Peace Keeper & ZuZu Luxe

Peace Keeper & ZuZu Luxe

I went to wholefoods/body yesterday and picked 2 makeup lines to experiment with. Both of these lines, Peace Keeper cause-metics and ZuZu Luxe, I had used 1 or 2 products from before so it just made sense to continue with them. Both lines are made from organic and natural ingredients and both cruelty free. ZuZu is also vegan, fragrance free, opthomologist tested, water resistant, and hypo allergenic (you can see these statements written on the side of the box).

Peace Keeper is a line of lip products. Lipsticks, glosses and a lip balm. 75% of the ingredients are organic (written on the box) and not only that, this company also distributes a certain amount of their proceeds to support women's issues (also written on their box). I can't say enough about this line. I love it!!! I've used the lipstick on myself, my mom uses it and I've used the lipstick and gloss on photoshoots and weddings. The pigments are strong meaning they last for quite a while.The texture is nice and creamy and stays that way, it doesn't cake up after it's been worn for a while. The gloss does need to be touched up a bit more often but not much more than a gloss from any other mainstream makeup line. I would definitely reccomend this line for both makeup artists and everyday women 100%!!!!

ZuZu Luxe is a full line of makeup. The product I had used from them before my trip to whole foods yesterday was the liquid eyeliner. The liner is great! I've been using it on photoshoots and weddings for about a year. When they say it's water resistant they mean it. Once it dries it will not move.

The other product I had used previous to my trip yesterday was the eyeshadow. The eyeshadow is tricky. The color selection they have is really nice. Very natural but with enough variety to keep it fun. The problem is the pigment only lasts for about an hour or so before it melts away. So yesterday when I was at wholefoods/body the first thing I looked for was to see if they had some sort of eyeshadow base/primer. They don't. So I looked for the next best thing; concealer. The concealer is very thick so only a drop is needed. Just blend it on to the lid as you would with a regular eye primer. Then take either your finger or preferably a stiff, flat eyeshadow brush and pack the color on by pressing it vs. sweeping the color with the brush. What this does is ensures that the pigment is grabbing on to the moisture of the concealer base therefore giving you a stronger sense of the color because you are creating layers. This will help the eyeshadow stay on longer without constant touch ups.

After I solved that problem, I continued experimenting with the rest of the makeup and here's what I discovered.

1. The concealer. After using it as an eyeshadow base I wanted to see it's coverage capabilities. It covers up blemishes very well. It's nice and thick so you can be really precise with where you place it and if you tap it in it almost blends itself. But when I used it under my eyes to help with my dark circles ( part inherited and part stress) it looked like I had 2 stripes of white paint under my eyes. At first I took the back part of my ring finger to try and blend it (the ring finger is the best for under the eye because it's small but has a good amount of flesh to help with the blending), but it didn't want to blend. So I pulled one of my makeup artist tricks out of my pocket and ran over to the Dr. Hauschka section, squeezed a bit of the Rose day cream on my finger and blended that into the concealer. What the moisturizer did was thin out the concealer enough to help it blend but did not take away from the amount of coverage that I needed. The only thing I would say is because the Rose Day Cream has essential oil in it it can be quite shiney, so i would reccomend after getting the desired affect from the concealer/moisturizer to set it with a bit of powder, loose is better than pressed but either one will do. That will eliminate the shine and also help keep the concealer in place thus lessening the chances for you needing to touch up more than once throughout the day.

2. Lipsticks/Glosses. The lipsticks are beautiful. There's a nice selection of color choices and the texture is creamy. I definitely would reccomend them. The glosses on the other hand are just okay. I wasn't super excited by them and they weren't as shiney as I usually like.

3. Liquid Eyeliner. As I mentioned before, GREAT!!!!

4. Mascara. They were sold out of black, which I took as a good sign so I tried the brown. Actually I purchased it and tried it at home. Normally I don't touch anything but black mascara, I'm kind of a stickler with that but I have to say I really liked how the brown mascara looked. And actually it didn't really look that brown on me considering I have black eyelashes to begin with. But what I was really impressed by was the way it made my lashes just a bit thicker and longer but in a subtle way. And another thing that happened without my doing it intentionally was that as I applied the mascara my lashes were crisscrossing in a way that was very natural but reminded me of a doll's lashes. I definitely would reccomend the masacara!!!

5. Pencils. Both the lip pencils and eye pencils were just fine. I wasn't blown away but they served their purpose.

6. Liquid foundation. No! Don't even bother! The colors are completely wrong. They are way too pink.

7. Blush. The color choices are few but surprisingly very pretty. I suspected what would happen with the blush pigment would be the same as with the eyeshadow so I did a bit of manuevering. Normally blush is applied to the cheeks after the face has been powdered but this time I reversed it. I felt that the blush pigment would also need something moist to grab on to so I put it on directly to my skin. Another option is you could also use whatever liquid foundation and then apply the blush on top of that and then set with powder, either way skin or the liquid foundation gives a moisturized surface for the blush to sit on. The color looked pretty and in a way I preferred that method because it looks like the color is coming from underneath the skin as if you're blushing or just went for a run. I may have to do that all the time now. I would reccomend the blush.

8. Pressed powder. It's a good pressed powder. I would say apply with a brush vs. a puff just because it can be a bit chalkey as with any powder organic or not. You just want to dust the powder where it's needed and when applied correctly it looks very natural. Definitely a good staple.