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Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer

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 PHOTO FINISH FOUNDATION PRIMER

Recently, I ordered a few things from Sephora online. When you order online, you get to choose up to 3 free sam­ples with your pur­chase (very excit­ing by the way). One of the sam­ples I chose was Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer. And thank good­ness I did! I had heard about this prod­uct before but I never thought any­thing of a foun­da­tion primer because I thought it was just a lotion. Smashbox proved me WRONG…it is one of my MUST-HAVE prod­ucts (along with the Bobbi Brown Corrector which I have already posted about on MyShimmer…amaz­ing stuff!). It is rare to make it on my must-have list but Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer has made the cut!

PHOTO FINISH COLOR CORRECTING FOUNDATION PRIMER

One pump of this primer goes a long way. I use the orig­i­nal kind (which is clear) but there are other color options like Color Adjust (which is green to min­i­mize red­ness), Color Blend (which is apri­cot to con­ceal under-eye cir­cles, veins and sunspots) and Color Balance (which is lavan­der for nat­ural yel­low skin­tones). Smashbox also offers one with SPF 15 and a Bronzing Primer as well. Since I tried the orig­i­nal, I bought the orig­i­nal because I loved it so much and knew it would work. It’s a gel-consistency but once you rub it in your hands, it lit­er­ally feels like it has com­pletely dis­ap­peared. It’s the strangest thing! Once you rub in onto your face (after your mois­tur­izer of course), though, it instantly evens out and per­fects the look of your skin. I am not exag­ger­at­ing here. It makes a HUGE dif­fer­ence in your makeup routine.

 
Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer is for­mu­lated to smooth and per­fect your skin with its unique for­mula of vit­a­mins and antiox­i­dants. After you smooth it on your face you can see that any lines or pores that were there before are filled in. It’s truly a flaw­less fin­ish.
 
For more infor­ma­tion, see Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer , $36-$42 at Sephora.

Photo Credit: Smashbox

from Jena. Jena is our guest blog­ger. You can find more about her on her blog: http://chicityfashion.wordpress.com

Do Your Makeup Within 7 Minutes

Christina

Want to learn how to do your makeup quickly? Here are our 7 min makeup con­test win­ning entries!

A col­or­ful spring look by sol1991los, a sexy, smoky eye look by detailoring, and finally, a light, easy-going day­time look by touseledkitten.

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Check out the full review on Gaby's blog

L’Oreal bought Makeup.com

Carrie

Makeup.com used to be an ecom­merce site. Today, it looks like another classy blogs. According to this arti­cle, L’oreal bought makeup.com for a rumoured 7 fig­ure num­ber. That’s more than 1 mil­lion dol­lars, if I have count the num­ber of zeros right.   Makeup.com had debt and oblig­a­tions of over $1 mil­lion and was ask­ing $3.5 mil­lion.  Did Loreal pay $3.5 mil­lion for a blog?  And we think it looks a lot like MyShimmer.com ;)

And our Super Shimz Brittany and Shimz Exquisite Jenn are on there too.

What do you think?

Sassy Minerals Eyeshadow Review (missolivia09)

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from Olivia

heyy guys I hope this review was help­ful for you these prod­ucts can be pur­chased at:

www.sassyminerals.com

I was sent these prod­ucts by :

www.myshimmer.com

XOXO
Olivia

CO Bigelow Soda Fountain Lip Shine

Christina

From Rachel – I must say: I love this lip gloss!

One would think “Ahhh mint + vanilla but­ter­scotch…” that doesn’t mix, but oddly enough, it does. The mint fla­vor hits you first then fades, leav­ing just sweetness.

Butterscotch Vanilla Sundae/No. 1517 is a very beau­ti­ful pale golden yel­low shim­mer. On the lips, you see a glossy clear fin­ish. You also see all the sparkling gold shim­mers. I’m not sure what I love more, the fla­vor or how it looks!

Click here for the full review

FOTD and reviews of Sassy Mineral Pigments

Emily

We sent our lovely Rachel the Eye Candy Eyeshadow in Pixie Sprinkles and First Base mineral foundation in "Cool Light"  from Sassy Minerals, and below is an excerpt of her FOTD and review for it.

 

On the eyeshadow:

This is a very pretty shadow, like noth­ing I have in my cur­rent col­lec­tion. When I first saw it I thought to myself, “What a won­der­fully shim­mery, warm yet nude-ish color.” It is described on Sassy Mineral’s site as a neu­tral peachy beige with cop­per, green and pur­ple sparkles. I think that’s a very accu­rate descrip­tion. … I found it nicely pig­mented — this was only rubbed once lightly with my fin­ger. The stay­ing power was quite good.

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Sassy Minerals and Juice Beauty Haul (ilyjessicaomg)

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Below is a review done by Jessica (ily­jes­si­caomg) on a few Sassy Minerals and Juice Beauty products.

These are all from: http://www.sassyminerals.com/
Kitchy = eye candy silk lus­ter
Always Right = eye candy shim­mer (worn on this video: Thrifting Haul)
Gasoline Rainbow = eye candy liner

This is from http://www.juicebeauty.com/
Juice Beauty SPF 30 Mineral Sheer Moisturizer

These prod­ucts are sent to Jessica by MyShimmer.com, pro­vided gen­er­ously by Sassy Minerals and Juice Beauty respectively

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Christina

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source: http://www.makemeblushhh.com/2010/03/lotd-with-dior-lacey-beauty-pearl-glow.html

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Christina

from CARGO cosmetics – Don’t let your spring awak­en­ing stop with your wardrobe! Bright shades are the hottest trend in clothes, and cheeks, this spring. Fear not the bold color – CARGO’s sheer, ultra-wearable shades give just the right “pop” when used with a big, fluffy brush.

CARGO blushes Spring 2010

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