keeping shine at bay.  I also found it helped to set my face makeup and kept the blush I was wearing safe from fading.  The texture is light and soft, the perfect finishing touch!

The slim sponge that it comes with can be pitched.  With products like this I like to get a fluffy brush to apply them.  I feel like with a sponge you’d just wipe off the other makeup underneath.  I personally need that makeup underneath, since Preface is just a finishing powder and isn’t meant to conceal.

In the photo below Preface is swatched heavily to the left and blended out on the right.

Is it weird I wish this would have had some sort of fancy design etched into the powder?  It’s limited edition, show me the pretty!

The Chanel Poudre Universelle Compacte Natural Finish Pressed Powder retails for $45.00 and is available at Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale’s and chanel.com.