NOTE:  I bought a bunch of new brushes to try out with all my new makeup!

SHANY Pro Vegan Mineral Brush Set with Pink Clutch

ecoTOOLS Make-Up Kabuki Brush Set

Day 6

My face is smooth as silk and I’m pimple-free!  My face still isn’t dry, I’ve actually gotten compliments on how my skin looks flawless as if I had it airbrushed.

I’m getting used to the whole makeup routine in the morning so I’m not as displeased with that as I used to be — remember, I’m used to not doing anything to get ready in the morning besides brushing my teeth and washing my face.

Day 7

I decided to try out Smashbox Photo Finish Hydrating Primer in addition to my usual makeup regimen just to see what effect a primer would have.  Well let me tell you this particular one goes on smooth as silk — it comes out of the tube as a liquid-gel then as you put it on your face it finishes to a powdery feel — very nice!

Regarding one of my new found favorite makeup brands, I would like to say with 100% certainty that I would recommend this to my friends + family.  I have already started telling my friends about it, I even gave one of them the free full color catalog that came with my order (they are normally $1.50 if you order it by itself).

I’ve only had one zit this whole one-week trial and I believe it is just because of stress and eating lots of bad things – we have been remodeling our kitchen and have had to eat out EVERY single meal, it’s ruff!

Conclusion

I really hope they start selling this stuff in stores like Sephora or Ulta as I’d rather go to a store to buy it than have to wait a week or two for the stuff to arrive (I have the type of personality that requires things I want to be immediately available to me, thank you Amazon Prime!).

As I said before, I would highly recommend this product to my friends + family.  My only thing I have that may be considered negative for some people is that it doesn’t really control oil as well as I thought it would.  Perhaps my expectations were too high to begin with but from what I read on the website this makeup is supposed to provide a matte look because it’s supposed to control oil a bit.  I have combination skin – oily at my t-zone and normal everywhere else – and this makeup only looks matte for about an hour or two and then my forehead goes back to being an oil slick.  Who knows, it could also be the terrible fluorescent lighting at the office 🙂

Smashbox Photo Finish Hydrating Primer

Day 3

Cleaned + moisturized + foundation + multitask — I decided to skip putting on the multitask powder before my foundation so I would have one less layer of makeup on my skin (even tho they’re all super sheer layers).  Also, if you’ve noticed I haven’t been using the all over face color very often because the foundation and multitask powder is sheer enough that it doesn’t make me look washed-out and pale.  I still plan to use it on nights out and stuff tho.

Skin is still looking wonderful as well as feeling fabulous.  Still no zits.  Still no dry skin.  Still no flakiness, redness or irritation.

Day 4

Same routine as day three — still going strong!  No zits, no dryness, no irritation or breakouts.

Day 5

Put the stuff on in the morning and it lasted well into the evening like always (even without the use of face primer!).  This evening it was actually misting raining and strangely when I looked in the mirror I didn’t see any of the makeup running down my face or anything.  I don’t know if it’s because this mineral makeup sinks into my skin better or maybe because I don’t have that much on…I’ll leave that up to the next person to decide.

Day 2

Cleaned + moisturized + multitask + foundation + multitask — VOILA!  My face looks fresh, flawless and like I mentioned before it looks like an airbrushed finish.  My face also feels light as a feather like I’m wearing nothing and doesn’t look dry or flaky.

Sitting here at work and my face doesn’t feel tight like it did with the Bare Minerals!  Also, let me just reiterate the fact that this makeup smells like cocoa and it is fabulous to be able to smell that throughout the day 🙂

My skin is clear of pimples still and I’m super happy about that.  I’m hoping my skin will stay pimple-free throughout my trial of this makeup because so far I really like it.

I received my Rejuva Minerals makeup Wednesday night and could not wait to try it out!  Sadly there was still kitchen work to be done for the remodeling so I didn’t get a chance to try it out until this morning.  May I also add that even tho I had never tried Rejuva Minerals before I ordered the full-size version instead of the trial-size like they suggested (there are absolutely NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES).  When I was ordering the foundation they had some useful color matching information on the page.  They compared it to Bare Minerals colors which thankfully I already knew which color I was with them.

Day 1

Cleaned my face, moisturized, put on multitask powder first, then foundation, all over face color and finally some more multitask powder to set everything.  After a few minutes the makeup sunk in and WOW.  My face looked like it had been airbrushed with makeup!  This was craziness to see because, as you know, I’m a novice to the makeup world and still unsure about the proper application, how much to use, et cetera.  The fact that I could do it in about ten minutes and it look flawless was fabulous!

I skipped the primer because it appears that primers causes my face to be too dried out, especially around the corners of my mouth and between my eyebrows. (NOTE:  I did go primer-less with the Bare Minerals but that stuff still made my face dry and itchy right away and throughout the day)

Just received my Rejuva Minerals stuff in the mail and anxious to try it out in the morning!

I would try it out now but lots of work to be done with remodeling the kitchen 🙂

Will let you know how Day 1 goes by tomorrow night!

Day 5

I can see the makeup kind of caking or flaking around the corners of my mouth and on my t-zone.  The ouside corners of my eyes are red and itchy and hurt to the touch.

Bare Escentuals Precision Face Brush

Day 6

A couple more new pimples sprouting up on my cheeks…

Day 7 (today)

I’m sitting here and the skin around my eyes and around my mouth are tight and dry.  I dabbed moisturizer on it but that didn’t help (I use Clinique Moisture Surge) and it kinda made the makeup come off.  The outside corners of my eyes are still red and are sensitive to touch.  Can’t wait to go home and take this stuff off my face for good.

Conclusion

While Bare Minerals was majorly hyped as being the best skin care you can buy, my conclusion is I will never use these products again (except for the blemish treatment, it really rocks I think b/c of the sulfur).  My skin is worse than when I started – I have more pimples and now my face is dry.  I’ve noticed that my face is rather itchy as well, probably from it being dry.  Hopefully after a week of letting my skin go back to it’s normal daily routine…it returns back to the way it was before I started using bare minerals.

I do highly recommend the blemish treatment.  The sulfur in it really does heal pimples quite fast (2 days maybe?) and, if you don’t mind the smell of sulfur, it also serves as a concealer because it’s tinted.  I have also been putting it on my old acne marks and it seems to be making those less visible which makes me happy as a clam 

bareMinerals Blemish Therapy

I’ve decided to try Rejuva Minerals and see if that’s better.  From what I’ve read so far they are mica and bismuth free so they should cause less skin irritation, pimples and less dryness.  Their makeup also has cocoa powder in it making you lightly smell of chocolate!  What could be better?    Whenever I receive the new makeup I will write a review on that as well.