Beauty Products Review

Beauty Products Review

What We're Sweet On: (Really) Natural Mineral Makeup

If you're into luxe mineral makeup and skin-friendly ingredients, you might want to put Kide on your radar.

If you're into luxe mineral makeup and skin-friendly ingredients, you might want to put Kide on your radar. The line of baked foundations, concealers, and highlighters, is mica-based, and doesn't contain talc or bismuth oxychloride (the ingredient responsible for the itchiness that sometimes accompanies mineral makeup). Plus, the light reflectors and pigments aren't a bunch of filler metals and lake colors you've never heard of. It's just mica, iron oxide, tourmaline, copper, and diamond dust. The stuff is not cheap at $85 per item, but neither, thankfully, are the ingredients.

The only drawback we see with it is that, since it's a powder, it's not great for people with dry skin, especially if you live somewhere with cold weather that exacerbates the problem. Otherwise, the packaging is great, the products (especially the highlighters) are gorgeous, and the formulation is outstanding.

Beauty Products Review

What We're Sweet On: A Flawless-Face Brush Set

From powder to eye shadow to blush, you probably already have several basic makeup brushes among your beauty stash.

From powder to eye shadow to blush, you probably already have several basic makeup brushes among your beauty stash. But it's what's inside Napoleon Perdis's Luxe Basics brush collection ($65) that will have you see what you might be missing.

The set includes four soft-as-a-baby's-bum brushes to help your makeup application all the more flawless: a foundation/primer, a foundation/buffer, a cream concealer, and a precision primer. Each one works to ensure that you'll ace your base products with ease, so you'll be blending and buffing like a pro in no time. So long, streaks.