For the latest post in my battle of the brands series, I’m ranking my entire powder bronzer collection to tell you which is my all-time fave.

My battle of the brands series is where I rank my entire makeup collection by a specific product type. From foundations and bronzers to lip liners and brow products, battle of the brands is my ultimate makeup collection rating, so you can see my holy grail products.

Starting from my least favourite product and working my way up to my number 1 product in any given category, this is the fastest way to see my thoughts on my makeup collection. I’ve previously ranked my skin tints and tinted moisturisers, primers, lip glosses, brow products, and more.

Find out which powder bronzers are my faves for ease of blending, shade, longevity, finish, and smoothing benefits.

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6. Fenty Beauty Sun Stalk’r Instant Warmth Bronzer

£27 for 6.23g + 15% off at Sephora with SARAHSSPH

The Fenty Beauty Sun Stalk’r Instant Warmth Bronzer is great. It’s soft, doesn’t emphasise skin texture, and blends easily. It’s not as buttery as some of the other bronzers on this list, but it’s still smooth.

The only reason I’ve not ranked this as highly as some of the others on this list is because of the shade. I own Inda Sun, which is the lightest shade in the range. It’s very fair and takes a bit of layering to show up on my skin. Even then, it’s not much deeper than my complexion, so it doesn’t provide a tonne of warmth. If I owned a deeper shade, I think it’d be more pigmented and complement my skin tone better.

5. benefit Hoola Matte Bronzer

£17 for 2.5g or £32.50 for 8g + 20% off at LookFantastic with LFTFBLOGSARAH

The benefit Hoola Matte Bronzer is a classic. It’s silky, soft, doesn’t look flat despite being matte, blends easily, and isn’t orange. It layers effortlessly, without looking patchy or dry. I think this is a lovely everyday bronzer that is foolproof to use. There are other bronzers in this list that I prefer in terms of pigmentation, finish, and colour, but I really like this.

4. peripera Ink V Shading 

£11.10 for 9.5g + up to 5% off at YesStyle with CONFIDENCE10

The peripera Ink V Shading is brilliant and an affordable dupe for the benefit Hoola bronzer. I’ve got the shade #01 Natural Brown, which is a beautiful light natural bronzer. It’s perfect for daily wear because it’s soft, buttery, silky, and easy to blend. While it’s not as pigmented as some of the other bronzers on this list, it has a weightless texture. My skin feels like it can breathe with this K-beauty bronzer. It’s also a neutral shade, which makes it versatile.

3. Physicians Formula Murumuru Butter Bronzer

£14.29 for 11g

The Physicians Formula Murumuru Butter Bronzer is iconic. This affordable bronzer is lightweight, buttery, seamless to blend, and easy to build. Whether you want a warm sculpted look or a soft sweep of bronzer, this one is amazing. It’s matte but not flat with a lovely skin-like finish. I’ve got the shade Light Bronzer, which is quite light without being too cool-toned. It’s great for day-to-day wear, and I love how easy it is to apply. Oh, and it smells delicious.

2. Patrick Ta Major Sculpt Crème Contour & Powder Bronzer Duo

£37 for 15.8g

The Patrick Ta Major Sculpt Crème Contour & Powder Bronzer Duo comes with a cream contour and a powder bronzer compact. To me, the powder bronzer side is an elevated version of the Physicians Formula bronzer. It’s more pigmented, I prefer the slightly deeper bronzey shade of She’s StatuesquE, it lasts longer, and layers even better. It’s a gorgeous foolproof formula that achieves a sunkissed glow in seconds. It provides a soft matte finish that’s flattering.

1. Victoria Beckham Beauty Matte Bronzing Brick

£56 for 9.6g

The Victoria Beckham Beauty Matte Bronzing Brick in shade 02 is my all-time fave bronzer. It’s buttery and silky with minimal fallout. It layers and blends seamlessly into the skin with a satin matte finish. The bronzer doesn’t cling to dry patches or emphasise texture. This adds so much warmth and depth to the skin with a golden finish, without looking orange. The soft focus finish makes the skin look soft and smooth. It lasts for hours without budging and feels hydrating and comfortable. I just love the bronzer.

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The Benefit Hoola Matte Bronzer is a classic for a reason. This iconic bronzer is known for giving a natural sun-kissed finish without looking orange. It’s soft, effortless to blend, and offers buildable coverage.  

The peripera Ink V Shading is a much more affordable option, costing almost 3 times less than Benefit’s Hoola bronzer. The dupe is supposed to deliver the same benefits as the famous Hoola bronzer at a fraction of the price. And who doesn’t love a high-performing bargain?!

This post provides a detailed insight into how peripera’s bronzer compares to Benefit. Find out whether the £12.40 dupe has the same texture, pigmentation, effortless blendability, and lasting power as the expensive alternative in this honest review.

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About the Benefit Hoola Matte Bronzer

The Benefit Hoola Matte Bronzer is silky smooth and gives a very natural-looking bronze to the skin. It doesn’t look orange and gives the effect of sun-kissed skin without any of the sun damage! The formula is buttery, effortless to blend, and can be easily layered without going patchy or cakey. You can use it lightly all over the face for a soft bronzed finish or sweep it across the cheeks for a more sculpted appearance.

About the peripera Ink V Shading in #01 Natural Brown

peripera Ink V Shading in #01 Natural Brown is an ultra-fine powder that absorbs excess sebum. Although this is described as a contouring product, #01 Natural Brown offers more of a neutral tone, which can be used for either bronzing or contouring. The compact contains 3 different shades for a customised colour that sculpts the face. It offers a blurring effect, feels super silky, and blends out effortlessly.

The comparison

Price

peripera wins on price. It costs £12.40 for 9.5g. Benefit Hoola costs £30 for 8g. This means the Korean dupe is roughly one-third of the price for more product! We love a budget-friendly icon. There’s also a mini version of Hoola available, which costs £15.50 for 2.5g. peripera is still more affordable than the mini Hoola bronzer for far more product!

Packaging

I have the older packaging for peripera INK V Shading, which is circular and plastic, with a clear front so you can see the cool V-shaped bronzer pattern. The newer packaging is a square transparent case that houses a circular-shaped bronzer. I think the newer packaging looks more modern and sleeker.

Hoola comes in sturdy square cardboard packaging. It has the word “Hoola” engraved on the bronzer itself. The packaging also comes with a mirror on the inside, which is very convenient for when you’re on the go.

Ingredients

Looking at the INCI lists, outside of colouring agents, these bronzers only share 2 ingredients: talc, which helps absorb excess sebum, and hydrating dimethicone.

Benefit Hoola contains the emollient ethylhexyl palmitate and the absorbent boron nitride. peripera features hydrating pentaerythrityl tetraethylhexanoate, nylon-12 which can have mattifying properties, the emollient diisostearyl malate, the absorbent silica, skin-softening ethylhexylglycerin, and more.

peripera has a stronger INCI list overall, as it features more skin-loving ingredients.

Texture

These bronzers have similar textures. Both are very soft, finely milled, and silky smooth. They have very minimal fallout and feel buttery on the skin.

Sometimes, cheaper powder formulas have an unpleasant chalky texture that don’t melt into the skin and end up looking like a stripe of powder. If anything, peripera is even softer and smoother than Benefit. The powder is super silky and doesn’t feel cheap or chalky at all.

Pigmentation

Benefit wins on pigmentation. It offers a richer colour. But it’s not so pigmented where the bronzer becomes difficult to work with. It blends out beautifully and is still buildable.

peripera is softer than the Benefit formula. It takes more building and layering to achieve the same level of pigmentation. But it’s absolutely still visible on the skin if you dip your brush into bronzer once, so there are no pigmentation concerns.

Shade range

Benefit wins on shade range – just – with 4 options. There’s the original Hoola for light complexions, Hoola Lite for fair complexions, Hoola Caramel for medium to deep complexions, and Hoola Toasted for deeper complexions.

peripera Ink V Shading comes in 3 shades. There’s #01 Natural Brown for fair to light complexions, #02 Deep Brown for light to medium complexions, and #03 Grayish Cool for fair to light complexions. #01 and #02 could be used as contouring or bronzing shades, while #03 is only for contouring due to its cool grey tones.

While Benefit has 1 shade for deeper complexions, it still lacks a shade for deep rich complexions. peripera could do with multiple deeper shades for medium to deep complexions. I think both brands should expand their shade range to be more inclusive of deep skin tones.

Swatches

To show you what these bronzers look like next to one another, I swatched them. These were done on my bare arm without primer.

Benefit Hoola, on top, is warmer, a bit deeper, and more pigmented. It only took 2 dips into the bronzer to achieve that colour payoff.

On the bottom, peripera is cooler, lighter, and softer. It took 4 dips into this product to achieve this pigmentation. As the shade is quite light, it’s less visible on my arm. For the peripera swatch, I swirled my finger around all 3 shades in the bronzer together, which is how I’d use the bronzer. It has a neutral tone.

Both are matte but not flat.

On the cheeks

And now for the real test: how do these bronzers compare when applied on my cheeks? I kept the rest of my makeup the same and simply applied 1 bronzer on 1 side of my face and the other bronzer on the other side using a fluffy brush.

Without looking at the caption, can you tell which side is which?!

Interestingly, when applied to my cheeks, you can hardly tell any difference between these 2 bronzers! Again, I swirled my brush around all 3 of the shades in peripera for this look.

If you used a microscope, you’d be able to tell that peripera is slightly lighter and more cool-toned. It also took more layers to achieve the same level of pigmentation as Benefit. Hoola is warmer, more pigmented, and a bit deeper. But on my face, you genuinely can’t tell a difference at all! I was so impressed.

If anything, I prefer peripera. It’s silkier and softer, so it blended out a bit better than Hoola. I found it easier to get the exact placement I wanted because it melted into my skin effortlessly. But both bronzers apply like a dream and are very buttery.

Longevity

The bronzers had great lasting power and stayed put equally. After about 7 hours of wear, they’d both faded a bit but were still clearly visible. Neither went patchy nor looked muddy.

They also did a fantastic job at controlling any excess sebum. My oily skin can become quite greasy if I wear certain products, but I didn’t look like an oily mess on either side of my face. I tend to find that powder products wear better on my oily skin compared to cream or liquid products.

Honest thoughts on the Benefit Hoola Matte Bronzer dupe

Despite not looking particularly similar in the swatches, peripera Ink V Shading in #01 Natural Brown is an excellent dupe for the Benefit Hoola Matte Bronzer. They look identical on the skin, have a very similar silky texture, keep excess oil at bay, and wear beautifully. Both blend seamlessly and are buttery smooth.

But at only £12.40, peripera is the clear winner, because it’s way more affordable and delivers the same results as the pricey £30 Hoola bronzer. Plus, it has an even better INCI list than Benefit.

I can’t recommend peripera’s bronzer enough because the formula is stunning and delivers luxury results without the luxury price tag.

Use my code CONFIDENCE10 for up to 5% off YesStyle. For new customers, use the code YESSTYLE for 10% off with a minimum £28.70 ($35 USD) purchase. Grab your affordable Hoola dupe here.

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