Creating a base from scratch – part 2

Welcome back to my experiments with foundation bases. I know what I don’t want to do at this point – include bismuth oxychloride – so I decided to try something with a foundation base I know well. My finishing powder. I know it works well as a blush base, and I know it works well...

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Creating a base from scratch – part 1

There are few things I love more than getting new ingredients and spending the day in the workshop. The electrical work is done, which means I can listen to the radio, turn on the light, and have my double boiler going, so it’s just that little bit closer to being heaven for me! I wanted...

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Mineral make-up: Blush colour becomes foundation colour

When I posted the translucent and opaque foundation bases, I wasn’t happy with the colours I had either tried or created, so I didn’t post any. Now I’ve had a chance to play around a bit, and I wanted to share! I’ve been using the opaque base, but you can use the translucent base for...

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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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