A Way To Touch Up Mineral Makeup Without The Mess

Bare Escentuals bareMinerals Buffing Brush

My friend Megan introduced me to Bare Escentuals bareMinerals makeup a few months ago, and I have been in love ever since – with only one complaint.

I use the Bare Escentuals bareMinerals SPF 15 Foundation and the Bare Escentuals Mineral Veil to set the powder.  My only problem to date has been that there wasn’t a good way to apply touch ups to my makeup through out the day.  You see, although the mineral makeup has the amazing ability to provide great coverage while being super light and natural looking – it all comes in a loose powder form.  In other words, it’s really, really, messy.

Much too messy to stick a pot of foundation or mineral veil in your purse.  Which sucks, because a quick retouch of mineral veil at 4:00 in the afternoon gives you instant fresh face.

Thankfully, the good people at Bare Escentuals have answered my prayers in the form of a refillable buffing brush.

You can get the Bare Escentuals Mineral Veil Refillable Buffing Brush with or without the mineral veil included.

The brush (with the mineral veil included) is $35 at Sephora, and is also available at Amazon.

The brush has a screw in pot that goes in the bottom of the brush.  If you only use the powder, you could conceivably fill the pot with that instead of the mineral veil.  I prefer the mineral veil for touch ups that don’t make my makeup look thicker.

I’ve been using my buffing brush for a few weeks now, and I love it.  I had to shake the crap out of it the first time I used it to get the powder into the brush, but after that I’ve had no problems.  I keep it in my purse and use it to freshen up my makeup the same way I used to with a compact when I was using pressed powder.

Bare Escentuals fans everywhere, you should definitely add this to your must have list.

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