Physician's Formula Mineral Face Brightener

I love mineral makeup.  It helps me look my best yet at the same time giving a natural, not too-made-up look.  Aside from that, I don't break-out from it.  

I've tried so many brands mainly from home-based women-owned companies.  The only down point is the loose messy powder form it mainly comes in.  I've learned to deal with that in the 3-4 years I've used it but I've learned to branch out too and try out drugstore brands that are of good quality yet still maintaining the mineral makeup ingredients I look out for.  Plus, I try to look for those in a pressed form.

Physician's Formula is one such brand.  They have a whole range of mineral makeup in loose and pressed forms but unfortunately it isn't available locally.  I get mine from drugstore.com.

The 100% Mineral Face Brightener is the first face powder I've tried (I've tried a couple of eye shadows from them).  Although it isn't a foundation or finishing powder (I already have my HG brands for those), it still looked interesting to me.  

Physician's Formula Mineral Wear Quad

I ordered this thru a local seller online yesterday and I got it today! Super fast huh? The wonders of local courier companies here in Manila :-)

My first time to try out anything from Physician's Formula. Lots of good reviews for the Quad e/s and I was previously eyeing this shade at drugstore.com (and planning to order it next year). Good thing I saw this plus a few other PF products but I only got this one.

Physician's Formula Mineral Wear Quad in SLATE

PF Quad in SLATE

Slate Quad

Bottom has a mirror and 2-ended applicator.


Bottom compartment

ingredients

It's not purely minerals but the other ingredients don't really bother me.

Swatch (reverse order of photo above):

 with flash

 no flash

The 4 shades are soft shades that I like and some are matte and others are pearlized. All swatched above with one swipe of the finger. The darkest one can be used as a liner and the lightest as a highliter. I'm sure to use this quad often coz I like shadows that I can just grab and use. These are also neutral shades that can go with anything.

I'll try to use them tomorrow. Hmm, I haven't even swatched the palette I got last week and now I have a new one! And to think I rarely use eye shadows, at most 1-2x a week or none at all. Today I didn't even wear any foundation when I went out- just my finishing powder/ illuminizer Mix and sheer gloss.