Laura Mercier Foundation Primer
is oil free, so it works for both dry skin and oily skin. If you have oily skin, the primer will keep your face grease from mixing with your foundation and changing it's color or making it slide off. If you have dry skin it will keep the powder ingredients in your makeup from sinking into pores or fine lines and holds in your skin's moisture. This formula lokos like a cream, but seems to transform into a gel as you smooth it on. I find this one to be most effective if you ignore the "apply liberally" directive and use a light touch- just enough to cover the skin but not so much that it doesn't 'settle in'. According to L. Hawkins on Amazon;
"How is Laura's Foundation Primer more than just a primer?
Laura's primer contains "unique light-reflecting ingredients" which create a "soft-focus appearance." This soft focus causes fine lines and imperfections to smooth over as well as gives skin a soft, luminous, and healthy looking glow. Not just for under foundation, in fact Laura considers Foundation Primer a must for non-foundation wearers. The same soft focus appearance makes bare skin look beautiful and naturally flawless. Top with a little Loose Setting Powder and you have a smooth and luminous, beautiful and natural, barefaced look.
This Primer also has added skin care benefits to improve the skin's appearance. Potent antioxidants Vitamins A, C, and E help protect skin from the harmful and dramatically aging effects of the environment. Foundation Primer also contains botanicals such as lavender, orange, jasmine, rose, geranium, grape, kiwi and aloe extracts to soothe and refresh the skin."
I learned a cool tip too- store your primer in the fridge and it will work even better to tighten pores, refresh your skin, reduce redness and puffiness, and in the summer will feel faboo! I will say that the one thing I do not like about this primer is the scent. Luckily it dissipates rapidly so it's really a moot point.
It does keep your lips moist a lot longer and I like to wear it with a colored gloss for a subtle but sensual mouth.
Disconcerting afterthought: They warn you on the box that the product can be transferred and to avoid kissing people. Ummmm, so what's it gonna do to me if I'm on purpose putting it on arguably the most porous skin on my body? I'm going to optimistically assume that since it's Philosophy and they pride themselves on their natural and healthful ingredients that they are merely concerned that you will startle people if their lips get all tingly.
Ben Nye Lip Color Pencils are an old friend of mine. let's hop into The Wayback Machine to see when I first started using Ben Nye. I was in a children's acting troupe in the fifth grade. Ben Nye managed to make a fifth grader look like a fifty year old for A Thief In The House. Seriously, I have a photo from the play and when I show it to people they don't recognize that it's A: me or B: a small child. This stuff is serious! Ben Nye first started as a makeup artist back in Ye Olde Hollywoode.
Ben Nye
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Benjamin Emmet Nye, Sr. (January 12, 1907 in Fremont, Nebraska – February 9, 1986 in Santa Monica, California) was a renowned makeup artist for the Hollywood film industry for over four decades, from the 1930s to the early 1980s. He worked for such films as Gone with the Wind (1939), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), The King and I (1956), The Fly (1958), and Planet of the Apes (1968).His brother was actor Carroll Nye, best remembered today as Frank Kennedy, Scarlett second husband in Gone with the Wind (1939).
A great legacy, a great lip pencil. This stuff is made to last under grueling conditions. If this lip pencil can keep my pucker pretty under stage lights for two hours, it can certainly handle a yogurt cup. These pencils are creamy, blendable and bold. When I was in high school, I used Nye pencils to draw on my face and the designs lasted all day (yeah, I was a "rebel"). Today I used the Plum color to fill in my lips on top of the primer to add some extra color. Now I have that bee-stung, just bitten thing going on.
A: No spf. I can use this for night, but if I want to have it on in the day I have to be sure and use a moisturizer with an spf. This might be one of the reasons why it goes on so light and sheer though, and after dark an spf foundation is a waste anyway.
B: If I'm having one of my 'red face' days, it's too sheer to hide it, so I have to use a concealer.
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A 100% natural origin powder veil, formulated with 24.9% certified organic ingredients, including safflower seed oil and jojoba seed oil to moisturize the skin.
This was the very first mineral finishing veil I ever saw in a drugstore. Props for that! I was blown away by the packaging and still appreciate it. There's a mirror on the cap and a screw on top with a flow through to the the brush so you can carry it with you for touch ups without it getting everywhere. I do usually take the top off and dip the brush in directly for shiny nose, but as long as you keep the flow-hole (?) clear it works great. Not as good on the actual product front as the non-drugstore brands, but the price is good and it's a great alternative to gunky pressed powder. The brush is goat hair, which might freak some people, but I'm going to hope that since this is being pushed as an organic line they'd harvest the hair in a humane fashion. I like that I can carry this with me like a compact but I get the effect of a loose powder. And the translucent really is just that, so it works on most skin tones.
is a good all purpose pencil. I like that it works equally well as a brow pencil and an eye pencil.Cheap, convenient, and easy to find. I'll be honest here, I actually would take one of these over my previously slammed Elizabeth Arden pencil in a heartbeat. As a brow pencil, this color has a light reddish undertone that is perfect for my red hair, and the color really accentuates the eyes when used as a liner, giving the appearance of more roundness (great for my squinty eyes.)
Unfortunately, it does pull on the skin more than I would like, but once it's on it does not budge all day.
Excellent color payoff, absolutely no fallout, applies like velvet, and always looks elegant. Their shimmers are poised instead of teenagerish and I truly feel like an adult when I wear it. Granted, this is coming from someone who truly admires the beauty of hot pink mascara, but even I have to play grown up sometimes!
Lancome-Virtuose-Divine-Lasting-Mascara in Noir
is the mascara that I'd name as my favorite ever if you put a gun to my head. You know, those crazy chicks from Vogue that go around pulling guns on makeup bloggers? You didn't hear about that? It was all over the news. I'm joking, please no one sue me. The curved brush curls and extends the lashes and if you put on a coupla coats you look like you're wearing false eyelashes! The curling effect starts to wane after the tube's been open a while, but that's about the time to throw it away anyway. Now if you use lash primer first, your lashes will be toucing the top of your head with this stuff. Again, exaggerating somewhat!
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