2 posts tagged “cosmetics”

Tarte leg bronzer

What it does:
Tarte Glam Gams Leg Bronzing Stick will have gams looking taut and tanned from summer through fall. It's infused with Tarte's t5 super fruit complex™, a proprietary blend of the five most active superfruits: goji, acai, maracuja, acerola, and pomegranate and has a delightful natural fragrance.

What else you need to know:
The first blend of its kind, the t5 super fruit complex™ is loaded with naturally occurring, antioxidant-rich nutrients and vitamins that have been known to deliver refining, antiaging, and skin-restorative benefits with each application. It's preservative-, paraben-, phthalate-, sulfate-, propylene glycol-, and mineral oil-free.

A lot of you have contacted me by Private message for tips and pointers on starting your own businesses and making mineral make up.  This is great and exciting and I will help all of you as much as I can with as much as I've learned and done.  I do work quite a bit and during my free time sleep - (smile) and do the normal things that the rest of us do.  I just want to know that anyone who I haven't gotten back to with information please don't think that I'm ignoring you I've just been busy and am answering a lot of other emails and questions through PM, plus working.

I also want to let all of you know that have sent me samples that I will be contacting you with my honest opinions on them. Also I'd like to say that another member here, Miss Nola,  has made and sold quite a large amount of mineral make-up to several distributors and has done this for some time.  She's done a lot more formulating than I have and has successfully marketed to them everything from mineral make-up, lip stains and glosses, to pressed minerals.  Basically I would advise that if anyone is considering seriously investing money and making a business out of this to contact her as she has dealt on a professional level with many distributors and suppliers and can give you much better tips on that level than I can. 

I did start the thread over on MUT and taught Hoozey and Coromo through recipes, suggestions, and emails and a few others from MUT but I've never marketed or sold any of my DIY or MIY items nor have I had a personal interest to develop anything beyond use for myself.

Now with that out of the way,  I'm finally getting in some samples of mineral make-up items that I've been ordering.  This week I received things from Southern Magnolia Minerals, Meow - back at that again for a compatible foundation match - their foundation coverage is so nice I'll keep trying until I strike gold.  Also traded some perfume for some Oceanmist eyeshadow samples.

I will start with what I love!!!!!!!!    Oceanmist Eye shadows!

Oh my goodness!  The finish on these is perfect.  Not shimmery, glittery, or too pure mica - like.  They are very smooth and pearl like.  Another bonus is the colors all looked great on me.  I had my doubts when I first looked at them but swatching them on my arm proved different!  I love these and hope that they will develop more eye shadow colors because these look great and feel great.  Sometimes when eye shadows are too glittery or shimmery they itch and irritate my lids.  Not these!

Oceanmist Eyeshadows

Oceanmist eyeshadow

Manatee,Vanora Blush, Pink Urchin, Paradise Pink,Hammerhead,Golden Pearl,Oriental Beige, and Gold Bullion 

The yellow color is not my color but the only way that I could get the swatches to show up in my bathroom.  All of the colors show up on me but I think that they would be perfect for someone with much lighter skin than myself.  I would buy eye shadows from this company again!

Magnolia samples

This cute bag is from Southern Magnolia Minerals.  I ordered a few samples from them.  Her customer service is excellent and I found her to be a very genuinely kind person.  She's definitely about pleasing her customers and not just about getting their money. 

That's important to me because I am a big shopper but not one who will just throw my money to someone greedily jockeying for it.  I resent insincerity.  I ordered a full size foundation and finishing powder from her.  This is about my 5th order with this company and I will continue to return to them due to the excellent and sincere customer service.

What I highly recommend?

The Ostrich oil, the eye shadows, the veil finishing powder.  If you can find a foundation match in your complexion then I'd recommend that too because her foundation formula is nonirritating and lasts beautifully all day.

Southern Mag mineral samples