PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a skin cosmetic which hardly generates uneven spreading during application, which is spread evenly with a mat texture just after application, which maintains the mat texture even if 5 hours pass, and which hardly makes the pores prominent.SOLUTION: A skin cosmetic contains the following components (A)-(D): (A) 1-40 mass% of a porous inorganic powder having a specific surface area of 50-2000 m/g, (B) 1-20 mass% of a cross-linked organopolysiloxane, (C) 0.01-40 mass% of a polymer powder including a coloring inorganic pigment, and (D) 9 mass% or less of water.