by charby

Created on: June 30, 2009   Last Updated: July 18, 2009

Since my skin is generally OK, I usually find that lightly tinted moisturiser is enough to brighten my face when I want to look a bit better than average. There are times, however, that I want to look my best, and on these occasions I've found that tinted moisturiser and all previous foundations that I've owned simply won't do. One of my friends recommended Bare Minerals to me, and since her makeup always looks great and I'd read many positive reviews of it on Dooyoo and Ciao, I decided to take the plunge and buy some for myself. I was still fairly wary, however, as the last foundation I'd bought had also been on a friend's recommendation, and whereas it looks great on her skin, it appeared blotchy and streaky on mine.

Fortunately, I didn't have this problem with Bare Minerals SPF 15 foundation, and have to say that it is the best foundation that I have ever used. I got two small 2g pots of foundation as part of a Bare Minerals Get Started Kit, which I thought was excellent value at 38.25 for two pots of foundation, one pot of bronzer, one pot of mineral veil, a bottle of Skin Rev-er Upper and three makeup brushes of varying sizes. Since to buy the three individual brushes separately would have cost in the region of 60, and to buy full sized foundation, bronzer and mineral veil would have cost me over 40, the Get Started Kit is definitely the thing to buy if you're a Bare Minerals virgin. The set also comes with a handy booklet explaining the best ways to apply your new makeup as well as a DVD, which makes getting started so much simpler.

Anyway, onto the foundation itself. Since I had ordered a kit for light skin, I received my foundation in the shades 'light' and 'fairly light', though rather confusingly 'light' is darker than 'fairly light', whereas I thought that it would be the other way around. Since I am pretty pale, and my friend who is more tanned than me suits the 'light' shade, I started off by trying the paler shade that I received, and was happy to discover that it matched my skin tone perfectly. The handy booklet suggested using the flawless face brush for applying the foundation, and so this is the one that I used.

Since I have never used powder or mineral foundation before, I was fairly nervous before attempting to apply Bare Minerals foundation for the first time. After all, I didn't want to find out that I'd wasted 38 on something that I didn't know how to use! Fortunately, the booklet gave a handy step by step guide on how to apply it. Firstly,

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