Tarte Clean State 12 Hours Primer : Brightening & Perfecting, an Opinion

I am not a big fan of Tarte.

I've tried some of their blush and palette (eye shadow, bronzer, highlighter, eye pencils and lip color), i like them but i think i am happy enough without them. Then i tried their Clean State Deluxe Primer Trio. This set contains of mini sample of 3 primers (clean state 12 hours brightening primer, clean state 12 hours perfecting primer and an eye primer). I think they're nice.. but not somewhat amazing.

I don't like the eye primer since it's easily separate inside the tube. And it doesn't work for me. Simply said, i don't like it and i've lost it. So this review is only for 2 mini sample of face primers.

I think this set is not available anymore. Tarte has change the mini set with the one with mini mascara.

Back to my blog, then here's our today's product :

Brand : Tarte

Product name : Clean State 12 hours Brightening Primer & Clean State 12 hours Perfecting Primer

Price : $30 for full size product (product shown here is 7.5ml size sample)

Limited Edition : No

Both are in plastic, tube packaging. Nothing so special about it's design but it's shown how Tarte is a natural brand.

The ingredients are not written in the mini tube.

The ingredient list :

Tarte Clean State 12 hours Perfecting Primer

Cyclopentasiloxane, Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Cyclohexasilixane, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Lycium Barbarum Fruit Extract, Euterpe Oleracea Fruit Extract, Malpighia Punicifolia (Acerola) Fruit Extract, Punica Granatum Extract, Passiflora Incarnate Fruit Extract, Tocopheryl Acetate, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Hibiscus Rosa-Sinsensis Flower/Leaf Extract, Mica, Echinacea Angustilfolia Extract, Centella Asiatica Extract, Phenoxyethanol.

Tarte Clean State 12 hours Brightening Primer

Water, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Dicaprylyl Ether, Cetearyl Alcohol, Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Glyceryl Stearate, Glyceryl Stearate Citrate, Microcrystalline Cellulose, Benzyl Alcohol, Xanthan Gum, Cellulose Gum, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Glycerin, Hydrogenated Polyisopentadiene, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Citrus Grandis (Grapefruit) Peel Oil, Silica, Mica, Tin Oxide, Lecithin, Dehydroacetic Acid, Disodium EDTA, Arbutin, Glutathione, Retinyl Palmitate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Ascorbic Acid, Alcohol, Linoleic Acid, Linolenic Acid, Limonene, Linalool, Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891).

And since it's from Tarte, it's free from parabens, sulfates, synthetic fragrance, petrochemicals, phthalates, GMOs and triclosan.

 In their full size product, the closure is made from bamboo. Here, they only give another plastic closure. Well ~ you got what you've paid for :p

heavily swatch on my back hand

lightly blended

Since it's a primer, i think back hand swipe is better, because it has more texture to help you see product better.

The brightening one is kinda runny (maybe because water is it's main ingredient), silicon free, and has slight yellow undertone. It turns out clear after blended and wouldn't change your skintone. It also has a slight lemony scent.

It has low oil control, only help a little bit in blurring pore, gives dewy finish and help foundation stay a lil bit longer.

I suggest to use foundation over it, it would calm down the brightening effect a lil bit, makes you ended with healthy glow.

The perfection one is clear and silicone-y. It leaves slick finish but does a great job on filling pore and fine lines. It slightly makes foundation stay longer.. but not that much.

No scent detected in this one.

Light and Heavy foundation can be use over this one. Even tinted moisturizer can do. It's better not to use foundation or TM with matte finish since it's would make you deadly matte (in my opinion).

i haven't combined them so i can't say about how they're while use together, but i think that might be good!

Let me know if you've tried it ;)

Review Etude House Sweet Recipe Baby Choux Base 02 Berry Choux

Hi Korean-Beauty Lover!

This cute little baby is the new favorite of mine.. it's etude sweet recipe baby choux base!

what is choux anyway?

Choux pastry, or pâte à choux (pronounced: [pɑt a ʃu]), is a light pastry dough used to make profiteroles, croquembouches, éclairs, French crullers, beignets, St. Honoré cake, Indonesian kue sus, and gougères. - Wikipedia

no doubt, etude named it "choux" because of the texture.. so light, so soft, so fluffy and smells so good! if anyone know what perfume smell like etude's sweet recipe baby choux base 02, please let me know!

this frosted glass jar seems like a jar of jam.. so pretty ~

i bought mine in Seoul, that's why it has a price tag in hanggeul ..

what it claimed, how to use and the cautions.. no ingredients here.

etude provided this baby with a mini plastic spoon, for anyone who refuse to dip their finger inside.

The Choux!!

very light, soft, fluffy and smells good .. like raspberry and strawberry, very very yummy.

(so sorry for the repeated description, i've just sooo in love with it!)

swatch on my hand

lightly spreaded.. can you see the difference?

it gaves a natural glow, not really change my skintone, just glowy and brighten.

as a base, it's also help to make my big pores less visible. Since i doesnt like to be fully covered by my base/foundation, i only use 1 spoon and get a medium coverage by that. And perhaps thats why i doesnt get the whitening effect, hehe ..

What to love about it?

cute packaging - no doubt!

medium coverage

SPF 25 PA ++ (makes it can be work as tinted sunscreen too)

good texture

smells so yummy! wouldn't disturb you~

makes my face glow instantly~

has a slight oil control

it's not a limited edition product, yay!

What to dislike?

sometimes it's not very travel friendly

it does cause me breakout

shade available :

01 mint choux - to hide redness

02 berry choux - for brightening purpose

03 peach choux - for brightening purpose, but for darker skintone

I got lots of redness on my face, but the mint choux one seems so hard to blend with my skintone.. makes me looks so pale. So i decided to get berry first :D

ps. SPF 25 PA++ doesnt really help if you're stay outdoor all day long. And dont forget to reapply if you use it as tinted sunscreen!

Benefit How to Look Best at Everything (Lots of Pict!)

Benefit is my new favorite brand, i got some product of them and sooo in love with it!

Benefit How to Look Best at Everything is one of sephora's exclusive product, according to sephora, there's product description :

What it is:
A four-piece flawless complexion makeup kit exclusive to Sephora.

What it does:
Benefit’s custom skin perfectors come together in this convenient kit to give you an even, luminous complexion. Blend away imperfections and minimize the appearance of pores with the must-haves in this collection.

This set contains:
- 0.25 oz The POREfessional
- 0.23 oz Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow SPF 25 PA+++ in "Cheers To Me" Champagne (light kit); "Cute as a Bunny" (medium kit); "I'm Haute for Sure" (deep kit)
- 2 x 0.05 oz BOI-ING in 01 and 02 (light kit); 03 and 04 (medium kit); 04 and 05 (deep kit)
- 0.14 oz "Hello Flawless!" in "Me, Vain?" Champagne (light kit); "I'm so Money!" (medium kit); "I'm so Glamber" (deep kit)

I chose Light kit since i think i would fit using shade champagne (i am about nc/nw 25 in mac, using revlon sand beige, maybelline sand, sleek sand and rimmel true ivory for reference) and yeah it's true!

This kit, as raved by some beauty gurus, are one of best way to try some benefit product in affordable price. I got it for idr 350,000 during sephora 20% sale last august. I know it's a lil bit more expensive than the original price (usd 30) but it's all worth if you count shipping cost from USA *LoL

no, i only got 1 kit :p

the one left is the box and the right one is the kit

behind the box is picture of product inside while behind the kit is looks like book's cover

the insider (♡∀♡●)

they also provided a plastic separator with an announcement to remove the tray so we can use the box to keep our treasure ☆▽☆

so nice!

i would try it .. 

i took out the tray and keep the minis inside, lovely!

i do have plan to keep some of my benefit product inside so it's easier to carry them around, but maybe later, after i feel satisfy enough with this kit :D

well, let's see what's inside ..

first, benefit porefessional 

then, benefit oxy wow foundation in cheers to me champage 

i really want to try this since it's launched but it think it's too pricey for me (and i have lots of foundation) so this is really a good way to try it! finally!

third, benefit boing 01 and 02

i love their idea co make it in compact! i dont want the powder fly and make it dirt..

also it can be carry alone without palette or kit

here's back side of boing

LOL

i found it funny to see how pans glued into a compact (ﾟεﾟ　)

and it's the last one, hello flawless in "me, vain?" champagne

i wasn't expect it would be my favorite product in kit, it gives low to medium coverage, doesn't break me out and match my skintone very very well.

wanna see how it works on me? (:

my bare face

please ignore my red eye, i took this picture right after i washing my hair

 .. and no, no full face, i got a looot of breakout from last week :(

here's my full size porefesional

i'm not using the one in kit since i have this one :)

see?

it does help smoothen my skin and makes my pores less visible, but i think i have another primer works better than this one :(

then add foundation, but before it let's see how it's on my hand ..

after blended,

product is on left side of the marks, but still, it's hard to find since it's match my skintone too well

and here's how it's look on my face ..

yeah, my skin but better!

so sorry for blur picture, i didn't notice it before :(

third, the concealer ..

i use either 01 or 02 alone or mixed them together.

(that's sonia kashuk's concealer brush from pink cancer brush set if you want to know :p)

well, it's doesn't works really good on my acne scar. On some of them yes, but in most of them, no.

i put high expectation on this but .. i have to say my journey to find perfect concealer for me is still on ..

then the powder ..

i found for the first time, a benefit brush that really works!

it could take the powder well and won't hurt my skin, good job, benefit!

and no, i took no picture of the powder on my face since it's not noticable, my face is looks the same as after i use boing ( ･_･)

maybe it's just because of my camera?

..

oh yea, it does have a mirror!

just take the tips and tricks paper and you could find the mirror

otherwise, you can cut the paper and get the mirror

now into swatches ..

 what i love about it ..

porefessional : does smoothen my skin, makes it easier to glide the foundation, provided matte finish and add few coverage
oxy wow # cheers to me champagne : my skin but better foundation, no white cast, buildable coverage, doesn't cause breakout, medium to full coverage and the pump is just great!
boing 01 and 02 : good staying power, compact packaging
hello flawless "me, vain?" champagne : medium to full coverage, no whitecast, match my skin very very well
great value!
brush thats works!
it does have mirror inside
i love how we can reuse the box ❤ 

what i don't like about it ..

overrated porefessional, don't use it if you avoid silicone based product
i found oxy wow foundation faded after 5-6 hours (revlon colorstay faded after 7-8 hours)
oxy wow doesn't get SPF
boing can't help with some of my acne scar :(
hellow flawless powder in this kit isn't in travel friendly side
hard to find in my country (oh well, what's not?)

overall, i would repurchase again if i can't find anything to get on sephora sale (ﾉ´∀｀*)ﾉ

thanks for reading,