Many of the natural beauty brands I buy makeup products from offer no skin base options for darker skinned green beauties. Feeling excluded and that my business doesn’t matter is not the best feeling in the world. It makes me most 😦
This issue is by no means exclusive to natural beauty brands. I do not expect every single company to have a colour that matches me. I do expect in 2014 for brands to offer a full spectrum to suit all the beautiful skin colours that doesn’t end at beige. Hey brands, people that don’t look like Gwyneth Paltrow love to buy natural beauty products too.
BEAUTY COUNTER
This new brand claims to have the strictest ingredients list in the beauty industry with over 1,500 items on its “never” list. I love the look of this brand – from its ethos, to ingredients, to packaging and marketing.
Beauty Counter Tint Skin
Unfortunately Beauty Counter is not available outside the USA yet so i’ll just have to lust over from afar. beauty.counter.com
GRESSA SKIN
I’ve ordered a few skincare products from Gressa, which I will be reviewing shortly. The company uses high quality organic ingredients and its tagline is “Skincare + Couture Colour + Uncompromising Ingredients”. I like that green beauty brands are bringing it.
Gressa Minimalist Corrective Serum Foundation sounds right up my street!: “It’s a serum. It’s a foundation. It’s a multivitamin for your face.”
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This is another USA based company but they do ship to the UK from $15. www.gressaskin.com
ILIA BEAUTY
I know Ilia for their lustworthy lip products – a few of which I have in my stash. Gorgeous colours, fab quality, sleek chic packaging, clean/organic ingredients – what’s not to love. I cannot wait to see what they’ve done on the skin front.
Ilia Sheer Vivid Tinted Moisturizer and Ilia Vivid Concealer
Again Ilia is a USA company but it is available online from a number of UK websites – check at iliabeauty.com and in-store in London at Content Beauty.
UPDATE: Read my Ilia Vivid Concealer review here.
Have you tried any of the brands above? I’m planning to be have a thorough look at what’s available here in the UK and will report back. I’m sure they are some great companies out there that do cater to more needs. Do please share if you know any great natural beauty brands offering a full spectrum of skin shades.
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