Why You Should Buy Bare Escentuals I.d. Bare Minerals Makeup

With all of the pollution, sun, and other environmental hazards to your skin out there, why add potential damage daily with a regular foundation? In 1976, the company Bare Escentuals created a revolutionary makeup made purely of minerals from the earth. These products contain no dyes, talc, oils, or other ingredients that clog pores and cause breakouts. In fact, as Bare Escentuals claims (and as this writer has tried), this makeup is so pure that you can actually sleep in it without worrying about having blemishes the next day!

If you have acne scars, broken capillaries, age spots, or even rosacea, Bare Escentuals' Bare Minerals makeup is the correct choice for you. The minerals blend softly into the skin to create a cream that vastly improves the look of most any imperfection to create a flawless, breathtaking appearance. It is really something you must see in order to get the full effect.

Trying something new can often be confusing, so I would like to make some suggestions to help get you started. I am quite familiar with this brand and therefore have the personal experience to help you get your money's worth. First of all, you will need to choose a place to buy your Bare Escentuals makeup. If you live in a small town like I do, your best bet is to shop online. There are definite benefits to online shopping even if you have a store that carries Bare Escentuals products in your town. For example, many online stores provide free samples or free gifts with your purchase, something most stores do not offer.

The best place to buy Bare Escentuals makeup online is Sephora (www.sephora.com). Sephora has an amazing inventory of high-end beauty products and a website that is easy and fun to navigate. They provide information about the products you are purchasing, as well as tips (sometimes even in video format) on how to use them. The best part about ordering online from Sephora is the free samples. With every order you have the option to choose 3 free samples of brand name beauty products from Givenchy perfume to Smashbox lip gloss. Additionally, each order comes gift packaged for free in Sephora's adorable signature black and white box, which makes a very chic gift.

Your other option is to purchase your supplies directly from the Bare Escentuals website. When you purchase from there, the price is a couple dollars lower, but the free samples are not as much fun. The Bare Escentuals website is a good place to read up on the products, but Sephora is just a younger, trendier place that provides excellent services and those little extras that make it more worthwhile.

Once you have picked a place to shop you will need to know what to buy first. There are so many different powders in so many shades that it can be confusing at first. Do not get overwhelmed, simply begin with the "Get Started Kit!" This kit has everything you need to become familiar with the Bare Escentuals brand. Included in the Sephora kit are as follows: Two shades of Bare Minerals SPF 15 foundation in .06 oz pots, Bare Vitamins Skin Rev-er Upper, Mineral Veil, Warmth All Over Face Color, Flawless Application Brush, Full Coverage Kabuki Brush, Maximum Coverage Concealer Brush, and a how-to DVD from Leslie Blodgett, Bare Escentuals CEO.

The fact that this kit comes with two shades of foundation powder is just amazing. This insures that you will have the correct color for your skin tone in summer and in winter! Simply choose from the five different skin tone collections the colors that will suit your face. They range from Fairly Light/Light to Dark/Deep to match virtually any shade of skin. What is also important is that this foundation contains SPF 15, which is essential in the prevention of wrinkles, age spots, and skin cancer.

The Bare Vitamins Skin Rev-er Upper is a genius bottle of facial lotion that contains glycolic and salicylic acids that rejuvenate your skin, making it appear smooth and even. This lotion can be applied before you use your daily moisturizer and simply acts as a base or primer for the foundation. This item is not included in the Get Started Kit offered through the Bare Escentuals website, but it comes with the kit from Sephora.

Next in the kit is the Mineral Veil powder. This also comes in the .06 oz pot and is applied all over the face to set the makeup. It actually acts as a kind of air-brush, smoothing and perfecting your face to achieve the look of a touched up photograph. The Warmth All Over Face Color is like the Mineral Veil powder, except it should be applied to those places where the sun would normally hit your face, such as the cheeks, eyes, and forehead. It is not a bronzer, Warmth simply adds the look of a healthy touch of sun to your face, making you look truly radiant.

The brushes that come with the Get Started Kit are essential to applying the Bare Minerals makeup, as is the DVD that teaches you the proper application method. The brushes are high quality and very soft and easy to use. The Kabuki brush will provide the highest level of coverage to your face without giving the appearance that you are wearing makeup at all. You simply buff the mineral powder into your skin with the brush and watch the imperfections disappear! The concealer brush is also one of my favorites due to the coverage it provides, really zeroing in on those difficult to conceal blemishes.

Once you are familiar with the Bare Escentuals brand and have mastered the art of applying it to your face, you will most likely be excited about trying other Bare Escentuals products. They do carry a line of eye makeup, lip gloss, lipsticks, and eyebrow shades that are fun to experiment with. With this makeup you can achieve so many looks, the possibilities are almost endless. You could go from a glamor girl with smoky eyes to a woman from a medieval oil painting with luminous skin and rosy, angelic cheeks. Do have a great time trying new things, you will not be disappointed!