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A Lovely Beauty Blender Duo

Special Valentine

Long-time Bionic Beauty readers know that I’m a BeautyBlender fanatic. For those of you who haven’t heard of this little makeup application miracle, bring yourself up to speed by reading my review. My blender gets used for concealer, powdered mineral makeup, finishing powders, and liquid tinted moisturizer. Pretty much any foundation I put on, gets [...]

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Bionic Asks: How do you apply your face makeup?

Bionic Beauty Asks - Makeup and beauty question blog article series

This week’s Bionic Asks… How do you apply your foundation?
Personally I still use my Beauty Blender sponge daily for my mineral makeup base. I make sure my Blender is a bit damp, then tap some minerals into my saucer and bounce the sponge into that.
If I’m doing a finish coat (like Purely Cosmetics’ Diamond Finish [...]

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Protect those makeup brushes!

Purely-Brush-Protectors

Makeup brushes are an investment piece in your makeup kit. Even if you only have 1 or 2 nice brushes, you should take care of them. Wash them at least once per month, preferably every other week with a gentle shampoo or soap. Some people like the Dr. Bronner’s Castille Soap (find it online, at [...]

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Product Review: Pur Minerals Starter Kit

Bionic Beauty reviews the Pur Minerals Makeup Starter Kit

By now, most makeup fans have heard of the Pur Minerals line. I was actually pretty behind the times since I do not get, nor watch, QVC. But I have tried some of Pur’s lip products, and am seriously longing for their lipstick in Black Amethyst.
Anyhow, Pur Minerals recently gave me the chance to test [...]

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Bionic’s blending with the Beauty Blender

Beauty Blender sponge - photo by Bionic Beauty

I’m probably the last gal on this planet to have tried the Beauty Blender sponge. I know Mo and Jen at Mythbuster Beauty both placed it on their Best of 2008 lists… so I figured, what the hey. I’ll give it a go.

Weeeeee! What a revolution in makeup application! I usually apply my makeup with [...]

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A smokey blue eye look

Smokey Eye - Step one

The look is just a variation on the smokey eye, but since I adore Clinique’s Dark Denim eyeshadow alone, I wanted to create an entire look around it. I was inspired by my favorite dark jeans and thought… this would make a perfect smoked eyeshadow look!
First I lined my eyes (upper and lower lash [...]

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My Holiday Haul

Bionic Beauty

So I got mostly non-beauty related presents this holiday season. Most importantly, I got my upgrade for my Macbook. She’s now furiously running Leopard OSX. Yippee!
But back to beauty… here’s what I got from family and friends.
I got an incredible set of makeup brushes from Smashbox! It’s their Holiday 2008 set. My friends knew I [...]

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Bionic’s Best of Beauty 2008!

Best of 2008 by BionicBeauty
Yippee! It’s 2009! I have always been partial to January… it’s fresh, usually cool (although today it’s over 70 here, wow) and it’s my month. I’m a Capricorn and my birthday is just around the corner!
But enough dilly-dallying… I’m here to give you the Bionic Beauty Best of 2008 list. These [...]

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e.l.f. launches new Studio Professional makeup line!

elf cosmetics

Breaking news for Bionic Beauties!
e.l.f. Cosmetics (eyes.lips.face) has launched a whole new line of makeup tools with their Studio “Professional Line”. Sleek packaging, dual-use items but with a slightly higher price- $3 instead of their usual one dollar. Still cheap-O on the grand scheme of things!
Here’s what the new collection includes so far… (**note: You [...]

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