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Illamasqua hydra veil4/8/2023 ![]() It did well eliminating redness and minor sunspots, letting me skip the concealer for face application, it dried down relatively quickly and locked my powder and foundation into place really well. Over all I really did like using the Beyond the Veil Primer this week. I do have a second one and I will be using that at some point in the future. The week of use ended up using up my sample size of primer. It didn’t affect my use of powder, but I really only needed the concealer under my eyes and on my lids to prep them for eyeshadow. Because of the wet shine in the above photos, I’m not sure how much of the covering aspect it shows. Because of this I found myself using less concealer this week as I worked my way through the primer. What the Beyond the Veil does is it helps over redness and minor blemishes better than the regular Hydra Veil because of its tint. No primer on the left, primer on the right I still applied my powder over it and then moved on to foundation. It also dries to the same slightly sticky consistency that the regular Beyond the Veil Primer reaches. It is less wet than the Hydra Veil and dries down a little more quickly because of it. I thought there was the possibility that with the powder blended in, the Beyond the Veil might eliminate the need for powder. As the Hydra Veil dries down it becomes slightly sticky and locks the powder into place giving me a fantastic matte base that doesn’t look powdery. Personally I don’t mind it as I tend to apply my powder directly over it and then put foundation on top. When you apply it, you need a moment to let it dry and set. It is fine once it is out of the jar. Despite the slight change in texture, and not melting to a complete liquid, it applies like the original primer, however it is a slightly dryer formula. It is just the initial scooping out of the jar that gets me. ![]() Once that happens I am fine with the color. It is thinner than other primers, almost a foundation like consistency. The Beyond the Veil melts a little but not all the way down to liquid. The original is completely liquified by the heat of your hands. It reacts the same way as the clear version, but somehow with the color I always find myself sort of making the icky face at it. There is something slightly off putting about the color and about scooping it out. The color goes away or blends into the skin, when applied, but in the jar, I can’t lie, it looks more like an overly set, and possibly split, custard because of the color. The Beyond the Veil has the same tendencies but it is a beige color. It’s a little thing, but it always makes me feel like I am opening a new product every time I open it. I love that once you scoop out a little bit of the formula it leaves a little chunk of jelly missing, but by the time you’ve applied it to your face, the surface of the container has smoothed out again so that it looks like none was taken. I always have fun playing with it when I take it out. The Hydra Veil Primer has no color to it whatsoever. Let’s find some answers.įirst there is a difference in coloring. Would it eliminate the need for powder? Would the primer be more concealing? Or more powdery? What about texture? So many questions. I was very curious as to how this world work. ![]() They reflected light in really crazy ways.) Because of the products themselves photographing them was really hard to do. (I know it gets a little confusing but the links in that paragraph will take you to each individual product so you can see them all separately in more professionally lit photos. The difference between the Hydra Veil and the beyond the Veil primers is that Beyond the Veil has Illamasqua’s Beyond Powder blended in. I tried it first in the sample size and then moved on to the full size (which is now in my dressing table). Now I have used the Hydra Veil Primer from Illamasqua repeatedly.
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