base · layer weight 1

HD optical blur base

Diffusion for lenses — soft-focus without a mask.

Layer weight · A film is one continuous layer sitting on the skin. Layer weight is the 0–3 opacity this object adds.

Fit against your current edit

core · 6 of 52

50 is neutral: nothing known for it, nothing known against it. Everything above and below is listed under the score.

Delivers almost exactly the coverage you asked for.

Evidence · signed weights (they add up to 46)

+50 · Neutral start — Every product type starts here. Above 50 the profile argues for it; below, against.
-4 · Film cost — Every unit of opacity load costs points.

Coverage delivery: 30
Sebum behaviour: 0
Dry flex: 1
Minutes: 3

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Charlotte Tilbury · Hollywood Flawless FilterCurrent$49
Make Up For Ever · Ultra HD Skin BoosterCurrent$48

Named examples · Hourglass Veil Hydrating Skin Tint · Makeup by Mario SoftSculpt (light pass) · Laura Mercier Flawless Fusion (sheer)

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96 houses seed examples. Houses are positioning notes, not rankings.

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Rachel Anderson

I research, write and build Vanity or Vice on my own. I hold a medical aesthetics licence and I do not practise, so what sits behind these pages is formal training plus about a decade of paying for this as a customer — the products, the receipts, and the times I fell for a result I wanted and handed over the card before asking a single useful question. Trained in it, and I still did that.

No industry money, no affiliate links, and nothing on this desk is for sale — that last one is worth checking on anyone telling you what to buy, including me.

Never a diagnosis, a toxin score or a safety ranking. A scored fit is this desk's reasoning about a product type, not a promise about the unit in your hand.

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