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, adding an inward opening so you can actually get into the compact.
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.
