I recieved the Vapour Organic Beauty Atmosphere Luminous Foundation, ($38) to review the week before I had my daughter, and being able to just swipe some foundation on and go has made life a lot easier.

I’ve applied this foundation with my fingers, and with a makeup brush, and I like that I can just swipe the stick on my face, without having to use another applicator.

The foundation applies and blends evenly and smoothly, and I don’t feel like I’m tugging at my skin to get it on.

I was sent the foundation in Light 110, and it is the perfect color for me.

Although the foundation has a moisturizing base, it doesn’t make my skin feel or look oily or greasy, which is great.

I also love that this foundation gives me the benefit of a mineral foundation in a form that doesn’t accentuate any fine lines or dry areas on my face.

In addition to the Atmosphere Foundation, I also received the Vapour Organic Beauty Illusionist Concealer, ($20) in 010.

The concealer also comes in a stick form, and is slightly firmer than the foundation, so I am careful when I apply it around my delicate eye area.

The concealer does a decent job of covering my under eye circles (which are extra dark due to lack of sleep from waking up with the baby at night), and it also covers the broken capillaries on my nose if I apply a couple of layers.

Even with the layers it isn’t obvious that I’m using concealer.

I’ll have reviews of the Siren Lipstick and the Mesmerize Eye Color coming up, but I have to say now that I love that the Eye Color, Siren Lipstick, and Illusionist Concealer all come in different colored tubes, with the name of the color on the top for the eye color and lipstick.

This makes it so much easier for me to tell which product I am grabbing from my makeup case (once I determine which shade goes with which product) and I love not having to open each tube to see what I’m holding.

Vapour Organic Beauty is made from food grade organic products, and the concealer and foundation are both made out of 70% certified organic ingredients, and the packaging for the foundation is made from recycled fiber and a managed forest box and printed with soy ink.

Since all of the packaging looks the same, I’m assuming all of the packaging is made the same way.

If you’ve tried Vapour Organic Beauty, I’d love to know what you think, so leave a comment and let me know.

Disclosure: Samples from the company or the representing PR agency were provided for this review. The opinions presented in this review are my own. I was not financially compensated for this review or any other review.

I recieved several samples to review from Buff’d Cosmetics, and I’ve really liked all of them.

I was excited to try the Concealing Mineral Foundation in Lace ($18)and I was pretty impressed with it when I did try it.

The first time I tried it, I poured a little too much from my sample baggie into my buff palette, and I was pretty surprised when I looked at myself in the mirror after applying it.

All the imperfections, including a few broken capillaries that I’ve only been able to cover up when I’ve used Bare Minerals with a concealer brush, were gone - and I was only using a kabuki brush, not the puff that I usually use when I want more coverage.

There were no differences in skin tone - my face truly looked like a blank canvas.

So naturally, when I had wanted to put on a little makeup so my “company” that insisted on coming over at 10:00 am on Saturday even though my husband told them repeatedly not to come, wouldn’t know that I was in my room crying because my plans for the day were ruined, and because I didn’t see why anyone with any sense would insist on coming to visit a couple with a 2 week old baby on a Saturday morning after they’d been told not to come 3 times, and after they were told the day before that my husband was planning to sleep until noon that day.

Aren’t postnatal hormones and in-laws wonderful?

It’s a shame that we weren’t rude enough ignore the door, but if we ignored the door and their phone calls they would call the police to come check on us, and I really don’t want to deal with that.

Anyways, the Buff’d Cosmetics Concealing Mineral Foundation covered all of the ruddiness around my nose, and no one had a clue that I’d been crying 5 minutes ago.

I was really impressed at that - I didn’t think anything would be able to cover my red nose, but I was sure glad that I was wrong.

Disclosure: Samples from the company or the representing PR agency were provided for this review. The opinions presented in this review are my own. I was not financially compensated for this review or any other review.

I love peel off masks.

Maybe it’s because it brings back childhood memories of peeling glue off my hands, but for whatever reason, I think they are fun.

I was really disappointed when I realized that my old favorite peel off mask had parabens in them, since I am trying to avoid them, so I was really happy when I found out that the Merlot Purifying Peel Off Mask($16), didn’t have parabens.

Finally, a peel off mask I could use again.

I have to be honest - I haven’t used the mask twice a week, as suggested, but I have been happy when I have used the mask.

I was having trouble with oily skin and blackheads while I was pregnant, and I have large pores, and the mask is supposed to “cleanse skin, eliminate blackheads and impurities, and minimize the appearance of pores.”

I love that the mask is supposed to cleanse - it’s nice not to have to wash my face before I use a mask, since that always makes me cold.

The mask did seem to help with blackheads, and it didn’t leave my skin feeling dry or tight.

I think it was a little easier to peel off than my old mask, but it’s been so long since I’ve used it that I really can’t remember.

I did discover that if I peeled the mask off while I was in the tub, the mask didn’t dissolve, so you might not want to do that unless you don’t mind pieces of mask floating around in the tub with you.

Other than that, and let’s be honest, I’m not likely to be peeling the mask off in the tub any time soon, I didn’t have any problems with the mask, and I’ll definitely be using it again.

I’m really glad that I was sent this product to review.

Disclosure: Samples from the company or the representing PR agency were provided for this review. The opinions presented in this review are my own. I was not financially compensated for this review or any other review.

I had my little girl Saturday night.

I wanted an October baby, but not a Halloween baby, so of course she was born on Halloween, but that’s fine.

My birthday is so close to the holidays that I didn’t want her to have to deal with a birthday on a holiday, but I’m sure she’ll be fine with it.

Both of us are doing well, and of course she is adorable.

We were in such a rush, that when I told my husband that I had to get some makeup, he told me to just take the whole case, so we did.

I wasn’t going to put any on, but then I got bored, and it helped take my mind of the contractions when they were still mild.

Of course, it had all worn off by the time the baby was born at 10:44pm, and I didn’t put any more on until today - the day after we came home from the hospital.

Did you wear makeup when you were giving birth?

Did you take makeup to the hospital?

If you haven’t, do you plan on it?

I actually went back to Target to get another Revlon Renewist Lipcolor, but I ended up getting the Revlon Colorstay Soft & Smooth Lipcolor instead.

This one was also on sale, and ended up costing me about $1.83 after I used a coupon.

The lipstick was a beautiful color, and lasted, but it was a little drying.

I actually haven’t used this lipstick much since I initially tested it, and I ended up giving it away before I finished this review, so I’m not even sure what color I used.

I was asked to review Skindinavia Makeup Finishing Spray ($29 for 4 oz) in July, and shortly after I received one to review I received another one in the Beautyfix Kit that I was sent to review. You can see my first thoughts on it at Skindinavia Makeup Finishing Spray: Beautyfix First Thoughts.

I’ve been using the makeup finishing spray off and on since then, and during that time I’ve used liquid foundation with and without primer, several loose mineral foundation powders, and one pressed mineral foundation powder.

The Skindinavia has worked great with all of these foundations.

I just pump a few squirts onto my face after I apply my makeup, and my makeup is set.

The finishing spray does say it has a “unique cooling technology that keeps makeup from melting, smudging, and losing color,” and it definitely cools on contact.

That felt great in the summer, but I don’t turn my heat on until it gets really cold, so I was a little apprehensive about spraying a cold spray on my face when I was already cold.

Fortunately, it wasn’t that bad - it was similar to applying cold liquid foundation, which I used to do all the time.

My favorite thing about the Skindinavia Makeup Finishing Spray is that when I use it, my foundation doesn’t transfer.

Bare Escentuals foundation has a bad habit of transferring when I blot my face, or blow my nose (gross I know, but I have to be accurate, right?), and when I used the Skindinavia with it, I didn’t have to worry about that.

It was so nice not to see the foundation all over the paper, and not to have to worry about how much foundation I just wiped off.

The makeup finishing kept my makeup in place, and I will definitely keep using it!

Disclosure: Samples from the company or the representing PR agency were provided for this review. The opinions presented in this review are my own. I was not financially compensated for this review or any other review.

I went a little crazy at a 90% off sale at a Rite Aid that was closing, and I got Cover Girl Outlast All Day Lip Color for about $1, even though I know the All Day Lip Color’s never work for me.

Unfortunately, this one is no exception.

Within about 10 minutes of applying the color and the moisturizing top coat, my lips were dry again, and I had to reapply the moisurizing top coat.

A little bit after that I started feeling like the lip color was balling up on my lips, leaving my lips with an unpleasant gritty feeling.

It’s a shame that I won’t be wearing this again, because the color is so beautiful.