Welcome to my"journey to find a good green liquid foundation"!.Oh,what a mouthful.So,if you have read or happened to read my previous post about my journey to find a good green liquid foundation before(read here),yes..this is my 2nd attempt of finding my good green liquid foundation.If you're like me who don't want to have nasty ingredients on your beauty products,you'll know that it's pretty difficult to do so.I was a sucker for BB creams for its good light,non heavy feeling,yet un cakey finish at the same time.So,having my self converted into green product ones,I also tried to find green BB cream for me as well.But by far I find nothing!!BB creams and silicone are good friends.And some other things that I don't want to have it listed on my beauty products inci.Since there's no green bb creams yet,so I source for tinted moisturizer,or even foundation,or...... anything please that has good ingredients and good finish result!!*Says me desperately*
I prefer liquid one since cream foundation is heavier and I don't like any heavy make up look,especially if you live in Indonesia here where you're like melting all the time with those sweats allover your face.
My 1st attempt with Almay foundation,results zero. So this time I go with pricier product from..my almost fave brand"100%pure". I bought this 100%pure tinted moisturizer in golden peach.This one retail price is 5x than my previous Almay pure blend foundation.Hoping for the best with that price?Sure,absolutely.Who wants to dump a 32USD product?certainly not me.
So,this product has 7 shades,previously it has 5 shades.The latest shade is cocoa.If you look at their official web to find the perfect shade for you,you'll be confused.Especially if you're an Asian like me with"a complicated skin tone(not that yellow and not that tan)".Previously it was like this:
Then now it's like this:
I think my skin tone is between golden peach and toffee.Since I was confused so I tried to google the product in its actual color,I found this:
l-r:creme-golden peach-toffee-peach bisque
Didn't want to risk of having a foundation that is darker than my skintone,so I chose golden peach one.It's for those with yellow skin tone.
swatch
I'm having trouble in choosing make up colors,both online and offline shopping.Often that I did in the past,I went to cosmetic counter,picked products that I thought it'll be good and suits me best.End up when I wear the product on day light,it's either brighter,or darker in its actual color.Some stores have lighting that is deceiving.Back then I've ever bought L'oreal lipstick in a wine color(on the store),when I wear it on daylight,turned out to be it's a bright fuchsia!!Thanks to the store's light,which was yellow light.So,for me going online or offline shopping are just pretty much the same = I have to bear misleading color purchase.As for this time purchase,I'm glad it matches to my skin tone.And yes,buying something lighter than your skintone is better I think.I don't know you,but I don't want to look grey or ashy like I have pouring dust/sand on my skin.So I better bet my purchase on the lighter one.
Ingredients:
Pigments of Peach, Apricot, Carrot, Pomegranate, Cocoa Bean, Goji Berry and Tomato, White Tea, Cucumber Juice, Aloe Juice, Acai Oil and Pomegranate Oil, Vitamin E (a-tocopherol), Vitamin C (ascorbyl palmitate), Rice Starch, Candelilla Wax, Extracts of Rosemary, Oregano, Thyme, Grapefruit Seed, Japanese Honeysuckle, Goldenseal and Cinnamon
SUNSCREEN ACTIVE INGREDIENTS: 15% Titanium Dioxide and 10% Zinc Oxide
The result of this tinted moisturizer is:very sheer!!It doesn't cover anything,it's just like you using a moisturizer with color on it,but the color did nothing to cover your imperfection.
See my pic below:
It covers nothing!Yes it has the color,but doesn't color your skin at all. I remember that my dear blogger friend,Vivi has ever told me that 100%pure concealer that she's tried did nothing to cover.She's right!:/
What good things about this product is that it has dewy finish look,and has skin healing properties.Your face will feel smoootthhh after couple of application.Not clogging pore either.It has peachy smell,a bit sour.Part that I don't like the most about this product is that this has japanese honey suckle(lonicera japonica) in it.Japanese honey suckle is a natural paraben,something that I'd like to avoid.If you asked me why bought this back then,1st of all though I've managed my self to be pickier when I want to buy something,sometimes I can be sloppy by skimming ingredients list when I do the reading.2nd,I read somewhere that 100% pure made a denial about that japanese honey suckle=parabens issue.So between those 2 reasons,I made this purchase back then.And..yes,apparently japanesse honey suckle is a natural parabens.That said, I'm not happy with this ingredient at all.
What good things about this product is that it has dewy finish look,and has skin healing properties.Your face will feel smoootthhh after couple of application.Not clogging pore either.It has peachy smell,a bit sour.Part that I don't like the most about this product is that this has japanese honey suckle(lonicera japonica) in it.Japanese honey suckle is a natural paraben,something that I'd like to avoid.If you asked me why bought this back then,1st of all though I've managed my self to be pickier when I want to buy something,sometimes I can be sloppy by skimming ingredients list when I do the reading.2nd,I read somewhere that 100% pure made a denial about that japanese honey suckle=parabens issue.So between those 2 reasons,I made this purchase back then.And..yes,apparently japanesse honey suckle is a natural parabens.That said, I'm not happy with this ingredient at all.
About the packaging,it's an airpump cosmetic botle packaging.It was sealed also(but I didn't take a pic of it,I just couldn't hardly wait to try it back then).On my previous posts about other 100%pure products that I've tried,there were no expiry date or something there.But then I checked on 100%pure official web,it said that"On each product, there is an open jar symbol with a number on it. That number indicates how long you can use the product once it is opened".Or as what you can see on the pic here:
So it'd be good to be used up to 12 Months since the 1st time opened.But then I saw that this product has an expiry date on it,right there on the down side of the back of the bottle(see my pink circle below):
Pretty confusing eh?Why do they put the exp.date on this product and not on other products that they have(as my previous review here and here)?They should treat all products equally because exp.date is a part of consumers right.Is it because the latest batch of 100%pure product?I don't think so,even the latest product that I bought after buying this one,they didn't put exp.date there either.Such a weird thing..
If any of you wondering what are the differences between"expiry date/expiration date(both are fine,according to my British fellow blogger,Dana;) )and that "open jar symbol",here is the difference meaning according to Jentri Provenzano,Badger balm marketing manager(Badger has such a very good PR!!you can ask them anything!):
"The expiration date is how long the product is good for before it is opened. The 12m “open can” symbol is a guide to how long it will stay good after you open it. As soon as you open a tin of any product and use it, the life span varies.Since Badger does not use and chemical stabilizers, factors such as storage temperature and humidity, as well as how clean the fingers are that scoop out the product impact an open tin’s life span. Essential oils will slowly but surely evaporate from an open tin; that’s the pleasant fragrance you smell when you open one. You can expect your opened balm to stay good for 12 months, however if it looks good and smells good, it is still good!"
That's for Badger products,but it applies to other cosmetic products as well,mostly those who use non synthetical ingredients ones.Thank you Jentri for the explanation btw!:)
As for me,exp.date is important to know the shelf life of my products.I mean,how could I know whether the product that I purchase is made on 20 yrs ago or 1 year ago if they don't put any date there and only put an open can symbol?I have the right to know about it.
All in all,I'm not satisfied with 2 crucial things of this product : no coverage,and the parabens.So this product is a 3 points out of 5. Yeah,at least it's all natural wannabe and organic as well.Oh,I forget to ask this earlier:Is there any of you experiencing difficulties with the new blogspot system?Couple of days ago I hardly see any followers of my blog and on other blogs as well.I thought it's because of my browser,so I tried using several different browsers,still the same result.My blogger fren,Dasha from green make up also couldn't comment on my blog,that happened last month and now it's been fixed.Dana from earth,mind,and body also couldn't sign in to her g+ account.What's wrong with google?I really hope that they can solve the problem soon :/..
Guess that's all for now.Have a good day,thanks for reading and..please don't be hesitated to help those in needs,click this link below:
