Make up

[gabee42ee]

ive seen bare minerals on infromercials a bunch of times and i always wanted to get it ... and now i think im deff goignt o have to ... i want somethign thats good for my skin bc makeup makes me break out a little ... and i have OCD wen it comes to my skin ... if i have a blemish i dont want to leave the house

the only makeup i wear is some concelor under my eyes ... i get terrible dark circles! and i for my eyes i like mac's mascara in light brown and i lovee curling my eye lashes too i feel like it makes me look more awake ... which is wat i need out of makeup i always look tired!

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

That's one thing that the powder Bare Minerals doesn't do very well is make a concealer. They may produce some sort of liquid or cream concealer now, but if they do, I haven't yet seen it.

The best concealer I've ever used is called Lancome Photogenic Correcteur (they do love to give their products foo-foo French names!). It's a non-oily, almost powdery, very solid cream that comes in a little jar with a black lid. It has a yellow tint to offset the red in blemishes and the duskiness of dark circles. It has those light-reflecting particles so it helps deflect some of the attention from the blemish. There are other "correctives" on the market, and I've tried them all. This stuff beats everything I've ever tried, and my sister agrees with that assessment. You apply it with your finger or a cosmetic sponge or Q-tip and can thin it out with moisturizer, too. I use it on dark circles. I used to have a lot more use for it on blemishes before I began using another great product to clear up my broken-out middle-aged skin, Proactiv solution.

Have you tried Bare Minerals "Well Rested" for eyes? It has the yellow tint. Also Bisque Multi-Tasking for Face. These are both powders, but provide coverage for concealing. The trick with BareMinerals/BareEscentuals (I swear, that's how they spell it) products is selecting the correct brush. When I need more coverage, I use the Max Coverage Concealer brush. When I don't need as much, I use the Light Stroke brush. I really like brush application because it gives me more control, and is easy to blend.

I wish I could afford Proactiv. From everything I've heard, that stuff is miraculous!

[birdgirl73]

Have you tried Bare Minerals "Well Rested" for eyes? It has the yellow tint. Also Bisque Multi-Tasking for Face. These are both powders, but provide coverage for concealing. The trick with BareMinerals/BareEscentuals (I swear, that's how they spell it) products is selecting the correct brush. When I need more coverage, I use the Max Coverage Concealer brush. When I don't need as much, I use the Light Stroke brush. I really like brush application because it gives me more control, and is easy to blend.

I wish I could afford Proactiv. From everything I've heard, that stuff is miraculous!

I bought some of that Well Rested stuff and have the coverage concealer brush, but it still doesn't give me enough coverage on those circles. The Bare Minerals rep at the Sephora store even showed me how to do it and used moisturizer there under my eyes and put the Well Rested powder on top of that. It just looked sorta cakey and crepey and the circles still showed through. I had a nearly unused jar of Well Rested that I ended up giving to my friend Karen, who found it worked fine for her needs. It was after that that I decided to keep using the Lancome correcteur under my eyes.

Right now, with my circulation not in tip-top shape, I pretty much need to soak in a bathtub full of Well Rested to achieve the desired effect--or maybe have it made into capsules and take large daily doses of it! Thanks for the welcome back earlier, Mrs. G!

[Demeter]

[quote=gabee42ee]ive seen bare minerals on infromercials a bunch of times and i always wanted to get it ... and now i think im deff goignt o have to ... i want somethign thats good for my skin bc makeup makes me break out a little ... and i have OCD wen it comes to my skin ... if i have a blemish i dont want to leave the house

Yes, I've always had OCD about my skin too- very compulsive picking, obsessing on flaws, etc. It is a really rough thing to fight- Prozac helped, but now that I am off that I am just trying to use behavior modification techniques. It's really a weird disorder, isn't it? It's just come out of the closet over the past ten years I believe. Before that it was mostly a silent shame.

[Amun]

It has built-in SPF 15 sun protection too, so no wrinkles or cancer!

its not the sun that causes skin caner....its the lotion. sun brings toxic thigns to the surface of your skin....it just so happens that when you are all old and gross and wrinkley and look disgusting from tanning its cause your toxic...not because of the sun.

[birdgirl73]

its not the sun that causes skin caner....its the lotion. sun brings toxic thigns to the surface of your skin....it just so happens that when you are all old and gross and wrinkley and look disgusting from tanning its cause your toxic...not because of the sun.

I'm afraid that all the information out there among cancer researchers and dermatologists contradicts your information, Amun. It's UVA and UVB radiation from the sun that sets the cell and genetic changes in motion to cause cancer. This is fairly common knowledge.
What Causes Skin Cancer?

[Demeter]

its not the sun that causes skin caner....its the lotion. sun brings toxic thigns to the surface of your skin....it just so happens that when you are all old and gross and wrinkley and look disgusting from tanning its cause your toxic...not because of the sun.

I teach a course in world mythology, and I never realized Amun had such ideas about the sun!
I also teach critical thinking to college students, and so I am intrigued by your bizarre statement. Where did you get this information, or did you just have a wild idea? Do you believe what you are saying is true, or is it just something funny you wanted to throw out?

[L3G10N's wife]

Im another Bare Minerals user. The biggest difference to me (Bare Minerals vs other make up) is that it looks natural. People have no idea Im even wearing make up. I bought the make up to try it out but what completely sold me on Bare Minerals is after I bought it I had people tell me that it didnt look like I was wearing make up but they could see that my skin was smooth. The DVD said "it gives you coverage without looking like make up" for me that was true.

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

Hi L's Wife! Welcome!
Yup, that's my experience with BareMinerals as well.
HAHAHA. I keep wanting to abbreviate it, then I realize it's BM, so I type the whole thing out.

[L3G10N's wife]

Hi L's Wife! Welcome!
Yup, that's my experience with BareMinerals as well.
HAHAHA. I keep wanting to abbreviate it, then I realize it's BM, so I type the whole thing out.

Hi, thanks!

I typed BM through my post and had to go back to change it.. I figured it was a joke waiting to happen. lol