Laura Gellar balance and brighten baked foundation

[Beachlovingirl]

So I bought this after lots of “rave” reviews and on the videos it did look good with apparently real people using it. It came. Bought the brushes too.

It just doesn’t do anything for me and my skin looks pretty much unchanged when I have applied it. Is there anyone around who uses this? Am I doing it wrong? In fact my skin just looks flatter (is that the balance part) but also older and it looks really dull.

No one replied! I've just bought this, waiting for it to arrive and just looked for a thread about it. Anyone have a good thing to say about it?

I’ve been thinking of buying this myself after seeing the adverts so watching the thread in anticipation!

Have tried powder type foundations like this before, many years back and found them to be very dull and flat exactly like the OP described but was hoping this would be different ☹️

I bought on about 5 years ago. I found it too drying for my skin to wear alone and made me look much older. However, it wasn't so bad if used sparingly over a liquid foundation. Never bought again.

I bought it years ago and regretted it sorely (not cheap is it). They didn't do the palest shade they now do at the time and it was orange.

Shade aside I thought it was just rubbish really and just looked (on me) like I'd used a load of tinted pressed powder - so some evening out I suppose and some very dubious coverage but clung to every bit of dryness and just was incredibly underwhelming. I had to put more on than I'd ever usually want to of anything else (generally keep things quite light) to see any meaningful difference and I'm fairly sure it broke me out. I binned it. I also bought a blusher and a highlighter (in practice just a beige eyeshadow with no glow at all frankly), both were equally meh.

If you have amazing skin that leans towards oily it could possible be a nice addition but in and of itself and for most people, wouldn't recommend.

Mixed race skin
I bought one but wasn't using foundation

I thought it was great but then ordered another to keep at mum's so I wasn't carrying stuff around

ordered the same but it came out a bit darker. Maybe a hazard of the product though.

I prefer her balance and glow. I find the balance and brighten too 'gritty' I got a lighter one possibly porcelain by mistake and it was far too pink but I like the light coloured one . I hated the bronzer. Although I chose the lightest one it came up muddy.

I love the glow one. So easy to brush on and go (and glow!!)

Thanks for replying everyone! I had accepted my thread would just move down the post and disappear 😀

how are you getting on with it @dudsville, have you got it yet?

I did think of the glow product once again viewing some of the videos it seemed very shimmery and not something I would wear as my daily foundation for actual daytime normal activities and work.

one other thing that was annoying was that applying a liquid or cream blusher actually removed the product from my face so that means only powder blusher and I find powder blush aging and flat for my face.

I love it, when it got discontinued a few years ago I hunted some down from simply B catalogue just to replace.

For me, I like YSL serum with glowey sparkles in it first then use a good quality dense kabuki brush and buff it on in little circles (like you are meant to with mineral powder foundation). Great coverage if you layer up and I use medium in the summer, light in winter - removes the faff of mixing liquid foundation colours in autumn and spring and my hands stay clean.

I also loved the pink grapefruit glow blusher.

I’m delighted it’s come back I just hope they haven’t changed the formula…

Didn't do anything for me.

That JML
Magic minerals you see in supermarkets is better! I bought one on a whim and keep it in the car for touch ups and it's rather good, surprisingly!

I love it. I wear it on top of a light layer of liquid foundation (Primark one!) and find the powder really hides pores and gives a smooth more glowy finish than pressed powder.
I love the pink grapefruit blush too PP mentioned...such great color payoff and again very glowy like a sheen not a shimmer.
I've bought Laura Geller sets when they're a TSV on QVC bur got my latest B&B in a massive 20g size from ebay for about £20...I've been using for nearly a year I think.
I also find it great over tinted moisturizer and I'll find a lighter bit of the pan to do under my eyes and will use a more actual skin tone part to cover blemishes before a general sweep of the whole thing to do my whole face.
I have found I've worn it out unevenly now though and the overall shade I'm getting is darker than it was...guess this is due to the mix of shades. Fine in summer, but it'll be too dark for me come autumn/winter.

@Beachlovingirl , I forgot about this thread!

I bought three different products, the brighten version, the glow version, and the setting one, is it that, the one withthe light cream blue and pink colours. The first night I applied half my face in bighten and the other half in glow. But I'd had a glass of wine and can't recall which was which, and then applied the setting one over the top of my whole face.

My whole face had an impressive airbrushed effect, and one side had a slight shimmery effect. In the bright bathroom light and the evening light it looked good, but in ordinary light my DH thought it looked really fakey orange - it didn't look orange when I applied it but I could see what he meant when I checked the mirror again - I bought "light".

I sent before and "immediate after" pics to my mum and she was impressed, so it also came out well in pics. Unfortunately I was too lazy to remove it before bed and woke to a massive spot. I have acne rosacea, with the asne well in check, so this was annoying, but it had evened out the many colours of my skin.

Overall I thought it was very drying. Yesterday I tried it after a good layer of moisuriser and a base light layer of my ordinary foundation and my face felt mucky and I didn't get the same airbrushed efect. Today I put a light layer on directly after heavy moisturising and again I think it didn't look as good as the first night. I'm going to play around with it, but at the moment I'm not going to repurchase. I have dry skin and need to moisturise, and I don't have time to wait to apply it after my moisturiser dries.

Oh, also, I haven't used a powder before. It's messy!

I really love it. I use it instead of foundation, which I think can often look aging. It makes me look ‘like me, only nicer’! Kind of airbrushed. I’ve got it in medium

Are you buffing it enough?

II bought it years ago and it was ok as a light coverage if I buffed it .
Also got ( part of a QVC kit) the most perfect blusher from LG until it dropped and smashed <gutted>

As a foundation I prefer Bare Minerals again, buffing for 2 renditions of Happy Birthday !

Re The balance and glow - no it did not look 'shimmery' but gave an airbrushed look. The 'glow' was not oily looking or shimmery, just gave a 'light' look.