Cover Girl Clean Pressed Powder

I remember way back in junior high that if you didn’t have one of these little black or green compact makeup mirrors out on your desk every 20 minutes doing a puff puff touch up on your face, you were considered un-cool, scrubby, and un-girly.

I was into the hype then, trying to fit in and look beautiful, until I realized the whole Cover Girl Clean Pressed Powder did nothing to help my skin, and that it in fact clogged my pores and caused more breakouts.

I was careless then though, I didn’t change the cotton applicator…ever.

Years later I figured I might as well give it a try again and use it in a cleaner more responsible manner.
The price went up a buck since then and ran me nearly $6 at Eckerd’s.

What Is It?

Cover Girl Clean Pressed powder is exactly as it’s stated. Its pressed powder smashed into a spaceship shaped compact with the initials CG on the cover.

It clicks open like a coin purse, inside you got your thin little round applicator (which has grown even thinner with time) and you got your small little mirror. Oh you feel fabulous now don’t you! You get approximately .39oz.

Cover Girl Clean Pressed Powder is used for touch ups to keep that nasty shiny mirror off of your face.
I’ll ‘cover’ how well it works further on.

Colors:

This product has you covered here it comes in extreme light shades, and gets darker and darker with each increase in number.

I myself have always gone with buff beige, or soft honey. However obtaining the correct shade is not always an easy task as there are never any testers available, and the skin charts may as well have never been printed. They’re useless, off color, and lies.

You’re best bet is to go with intuition… which do you think you need? Are you looking for a perfect match, or a tan glow? Use your imagination here people, and don’t go too dark, you’ll end up with one of them ridiculous looking cover-up mask lines. You know what I’m talking about, when your neck don’t match your face. You look a fool!

How Well Does It Work?

When I pop click open the top and take a look in the mirror it’s always covered in a dusty film left behind from the powder, so you’re really seeing yourself behind blur, you think you look good, till you clean off the mirror. YIKES! I’m a greasy mess!

That’s why I bought this to begin with, so I swiped my little circular cotton applicator around a few times and I dab it on my problem areas, and try to hide a zit or two.

I then take a good look in the mirror and see how well it covered.

I can say it did a great job on ridding my forehead of the shine, but the pimple is still very red, and very obvious.

With long-term use even with changing the applicator puff regularly, you will find more pimples on your face.

Where It Fails:

Now this is where this product failed for me, in many of ways actually.

1. If you are new to Cover Girl you most likely will buy a shade either too light or too dark. Good luck returning an open and used compact.

–If you go too light, you look like a mime, if you go too dark you look like a moron trying to get a fake tan from makeup. Either way you’re going to look like an idiot. This makeup has always been trial and error, which for a consumer is quite unfair.

2. If you over apply and take a good look in the mirror you will notice you look like a dusty mess.

3. The applicator gets so dirty, so quickly; you will find yourself having to buy new ones weekly, or suffer consequences… more pimples!

4. The compact itself gets loose and will open up on its own easily after about a month of consistent opening and closing of the compact. It looses its tight hold, and will flop open constantly, leaving your bag a mess, and the powder useless.

5. The smell is downright disgusting, it reminds me of medicine and pool chlorine. Luckily tough they have unscented available, however unscented or not, Cover Girl Clean Press Powder has a signature scent…like it or not.

6. Seriously 15 minutes after doing my touch up on my shiny forehead, I took another glance in its mirror and I was all shiny again. It was even worse. That’s what happens when pores get clogged and skin cannot breath. The shine and grease comes out with vengeance.

7. You get .39oz of powder; however by the time you get down to the metal bottom the powder is so funky and gross looking you will end up throwing it out.

What's Good?

Honestly I’m having a hard time figuring out what’s good about it.
Okay wait, on the site it says that this gunk got some Kiss Os Approval Award from CosmoGirl in 2005.

Hmmm… probably because it was still the ‘in’, cool, hip thing to have as a teen still. I can imagine they’re still sporting these pore cloggers and pimple starters all around with them, thinking it’s the best makeup ever! Yay!

Overall:

It was a nasty product when I was in junior high, and it’s just as nasty now. Cover Girl needs to either improve the powder or stop making it all together. I think it is absolutely hilarious how Cover Girl’s site claims this gunk won’t clog pores. It’s a pores nightmare, a pore trap! Ahhh... run…

Let us advance to modern day powder that will improve our skin instead of relying on our junior high school garbage for coverage!