Revision Skin Care Intellishade SPF-45 Review

Are you feeling a bit overwhelmed suddenly with the huge number of tinted moisturizers and BB Creams that are on the market? I fully admit that it is getting really hard to tell them all apart. However, this one was recommended by Dr. Tanya Kormeili, a dermatologist at UCLA when she shared her favorite beauty products with me recently. Ummm... a dermatologist loves it? I need to check it out!

Like other BB Cream/tinted moisturizers that are out right now, this product packs a lot into 1 little tube. First, it has great UV coverage with SPF 45. It has a lot of my favorite anti-aging ingredients in it (just check out that checklist below, that's really great for 1 product). Not included in that check list are the skin brighteners and the highly stable Vitamin C that is in the formula. While it only comes in 1 shade it does claim to be "intelligent" and work with every skin tone.

First, it wasn't a perfect match for me, but I am very pale and it was starting out about 2-3 shades too dark for me. Considering that, I felt it was a much better match than I thought it would be when I first checked it out. I was able to wear it out and about for the day without an issue. It has light to medium coverage and I only needed to add a little extra concealer right under my eyes. It definitely minimized my pores and it has a bit of a mattifying effect as well. The coverage lasted most of the day, still looking pretty perfect at about 12 hours.

As far as I can tell the only draw back is that it is available primarily through physicians and spas.










IntelliShade

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Simply Vera Makeup Line Review: A New Choice at Kohl's

Vera Wang is mostly known for her super pricy line of wedding gowns (which, trust me, are well worth their price). Some people know about her lower priced line, available exclusively at Kohl's. The line includes shoes, women's clothing, even home items. But, it recently expanded to include beauty items. The line is produced by Beauty Bank, a division of Estée Lauder (they're also behind the Flirt line at Kohl's). This isn't really a lower priced Estée Lauder line, think of it as just another Estée Lauder line. The quality seemed to be the same to me, and the prices are pretty equivalent.

I was able to try out a pretty wide array of products from this line including a tinted moisturizer, lip line primer, eye shadows and lipsticks. Read on to see what I thought.

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Proactiv Sheer Tint Moisturizer with SPF 15 Review: A Slightly Fuller Coverage Option

Whenever summer draws near, I am attracted to every tinted moisturizer, or tinted moisturizer-like product, within a roughly 50 mile radius of me. I want them all, they will make me look like I have perfect and luminous skin, and really, they will do so while they provide me with sunscreen, and all in one step! Typically the tinted moisturizers aren't quite enough coverage for me (there goes that one step thing, I need to add a little foundation), they are often missing the sunscreen, and the moisturizer is too much for my combination skin in warm weather.

Proactiv's tinted moisturizer is a little bit different from other tinted moisturizers simply because it does have a little more coverage. Instead of a super light coverage, this is a light to light/medium (not quite medium) amount of coverage, which is great! The moisturizer sinks in right away and with a light blending with my fingers this stuff looks flawless. Seriously. I found that it stayed this way all day, and the amount of moisture was just right for me, so I didn't become an oily mess later on.

This lotion does contain SPF 15, though it was not full broad spectrum coverage. It doesn't have a sunscreen smell and none of the thick, sticky feeling that some sunscreens have. Instead it has a faint lotion scent (I really can't describe it any better), and once it has sunken into your skin it has a very lightweight feel.

If there's a shade that matches you this might be a good spring time update.




SPF 15










Proactiv
(to order individual products rather than the whole system you can order from Proactiv)

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NARS Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturizer Review

Finally, I'm reviewing the NARS tinted moisturizer! I fully admit that I've had this moisturizer for well over a (few) month(s), and I've been using it on and off, but I hadn't fully made up my mind about it. It is a basic moisturizer, a light lotion consistency the coverage it provides is pretty light. It absorbs quickly and you can't feel it once it is on, so it is pretty much perfect for spring/summer. For some reason I found that the coverage was lightest in areas that I rubbed the lotion in a little more (was I rubbing it off? Probably.) so those spots that needed the most coverage... well, they actually got less. I typically had to apply a little extra concealer or even a little foundation in these areas to even things out, which was fine, but I was hoping to skip this step (hence why I was thinking about this review for so long).




Consistency: Light lotion
Blendability: Very easy! I can make it look perfect with just my finger tips.
Buildable coverage: Only slightly buildable. You're better off using a foundation or concealer for areas you need more coverage.
Feeling on skin: Lightweight
Wear: 10-12 hours
Problems with wear: No caking or settling into fine lines
Shades Available: 9 colors, I used Alaska


SPF 30





NARS Cosmetics

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