Saturday, August 07, 2010
Review: Maybelline Mineral Power Foundation
This is what it looks like. I'm sure you've seen it before at some drugstore. I bought it when it was on half price offer. Which I'm glad! If I paid the full price, I would have been really sad.The Pros:
I like the texture. The powder is fine and soft.
Doesn't look powdery and cakey on my face, which I liked a lot. I like powders that DON'T look like powder when I put it on my face. I don't like the obvious powdered look.
The Cons:
The brush is obvious trash.
It oxidises like crazy once in contact with my skin. Or once exposed to air actually. I'm not sure if singapore's humidity contributes to the rapid oxidation, but it oxidies waaaaaayy too quickly. Normally foundation oxidises on me after few hours, but this did in a few seconds! The mineral blush didn't have this problem though.
Did a comparison on the back of my hand.Left: The foundation when I rubbed it into my skin.
Right: I tried to put more powder on my hand, unblended in, to try to capture how the powder looks like in the tub, relatively unexposed to air. The actual powder looks even lighter than this, really. It gets darker every second I delayed taking the photo.
See how orange and dark and dirty-looking the patch on the left looks. It has oxidised so badly, compared to the powder on the right. The colour of the powder would have been a perfect match with my skin, but see how dark it becomes once I blended the powder in. Yucks. If I leave the powder there just like that, it will really turn just as orange as the left patch is.
Ewww...So dark and orange! I doubt anyone has orange toned face.This is my THIRD major disappointment with maybelline cosmetics actually. First was the unstoppable mascara which just totally failed--couldnt hold a curl, made my lashes so droopy, no lenghth, no volume. Second was the gel liner--gave me the most horrendous panda eyes; smudged and transferred from my upper lids to lower lids!! And now this. I seriously give up on maybelline already, except their lip products. Their lip glosses and lipsticks are good.
