I am pretty much a minimalist, with a flair of luxurious desire. However, wearing makeup is not something that you’ll see me doing often. Most of the time I’ll do lipstick/lipgloss and mascara. Sometimes, I only wear chapstick for my immediate go-to. Only once in a blue moon you’ll see me wear foundation. At my age, at the last of my 30’s, that it’s normally rare to go without face makeup. But I am blessed with great inherited skin, and don’t need much to maintain my skin (not tooting my horn, just grateful).
Ultimately, I will wear foundation when I feel inclined to or check out it’s wearing power. I recently splurged on a $93 foundation from Guerlain. The Parisian perfume house released a foundation infused with 24 karat gold flakes and white peony. The item is called: Guerlain “Parure Gold Skin” matte foundation. It promises 24-hour wear, no transfer, and has a SPF-15 sunscreen. The shade I purchased was 7N neutral, and I thought it was a little darker than I expected. Ironically, by the time it dried, it blended into my skin tone well. There isn’t much of a shade range for darker skin tones, which is pretty disappointing but I’m not surprised. All in all, this is a great matte formula and quite luxurious!
I paired it with a MAC Cosmetics mascara (don’t remember the name) and YSL (Yves Saint Laurent “Velvet Matte Satin” lipstick in 201 Rouge Tatouage.
You can purchase the foundation mentioned above from Neiman Marcus and the lipstick from Sephora. The mascara can be purchased from MACCosmetics.com.
Simplified beauty! 💋
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