Holiday Series #3: Pür Minerals Holiday Collection

Get ready for your Holiday soirees with a glam Pür Minerals look! Their cosmetics are simply pure- free of chemical dyes, talc, etc. and includes shea butter and Vitamin E to nourish your skin. The products shown here will help you achieve the picture perfect look while you're out having fun with your friends and family.

Start with a flawless face by using Pür Mineral's Pressed Mineral Foundation and Chisel Brush.

For the Holidays, get a glamorous look with these products from Pür Minerals that I received to test: (From left to right) *Mineral Lip Pencil with Lip Brush in Ruby *Eyeshadow in Champagne Citrine *Eyeshadow in Gold Dust *Mineral Eye Defining Pencil with Smudger in Chocolate Mica *Mineral Shea Butter Lipstick in Red Ruby (bottom)

Here are swatches of the two eyeshadows. The one on top is Champagne Citrine. It's slightly yellow-based and actually looks like the color of bubbly champagne. Delicious and gorgeous as a highlighter. The shade below is the Gold Dust, a bit more coppery but also pretty as a highlighter or a base. Depending on your look, both shades have enough shimmer to last you all night! (Tip: Intensify your look with a wet application.)

What I like best about Gold Dust is that its subtle enough to wear as a monochrome color during the day and it looks great, too! Yes- this is what I wear during work.

The shadows are amazing to use; the colors go on smooth and silky. Read my TotalBeauty review here.

Now that you have the perfect shadow shades on your eyes, complete the look with a soft, brown eyeliner. The Pür Minerals Eye Defining Pencil has the color on one tip of the pencil and a sponge-tip smudger to create a smokier look or to simply clean up any boo-boos. To get your cherry-red lips, line them first with the Lip Pencil and color in with the Shea Butter Lipstick. It's a bright color which looks good to brighten your face. If you're not comfortable wearing this bright color, you can use a bit of gloss in a nude shade over it to make the color less subtle. (Tip: Blot powder on lips after application and reapply lipstick. This will make the color last longer) Use your favorite blush to finish the polished look.

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(Disclaimer: I received this product from this company's PR agency to test, try and share my thoughts with my readers.)



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Pür Minerals- Makeup Foundation and Chisel Brush

I've been using Mineral Makeup for over five years and probably will be using it for the rest of my life. It just feels lighter and more natural on my sensitive skin and also gives me more control of the coverage. If I need more, I just buff on more mineral powder and doesn't feel heavier, which is a plus! Who needs to feel cakey?

So, I recently came across another minerals makeup product that I had to try- Pür Minerals 4-in-1 Pressed Mineral Foundation. I actually found out about this company last year through Allure Magazine. Their 4-in-1 Pressed Mineral Makeup foundation won the 2008 Allure Best of Beauty Award in the “Best Natural Selection.”- what an honor! After trying this out, they deserve to win this award.

Coverage & Finishing: What I like most about the Pür Minerals Pressed Foundation is that the formulation combines 4 steps into 1. I like to do my makeup in less than 15 minutes, if possible, so I like to use products that will save me time! Instead of having to use a concealer or a finishing powder separately, I just use this one product. I received the right amount of coverage for my face overall, and I was also able to build the intensity when used directly to conceal blemishes and my under-eye circles. The finishing is also amazing; my skin looked polished and healthy.

Chisel Brush: This compact foundation is used alongside with their Chisel brush, made of a sturdy see-through plastic handle that can actually stand upright. All my other brushes just flop to the side when I place them in my brush holder.

The width of the bristles on the brush is just the right size to evenly swirl across the compact. After getting the powder onto my brush, I gently buff into my skin.

Tip: To remove excess powder that may appear on the top layer of the pressed foundation, dab a brush in short quick motions to let the bristles get the remaining powder. This can be used for a final touch up of your face.


Above is a swatch of their shade Porcelain. My face is darker so I need to wear the Light shade instead.

To watch a video on how to apply the 4-in-1 foundation compact,



Active Ingredients: Titanium Dioxide 8%; Inactive Ingredients: Mica, Boron Nitride, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Bismuth Oxychloride, Zinc Stearate, Magnesium Silicate, Magnesium Carbonate, Silica, Shea Butter (Butyrospermum Parkii), Tocopheryl Acetate, Iron Oxides

I can't wait to try out their Holiday Collection!

(Disclaimer: I received this product from this company's PR agency to test, try and share my thoughts with my readers.)



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