One of my rewards is to buy some new make up. I am feeling alot better about myself and I feel more girlie, so I was looking at getting some new makeup. I love the idea of the Bare Minerals because very natural and minimilistic.

I was wondering if any of you lovely ladies have gotten your hands on it and if you enjoy it or prefer something else.

That's great! Thank you! I'll definitly look into them versus Bare Minerals.

I have very sensitive skin, and minereal makeups are the only makeup I can wear - and even then usually for only a few hours. With most mineral makeups (including Bare Minerals) I have about a six hour window before my skin starts to react (becoming itchy, red, inflamed and broken out in pimples and/or a rash).

My sister and mother gave me some Bare Minerals as a gift, and I was able to wear makeup for the first time in several years (but I had to get it off my face within about 6 hours before my skin would become irritated). Still it was nice to be able to wear makeup occasionally. I switched to Covergirl mineral makeup, and that worked just as well as Bare Minerals for me (no more or less coverage or irritation).

Then JerseyGyrl turned me onto Smoky Mountain Minerals, and I've become a huge fan.

I haven't had any problems with the SMM products. I've tried a few other online mineral product brands also (free or nearly free samples, mostly) and I haven't found any as gentle on my skin or with as good a coverage.

kaplods: Honestly that's great to hear! I do have sensitive skin and tend to get a bit red in the cheeks (rosacea runs in my family but I've never gotten it checked out.)

I will now most definitely try that brand over Bare Minerals.

Thanks ladies!

I love Bare Minerals. I've always hated liquid foundation, but Bare Minerals was the first foundation I could ever stand to wear. What amazes me is that I'm super oily, my mom is dry and super sensitive, and we both can wear it.

I also like Philosophy supernatural powder foundation. It's in a sponge-topped jar, so it's a little less messy than Bare Escentuals. I like it for travel.

Happy makeup shopping!

Between SMM makeup and low-carb/paleo (no grain) eating, my skin has never looked better (at least not since pre-puberty).

For years (decades, really) I also had what appeared to be rosacea, but now it only "flares" if I've eaten grains or used non-SMM makeup. I don't even get the odd pimple any more unless I'm eating what I shouldn't, or not getting makeup removed fully before bed.

I've been trying to convince my middle sister (who has acne issues) to try SMM and experimenting with giving up grains and sugar (as an experiment).

She's really devoted to Bare Minerals though, although I suspect she assumes that more expensive means higher quality - it's a prejudice I've fought in my family for decades so they all assume that my fondness for SMM has more to do with it being cheaper than Bare Minerals, though if cost was my bottom line, I would have stuck with Cover Girl or E.L.F. mineral makeups.

I'm willing to pay for quality when I get a comparable return - but if I'm going to spend twice as much for Product B as Product A, I expect Product B to be twice as good - if it's ten times as expensive, I expect it to be ten times as good.

Bare Minerals was four times the expense of the CoverGirl (last I checked) but NOT four times the value (in fact it was pretty much identical in my experience). However, I can justify the greater expense of SMM, because it was twice the cost of what I was using, but exponentially better. If SMM was twice as expensive, I STILL would consider it a bargain.

I never was brand-conscious with makeup before (I bought whatever was cheapest and still covered without irritating my skin).

The only complaint I had with SMM (and it's not really a complaint) is that I initially bought the lightest color (which has always worked for me in the past, because I'm quite pale). I ended up having to buy a darker shade (but that's what's so neat about SMM they have color-correcting foundation to lighten or darken foundation, so you can mix a custom shade).

I love being able to adjust my foundation shade to my current skin color, because I'm much paler in the winter than in the summer.

I just got Bare Minerals Well Rested a week or so ago and I love it! It's an eye brightener/concealer, I got it for under my eyes and it's fantastic. I also tried it over a blemish and again it covered it perfectly. It's becoming my favorite concealer as it really does make a huge difference!

As for general mineral make up I use Lily Lolo mineral foundation, it's cheaper than BM and again it's incredibly gentle. It covers really well and the staying power can't be faulted. I have normal/dry skin and this doesn't look dry powdery on me. There's only a couple of ingredients too :-)

I have these too and have tried EVERYTHING with no luck. Despite all the expensive brands in my drawer that ended up doing nothing, I've found the cover girl yellow stick works best. (and even not that great) I may try what you suggest with the pink underneath and see how that works.

I tried out Bisque in a department store, I know it's described as a concealer for light skin tones but when i came out into natural light, I looked lightly sunburned where it had been applied! Was way too dark for me. The only other concealer I've used which I really felt made a bit of difference to my under eyes is the Maybelline mineral concealer.