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Oct 29, 2010

The Best Makeup Foundation

October 29, 2010 By Carleenp Leave a Comment

I have been focusing for awhile now on accumulating lists of the best makeup and cosmetics (and sometimes lists of the worst as well). Total Beauty is often rather helpful in that regard since they have many such lists themselves. The article below, which is syndicated from Total Beauty lists the top 12 foundation from their editors.

Some of these I haven't tried and I am pretty darn curious about the Milani foundation now, since I generally have high regard for the Milani brand (they are on my best eye shadow list) and really good drugstore foundations can be hard to find. I also am interested in picking up Maybelline Dream Smooth Mousse Makeup because I already love their Dream Matte Mousse.

As for ones that I have tried, I definitely agree with the Stila, Lancome, and MAC Pro Longwear recommendations. To see the entire list click on through below.

The 12 Best Editor-Tested Foundations

See which foundations won over these hard-to-please editors the most

This is a TotalBeauty.com face makeup article

Total Beauty editors tried out boatloads of different foundation formulas to bring you their faves.

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What is your favorite foundation? Share it in the comments!

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Filed Under: Beauty Bytes, Face Products, Foundation, Links and Roundups, Makeup Tagged With: Best of Lists, Foundation, Lancome, M.A.C., Makeup, Maybelline, Milani, Stila

Sep 21, 2010

Maybelline Eye Studio Cream Eye Shadow Swatches

September 21, 2010 By Carleenp 1 Comment

I love neutral cream eye shadow so, even though I have no shortage of brown shadows (I seriously don’t need any more), I bought a new Maybelline Eye Studio eye shadow trio while out shopping. The trio, Neutral Illusions, has three nice cream shadows: A pink/beige, a luminous champagne/light brown, and deep brown that has a bit of luminosity, but is not overdone. Swatches are blow. The top is in indoor light and the bottom is in sunlight.

The shadow wears fairly well, but it did wear off for me before the end of the day. Note that cream shadows wear best when set with powder. I like to add a dusting of a light neutral eye shadow over mine, but translucent powder will also work. Using a primer can also help extend the wear time.

Maybelline is available at most drugstores and big box retailers.

Filed Under: Eyeshadow, Makeup Tagged With: Eye Shadow, Maybelline, Swatches

Sep 16, 2010

Revlon Photo Ready Foundation and Powder

September 16, 2010 By Carleenp Leave a Comment

Revlon has entered the fray into high definition style makeup with Revlon Photo Ready Makeup and Revlon Photo Ready Powders. I bought one of each to review.

Revlon Photo Ready Foundation has a nice smooth consistency that provides medium coverage. Although it is oil free, it feels rather moisturizing, and I felt that it was a bit too much moisture for my currently very oily skin. So I recommend it more for normal to dry skin types. Photochromatic pigments reflect light, and the makeup comes with SPF 20 protection. I got all day wear from it. It sits nicely on the skin and does remind me quite a bit of my favorite Make Up Forever High Definition Makeup (link is to previous review), in that gives the skin a very smooth appearance without looking too heavy, while also simply feeling pretty nice. However, I will still take my Make Up Forever over it any day.

Revlon Photo Ready Powder provides a nice finish for the Photo Ready Makeup. It provides illuminating pigments and a soft finish. As far as powders go I like it quite a bit. However in the drugstore brands Maybelline’s Dream Matte Powder has really stood out for me the most lately. Revlon’s powder also recently came out in multiple shades, which provide a fair amount of extra cover. With those, I found that by combining the tinted powder with the liquid foundation, I could cover my areas of melasma pretty well and still get a somewhat natural/sheer look. That is always a fine line—achieving cover v. not getting overdone—so Revlon’s new tinted Photo Ready powders are particularly good for that.

Revlon is available at most drugstores and big box retailers. Links above are to drugstore.com, which also carries the line.