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Two ways of doing it

Put them side by side

Two product types, two saved edits, or up to four actual products. A type score is not a formula score. What is missing stays missing.

Different jobs

Too close to call

Performance sport tint scores 1 higher, which is inside the noise. Treat this as a tie and pick on texture or on what is already in the drawer.

These fill different roles — base and setting — so the higher score is not a reason to drop the other. Compare them only if you were going to buy one of the two.

Base · base

Performance sport tint

Thin pigment that survives sweat without inviting powder.

Water- and sweat-resistant tints set hard on purpose. One pass, then leave it.

  • Fit50
  • Tiercore
  • Film weight1
  • Minutes2
  • Upkeep1
  • VehicleSilicone-based
  • Setssets-hard
  • Wait after60s

For you

  • Delivers close to the desk's default coverage — set yours and this line becomes personal rather than assumed.
  • The catalog prior is relatively favorable for sebum-related wear.
Evidence · signed weights (they add up to 50)
  • +50 · Neutral start — Every product type starts here. Above 50 the model has more reasons for it; below, more reasons against.
  • +7 · Sebum behavior — How this texture is modeled against combination skin — the desk's assumption, not your answer.
  • -4 · Film cost — Every unit of modeled opacity load costs points.
  • -3 · Coverage match — Delivers 24 against an assumed appetite of 30.

Setting · finish

Pressed powder compact

Portable set — the classic afternoon cake mechanism.

Portable powder. This is where most cake is applied — at 2pm, not at 8am.

  • Fit49
  • Tierconsider
  • Film weight1
  • Minutes1
  • Upkeep2
  • VehiclePowder
  • Setsdoes-not-set
  • Wait after0s

For you

  • Delivers close to the desk's default coverage — set yours and this line becomes personal rather than assumed.
  • The catalog prior is relatively favorable for sebum-related wear.
Evidence · signed weights (they add up to 49)
  • +50 · Neutral start — Every product type starts here. Above 50 the model has more reasons for it; below, more reasons against.
  • +7 · Sebum behavior — How this texture is modeled against combination skin — the desk's assumption, not your answer.
  • -4 · Coverage match — Delivers 20 against an assumed appetite of 30.
  • -4 · Film cost — Every unit of modeled opacity load costs points.

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Once you have picked between them

Chosen from your own record: 3 things open at the beginner stage, and what usually follows this page.

When this is not a makeup question

Nothing is written into another desk without you choosing it. These links carry only the context named on them.

  • Skincare Intelligence

    Carry your skin, climate, sensitivity and named concerns across so the routine can be evaluated with the same stated inputs the makeup desk used.

  • Vanity or Vice · Routines & Ingredients

    The order you apply things in, what each film is intended to do, and where the evidence is uncertain — argued long-form rather than scored. This is the reading behind the sequence this desk just gave you.