Bare Minerals question

[Iott Family]

I am on ebay looking for that great deal on the Bare Minerals makeup because I dont want to commit big $$$ before knowing if I even like the product and yet the product gets rave reviews everywhere. My question is whats the deal with all these sellers with their sample sized packages....are they safe? Legit? The pricing seems almost too good to be true. And I going to open up my shipment and realise I have been taken?


HELP! Hows a gal supposed to dig through the masses?LOL

 

[Melrosgirl]

You can get the small, sample size things by calling B.E. directly and asking for a few samples. All they charge you is shipping. I would go that route.

 

[MHopkins2]

*wave* Hi, Indy neighbor!

Go to Sephora at Fashion Mall at Keystone - they carry the full line of BE products, and will be happy to give you a no-strings makeover. I always use Kathy there. She's great at her job, very friendly, and not at all pushy. (I could be wrong, but my guess is that they don't work on commission, since the cashiers have never asked who helped me.)

Edited to add that the "starter kit" (two colors of foundation, powder, bronzer, and several brushes) is the best $60 I've ever spent. This makeup is FABULOUS, and doesn't make your face feel "spackled." Value-wise, I've used the foundation and powder every day since ~ mid-December, and I still have about half the container of each.

 

[Brutie]

I had first started with the $60 kit at sephora also, but then found it for $45 at ulta.

The kit I thought was a rip off, the sizes are little and the color they gave me wasnt what was best for me so I did research and started ordering my own online from qvc. At least on qvc you have 30 days to return any makeup if you dont like it, so I went that route just for the unconditional money back guarantee on it.

So far I've loved it after experimenting with several different foundation shades. Right now I'm using "medium beige" which I was told is their most popular color, though I'm thinking of trying some of the darker ones cause this one seems a bit "orangy" to me. I also like to order the special kits from qvc the ones that have the brushes included as their brushes are quite spendy but on qvc if anything that I use comes with a brush, then I snatch it up. I put myself on auto delivery at qvc to get the foundation and the minderal veil. I have them set to come I think either every 60 or 90 days, you can change it to anything from 30 to 180 days between deliveries. I got in when it was on special so the s/h was only .98cents and thats cheaper than I can drive the 90 minutes to my nearest store for...lol

Try it, you'll love it. If you dont love it, you can return it for a full refund. I also think sephora lets you return it to cause I asked them but I dont know how long they give you to bring it back.

 

[MHopkins2]

Brutie - I looked at the $45 kit at Ulta (right across the street from Sephora - golly I love my neighborhood!), but I don't think it included the brushes? Good makeup brushes are so godforesaken expensive, it was worth the $15 "upgrade."

It also helped that I found Kathy and the other nice ladies at Sephora, as opposed to the alternately giggling / disaffected folks they seem to employ at Ulta. (With apologies to anyone who works there, but I swear, I have never gotten even halfway decent service.)

 

[KathyTX]

What MHopkins said- I saw the kits at Ulta and Sephora, and the Sephora kit did include another brush (and maybe something else a little different... )

From what I've seen, the pricing has been very consistent between Ulta and Sephora.

Pricing on the kits seems to be pretty fair... the foundations are not full-size, but then neither is the price. I got the kit from Ulta, in the Light shades. It's nice to have a chance to really work with the foundation colors before shelling out $$ for the full size products and possibly feeling like you have to use one that's a little "off" just because you invested in it.

 

[Buckalew11]

Someone said recently that their eBay BE purchase may not have been the real mcCoy.
Also remember that when you get the smaller size pots, they are harder to use with the brush for loading the brush with product and swirling. The bigger sized pot and lid (the lid is where all that takes place) is much easier to handle!!

I have used almost every shade of BE. The medium is a bit pinker than the medium beige (which I think has more yellow undertones). Just a FYI to the poster above who was thinking of switching.

BE will have the TSV in May (like the 15th or something) on QVC. They rarely have basics as TSVs but sometimes it is a nice kit to add some color into your collection.

 

[powellrj]

*wave* Hi, Indy neighbor!

Go to Sephora at Fashion Mall at Keystone - they carry the full line of BE products, and will be happy to give you a no-strings makeover. I always use Kathy there. She's great at her job, very friendly, and not at all pushy. (I could be wrong, but my guess is that they don't work on commission, since the cashiers have never asked who helped me.)

Edited to add that the "starter kit" (two colors of foundation, powder, bronzer, and several brushes) is the best $60 I've ever spent. This makeup is FABULOUS, and doesn't make your face feel "spackled." Value-wise, I've used the foundation and powder every day since ~ mid-December, and I still have about half the container of each.

I have been ordering from Sephora on-line. It looks like all I need to do is make it past the Cheesecake Factory and actually GO INSIDE the mall from now on!!!