Purely You Mineral Make Up Review

Hello Loves,

Today I am really excited to present to you a review of clean beauty brand Purely You Minerals, and psst, there might be a giveaway going on on my Instagram page, and it is international too, so grab this chance with both hands, and go enter here.

Purely You Minerals was started by how so many natural beauty companies are started – people with skin issues getting fed up with chemicals! Their ingredients are very basic, a huge bonus in my book. Having uber sensitive and dermatitis prone skin myself, I appreciate lines that purposefully try to be basic. Joy Atkinson (Owner/Formulator) makes all-natural, gluten free, mineral cosmetics (foundations, setting powders, blushes, bronzers, eye-shadows, and lip colors). All of  products are currently vegan (with the exception of lip glosses) and organic ingredients are used when possible.
Info from their website:
Purely You Mineral make up is made in small batches to maintain high quality standards. Purely You Minerals are light and breathable, offering great buildable coverage and SPF15. Only the finest ingredients are used, no cheap, irritating fillers. None of the products contain talc, powdered starches, clays, bismuth oxychloride, parabens or nano size particles. Also, the products are completely gluten free and never tested on animals - both things are very important to me!. Purely You Minerals is a natural makeup, designed to accentuate your beauty, not cover it up.

I have to say I am really happy with all the products I've got, and I really love the fact that the make up is affordable, which proves the naysayers wrong, the clean beauty items CAN be affordable AND work perfectly well. They offer loose powder products and pressed ones as well at no extra charge, which is just a music to my ears! Pressed powder products are rare in a green beauty world, and a few companies that do offer pressed options, they bump up the price significantly. Not here! I mean you can get full size of pressed foundation for $16 (or €14.66), sweet or what?

Foundation:
Ingredients: (pressed powder)
Mica: Inert mineral adds smoothness and diffuses light to minimize the appearance of lines, pores and wrinkles,
Titanium Dioxide: common mineral used for good coverage, adhesion and some UV protection,
Zinc Oxide: a natural mineral that adds coverage, adhesion, UV protection and is an anti-irritant, Boron Nitride: a natural, inert mineral used to improve the feel of make up.
Pigments: A blend inert minerals; Iron Oxide, and Ultramarine Blue.
Shea Butter: extracted from the nut of West Africa's wild karite tree. It's high content of essential fatty acids and natural anti-oxident compounds provide extreme moisturizing capabilities as well as cellular restoration.
Coconut oil (Caprylic Capric Triglycerides):they offer a noticeable silkiness in products, they exhibit excellent anti-oxidant properties to extend the natural shelf life, especially suited to sensitive skin and oily skin.
Jojoba oil: The oil from the jojoba shrub is a wax ester, which means it’s very much like the natural oils our bodies produce. It is also found to be anti-bacterial and anti-inflamatory.
Vitamin E: gluten free. Does NOT contain: talc, powdered starches, clays, bismuth oxychloride, parabens, gluten or nano size particles in any product!
(The loose mineral foundation does not have shea butter, coconut oil and vitE in the ingredients, so you can choose this version if you have sensitivity to any of them).
My experience:
The website says it offers light coverage, and I would agree it does indeed give light to medium coverage, which is enough for everyday, really, but I have to say I have had success building up the coverage using damp beauty blender. No caking here either, and it did last all day! Pressed version is perfect for travels and to pop into the handbag for a touch up moments, but I didn't need any. You get 8 grams of product in full size, but they also sell samples, which is perfect because we all know how hard it is to match yourself online. I was sent N2, N4 and N6 at first, N2 turned out to be way too light, N6 too dark and N4 seemed to be pretty close match for my winter/spring pale skin, but as summer is fast approaching, I knew it will be too light them. So they made me my first ever custom foundation! How fabulous! Thanks so much, Sarah and Joy! If you constantly find yourself in between the shades, like me, don't be shy and contact them about it, they will happily help you out with it.

Blush:
They currently have three different shades and a bronzer. Used to be four, but Peachy Petal is now discontinued. I got mine in Petal, which I would describe as coral, mauve colour with a hint of terracotta undertone, at least it pulls that shade on me, my Instagram friend Kara from Greenbunnyk describes it as Nars Orgasm natural dupe, I can see where she is coming from, but it is definitely pulls more brown than coral on me. It does have slight shimmers running through it in the pan, but it does not translate on the face, you can't see any shimmer particles on your cheeks. You get standard 3 grams of product for $8 or €7.33 for both pressed and loose version, awesome or what? You will see it swatched in the photo below with a lip colour.

Ingredients:
Loose Blush Contains:
Mica: Inert mineral adds smoothness and diffuses light to minimize the appearance of lines, pores and wrinkles
Titanium Dioxide: Common mineral used for good coverage, adhesion and some UV protection
Magnesium Stearate: A chemical compound of Magnesium (element, same as in vitamins) and Stearate (plant derived). Used in cosmetics to improve adhesion and texture.
Pigments: A blend inert minerals; may contain one or more of the following: Iron Oxide, tin oxide, Ultramarine Blue

Pressed Blush Contains:
Mica: Inert mineral adds smoothness and diffuses light to minimize the appearance of lines, pores and wrinkles
Pigments: A blend inert minerals; Iron Oxide, may contain ultramarine blue
Titanium Dioxide: Common mineral used for good coverage, adhesion and some UV protection
Magnesium Stearate: A compound of Magnesium (element, same as in vitamins) and Stearate (plant derived). Used in cosmetics to improve adhesion and texture.
Zinc Stearate
Shea Butter: extracted from the nut of West Africa's wild karite tree. It's high content of essential fatty acids and natural anti-oxident compounds provide extreme moisturizing capabilities as well as cellular restoration.
Coconut (Caprylic Capric Triglycerides):they offer a noticeable silkiness in products, they exhibit excellent anti-oxidant properties to extend the natural shelf life, especially suited to sensitive skin and oily skin.
Jojoba: The oil from the jojoba shrub is a wax ester, which means it’s very much like the natural oils our bodies produce. It is also found to be anti-bacterial and anti-inflamatory.
 Vitamin E: Gluten free

Lip colour:
This is a vegan product. Mine is in Dawn and it is a brown sort of shade, which is perfect for me at the moment, I seem to get more and more into darker-than-nude brown lips lately, so this shade will be very well loved and used. You can see it swatched here on the right. Retails for 7.33€ or 8$ approx, the same as their lip gloss.

Ingredients:
Castor Seed Oil, coconut oil, Shea Butter, Avocado seed oil, candelilla wax, Iron oxide, Mica, Titanium Dioxide, Zinc Oxide, Rose Hip Seed, Boron nitride, Vitamin E (gluten free)

Purely You pressed blush Petal on the left, lippy in Dawn on the right. Both layered three times.

Lip Gloss:
Little warning for my vegan friends, this contains both beeswax and carmine, so I would suggest you get yourself Lip Color instead. Everybody else, read on. This is the newest product that they came out with, and they are so excited about it..I have to say it is good, great pigmentation and I love the color too, ties in very nicely into my new love of brown better-than-your-own-lip color shades. I know it will get a ton of use this summer. It smells like sweets and is not sticky at all, so those of you gals who hate sticky glosses - you will love it! Retails for 8$ or 7.33€ as their lip color. Sign me up for all three for that price!

Ingredients:
Lip Gloss' Contain: Castor Seed oil, Shea Butter, Bees wax, mica, iron oxide, candelilla wax, rosehip seed oil, stevia, vitamin E, carmine, orange oil


My verdict:
I really like what I see here! Natural and affordable make up products that are good for even the most sensitive skin (me), what's not to love? You can practically get the whole line of products for the same price as you would pay for the foundation alone elsewhere. And these products work, I do not have a single complaint about it. I was a bit afraid that the blush will be chalky, but it is not, it is smooth and easy to work with - in fact, try using it as an eye shadow too, I know I did, and I liked it that way. The lip color is nice too, goes on quite sheer, but you can build it up, the same goes for the foundation, you can wear it sheer or apply more layers for fuller coverage, and it just works. So yes, I am happy user of Purely You Minerals, and I would suggest it to you too.
As I mentioned, there is a giveaway for two products - a cheek color and a lip product of your choice - going on on my Instagram page right now for the next two weeks (closing 6 June 16) so make sure to go and enter to get a chance to win. I promise you will love it! The giveway is open internationally and is not realated in any way with Blogger or Instagram.
Good luck to every single one of you :)



So that is all for now.
Lots of love,
Renata.


*The porducts are PR samples, all thoughts and review are honestly my own. I am not paid to say this.