Lumiere Cashmere Foundation: A Pleasant Surprise
I've always been vocal here on my blog about how I love Lumiere's eyeshadows, Lumi Lips lipglosses, blushes and blushing bronzers. I believe that this company truly has outstanding products and high quality pigments that would make every mineral makeup enthusiast happy and pretty. However, it was a sad day almost two years ago when I discovered that my skin rejected its mineral foundation in the Veena Velvet formula. I had really bad breakouts and I think it was because of the avena sativa (oat) ingredient. Since then, I have stayed away from Lumiere's foundations, although I kept going back for everything else. The silk blushes are to-die-for, their eyeshadows have outstanding pigment and do not need to be foiled to achieve great color pay-off, and the Lumi Lips lipglosses have beautiful shades that would suit any skintone. I thought I would stay away from Lumiere foundations forever. Until now.
I kept reading rave reviews about their Luminesse and Cashmere foundations, especially this latter formulation. I read the ingredients of Cashmere and I was elated when I didn't see avena sativa on the list. It says: silk powder, serecite (colorless mica), titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, boron nitride, iron oxides. I decided to give it a try and tried to remember my shades in Lumiere, and blindly ordered three 20g jars of shades that I thought would suit my winter and summer skintone, including an in-between shade for mixing. I got my order fast and safe, and I was so happy about this purchase.
First of all, can you imagine a pleasant-smelling mineral foundation? It was a pleasant, sweet smell that I can't describe; and no, it's not an artificial, cloying scent either. It smells a lot better than the old Veena Velvet foundation, and in fact this is the sweetest-smelling mineral foundation I've tried. Many of the ones I've used are either scent-free and some have that nasty cigarette (?) smell, and some have an earthy aroma that is natural when you use minerals from the earth. This, however, smells quite nice.
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By the way, I don't think that Veena Velvet has been discontinued - it's still in the dropdown menus for the foundation shades that I checked.
I don't like a glowy finish either, so I doubt if I'd be trying Luminesse. Did you use Cashmere wet? I used the damp brush method and it makes the coverage a little heavier.
Lumi's Cashmere is my HG! I love it! I apply it both dryish' in the summer, and "wet" in the winter and both finishes are great! I need to order a full size soon, I'm running out of my two travel size jars and yeah I don't think Kim has sales often, hopefully she will soon, and I'm eager to find out about the "new" formula she has in the works:)