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Dupe, Dud or Better: Bairly Sheer Surestay vs Laura Mercier Translucent

Hello, beauty lovers!! Welcome back & if you're new, I welcome you!!  Today is gonna be another installment on my Dupe, Dud or Better series!! I really enjoy comparing different products to each other to help my other fellow beauty lovers to hopefully save some coins!! Especially since these brands are just popping out products back to back lately, so we don't really get to enjoy what's in our collection. So, today, we're comparing two powders to see if they're dupes or not : the Bairly Sheer Surestay Translucent powder and the Laura Mercier Translucent Loose setting powder. I've done a couple of these already, so you can click here to check out my thoughts! If you guys are interested in my thoughts comparing these two powders, let's get rolling!!

SIMILARITIES

  1. The claims : Both powders claim to be longwearing, control oil and work for all skin tones.
  2. The feel: they both feel very smooth and silky to the touch.
  3. The color: they both have a bone color. It isn't stark white, so deeper skin tones are able to use it.
  4. No flashback: neither give me a white cast in flash photography.
  5. Packaging: Both are in a hard plastic jar with a medium sized holed sifter.


 DIFFERENCES

  1. The price: LM runs about $23 for the travel size and $38 for the full size, while BS runs about $7-13 for one size
  2. The size: LM travel size is about 9 grams (0.33 oz), while BS is 10 grams (0.34 oz). 
  3. Shade selection: LM now has two shades of the translucent powder (the original--fair to tan skin tones, and Medium Deep--for medium/deep to deep skintones) ;BS has only one shade
  4. Size offerings: LM does have both the travel size and the full 1 oz size; BS only has the one size
  5. Availability: BS is found in select Walmart and RiteAid stores, while LM is sold exclusively at Sephora stores and sephora.com

THE VERDICT

 These are super similar to me, so I would say that Bairly Sheer is a dupe for the Laura Mercier. I actually have experimented and set each side of my face with one of the powders & could not really tell much of a difference!!

Well, hopefully this was helpful and ya'll can save a little more coint! Thanks so much for reading, and like always, Stay Beautiful!
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