Showing posts with label The Body Shop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Body Shop. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
The Body Shop Oil Free Balancing Foundation Is A Makeup Disaster
The Body Shop used to be one of my favorite makeup brands back in high school. However, after I went to college, I just somehow stopped shopping there, and ever since college, I really never bought anything from the brand. I have noticed that the brand has been doing quite a few promotions and sales lately, so I decided to take advantage of the lowered prices and try out some makeup products. Although I had quite a bad customer service experience with the store that I went to, I took home the Oil Free Balancing Foundation SPF 15 ($23) in shade 03, which sounds very promising for oily skin girls like myself.
I had a really bad first impression with the foundation due to its cheap and fragile packaging. For a $23 foundation, the package definitely need some improvement. The bottle I bought had a piece clear tape over it. When I tried to rip it off, a piece of the silver coating on the bottle broke off.
Usually, I apply liquid foundation by first roughly spread them all over my face and then carefully blend everything out. By the time I applied this foundation to my face and were ready to spread it evenly, it had almost already dried up, which made it extremely difficult to blend and took me almost 20 minutes to make it at least look a bit wearable on me. Then I decided that may be I use toss my foundation brush and tried to use a wet sponge because it is the easiest to work with thick foundations. Well, guess what? Even a wet sponge did not make it better. The foundation literally felt like a thick paste on my face that was just patchy and nasty. Then the worse came when I stepped out of the house, I noticed the foundation had already caked on me. Overall, it was such a horrible experience that I had to go back and washed everything away. I think I am better off with my bare skin than using this product. A total expensive junk that I returned to the store.
read more "The Body Shop Oil Free Balancing Foundation Is A Makeup Disaster"
More about the product : Perfect and balance skin while minimizing pores with a lightweight, shine-free formula. Best for medium to full coverage, oily and combination skin. Special blend of minerals and high performance spherical powders work together to achieve all-day balanced coverage.
I had a really bad first impression with the foundation due to its cheap and fragile packaging. For a $23 foundation, the package definitely need some improvement. The bottle I bought had a piece clear tape over it. When I tried to rip it off, a piece of the silver coating on the bottle broke off.
Usually, I apply liquid foundation by first roughly spread them all over my face and then carefully blend everything out. By the time I applied this foundation to my face and were ready to spread it evenly, it had almost already dried up, which made it extremely difficult to blend and took me almost 20 minutes to make it at least look a bit wearable on me. Then I decided that may be I use toss my foundation brush and tried to use a wet sponge because it is the easiest to work with thick foundations. Well, guess what? Even a wet sponge did not make it better. The foundation literally felt like a thick paste on my face that was just patchy and nasty. Then the worse came when I stepped out of the house, I noticed the foundation had already caked on me. Overall, it was such a horrible experience that I had to go back and washed everything away. I think I am better off with my bare skin than using this product. A total expensive junk that I returned to the store.
Pick It or Not ?
- Quality: 0 (out of 50)
- Packaging: 15 (out of 20)
- Price: 20 (out of 20)
- User Friendly: 5 (out of 5)
- Availability: 5 (out of 5)
Angela's Ultimate Pick: F
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
