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PRIIA Cosmetics

Bionic Asks: What’s your favorite mineral makeup?

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With the hundreds of brands of mineral makeup out there, it’s a royal pain to sort through the good, the bad, and the just plain ugly. Personally, I have tried over fifty brands (yep, you read that correctly… 50!). I had just about given up because they either made my skin light on fire when [...]

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Makeup trend: Black lip looks for real life

Glitzy silver and black glitter mascara from Sally Beauty Supply stores

I know black lipstick isn’t for everyone, but if you are interested in trying out the trend… here are some tips and looks to play around with. And you don’t have to be a Film Noir star or a goth chick to pull them off! Face – Purely Cosmetics mineral makeup in California Blonde mixed [...]

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Bionic’s Best of Beauty 2009 award winners!

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Want to know what I absolutely ADORED in 2009? I’ve gone through every skin care item, makeup product, trend, and ounce of hair care that I tested, or discovered, over the past year and came up with Bionic’s Second Annual “Best of Beauty” awards. And just for fun, I included some stuff at the end [...]

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New Products from Priia Cosmetics

Priia Cosmetics skin care and makeup

If you’ve been a Bionic Beauty reader for a bit, you know that one of my favorite makeup brands is PRIIA Cosmetics. Well, I’ve got more reasons to love them… In honor of the upcoming holidays, PRIIA has launched some new products! Body Sparx™ is a scented body shimmer powder ($16 for a 20g jar). [...]

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Acne Tips for Teens

Microfiber wash cloths for gentle face washing

First motto… “Oil is not bad”. I can’t say that enough OIL IS NOT BAD. Cosmetics companies have drilled the opposite into us for ages. If you strip all the oil away from your face, your skin will respond by producing excess oil and that leads to more clogged pores and breakouts. And a little [...]

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Bionic Asks: What’s your favorite type of foundation?

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Luckily these days we have many choices when it comes to what type of face makeup we wear. Plain powders, cream to powders, just concealer, loose mineral makeup, liquid minerals, tinted moisturizers, liquid foundation… the list goes on and on. If you’ve been a Bionic Beauty reader for a bit, you’ll know that my favorite [...]

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Powerful Beauty with Kelley Maddison of Priia Cosmetics

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This week’s Powerful Beauty contribution comes from Kelley Maddison. Kelley is the owner and founder of PRIIA Cosmetics (which you’ve heard me talk about here on Bionic Beauty before). In addition to formulating her own line makeup line including foundations, skin complexion enhancers (one of my absolute must-have products!!), lip colors, eyeshadows, and vegan brushes, [...]

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The No Makeup Beach Look

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Heading to the beach with a dramatic face full of makeup just looks plain silly. If you can’t go bare-faced, here’s a simple and low-key natural makeup look to get you by. Face: Purely Cosmetics Skin Smoothing Foundation in Sunkissed Cheeks: Priia Cosmetics Skin Complexion Enhancer in Ethereal Eyes: Jane eyeshadow duo in Hazelnut (the [...]

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Silver Bullet makeup look

Bionic Beauty face of the day makeup by Priia Cosmetics

Today I wanted a subdued makeup look and I had the hankering for a faux-tan. So out came my Cargo bronzer, and a handful of my samples from Priia Cosmetics. This makeup look uses… Priia’s Skin Complexion Enhancer in Angelic (I call this my Tinted Moisturizer of the mineral makeup world! This is a great [...]

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