Sunday, October 19, 2014

New foundation | Maybelline's Dream Wonder

I was so fed up with my usual foundation this week! It's been sticky, greasy & just all around not sitting well on my skin these days. So I sauntered on down to the drugstore to check out some new options yesterday and came up with ...

Maybelline's Dream Wonder Liquid Touch Foundation



This foundation is extra thin and extra creamy.  This one is in the shade 10 Porcelain Ivory because yes, I am that pale (especially heading towards the colder months). 

I was fortunate to find a tester in my store, so I was able to open it up & check out the product before I bought it.  It's very liquid, to the point where it feels kind of like you're spreading water all over your face. Aside from being thin, it does seem to cover pretty well, while still feeling light & airy on the skin.  I have a few blemishes right now & some uneven colour in the cheek area & it definitely smoothed and blurred everything out. 

The wand, well, it's bizarre.


Now look at that. It's teardrop shaped, but I thought (obviously I didn't play with the tester long enough) that it was a sponge. It is not a sponge, it is a piece of hard plastic.  It is pointy at the top & it supposed to somehow be used as a good dispensing method for this stuff. I tried. I tried so hard to figure out how to use this weird plastic teardrop dispenser. I ultimately poured a tiny amount onto the back of my hand. I guess if you were really excited about the wand you could rub it on your face?  It doesn't pick up very much product though.

I put it on using a mixture of my fingers and a makeup sponge to apply it. It goes on very smoothly & feels amazing on the skin.Using the sponge assured that I didn't end up with extra product anywhere weird. A little bit of concealer under the eyes & a sweep of powder in the T zone & I was good to go. 

4 hours later, I still feel like it looks fantastic. No oily skin, no dry patches.  Seems to work fairly well with combination skin!  I will probably be wearing it for about 4 more hours before I wash my face, so we will see what it looks like after dinner this evening.

Cheers,
Kait