From supermoms juggling afterschool activities to business women hustling from meeting to meeting, stick foundations have quickly become a favorite of women on the go. Stick foundations can go from your makeup drawer to your gym bag or a briefcase without bulky brushes and the mess that almost always accompanies powders and liquids.

What You Need to Know about Stick Foundations

Precision Is Key
Although liquids and powders offer advantages, it is more difficult to get the right amount of coverage desired in the exact area needed. Stick foundations are much easier to apply to the bends and curves of your face. Vapour’s Atmosphere Luminous Foundation is a great example of a stick that offers amazing precision.

Your Hands Really ARE The Best Tools
Professional Make Up Artists will be the first to tell you that your own fingers are the perfect size and shape to blend your foundation into every area of your face and neck, leaving you with a seamless look rather than a mask.

Not All Stick Foundations are Created Equal
Most stick foundations are made using highly concentrated nano-particle pigments, tiny particles that may pose a health risk by crossing the blood-brain and/or placental barrier. (Find out more about good vs. bad ingredients here.) Also, using a densely-pigmented foundation may leave your face looking much like a canvas with too much paint.

Vapour’s Atmosphere Luminous Foundation is the exception. Our revolutionary foundation gives a luminous, glowing, natural finish and comes in a precision stick for maximum control. Atmosphere offers light-to-medium buildable coverage, so you never have to worry about looking over-done and best of all, you get all the performance of a professional luxury foundation with none of the chemicals!

Finding the right makeup for Asian skin can be tricky. And when it comes to choosing a natural makeup the options can be very limited. Whether the complexion is fair, medium, or dark, Asian skin tones can look somewhat sallow. Some women try color-correct sallow skin by lightening the complexion using a lighter foundation shade than their skin tone. Others try to balance the yellow by selecting a pinker shade of foundation. Both of these methods tend to create an unnatural mask-like look and are considered outdated solutions.

For a fresh, new all-natural solution, try Vapour’s Stratus Instant Skin Perfector in shade 904. (Choose from Vapour’s ‘Luminous’ formula for dryer skin or the ‘Soft Focus’ formula for combination/oily skin.) Stratus in 904 is especially formulated to lighten, brighten and color balance sallow, yellow skin with Vapour’s Light Reflective Technology. Stratus will immediately blur the look of lines and wrinkles, perfect skin tone and skin texture leaving your face smooth and perfectly primed for foundation application!

Embrace your unique skin tone! When you are choosing your foundation shade it is important to test the shade on your jaw line, where the skin of your face and throat meet, rather than the back of your hand. Keep in mind that your skin's shade and tone can differ from hand to face. If you need a little extra help, you can get a free custom shade consultation from Vapour’s Beauty Experts by e-mailing a snap shot of your complexion to beautyexpert@vapourbeauty.com.

We’ve all heard the saying, “You are what you eat” and, as far as food is concerned, most people are taking a closer look at what they consume every day. Yet very few women consider that the lipstick they wear is ingested just as food is. Some statistics say that 3 to 7 pounds of lipstick may be consumed by the average woman in her lifetime, depending on how often she re-applies. That’s as much as five pints of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream!

In addition to the usual lineup of chemicals and toxins present in most cosmetics, many of the colors used in conventional lipsticks have been found to cause cancer in lab tests. Can you believe it? Women have been applying and re-applying toxic ingredients to their lips for years, and ingesting them!

Even some companies that use mineral pigments, instead of chemical colorants, are using irradiated minerals. These pigments are bombarded with radiation to disinfect them before use, even though it is just as effective to use a not-toxic method called High Temperature Disinfection. Who wouldn’t feel safer knowing their lipstick contains all natural mineral pigments that have been super-heated, instead of being polluted with unnecessary radiation?

It’s easy to see why so many women are falling for Vapour Organic Beauty’s Siren Lipstick. Siren is made with 70% Certified Organic ingredients and 30% natural vitamins and non-irradiated mineral pigments. Siren is designed to protect your lips from moisture loss and environmental assault while delivering hydrating Myrrh, Rose buds, healing Lemon Balm, antioxidant Pomegranate, soothing Jojoba oil and Camilina oil, which is rich in essential fatty acids.

So ladies, what’s on your lips?