I Tested Fenty Beauty’s Pressed Setting Powder on Oily Skin—Here’s What Happened

The girlies are quietly competing over who has the most blended and blurred out base, and makeup brands are taking notes. In 2025 alone, we’ve seen bright pink setting powders, translucent formulas promising the blurriest soft focus finish, and now Fenty Beauty is throwing their hat in the ring.

Fenty Beauty has been dropping new products like it’s a monthly subscription, and back in July they released their Bright Fix Instant Brightening + Blurring Powder. This one caught me off guard in the best way.

Bright Fix Instant Brightening + Blurring Powder

What Fenty did was basically merge two of their existing products. Think of it as their Invisimatte Instant Setting + Blotting Powder (the universal translucent pressed powder that sets and blurs) meeting their Pro Filt’r Instant Retouch Setting Powder (the smoothing loose powder in 8 flesh tone shades). The result is a pressed color-correcting setting powder that promises to brighten, reduce shine, and give you that blurring soft-focus finish.

Look, the market is flooded with loose setting powders. We love watching content creators bake their undereyes with them, but a pressed color-correcting setting powder? That’s new territory. The pressed format alone makes this stand out, but Fenty took it a step further.

Bright Fix Brightening + Blurring Powder Shade Range

Of course, Fenty had to put their own spin on it. The Bright Fix comes in 6 color-correcting shades: Lavender, Rose Quartz (a soft pink), Banana, and three progressively deeper oranges: Peach, Pumpkin, and Cinnamon.

This range goes beyond the standard banana powder most brands offer. Each shade serves a specific color-correcting purpose. Lavender neutralizes yellow undertones and sallowness, making it ideal for lighter skin tones. Rose Quartz counteracts dullness and adds a subtle brightness. Banana is the classic choice for brightening and neutralizing purple or blue tones under the eyes.

Now, the three orange shades might look scary at first glance, especially Pumpkin and Cinnamon with how intensely orange they are. But here’s where color theory comes in. These shades are designed to correct different depths of darkness and hyperpigmentation. Orange sits opposite blue on the color wheel, which means it cancels out the blueish-gray cast that can appear under the eyes, particularly on deeper skin tones. And because this is a pressed setting powder and not an opaque coverage product, it blends out beautifully without leaving you looking like a creamsicle. Deeper skin tones will benefit most from Pumpkin and Cinnamon for neutralizing stubborn dark circles.

The gradient from light to deep orange shades shows Fenty actually considered melanin-rich skin, which historically gets overlooked in the color-correcting powder category. If you want to understand exactly which shade works for your skin tone and concerns, check out my detailed guide on how to choose color correcting setting powders for your undertones.

Packaging: The Good and The Bad

The pressed format is clutch for throwing in your Coach Brooklyn Shoulder Bag without creating a mess, and the built-in mirror makes touch-ups easy. They even thought about those of us with long nails! The opening side leans inward, perfect for those of us who are tired of using the edge of a credit card to open everything.
But I have to tug on Fenty’s wig here. The packaging is that same white hard plastic all their products come in, and it feels… cheap. Tap on it and you’ll hear that hollow sound that just screams budget construction at a luxury price point. It also comes with a slim powder puff, which, thank you but no thank you. More on that later in the post.

The shade range is actually decent for what the product is engineered to do: brighten and blur, not necessarily add pigmented coverage to your makeup. And yes, the product does brighten upon application. 10/10 if you’re going for a @paintedbyesther -inspired bright under-eye look.

Now when it comes to the blurring factor, I was disappointed. The powder does not exacerbate pores and texture, but the blurring effect is lackluster. It’s barely there and I saw better results with other setting powders like the Huda Beauty Easy Bake powder. Heck, even Fenty Beauty’s own Pro Filt’r setting powder blurs more. Your skin will look great in pictures, but life is more than one giant Instagram story. And in this economy, spending $50 for a compact brightening setting powder? Yeah, I don’t think so.

My other qualm about this product is its practicality. I love how thoughtful Fenty Beauty was in designing the packaging. The opening side leans inward, perfect for those with long nails who are tired of struggling to open things. It even comes with a slim rectangle applicator puff. Thoughtful, but not practical. Applying the powder with it feels awkward, so I suggest carrying your own triangular powder puff.

I have oily skin and while this promises to reduce shine, it only delivers for a few hours before the oil breaks through. The silver lining? You can touch up with the powder throughout the day, it will mattify, and your skin won’t look cakey. And yes, my under-eyes did not crease.

When it comes to makeup base, Fenty Beauty usually gets it, but the Bright Fix is a miss for me. It’s not a bad product, but it’s not one I would highly recommend over other setting powders. Fenty Beauty Bright Fix is just not a must-have brightening and blurring setting powder.