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Mineral makeup

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 Tip: Mix your own tinted moisturizer

Beauty, makeup and skincare tips from the Bionic Beauty blog

I recently took a trip to a pretty dry climate. I’m one of those rare gals who adores humidity. My skin dries very easily and the humidity helps keep me from getting flaky. Between the humidity decrease and the dry airplane air, I knew I’d need to slather extra moisture on my face.
My solution? I [...]

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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). Contains [...]

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Twilight Fun: Twiology Look-a-like Makeup Contest

Mixology Makeup sponsors the Twiology Twilight Makeup look-a-like contest

Calling all the Twilight fans!! Want to have a bit of fun leading up to the New Moon movie premiere, play with makeup, and possibly WIN some mineral makeup too?
Look no further… Mixology Makeup is holding a Twiology Look-A-Like makeup contest!

To Enter – Go to MixologyMakeup.etsy.com and order your Official Twiology Character Sample Kit [...]

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Reader Question: Diluting your foundation

Bionic Beauty shares tips on diluting your makeup foundation

This question came in from Bionic Beauty reader Chris…
I have some Boots Botanics complexion renewing foundation. I like it a lot, but it has become quite thick.  Is there anything I can do to dilute it?

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

Bionic Asks: What

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 face [...]

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Beauty Detective: Mislabeled Milani “Talc-Free” Makeup Exposed

Milani Pressed Mineral Makeup compact foundation

One of our Bionic Beauties out there deserves a Private Investigator badge for this little goodie!
To protect our PI, I’m giving her a code name: Alice. Alice headed to her local drugstore recently and picked up a compact of Milani’s new pressed Minerals Makeup Foundation in Creamy Natural.

Alice says:
It works well for me and is [...]

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Bionic Giveaway: All About the Eyes from Purely Cosmetics

All About the Eyes

It’s All About the Eyes with this new giveaway sponsored by one of my all-time favorite indie makeup brands- Purely Cosmetics!!
In honor of my 2nd Anniversary, Robyn (the owner and founder of Purely Cosmetics) and I teamed to bring Bionic Beauty readers an amazingly cool gift set that packs everything you need to get your [...]

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