Mineral make-up: Fun with blush! An opaque base.

As you might remember from the opaque foundation base post, we can add titanium dioxide or zinc oxide to our blush base to increase the opacity, but this will increase the drag. So we need to compensate by having more sericite mica and more Micronaspheres (in the blush colour grind). I’m adding Dry-flo (optional), as...

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Mineral make-up: Fun with blush – a translucent base

Blush bases are as variable as the people who wear them. You can make a very simple blush with serecite mica and colour or Micronaspheres and colour or you can make a very complicated one with almost every ingredient I’ve written about in the last few weeks! What’s the point of a blush? We want...

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Foamer bottles: Facial Cleanser (part 2) (updated)

I found yesterday’s foamy bottle recipe a bit too much for my skin – it felt great at the time, but it made my skin a little oilier during the day. If you strip too much oil from your skin, it will rebel and produce more! If I’d used my toner afterwards, I’m sure it...

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Oil free moisturizer

Leanne wrote to me asking for some tips on creating an oil free moisturizer. By definition a moisturizer contains oil, water, and emulsifier…so is it possible to make an oil free moisturizer? Yes! When you see lotions in the stores with “oil free” emblazoned on the container, they still contain an oil phase. Generally the...

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Gels: Make a gel based toner

I know you’re probably sick of this recipe for toner, but it works well in a gel format. You can also use this as an under eye application with a few tweaks, and it does feel nice and cool for the summer. (Can you tell I’m not a fan of being warm?)So why make a...

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