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Featuring this week’s giveaway {Learn how to make your own Cosmetics}
Giveaway Link (2/15-2/21) Also, don’t forget that this week’s freebie is a tinted lip balm. Add the lip balm to cart, apply code “freecolor” at check out, and it’s free. (retail $6.25) Expires 2/21/17
Two of my business buddy besties have asked me why I don’t add a line of cosmetics to MadeOn. After all, I do know a thing or two about colorants (we sell tinted lip balm), it would be a natural complement to the skin care that we currently sell, and we’re all set up with the square footage to be able to create, package and ship. Not to mention, I have a 15 year old daughter who’d love to grab her own two besties and play around with color. And, Pinterest is loaded with recipe boards, so it’d be easy, right?
But, oh my goodness, no.
Cosmetic-making would take me away from our main business focus, fixing dry skin. Instead, I prefer to position myself as the person who takes what she knows, learn something new with the occasional experiment, and put you on to the good stuff.
This is why I want to introduce you to a true expert in the natural make-up department:
Meet DIY cosmetic maker, Marie Rayma of www.humblebeeandme.com
I stumbled upon her blog several months ago, and then was first in line to purchase her book when it came out in December. She practically has a PhD in cosmetics. Okay, not really, but her information is so entirely reliable, and she shows, not just tells, how her make up recipes appear on the face. Yes, even the mineral make up powders and foundations… if you’re a “fair with pink undertones”, she’s got you covered with a DIY recipe leaving out the brown iron oxide and adding a bit more yellow. Or if you’re a “dark with cool undertones”, she’ll direct you to a bit more blue ultramarine in your make up recipe. She models actual people in her book to showcase her recipe, and how they look.
And that’s why, for those of you who really want to go the extra mile in the DIY department, go follow her, and buy her book. For the visual person, go check out her YouTube channel. She even has a free course, DIY Skin Care for Beginners.
Let me share with you this very important “3 steps to successful skin care making” that Marie talks about in her book.
Your finished DIY cosmetics must have:
- Adhesion: how long and how well the product stays on. Marie writes, “anybody who has ever had their eyeliner go full panda on them, or their lipstick turn them into the Joker while they weren’t looking, knows that adhesion is important” (Don’t you love that explanation?!)
- Slip: how the product feels as you apply it. Is it creamy and smooth? Or chalky?
- Function: does the cosmetic do its job as promised? (This, ladies, is the most important of the three properties.)
Thanks to recipe formulators like Marie Rayma, I’m off the hook from selling cosmetics, because some of you will grab your ingredient shopping list and make it yourself.
And for those of you who want a shot at a free book, go enter this week’s giveaway to get your chance at a free book and free mineral make up cosmetics!
Tomorrow, I’ll point you to a company I recently fell in love with where you can buy your own cosmetics. (If I were to sell this in my own store, this is how I’d do it.) This company passed the mom-who-wants-to-look-and-feel-natural test, and the 15 year old natural-and-beautiful-but-mom-must-approve qualifier.
In the meantime, check out some of Marie’s recipes:
Homemade Sunbeam Bronzer Cream
