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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

Pressed powder compact

Pressed powder compact fits this profile by 8 points. Cushion compact is not a worse object — it is being asked to do a job this profile did not ask for.

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

Cushion compact

Portable base — the touch-up temptation is the risk.

A soaked emulsion delivered by sponge. Thin, repeatable, easy to over-build.

  • Fit41
  • Tierconsider
  • Film weight2
  • Minutes2
  • Upkeep2
  • VehicleWater-based
  • Setssets-soft
  • Wait after40s

For you

  • Delivers close to the desk's default coverage — set yours and this line becomes personal rather than assumed.
Evidence · signed weights (they add up to 41)
  • +50 · Neutral start — Every product type starts here. Above 50 the model has more reasons for it; below, more reasons against.
  • -8 · Film cost — Every unit of modeled opacity load costs points.
  • -4 · Coverage match — Delivers 40 against an assumed appetite of 30.
  • +4 · Sebum behavior — How this texture is modeled against combination skin — the desk's assumption, not your answer.
  • -1 · Scale and rounding — Each weight is rounded to a whole point, and the score is held inside 0–100. This row is the difference, so the column adds up to the score the rest of the desk shows. It is not a reason for or against the product.

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.