Bronze and green look with our new bronzers

So I posted our new bronzers on etsy this weekend, and I'm so excited to show you the look I wore today using these.

On the eyes I am wearing Lemon peel on the inner corner of the eye, then I took grasshopper and patted onto the lid, just up to the crease and to the outter corner. I darkened my crease with Prowl, and defined the outter v with Coco Bean. To highlight the very inner corners of my eyes and under my brows, I used Beach Babe. I also used beach babe as a highlighter on my cheek bones.

Onto the face: I prepped my face with my fav daytime moisturizer (Garnier Nutritioniste Moisture Rescue Refreshing Gel-Cream, I love this stuff, reviews of all my current favs coming soon!) and let it soak in. I then dusted Mineral blur to get an even surface, and applied our foundation in Light. For the bronzer I used Glowing Bronze. It's good for light skintones like mine and has a beautiful glow to it, and can be slowly built up to the level of sun kissed look that you want. I dusted on my forehead, nose and chin. I used it as a contour under my cheekbones and lightly dusted some onto the apples of my cheeks. To complete my summer glow, I loaded up my fluffy brush again and dusted all over my neck and under my jaw bone, and feathered the color down onto my chest. You can really see on the photos how natural this look is, and compare the wonderful color that I got from the Glowing bronze to the white shoulders I have!

And here is a peak of all five colors with swatches of each

Sea Urchin Mineral eyeshadow trio

Sizes

Sample baggies $5.00 Sample Jars $10.00 10g Jars $15.00

Sandy golden yellow and vibrant greens with soft blue undertones, these colors complement both warm and cool skintones. Colors go on vibrant, as shown in swatches, and a little goes a long way. Applying these colors wet bring out the soft blue tones.

Lemon peel: Low, shimmer, that goes on almost matte. A golden yellow, very bright yet not quit a true yellow, like the golden peel of a lemon.

Grasshopper: A lime green yet very slightly subdued by blue tones. Medium shimmer, not too much, to compliment both shimmery and matte looks.

Prowl: A olive green with slight blue shimmer, bring out the cool tones by applying wet. Works great as an eyeliner as well.

Midnight Summer Blues eyeshadow trio

Sizes

Sample baggies $5.00 Sample Jars $10.00 10g Jars $15.00

Summer is smokin hot this year, so why not get this smokey blue look to go with it! Three unique colors that can be worn together as in photo, or worn alone. Wear Aquatic by itself for a really bright daytime look, or smoke it out for a night time look with Midnight and Coco Bean in the mix. Super pigmented, these colors can also be used wet as eye liners and won't dissapoint!

Aquatic: A bright turquoise blue with gorgeous blue shimmer. Too bright for all over? Use it to line your bottom lid for just a pop of color for neutral and smokey looks.

Midnight: A navy blue with a slight purple undertone. Would also make a great eye liner.

Coco Bean: A super 'cool' chocolate, with a very unique purple sheen and shimmer. Would make an awesome liner for those days when black liner is too much. A great color for the office or any neutral look when plain brown just feels too boring.

New Item, Mineral Foundation, 10g jars

Sizes

sample baggie $2.00 5g jar $2.50 10g jar $5.00

Expect your mineral foundation to give coverage like a liquid? Perfecting Coverage gives you medium to full coverage, never looking powdery, but giving you a healthy, inner glow. Customize your coverage by applying wet or dry. No need to buy a separate concealer, spot apply wet for trouble spots that need a little extra coverage.

Silk powder contains 18 amino acids which can absorb into the skin, it reflects light to give a flawless face look, it absorbs oil, so it works well with oily skin, and it can also self adjust moisture, pulling or absorbing moisture when needed. Allantoin is a skin protectant, is very soothing to cuts, sunburn, etc, and can stimulate new cell growth. The more research you do on these two ingredients, the more you will fall in love as I did!

You will receive our foundation in our signature shiny black sifter jars in the 10g size. Swatches are applied wet over blur primer/ finisher.

Fair: for the lightest skin tones, which tend to burn, and more often have peachy/ pink undertones

Light: Slightly darker and more neutral tones than fair.

Creamy Beige: for those who fall inbetween light and medium, and find most foundations orange, our creamy beige has more neutral undertones.

Medium Olive: For hard to match medium tones who find makeup to be too orange, we have added a touch of olive tones to this blend to match neutral and olive ladies.

Tan: For medium tan skin with warm/ honey undertones.

Almond: For tan/ darker skintones with balanced undertones, not too warm, not too cool. Can also be used as a contour color for most skintones

New eyeshadow, foundation, and mineral primer/ finishing veil

Finally getting around to putting up our new products.  This is just the beginning and plenty more to come, as we are getting ready for two craft shows this summer, one in may and the other in june.  So here are all our swatches, first up, the foundation:

 pictured from left to right fairly light, light, light medium, light medium warm, and medium

  and here are the swatches, medium, light medium warm, light medium, light, and fairly light.

from left to right light medium, light, and fair.  All swatches were applied over Blur primer.

The second photo is a close up of the first three, as fairly light is almost my arm color.  All colors are neutral and can be for either creamy, neutral, or yellow tones, and I've added extra yellow tones to light medium warm, and just a tiny bit of yellow to medium.

I formulated our foundation base to be smooth, with good adhesion, so you can get light to maximum coverage without it caking up, and to give it even blending properties.  It doubles as a concealer when applied with a damp concealer brush, and can be added to your favorite moisturizer. It contains light refracting minerals to reduce the appearance of fine lines and pores.  This is wonderful on your skin when applied with our blur primer/ finishing veil.

Sizes

sample baggie $2.00 5g jar $2.50 10g jar $5.00

Blur can be used as a primer before any foundation application.  It blurs out fine lines and pores and makes your skin silky smooth, due to the light refracting minerals.  As always make sure you properly prep your face by cleansing and moisturizing before any makeup application. ( a post on this at a later date)  Complete your foundation by again using blur on top, it will set your foundation as well as give you a soft focus finish without being too matte.  Blur also contains minerals that will help your skin stay matte.

Mineral foundation is different from others because it melds with the natural oils on your skin, thus giving a more natural finish, good staying power, and low transfer or rub off from your skin.

Here are the eyeshadow available so far:

Color and Size

Coco bean sample jar $2.50 Grass hopper sample jar $2.50 Prowl sample jar $2.50 Aquatic sample jar $2.50 Midnight sample jar $2.50 Coco bean 10g jar $5.00 Grass hopper 10g jar $5.00 Prowl 10g jar $5.00 Aquatic 10g jar $5.00 Midnight 10g jar $5.00

All the colors are pretty opaque with low sheen and shimmer.  I was having trouble with mineral eyeshadows being too sheer and glittery for my taste, and these are just a few colors I have formulated so far.  You can't see it in the photo bout Coco Bean is a pretty coco brown with a purple/ blue sheen to it, which would look great especially for cool skin tones.  Grass hopper is a yellow green, prowl a hunter green with soft blue tones, aquatic is a pretty straight forward aqua, and midnight is a deep blue with a little more shimmer than the other colors.  The shadows are easy to blend and have good adhesion.  They can be applied wet for maximum color coverage or even used as liners.

my beautiful sister is modeling our eyeshadow in Aquatic, and is also wearing blur primer/ finishing powder, and our Perfect coverage foundation in light medium.