Meet Powderflage and Enter to Win at Benefit Cosmetics.

I don't think I have told you about my latest concealing weapon. This new weapon is a powder, ladies. A bit unexpected, don't you think?

Leave it to Benefit to come up with  fun and useful product that conceals in such an unexpected way. Meet Powderflage.

Don't let the camo tube fool you. Inside you will find the prettiest little pink pot filled with a special... almost magical, concealing powder.  Let us not forget the ultimate application tool - theflager, also known as the brush for which to apply the concealing powder.

For us older gals who need a bit more than camoflaging, I mean diffusing, this is great over your ordinary (not heavy duty) concealer. I actually like to use this pink powder over a yellow based concealer I have from the NOC-Out Cover-Up Compact. It sets my concealer and diffuses light away with it's pink, pearly, fine silk powder.

Now, if I don't have you sold on this powder yet - get this. To celebrate the launch of Powderflage, Benefit is having a sweepstakes where they are  giving away a brand new Louis Vuitton Monogramouflage Speedy 35 handbag and $200 worth of benefit products! How about that?

Take a few and enter the contest over at Benefit Cosmetics and pick up this magical camoflauging powder while you are at it.

NOC-Out Cover-Up Compact.

If you are anything like me, you use more than one concealer on a regular basis. Covering dark spots, under eye circles, while trying to lighten and brighten, needs more than one shade. That is what makes this compact perfect. It is from Redpoint Anti-Aging Cosmetics, and this is their NOC-Out Cover-Up Compact.

You will notice three different shades in the compact. And each shade has a different texture, as each one is designed to cover and treat different areas of the face. The three shades and what they are designed to do:

1. The Yellow color is designed to cover up red areas. Think blemishes, redness around the nose or on the eyelids, rosacea. Just a bit of this creamy formula blended out with your fingertip, conceals the redness.
2. The Salmon color is formulated to disquise age spots, sun spots, hyperpigmentation, freckles, etc. I like to use a concealer brush to apply this color and blend over and around any dark spot to make it appear as though it was never there.
3. The Beige color is the color most typically found in concealers, as this one is made to cover up under-eye circles. Not only does this conceal the dark circles, it is thick enough to stay in place under the eye without caking.

As a bonus feature of this product, each cream is infused with ingredients to treat the specific problem it is covering.

NOC-Out Cover-Up Compact is available online at Redpoint Beauty for $38. But... I need to tell you that this compact, in it's full size, is included in the first BeautyFix kit. If you have not read about BeautyFix yet, please read my earlier post and add up the savings yourself! You might want to stay in touch with latest about BeautyFix too, and you can do that right through it's page on Face Book: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beautyfix/41929438808

Back to School Beauty: Physicians Formula Blemish Rx.

Finally - most of the kids are back in school. Yes, yes, yes! Can you see me doing my happy dance? I was not looking forward to it, honestly. But now that I have quiet for almost six hours a day, I am lovin' it!

I figured it is not too late for another Back to School Beauty post. Especially now that my daughter's friend was stressing because she had a pimple form during her first day of school. While it was barely noticeable to me, you know that is all that she (13 year old) saw on her face. We went through my stash and came up with Physicians Formula Blemish Rx, and I had her give it a try.

In this handy little pen type applicator is a tinted treatment to not only cover, but to treat the pimple at it's core. The formula contains CliniClear Technology™, a unique blend of time-released Salicylic Acid and clearing botanicals. This makes the treatment fast acting, and tolerable without being over-drying. Instantly the pesky pimple was not noticeable because of the color. Within an hour, the redness to the bump was virtually gone.

Blemish Rx is available at mass merchandisers, drugstores, etc for $8.95. It comes in three concealer skin colors as well as soft green for those really red bumps. The green color neutralizes the red.

This handy blemish fighter cover-up gets the seal of approval from a 13 year old and Mom!