Mineral Makeup Hatred Explained

I'm probably about to alienate many of my readers, but I mentioned in my previous post that I have a blind, unadulterated hatred of mineral makeups. This is of course my personal opinion, but after being at work all day, where I am forced to swirl, tap, and buff my life away, I feel this hatred is justified. There are several different reasons for this, the first of which is simply this:

Do you see what that says? So pure you can sleep in it. That's great. So, you've been wearing your makeup all day, and now you have a fine layer of sebum, dirt, and carcinogens on your skin from having even gone outside, and they are telling you it's fine to go to sleep with all those free radicals bouncing around? Hello premature aging!

Secondly they are messy. Loose minerals are more pure, this is true. But they get everywhere. I come home from work everyday covered in every sort of powder you can imagine, and then this stuff came out and made it a million times worse. I don't care what line you work for, the dress code in cosmetics is "cosmetic black". You can't carry the stuff with you or it gets all around the inside of your purse, not to mention the brush gets destroyed.

There are brands that have created "pressed" mineral powders. Chances are they've had to add binding agents to make them stay pressed. Not to mention all the interesting chemical colors they need to add to have anything like a decent shade range. There are liquid mineral makeups too! At that point why bother? They've added god-knows-what to those too. You've just defeated the entire purpose of a mineral makeup.

So your mom wears it. So does your cousin. And your best friend. And your grandma. And your mom's co-worker's transvestite nephew. So because it works for them, it's going to work for you? Maybe they don't have large pores and you do. Maybe they don't have fine lines that you do. Maybe they are blind and don't realize that mineral makeup makes both of the above mentioned flaws look worse. But seriously, the old adage applies here: If everyone you knew commited suicide by jumping off a bridge would you do it too?

And finally. FINALLY. You're getting married. And you want to look natural in your wedding photographs, so you want a mineral makeup.

Can someone please just kill me now?

Minerals reflect off the flashes or strobes when they fire. Your face will be a different color then your body, and take on a bizarre ghostly sheen. There's one for the wedding album. Stay away from anything with a high mica content whatever the brand, people! That "healthy glow" makes your skin look clammy and zombie-like in photos.

So what is it good for then? Well if you have rosecea or acne it's good. And there is actually a clinical reason for this. Mineral makeups do contain Zinc Oxide which is an excellent anti-inflammatory. That means it takes the red out of your rosecea or acne. It calms it down so it's not as inflamed or infected. And I suppose minerals makeups are good for moms or other women who have zero time, and want to feel like they are wearing makeup and getting coverage. Honestly to get the coverage you have to pack it on fairly heavy, and people don't like to feel like they are wearing a mask. Back to square one again.

So those are the reasons I hate mineral makeups. It is just my opinion, of course. But really folks at the end of the day mineral makeups are just dirt in a jar and I don't care if the rest of the world disagrees with me.