Summer Buying Guide to Mineral Make Up

Pam Gaulin
Natural make up is beneficial for skin and summer is the perfect time to introduce your skin to a lighter, more natural beauty regimen. Use this summer buying guide to find the right mineral make up for your skin type, beauty needs, and your budget.

Before you change your make up regimen to a natural make up approach, be sure start your skin off right by with a
complexion that is as as it can be for summer and beyond.

Use a skin cleaning,
skin toning, and skin moisturizing regimen that is strong enough, or gentle enough for your particular skin.

Also, when you find a make up product line that suits your skin, stick with the same name brand to keep your skin from acting out.

Summer Buying Guide

Blush

Bare Naturale Gentle Mineral Blush by L'Oreal

Price: About $15

Bare Naturale blush by L'Oreal is an affordable make up blush that can be purchased at the drugstore or at a discount retailer. The round, plump container is cute and appealing. The design of the package keeps the brush protected from dust, and helps maintain the shape of the make up brush.

The Bare Naturale blush by L'Oreal follows other natural make up products, in its light coverage, that allows skin to breathe, while bringing out the best in your summer complexion.

This summer make up product will not clog pores, and goes on incredibly smoothly.

CoverGirl TruBlend Minerals

Price: About $16

CoverGirl's TruBlend Minerals come in loose powder form, including the fairy princess pink blush.

Neutrogena Mineral Sheers Blush

Price: About $13

You will look like you always have a natural, shy glow about you when you apply the incredibly light and sheer Neutrogena Mineral Sheers Blush. The mineral sheers are self-contained, so there is no chance for a spilled mess.

Add a natural blush to your summer beauty care regimen when you select from the five available shades of Neutrogena Mineral Sheers Blush. It's all-natural, pure, free of oil, talc and of fragrance.

Neutrogena Mineral Sheers Blush is also affordable for most budgets, with enough money to spare to spend on other summer fun.

Foundations and Powders

Summer time means light, breathable coverage for your entire face. Mineral make up is ideal for summer coverage, even for hot out-on-the town summer nights.

Mineral Essence Foundations

Price: $22/and up

Mineral Essence Foundations are a make up product that are all-natural and can give skin a youthful and refreshing pink glow. Or, go for the perfect summer glow with Mineral Essence Foundations that enhance a tan with yellow undertones.

For information on two leading drugstore face powders, that cost under $15 each, including Neutrogena Mineral Sheers Mineral Powder Foundation and Physician's Formula MineralWear Talc-Free Matte Finishing Veil, see mineral make up
at drugstore prices.

Make Up Sets for Summer

Bare Escentuals Get Started Kit

Price: $60 and up

If you can afford it, you may really enjoy the Bare Escentuals Get Started Kit this summer. It also makes a lovely gift idea.

Bare Escentuals will protect your skin with SPF 15, and brings out a natural glow with its crushed mineral elements. Bare Escentuals suits many women's summer beauty care regiment because of the wide range of shades of make up. If matching your skin tone is an issue with store-bought or limited shades of make up, Bare Escentuals is for you.

Pur Minerals Pur-fect Starter Kit

Price: About $35-$40

Introduce yourself for a friend to natural make up this summer with the Pur Minerals Pur-fect Starter Kit. The pressed foundation acts as a concealer and a foundation, plus it has SPF 15. For summer, use the Mineral Glow make up to add a health bit of summer glow to your face.

This product also comes with one of the most versatile make up products, the Universal Marble Powder. It can serve as blush, a corrector, a lip color or an eye shadow.

The make up kit comes with a useful brush, to help you complete your natural summer glow.

No matter what your budget is this summer, you can find a mineral make up product to complete your carefree look.

Published by Pam Gaulin - Featured Contributor in Arts & Entertainment and Lifestyle

Pam Gaulin is a freelance writer, journalist (B.A., Journalism), new (and next!) media writer and artist. Associated Content named her 2007 Content Producer of the Year. "First for Women" magazine featured...  View profile

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  • Amy Brantley6/20/2007

    Great tips! I've been meaning to try mineral makeup. I have a hard time wearing anything else due to allergies.

  • Pam Gaulin6/20/2007

    I love the Neutrogena products. I hardly ever use mascara anymore - especially in the summertime.

  • DrDevience6/19/2007

    My summer regimine is like eye liner and mascara. period. Well, unless we are going out somewhere special at night ;) Still, I have been tempted lately to try some of the stuff you mention here.

  • Melanie Schwear6/18/2007

    Great information. I just can't imagine spending $50 to put stuff all over my face in the hot summer months (or any time!)

  • Carol Gilbert6/18/2007

    That line about skin acting out caught my attention. Have you been interviewing my skin?

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