Foundation Diaries

  For years I was a devote MAC customer, I used all of their products including foundations so I never really worried about what else was out there. That was until I found myself on my graduation trip to New York where I was in Saks and had the opportunity to have a consultation with one of the head Nars artists. Needless to say at that point I had switched to Nars, and I wore their sheer glow foundation for the next year.

  I really did like this foundation, just at some point I got a little bored with it, and thought "what if something better is out there?". I guess a good foundation is like dating, you found something that works but you always sort of think what else could be out there. At that point I thought about switching back to MAC, only to discover that they had discontinued my long loved Select SPF foundation!

  Over the summer I stepped on the BB Cream fad and started using Smashbox's BB cream. Which I loved, but then those jerks had to sell out and now are no longer cruelty free. So my love affair with that BB cream is over.

  I then found myself without a go to favorite foundation, which is a troubling place for a girl to be. I then went to Sephora and found that it is so hard for a girl with super fair skin to find a match in the limited selection of cruelty free brands. I spend over an hour in the makeup chair, with one disappointing match after the other. Two Faced lightest one was too pink, Tarte was too yellow, Stila just wasn't light enough! Then we found a match, Hourglass' Immaculate Liquid Powder Foundation so there I went home with what I thought was my new perfect match. That was until a week later my skin was way too dry from this super matte formula! 

  So there I was again, a girl without a dream foundation. Then Urban Decay came out with the Naked Skin foundation, that's where I found a match! I loved this light formula, with its easy to blend water base. Although this was lighter than any foundation I had used before, I went through two bottles of it! 

  Though of course with my commitment issues with makeup, in this last month I decided I was over having to conceal every single imperfection on my face with concealer (which over all doubles my time I use on my face). I then started thinking back to when I wore my Nars Sheer Glow foundation and I didn't even own any concealer back then. So with my bottle of UD Naked Skin almost gone I made a trip to Sephora to go try my old favorite again. Once I put this foundation back on I was so happy with the coverage, it looked natural and not overdone but was a nice medium to full coverage I was wanting. Then... a few days later I woke up to acne! I thought I had finally found a foundation that would solve my dilemma, but with time your skin changes and my once favorite now makes me break out. 

  So off to Sephora I went again, this time I returned the Nars Sheer Glow foundation for the Sheer Matte version. I was hoping that this would give me the same coverage that I loved from the glow version, just minus the acne but no. The matte version doesn't even come close with the coverage. Where it says sheer it means sheer, which isn't a bad thing. I really want to like this new foundation, it matches my skin nicely and once you buy the Nars foundation pump it's more user friendly. I think that I need to just go back and buy my favorite primer I ran out of (Hourglass Mineral Veil) to truly judge the proformance of the Nars Sheer Matte Foundation. I will supply pictures of this foundation once I can get my hands on my go to primer again. 

So there it is, my long affair with foundation over the past year. This story is far from over... 

xoxo 
Shelby