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 Both of these methods tend to create an unnatural mask-like look and are considered outdated solutions.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.

Vapour Organic Beauty’s Mesmerize Eyeliner is the safest, purest eyeliner on the market.

Finally! Eye definition that is good for your eyes! The New York Times says, “Vapour has introduced the first eyeliner made with 70 percent organic ingredients. (The formula) contains beeswax, sunflower oil and other food grade certified organic ingredients…to replicate the gliding effect of chemical based eyeliners.”

Some brands make organic claims about their eyeliner but most fall short of a significant organic percentage. Most contain only a sparse 40% (or less) organic ingredients, but Vapour’s Mesmerize Eyeliner contains a whopping 70% certified organic ingredients.

And that’s not all. Many other eyeliners, including ones making natural or organic claims, include ingredients like bismuth oxychloride, an industrial adhesive and known eye irritant. Yes, you read that correctly–known eye irritants are commonly used in eyeliner! Mesmerize Eyeliner is safe. To women with sensitive eyes or women who like to use eyeliner on the waterline (the delicate area inside the lash line): This is your eyeliner!

For tips on how to apply Mesmerize Eyeliner for a softly defined eye or a smoky eye, check out the How To Wear tab on this page.

Did you know the FDA does NOT require animal testing for cosmetics? Buying cosmetics that are tested on animals supports a cruel and unnecessary industry that subjects millions of animals to pain, torture and death. Most big cosmetic companies choose to use animal testing in fear of litigation and also under pressure from huge research companies. 

What are other reasons Vapour Organic Beauty never uses animal testing?

• Animal testing is inherently inaccurate—animal systems and human systems are not comparable. Even within the animal family species are so individualized that mice often respond differently from rats in experiments.

• The testing industry is largely unregulated as over 90% of the animals used in testing are excluded from the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), the only federal law which oversees animal testing.

• Animal testing inflicts pain and suffering to intelligent creatures as a rule, not an exception. Force-fed, locked down, eyes forced open, no anesthesia: we pay the industry to do this when we buy animal-tested cosmetics.

Yuck. We buy these products to make us feel good, even beautiful. Why would we buy them knowing the ugly path the product has taken to end up in our purse? Vapour Organic Beauty does not test on animals. Nor are any of the raw ingredients in Vapour tested on animals. Our products are tested on real human beings. Become cruelty free by buying cruelty free.

Vapour is a member of the Leaping Bunny Program, an internationally recognized organization that promotes a standardized “Cruelty Free” policy.

Parabens are synthetic preservatives (methylparaben, propylparaben, isoparaben, and butylparaben) that easily and cheaply preserve personal care products for up to 2 years. Parabens can be found in every sort of personal care product including color cosmetics, skin care, deodorant, and hair care.

The problem with parabens is that they are absorbed in to the skin and accumulate in the body. This build up of parabens in the body can increase our “toxic-load” and may contribute to disease. Parabens may cause skin irritation, influence breast cancer, and are recognized endocrine disruptors.

The body sees parabens as estrogen (xenoestrogens – a foreign estrogen). Parabens can disrupt the endocrine system, affect fetal development, and are especially harmful to children’s developing bodies. Multiple studies have discovered parabens in breast cancer tumors. Parabens have also been found to cause heart tissue problems over time.

The good news is that Vapour Organic Beauty offers only paraben-free cosmetics. Vapour cosmetics have a standard 2-year shelf life, made possible with anti-microbial herbs and a formulation that never uses water. Waterless formulation means there is no water to allow bacteria, fungi and viruses to thrive. The combination of a water-free product and anti-microbial herbs results in a safe, superiorly preserved product.

We encourage you to read labels and understand what you are putting on and in your body. We encourage you to make informed choices and to avoid parabens to decrease your body's overall toxic load.

A baby growing in the womb ingests everything the mother consumes. Including, but not limited to, what the mother puts on her skin, face, hair and nails.

The body does a great job of protecting the fetus by filtering bacteria and germs through the placenta but there are some cosmetic ingredients that can make their way through to the developing fetus.  Salicylic Acid, Retinol A, Parabens, Phathalates, Benzoyl Peroxide, Accutane, Hydrocortison, Lead and Dioxane are found in most traditional cosmetic brands and can be harmful to the unborn, as well as the mother.  These chemicals are termed “mutagenic” – having the ability to damage the genes and chromosomes.

The FDA has band only nine chemicals from US cosmetics compared to the European Union which has banned more than 1000. A product that is labeled as being “natural” may be mixed with synthetic dyes or fragrances. Many expensive products are full of the same ingredients and harsh chemicals as the less expensive brands.  And, many “common” synthetic ingredients are now being linked to conditions such as allergies, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, testicular abnormalities, decreased sperm count and breast cancer.

Have no fear…. Vapour Organic Beauty is the answer! Vapour revolutionizes luxury and performance cosmetics with Pure Organic Formulation, unique light-as-air technology and sophisticated color artistry. Made from natural mineral pigments suspended in Certified Organic botanicals, Vapour delivers the look of flawless, glowing skin without compromise.

Say goodbye to your chemical cosmetics and say hello to Vapour Organic Beauty! 
Vapour is: chemical free, gluten free, cruelty free, made with wind power, biodegradable ingredients, recyclable packaging, no nano particles and no irradiation.

Let’s take care of ourselves, each other and our unborn babes.

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?

Why use a primer? Think of our skin as a canvas and primer as a tool that evens out the canvas, readying it for makeup application. Vapour’s Stratus Instant Skin Perfector, in both Luminous and Soft Focus formulas, contains a blend of powerful plant botanicals and skin nourishing ingredients that improves the texture and appearance of your skin.

Stratus contains Vapour’s Light Reflective Technology, which immediately perfects the appearance of your skin— you immediately appear younger and refreshed. (Many of our fans wear Stratus alone and love the improvement they see in their skin.)

Stratus doesn’t stop there. Frankincense is anti-inflammatory, Tulsi is antioxidant and and Lotus flowers are moisturizing. Stratus also contains a revolutionary, certified organic, deep moisture complex of pumpkin and papaya that strengthens the skin and improves overall tone and texture.

And best of all? Stratus gives you the performance of a luxury moisturizer and primer with none of the silicone or chemicals! 

Healthy, glowing skin is the result of many factors, including the quality of the products you use daily. Imagine putting sticky black coal tar on your face – you would never do it! But coal tar, a by-product of steel production, is an FD&C coloring ingredient used in many cosmetics. There’s absolutely nothing good to say about this ingredient. Coal tars contain benzene and phenols, known carcinogens. Also, in steel production, coal tar residues pollute our air.

However bad coal tar is, its use in cosmetics has been "grandfathered" in, due to irregularities in the FDA regulations. And companies that use coal tar can mislead consumers by saying it’s safe. Many companies label their FD&C colored children's products as “non-toxic.”

Vapour Organic Beauty does not use potentially hazardous, lab-created FD&C or Lake colorants. Our color comes from ancient, natural mineral pigments, such as iron oxide, which comes from the earth and has been used as a colorant since prehistoric times. Thanks to archeology, we now know that early humans used mineral pigments for paint and body decoration.

And our minerals look gorgeous on you! Unlike mineral powder makeup that collects in lines & pores, our minerals are suspended in an organic base that maintains integrity of coverage and enhances natural beauty.

Check out Atmosphere Luminous Foundation and Atmosphere Soft Focus Foundation, two products you can feel great about using on your skin.