Sephora

The latest collection that I am playing around with is their bareMinerals Happiness Collection, a nine-piece set that features a set of products that are infused with something called Happybelle–a complex that (get this!!!), contains a plant extract believed to mimic the effect of endorphins and create a sense of happiness.

Take a second to ponder how amazing that is. Pretty and happy. What else could I possibly want?

I know, I know, it sounds ever-so-slightly flower child like, but it’s actually natural-it IS from Bare Escentuals after all.

Included in the set you will find:
- bareMinerals Glee Radiance All-Over Face Color infused with Happybelle
- bareMinerals Euphoria Eyecolor infused with Happybelle
- bareMinerals Happiness Eyecolor infused with Happybelle
- bareMinerals Hallucinate Liner Shadow infused with Happybelle
- bareMinerals Flawless Definition Mascara in Black
- bareMinerals 100% Natural Lipgloss in Berry Rush
- bareMinerals Feather Light Brush in Limited-Edition Hot Pink
- bareMinerals Double-Ended Complete Tapered Shadow Brush in Limited-Edition Hot Pink
- Happy Clutch

Tell me how it works out for you!

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I spent the prime sun hours this Saturday at the Jones’ family Easter celebration outdoors dressed up in my bareMinerals (along with some clothes…LOL), and although I cooked the rest of my body to a nice shade of rare, the bare Minerals protected my face perfectly!

I guess I should have covered my arms and chest in it too! I hope you all had a grand Easter, and filled up on antioxidant rich chocolate bunnies!

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Coming up soon is a really interesting product from our favorite bareEscentuals called RareMinerals!  This is a nighttime mineral formula, designed to not only give you some light coverage, but to do wonderful things for your skin overnight!!

From Sephora.com:

Let’s face it: We’re not our most beautiful at bedtime (zit cream, zero makeup). RareMinerals Skin Revival Treatment, $60, lets you go to bed feeling beautiful and wake up feeling equally as gorgeous. Top that with its skin-rejuvenating properties and its easy application, and you’ve got yourself the ultimate bedtime companion. Ideal for anyone at any age looking to improve the overall condition of their complexion, RareMinerals Skin Revival Treatment lets you rest assured you’re getting a beautiful night’s sleep.

This product is not yet available at Sephora, but I will let you know as soon as it is!  I can’t wait to try it myself!

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The fabulous UPS man brought my bareMinerals on Friday, 4 days early. Kudos to Sephora for their quick shipping! Even though I had read everything I could get my hands on about bareMinerals (on their website and on Sephora), and had watched the infomercial a thousand times, I sat down with the DVD and watched it through. There was not much in the way of new information on it, but I particularly enjoyed the last segments where the three women who were being used to show colors and applications finished off their makeup with other bareMinerals color cosmetics.

I ordered the Medium kit, and the color was just perfect for me. My skin is a medium-light cool tone. If you are a very fair redhead or natural light blonde, you would probably want the Light kit, but anything darker than those should probably try the medium. There are 2 foundation colors in the kit, one was perfect for me, and the other was a bit warm for me (yellow), but as far as trying to cover all medium skin tones, you should find the right one in that kit. The kit also comes with three brushes – one is a medium coverage brush, one is a full coverage brush, and one is a detail brush, used for covering blemishes and small areas like around the nose and under the eyes. The application was much less messy than I imagined it would be, the brushes are shaped to pick up the minerals out of the cap of the jars, and they really did a good job with no waste. You could use another brush to apply the bareMinerals with, but I think you would get some serious product waste if you weren’t very careful.

The coverage is surprisingly good, and really does last all day.

Gail told me in the comments of an earlier post that if I wasn’t pleased with the look at first, to come back in an hour or two and I would like it better, and even though I liked it just fine from the start, it does look even better after it has been on your skin for a little while. One of the things I learned from the DVD is that you are to use as many applications on as you need to get the coverage you want. I use about three applications with the full coverage brush, and it is perfect – it is not “masky” at all, and there is NO line of demarcation between where the foundation ends and your skin begins. Good stuff!.

The kit also comes with a product called All Over Face Color in Warmth. This is similar to a bronzer, but is more of a contour type of product than a classic “bronzer.” You use just the teensiest amount of it, it should last forever.

The final step is the Mineral Veil (also in the kit). This is a colorless powder that you apply as a final step, and gives your face a little “life,” rather than a powdery, matte finish. There is a shimmery quality to the Mineral Veil, but you would never look at it and say “shimmer.” I really think this product makes a big (although very subtle) difference in the look of your finished makeup.

The kit also comes with a product called Skin Rev-er Upper, which is a primer as far as I can tell. I really don’t have an opinion on it yet, I will give an update on this in a couple of weeks, as well as an update on how bareMinerals is affecting my skin.

There are a few other products that I would like to try next from bareMinerals, but I will talk about those in a seperate post, this one is plenty long enough.

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