Smashbox Halo Yellow Color Correcting Hydrating Powder

 I'm kind of j-j-jaded when it comes to something that promises to reduce redness.

Redness reducing products just never seem to work on me. I am really fair, and as I've gotten older, my skin has become more sensitive and as a result-ruddy. One of my cheeks is rosier than the other which really bothers me. I always have to put extra concealer on that cheek to avoid looking like someone just slapped me!
I haven't found a green colour corrector that I like yet. Most of the creams correctors are a heavy, dry consistency that just sits on top of my skin. They are hard to blend out and I end up with a weird grey colour on my face.

When Smashbox Halo Yellow Colour Correcting Hydrating Powder debuted I was intrigued. I do like their Halo Hydrating Powder; it is one of my favourite powder foundations. But I kept talking myself out of purchasing it. I finally caved in and bought it during the Sephora 20% Off VIB event in November.

It's probably one of the best purchases I made that night.

Smashbox Halo Yellow Color Correcting Hydrating Powder 

Halo Yellow Color Correcting Hydrating Powder has the same dispenser as the original Halo Hydrating powder. You twist the container and it shaves off some of the powder for you. It's a great system because you can control how much you use and not waste it like powders that just have sifters.

Halo Yellow Color Correcting Hydrating Powder

The first thing I love about Smashbox Halo Yellow Colour Correcting Hydrating Powder

 is  that the application is extremely easy-just dip your brush in and apply to areas of redness.

The second thing I love about it? Well, I'll show you:

Before

After

Not bad, hey? The redness is not completely gone, but there is a definite reduction!

Smashbox Halo Yellow Color Correcting Hydrating Powder immediately reduces redness and balances my skin tone quite a bit, making the redness much easier to cover with a powder foundation. It also doesn't irritate my skin or make me itch, which is a definite plus. Halo Yellow Color Correcting Hydrating Powder is perfect to use under any powder foundation you have, and it pairs beautifully with the original Smashbox Halo Hydrating Perfecting Powder, or any other mineral based foundation you have. You can also use it as a finishing/setting powder over your foundation which works quite well too.

Smashbox Halo Yellow Color Correcting Hydrating Powder contains 48 minerals, pure gold, 11 amino acids and a peptide that's supposed to also give great anti-aging benefits including an immediate decrease in wrinkles and the effect is apparently cumulative over time. Since this is a yellow powder, you can use this under your eyes to reduce dark circles or to set your under-eye concealer. It doesn't settle into any fine lines around my eyes and does seem to blur them.

I am very happy with Smashbox Halo Yellow Color Correcting Hydrating Powder and it's been making me want to use my Halo Hydrating Powder Foundation and any mineral foundation more often. Smashbox Halo Yellow Colour Correcting Hydrating Powder costs $39 US for 0.25oz. Yes, it is expensive for a small amount of product. But the redness reducing power is well worth the cost for me.