“bareMinerals i.d. - from Bare Escentuals - is now in quite a lot of stores over
here [London]. When it first came out in Australia about five years ago there
were only about three foundation colours and a couple of eye shadow colours and
it was really a new thing to come out. The actual brand of i.d. has actually
been around for about 25 or 30 years. It’s one of the oldest mineral makeup
brands around, it just hasn’t been known and now because it’s [mineral makeup] a trend it’s
picked up. So you can actually get bareMinerals i.d. in department stores like
Selfridges and House of Fraser. And the range is absolutely huge. So I have
quite a few products of theirs. I
have the mineral foundation, the blushers, a gazillion eye shadows. I have
their mascara which I swear by. It took me so long to find a good mascara and
this volumising one by bareMinerals is brilliant. I don’t know what it is about
it but it’s just good. It doesn’t leave any horrible nasty clumps. And I have
their brushes as well. So their blush brush and their eye shadow brush and
their concealer brush.
I
also use, which I’ve just recently discovered and I love and I want to now get
the whole range, is this brand called Inika. This is now in Australia and in London so it only has two places
where it’s produced. Again this is mineral makeup and I get this at a really
lovely health food store - there are only two in London, there is one down in
Balham which is where I work and there is one in Chiswick. It’s called As
Nature Intended and I’m so in love with that store it has everything gluten and
wheaten free that I could possibly imagine. It’s my absolute heaven! And they
have this beautiful makeup range at the back. So I use from them their liquid
mineral foundation which is fantastic. I use their primer which is organic. I
never used to use it [primer] for a lot of years because I don’t have
particularly problematic skin - if I put makeup on in the morning it will stay
on and be there 12 hours later. I’m lucky in that way but sometimes I do want
to ensure that it stays more picture perfect especially if I’m going out in the
evening for a dance and that sort of thing, so I use a primer and it is
brilliant. And this is the best one that I’ve found. I’ve done primers from a
few different brands and this one is really lovely.
Then
I have this mineral foundation which is a foundation crossed with a bronzer.
It’s actually what I’m wearing today and it’s what I wear everyday. I don’t
wear liquid foundation everyday, that’s only for when I go out in the evening.
But what I do use is this Inika illuminating mineral foundation and I know it
looks really dark but I only need to use the tiniest amount. And I have my
kabuki brush which is beautiful. You’ll hear this word kabuki brush in a lot of
different places for all brands that use loose powder mineral foundations. You
are advised to use a kabuki brush. It has a kind of thick cone-shaped bristle
head to it and so it’s perfect for sticking it in, rubbing around, getting the
minerals ‘activated’ as they say and then rubbing it on.
I use
a mixture of three different mineral makeup ranges. I’ve got my i.d., I’ve got
my Inika but the original one that I started using because my mum started using
it - I’ve been using it since I was 16 - is Jane Iredale. She’s American and you can get her everywhere in Australia and not
many places over here [London]. She is one of the original people to bring out
mineral makeup. So I use her eye shadows - I have quite a few of them. I use
her mineral foundation as well but I ran out of that which is why I started
using bareMinerals. It might seem like I chop and change but I find them all
just as good it just depends on when I happen to have finished one and then I
happen to have been given another one as a present or something like that. And
I use her concealer as well which is really really lovely. I actually want to
get the Inika concealer because it is amazing, I’ve had a sample of it and I
will get it but I want to finish this first. Or I might get it as well because
I use this for my everyday things, however I’ll probably use the Inika one for
evening with the Inika liquid foundation because I think those products work
well together.
- As revealed to Vanity Case
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