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Nars Velvet Matte Foundation Stick Review and Swatches on Medium Brown Skin

Nars Velvet Matte Foundation Stick Review and Swatches on Medium Brown Skin

This is the second time I’ve stumbled across a foundation that’s made me completely snub my previous holy grail. Got Oily Skin? Need Buildable Coverage? Need to touch up on the Go? Want to be able to Blend without searching for your beauty blender? Then this Nars Velvet Matte Foundation Stick is perfect! Nars has blessed us with many cult favorite foundations, but this is the first Foundation Stick to be released by the brand. The Nars Velvet Matte Foundation stick retails for $45 and comes in 20 shades, and I received four to test for myself.   One of the…

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Top Ten Foundations for Oily Skin

Top Ten Foundations for Oily Skin

[ad name=”In Content Responsive Ad”] Choosing the perfect foundations for oily skin can be a daunting task. With the aid of mattifying primer you can usually prolong the wear of foundation made for normal skin, but after a while the oil will break through and start to break down the makeup leaving the skin a slick, glistening mess.  Oily skin also comes in different flavors as many with oily skin often have to deal with breakouts and more severe concerns like cystic acne.  If you have oily skin you want to look for a foundation that has certain characteristics. The Best…

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The Best Makeup Primers for Oily Skin

The Best Makeup Primers for Oily Skin

Makeup isn’t supposed to slide off your face, but that’s exactly what happens when you have oily skin and don’t prep for the masterpiece you’re about to create with your makeup. I’ve used countless oil control lotions and moisturizers to try to combat my oily skin but to no avail. These past couple of months leading up to summer I’ve been on a serious search for a product that could really keep the oil at bay and not have me looking as if I were cooking fried chicken all day. Makeup Primers are made to prime the skin, or to…

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