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Product Brand and Name, Price (CDN), Where Purchased
Clinique Even Better Makeup with SPF 15 in Shade 01 Alabaster, $30.00 CDN @ Sears.ca
Reason for Purchase
Clinique discontinued my favorite foundation (Almost Makeup) and I needed a replacement that would work with my ‘blend’ of the Clinique 3-Step Skin-care system.
Notable Features
The foundation is medium coverage, and is formulated to even and correct skin. It promises to give your skin a luminous and natural finish. This makeup is meant for dry combination to combination/oil skin. If you use a 2 or 3 in the Clinique 3-Step Skin-care system (I am a 2) this foundation will probably work for you.
This foundation is dermatologist developed and allergy tested, and is also 100% fragrance free.
Here’s the promise made by Clinique on the box: Perfect today, brighter tomorrow. Makeup meets treatment with naturally luminous minerals to perfect and Vitamin C to restore a brighter tone over time. SPF helps guard against future damage. Apply prior to sun exposure.
Packaging
The foundation comes in a flesh-tone bottle with a silver twist-off cap. Once you take off the cap, you see that there is a nozzle where the product comes out. In order to dispense product, you squeeze the bottle. You do not need to squeeze very hard - the foundation has a very thin consistency so it comes out of the bottle very easily.
Experience Using Product
I have been using this foundation religiously since I bought it (about 3 full weeks now). I squeeze out an amount a little bigger than a pea onto the back of my hand, dot the foundation all over my face and then I blend it in with a foundation brush.
The shade I have matches very well with my skin tone. I like the amount of coverage that the foundation provides; it’s not so thick that I feel like I’m wearing a mask and it’s not so thin that I don’t feel like I’m wearing anything at all. This foundation is a ‘happy medium’ for me (no pun or irony intended).
When I haven’t let my moisturizer absorb into my skin fully, the foundation does get streaky. However, when I’m patient and let my moisturizer do its thing, the foundation works well overtop of it.
The foundation sets quickly and stays put! - even when my skin gets a little oily over the course of a day. The foundation also does not rub off very easily on collars and high-necked shirts/sweaters, which is lovely.
Would I Re-Purchase, Recommend, or Reject
I was not optimistic that I could find another Clinique foundation that I would like as much as Almost Makeup. I am pleased to say that the Even Better Makeup is working well for me and I like it a lot. It’s not my favorite yet - we’ll see how things go!
If you have skin that is like mine, then I recommend you give this foundation a shot. If you really aren’t sure you want to buy it, visit your Clinique counter and see if you can get a sample to try out.
When my bottle of Even Better Makeup runs I out, I will likely re-purchase it.
For more information about this foundation, visit the Clinique website here.
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