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Ingenue 
I have extremely oily skin, and I'm not very fond of the Armani Loose Powder at all. I don't think it's milled finely enough.. and it tends to 'sit' on my skin, no matter how little I use.
I prefer Laura Mercier Secret Brightening Powder in 02.
Ingenue--I too like LM Secret Brightening Powder. Being quite pale I use #1. I used to use it to use it just under my eyes like the SA told me several yrs ago but now I dust a bit all over. There's no heavy feeling and yet it still sets my foundation. It also doesn't tick off my oilies. I know many people don't use powder to "set" their foundation anymore. But I was taught to always do that.
For you younger ladies a bit of history:
Way back in 1974 when I was junior high the school actually had a makeup lady come in to teach the girls about makeup. We were told to start right away brushing our eyebrows up and outward every morning and every night. And it was a must to set your makeup with powder and so on. They split up groups consisting of all the JH grades 7th--9th. I was soooo not interested in this as a 7th grader. And at 12 I was only allowed to wear lip balm.
When I was in 8th or 9th grade all the girls were required to take Home Ec to prepare us to be proper wives. We were taught about skin tones. Apparently it was of the upmost importance to know what "season" we were. Also we had to "study" each other ad give advise on what colors you should wear and what your best feature was about your face. I suppose that was so that we would be well dressed arm candy for our future husbands to take to business dinners. We bagan a bit of cooking, ironing, simple sewing, and such. In high school as 10th graders we had to take home ec 2 that started where the other left off. I loathed those classes and I still loathe cooking, which I don't know how to anyway. Same thing with cleaning and I can barely sew on a botton. Everything else gets sent to the tailor.
The most useful and fun thing I learned was from my older sister and that was the art of flirting. She was a master and apparently that runs in our family and we all excel in this area. I used to watch her do her makeup and get all gorgeous for a date. I guess I just never saw myself doing that, but when the time came of course I did the same thing. From there I gradually became more of a girly girl, although I always have and always will be competitive as hell. But I was not the type tomboy that wouldn't wear fun trendy clothes and such. I just didn't like skirts and dresses. My awesome sister being 8 yrs older would take me shopping and buy me or I should say picked out all the cool fashion fads of that time as I'm sure our mom just gave my sister her credit card My mother hated shopping, 
My brain cannot comprehend this concept. My sister had a part-time job and she would often out of her small paycheck buy pretty things when she went shopping with her friends to bring home to me. I didn't fully reach my full on girly girl until about 10 yrs ago, around 40 and I'm still loving it at 50.
Oh and thank goodness I got the flirting thing down to a science since I married an engineer. He comes from a family of the same, engineers and accountants. Apparently they not even aware of the notion of flirting or anything of that nature. I suppose my now hubby of 25 yrs needed that couple drinks to loosen his sense of humor prior to my cousin introducing us when we ran into him and some friends at a local college hangout.
Again sorry to babble. My ADD gets the best of me, especially at 5:00am during an insomnia spell. Yay menopause for all this and the hot cold off and on. I won't say night sweats as we ladies do not sweat, we glisten.
