Bake & Set Setting Powder
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Morphe's Bake & Set Setting Powder has a finely milled pink shade that brightens under-eyes without darkening, but one creator found it not smooth enough and prefers drugstore alternatives. The lavender quad shade is praised as one of the best for cool-toned skin, keeping brightness without pulling gray or pink. Application method matters — a brush gives a softer look, while a puff can appear cakey, and one noted it didn't control shine well.
FULL REVIEWS
POSITIVE
Variant: Lavender (from the Quad)
- “This is a quad powder, so purple is only one quarter of it, but there is a separator, so you can adjust get off the purple”0:03–0:07
- “This is the Morphe Bake and Set formula, so it is a gorgeous setting powder formula”0:17–0:20
- “My under eyes are completely set, and it kept that brightness”0:20–0:25
- “It didn't darken anything, and it is working out very nicely on my cool tone skin without pulling me a weird color”0:23–0:27
- “Purples and lavenders tend to pull pink and actually brighten and work with cool tone skin rather than against it”0:29–0:36
- “My under eyes are completely set, but they are not darkened, they are not pink, and they are not gray”0:36–0:41
- “They are still nice and bright”0:39–0:44
- “Cuz this looks 8 million bajillion times better than any pink powder ever has”0:47–0:54
- Source: Morphe Lavender Setting Powder Review - May 14, 2026
Variant: Brightening Pink
- “This one, for whatever reason, when applied with a puff, doesn't work well for me with a brush. Makes my under eyes look like so much softer”
- “It doesn't take away the coverage of the concealer”7:31–7:37
- Source: 2025 favorites: best makeup, hair, beauty and perfumes of the year - Dec 17, 2025
- “Morphe pink setting powder the closest dupe you'll get to Huda Beauty cherry Blossom for $13”0:24–0:30
- Source: Full Face Using the Best Drugstore Makeup - Jan 6, 2025
MIXED / NEGATIVE
Variant: Banana
- “It just made everything look a little bit cakey and not great and it didn't keep the shine from the makeup from coming through”22:46–22:51
- Source: Testing new drugstore makeup 2025: Elf, L'Oreal, NYX & more - Feb 7, 2025
Variant: Bright Balance
- “I really love Morphe's pink powder. That powder truly is brightening, it's smoothing, it's finely milled”10:07–10:14
- “Oh, yeah, that's finely milled”10:27–10:30
- “The powder is nice. It looks good. I think it smoothed out the skin pretty well. It's not too matte”
- “I think this powder isn't so finely milled. Like it's not as smooth as I would like it to be”10:14–10:18
- “Powder is not as smooth as I would like it to be. Getting the job done, but it's not giving me that smooth look that I like”14:22–14:28
- “The powder is also going to be a no for me”
- “The powder, I still don't like the powder. I don't think it's as finely milled as I personally would like it to be”25:51–25:55
- “The powder, it's still a no. I think it gets the job done, but there's so many other drugstore setting powders that are better”29:02–29:09
- Source: 8 new makeup products 2-day wear test - May 25, 2026
WHAT CREATORS SAY
- Consensus
- 3.5 / 5 from 5 creator reviewsGrailPeople ratings based on creator reviews.
- Good for
- Dark circles (2)
- ⚠ less matte than expected (1)
Product details
Details
- Type
- setting powder
- Finish
- natural
- Shade
- Banana
- Key ingredients
- Mica, Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate, Silica, Lauroyl Lysine, Boron Nitride, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Tocopheryl Acetate, Caprylyl Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Phenoxyethanol
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