Beauty Product Reviews

Bang for you buck

5 blushes that last forever for this kind of money? They also last: hours and hours on the skin. I apply them OVER powder which extends the wear. I also like the ingredients: nice and simple. The two colors on the right end are more for deeper skin and the rest are more for medium to light but I can make all of them work. And you can mix the colors! Fantastic product.

Not for my skin

I wanted to love this so much. I think this is for normal to oily skin, because my skin is dry and it looked like the desert. Even after an oil, or a moisturizer. I tried all application methods. Nothing worked. It ended up looking so flakey. I wish I could have joined all those people saying this is the most skinlike ever and they love it, but I can not make it work for my skin. So sad. Advice: always try samples first and don’t be daft like me purchasing the pan right away. I don’t have acne prone skin and my issue is not with the coconut oil. Also they use certified talc (asbestos free, mind you, talc itself is a clean mineral, it’s the asbestos which makes it toxic) which makes it a fine ingredient.

Fantastic for dry skin

Skincare and makeup are very personal, which is why I will only recommend this for my skintype: dry, mid thirties, hardly no fine lines except for on the forehead a bit. Method of application: hands. I tried all others, but really massaging it in works the best. On me it’s dewy for a minute or two. Then it sinks in and leaves a gorgeous skinlike finish. Now my friend who has the same skintype applies it with a sponge over all her skincare, and on her it stays so shiny. I really don’t think that is the purpose of the product at all. I really see it as a one and done product. Ilia says that one dropper provides the spf mentioned and so I slather that on in 2 layers. I love the coverage which I think is light to medium, but the finish is really where it gets interesting: so smooth! But don’t you have to re-apply sunscreen? You do. Which is why I apply this over itself after a few hours. No trouble at all. Even if I lightly powdered it.

To me this is a gamechanger. I wish Ilia would provide a mix in or something to up the coverage, but for now I’m fine with it. My skin is doing fine. I’d say if you have a lot of hyperpigmentation this will not do on it’s own.

One minor point: the shade range. I can wear shade 5 through 9............. That’s weird.... I think they could skip every other light shade and add to the medium and deep. But that’s just me.

Beautiful and good ingredients

This concealer is lovely. It is in my top three of better ingredient - concealers. It is not very buildable but you get a good amount of coverage. It plays nicely with other brand foundations. I find it is especially good for under eyes. Does hardly crease on me.