MAC Soft Ochre Paint Pot

Happy New Year guys! Now that I've been away for a while, I think that I'm going to try to do a post a week every week. Hopefully more, but that's kind of asking for a lot... Anyway, I'm starting this year with a review of one of my favorite products of all time.

MAC Paint Pots are definitely a cult favorite to a huge number of beauty gurus.  I personally have to use them with Too Faced Shadow Insurance, otherwise they crease after a few hours. And they definitely need powder to set them, otherwise they crease rather quickly.

This Paint Pot, on the other hand, I don't use as an eyeshadow base; I use it as an under eye concealer. The yellow tones in it cancel out the purple-blue tone of my under eye circles.  The color is also a little lighter than my skin tone, which brightens too.  The consistency is very creamy, and since this is usually used as a primer, it doesn't crease either when I use powder to set (which is always). 

This product is perfect for my skin tone, or for one a little lighter.  I really can't recommend it enough. I've been using it for the past year and a half almost every single day and has lasted amazingly.  I love it, and it's really been worth the rather hefty price tag ($18.50). Comes down to about 3 cents a day.  All and all, I totally recommend this to people with a medium to light skin tone as both an eye primer and an under eye circle concealer. 

What products do you use in a different way than they are intended?

Face Up to It: Benefit the Pore-fessional

Everyone uses and eye primer every day. Hopefully. And for the most part, people can easily find one that works well for them. Face primers are a different thing.  They are much harder to tell if they're working well, because you want your foundation to be invisible, and they usually work okay alone. Benefit has a few different face primers, and featured here is the Pore-fessional.

  

Benefit: The Pore-fessional

Miniature

So, this is a sample size that I got in this set. This is not necessarily supposed to work as a face primer, but I am under the impression that it can be used that way, with it's main purpose to be minimizing the appearance of pores.  Well, first of all, the size of your pores is genetic. It largely doesn't change unless there is something in them (oil; blackhead) and that comes out.  Bleh.  Anyway, it's hard for a topical, sheer product to make a difference. And this one didn't really.  It has an interesting, but not bad smell. Just kinda clean smelling. If you add just a little product, it feels really smooth, and kinda dry, but when you use a lot of product, it makes it seem sort of sticky.  It's main plus is that it mattifys the skin, but I didn't really see a change in my pores. They aren't large to begin with, but it didn't really do anything for my skin as far as lasting time or appearance except for making my skin matte.

I didn't notice anything really regarding lasing time.  Then again, I've used a few primers, and haven't noticed a difference... So maybe I'm just not being observant enough?  I don't know. It's not a necessary product, but if you want to give it a try, definitely just buy a mini in a set.