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Reveal Your Glamorous Look with Mia Mariu Review + Giveaway

October 22, 2014 by Alison 16 Comments


MiaMariu Cover

You may remember, I’ve shared Mia Mariu products before and I absolutely love them. If you didn’t see my previous review of their primer, foundation, and concealer you can find it here. When I received the opportunity to try some of their mineral make up and other items, I absolutely said yes!

According to Mia Mariu,

“The Mia Mariu philosophy makes the connection with Beauty and Health in Harmony. Mía Mariu’s high performance products are formulated with the most natural ingredients available helping you achieve vibrant beauty and health inside and out.  Each unique product fuses nature and technology by combining the highest quality botanicals, antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and peptides.  The result? Healthy products that provide a perfect balance that reflects itself through youthful, healthy, beautiful, glowing skin and renewed energy and vitality, at an exceptional value.  Mía offers natural skin care, professional makeup artist quality mineral cosmetics and brushes, fine fragrances and nutritional supplements to Reveal Your Unique Shade of Beauty!”

The Review

  The Mineral Blushes are a light velvety powder that sweeps on silky sheer color easily and evenly providing a natural blushed skin tone. I chose Maria Azucena and as you can see, it has a light-diffusing quality which allows for a mistake-proof, basically flawless application and the color remained true all day.   Blush & Lipstick   Next, I love the Hydrating Stick Gloss in Deseo. This product is supposed to combine color and hydrating gloss in a stick form which it seems to go a great job of.  It is not tacky or sticky, rather it has a buttery, creamy feel that.  It certainly seems to moisturizes your lips while delivering color in a sheer and sophisticated finish. This photo makes the Deseo  color look like a deep brown, but it actually goes on fairly sheer and was not too dark, even for this girl who usually sticks to pinks, melons, and peaches. I don’t know that it will be my daily go-to lip color,  but definitely good to have on hand when I feel like changing up my look.   I selected the  Mineral Shadow Liners in Caramelo and Aquamarina.  The pigment in these is impressive and their creamy powder texture gives an immediate release of intense color and blends very easily for a long-wearing, crease-resistant application.  When mixed with water, you can use it as a beautiful long wearing eyeliner. I love having options and I love it when products are multi-purpose. I also really, really love sparkly, glittery or shimmer things, so I am really liking this shadow liner so far.   Eye Shadow   The Volumizing Mascara in Black does a great job at extending and separating lashes by lengthening each lash while delivering just the right amount of mascara without clumping.  I hate clumps and its really hard to find a mascara that doesn’t clump, but also sticks enough to make a difference. This mascara contains rich dark pigments to enhance lash color for maximum drama, and really, what’s the point of mascara if you don’t want those beautiful lashes to be noticed?   Finally, the Intense Black Eye Liner Pencil is a smoothly textured eye pencil that provides precise definition and easy, smooth application.  The pencil applies evenly without “dragging” or pulling the delicate eye area which produces a clean precise line without smudging. This is super important for me because I have really moved away from pencil liners lately and gravitated toward pen and gel liners. I haven’t found a pencil liner that went on smoothly and didn’t smudge and make me look like a raccoon by mid-day. Guess what, so far so good with the Mia Mairu liner. Now I don’t know if I’ll be making this my primary go-to liner, but it will definitely be one that I pack as a secondary on the go.

A sun in my eyes shot showing the "after" look.

A sun in my eyes shot showing the “after” look.

 

The Giveaway

One winner will win the same makeup combo that I reviewed in the colors of your choice. The winner will be able to choose one Mineral Blush (color of choice) two Mineral Shadow Liners (color of choice), and one Hydrating Stick Gloss (color of choice) along with receiving a Volumizing Black Mascara and an Intense Black Eye Liner Pencil. US Residents only please and this Giveaway ends on 11/13/2014 at 11:59 pm PST. Make sure you complete as many entries as you want in the Rafflecopter form below. The more entries you complete, the more chances you have to win!! a Rafflecopter giveaway

I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.

Filed Under: Beauty, Contests, Giveaways, Product Reviews Tagged With: mineral makeup

Comments

  1. Heather (Rafflecopter Rosie Areola) says

    October 22, 2014 at 7:51 am

    The Mineral Blush looks really nice!

    Reply
  2. Holly Thomas says

    October 22, 2014 at 8:36 am

    I would like to try the mineral foundation.

    Reply
  3. rachel says

    October 22, 2014 at 8:39 am

    I hope I win!

    Reply
  4. Linda Szymoniak says

    October 22, 2014 at 11:50 am

    I’d really like to try their Mineral Blush

    Reply
  5. DeAnna Keller says

    October 22, 2014 at 1:30 pm

    The Mineral Blush looks really nice!

    Reply
  6. Rebecka Pauline says

    October 23, 2014 at 4:56 pm

    I would love to try the mineral foundation &primer thanks for the chance.

    Reply
  7. Justina says

    October 23, 2014 at 7:20 pm

    This looks so nice on you, and your swatches are fantastic!

    Reply
  8. Lana Bradstream says

    October 23, 2014 at 7:47 pm

    I want to try the blush

    Reply
  9. Bonnie Caselman says

    October 23, 2014 at 11:41 pm

    I’d love to try the eyemakeup.

    Reply
  10. Belinda says

    October 25, 2014 at 8:15 pm

    I’d really like to try the mineral powder foundation.

    Reply
  11. Michelle T says

    October 26, 2014 at 3:39 pm

    The liner!!! I haven’t found a mineral liner that doesn’t give me raccoon eyes! How long did it last for you? It looks nice and dark in your pic!

    Reply
  12. Debbie Bray says

    October 27, 2014 at 5:19 pm

    I would like to try the Mineral blush

    Reply
  13. Stephanie says

    October 28, 2014 at 2:19 pm

    i wanna try the mineral foundation

    Reply
  14. Danielle Corrow says

    November 9, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    I’d love to try the mineral foundation 🙂

    Reply
  15. Nancy Loring says

    November 11, 2014 at 10:29 am

    I would like to try the primer and foundation. I am picky about my makeup and this seems really nice.

    Reply

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