Take it or leave it? Purple Lab Pearlesque Show Silicone Free Primer

As promised I’m back to share my thoughts on this Purple little beauty I discovered on eBay! Pearlesque Show Silicone Free Primer. It’s made by Purple Lab which unfortunately seem to no longer have a Website. But if you search eBay and Amazon you can definitely purchase this baby for less than $10. Apparently Purple Lab Products were sold on HSN for a while, this primer was listed at $38.00 back then, #Score! Okay so now on to the good stuff! 

The Review!

Product Claims: “Feel like a star with Pearlesque Show! This rich primer is velvety smooth with crushed pearls so your skin will steal the spotlight and have the youthful, dewy glow of a silver screen siren. Full of plumping peptides, kiwi, honey, aloe, grape seed extract, ginkgo biloba, and lavender. The formula is decadently deluxe and ultra hydrating. While it primes your skin it also offers coveted skincare benefits and antioxidants so your face will look firm, even and fresh and your makeup will last forever. Girls, get your bodyguards ready! “----I thought the last part was adorable Lol!                                                    

I've been using this primer for almost a week, knowing how picky my skin is I feel completely confident that my thoughts on it will remain the same. 

On day 1  I washed my face as usual, then I toned and  moisturized with Extra Virgin Olive Oil. As soon as I squeezed the tube, I automatically thought of the Laura Mercier Foundation primer…No silicony feel whatsoever--think white lotion Yay! A pea size amount was enough to cover my forehead, cheeks and chin. I left my nose alone since it’s *super* picky with products. This primer has a nice simple scent, reminds me of Oil of Olay lotion. It felt really nice on my skin absorbed it quickly. I spent the day out in the Florida heat, my skin gave me absolutely no isues….no irritation, no itching, and no break outs. When I returned home my T-Zone was in decent shape. It wasn’t matte, which the product doesn’t claim to provide, but it wasn’t an Oil Slick either. What I did notice was that my face felt a little too moisturized if that makes any sense Lol! I knew that the following day I would skip the Olive Oil, this Primer has so many amazing ingredients that using it on its own would be enough to moisturize my Combo skin. Day 2! I skipped the EVOO and I applied after toning. Same pea size amount, this time I used it on my nose too. My skin loves it!! You know the break out I mentioned in my previous post from The Hard Candy Sheer Envy Primer? It was pretty much gone on day 2! There’s something about this primer that soothes the skin and calms any irritation down. My makeup stays put all day, no creasing. It creates a great base to apply my foundation and best of all my face feels fresh all day! I have nothing negative to say about it, I absolutely love it! I’m ordering a couple of more tubes for myself and to keep in my Kit. The only way I use a product on a client is if my picky skin can handle it and this has definitely passed the test! #AngiesPickySkinApproved! 100% Take it! And if your skin is super sensitive to silicone take 2 or 3 tubes while you're at it Lol!

Oily T Zone and Sensitive Skin! My quest to find the perfect primer!

Hello my dolls! My first official post of 2015!! 🙌 I attempted to sit down last night but unfortunately blogging turned into sleeping Lol! Let me first start off by giving you a little history on my 32 Year old Skin. Up until my 29^th year I had Normal to Dry skin. Once I turned 29 my skin freaked out! I mean it was like going through puberty once again. My skin became very sensitive to products I had been using for years. My T-zone became an oily mess and I developed this rash on my forehead that took forever to clear up! I basically had to eliminate everything I was using and start from scratch.

After a lot of trial an error I came to the conclusion that A. My skin *hated* the ingredient Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, which is in SO many facial cleansing products! This is what was causing the rash and the reason why it took so long to go away. And B. I now had Oily to Dry Skin. The solution---The simpler the better. No fancy creams or soaps, no special sponges or brushes. My skin care routine consists of only 3 products: Ambi Clear Complexion Bar to cleanse, Witch Hazel to tone and last but not least the best moisturizer ever Extra Virgin Olive Oil. These 3 babies helped my now very sensitive skin get back to normal.

Okay so how did I deal with my Oily T-Zone? Some more trial and error. I discovered Milk of Magnesia worked great to keep my forehead matte all day, but I hated how tight the rest of my T-Zone felt. I started purchasing different drugstore primers….I went through Rimmel, all of the Hard Candy Primers, Maybelline Baby Skin, and even tried the Monistat Chafing Gel Lol! All of those have one thing in common, they are all silicone based primers. They immediately give me a matte, smooth finish but by midday my T-Zone is super oily. And the worst part is they eventually cause my skin to break out. The worst one of the bunch was Baby skin…I broke out within the hour! The Hard Candy ones are a little tricky. My skin takes a couple of days to react and I end up forgetting since I don’t use them on a daily...I have horrible short term memory Lol! 

Oh and before I forget the Milk of Magnesia recently started giving me a rash on my forehead and was given the boot! It was a good 3 years! ---The only primer that my skin loved was the Laura Mercier Foundation primer which I received as a sample after ordering a concealer. It felt like a lotion, completely different from what I was using, but it did it’s job wonderfully! After I ran out I completely forgot what it was that I had been loving and continued to purchase other primers, which is how I ended up with 3 of the Hard Candy Primers Lol! 🙈

So after a recent little break out from the Original Hard Candy Primer (White Tube) I started doing a little hunting on Google for a Silicone free primer. I came up with a short list of Primers with great reviews and heavy price tags #NoBueno but I was willing to order a tube if it meant my skin would be happy. Before settling on one I decided to search eBay and typed in the same words I typed in Google: Silicone Free Primer, and up popped up this purple Beauty with it’s lovely little price tag of $9.58 with tax!

 My thoughts??? You’ll have to wait for my next post 😂 Lol! I didn’t expect my skin history to take this long but I felt it was necessary to give you an idea of why this primer may or may not be what you’re looking for…stay tuned loves! X💋X💋