It's been our #1 product for years. It wins all the awards. It gets all the Instagram love. You guessed it — today nosotros're talking well-nigh Loose Pulverisation Foundation with SPF 15. Whether you're a diehard fan or have never quite understood what the fuss is all about, nosotros're here to give you a crash course on the magical flossy formula that made mineral makeup a household name. A fast favorite of celebs, brides, and just about nearly everyone- including those with sensitive or acne-prone skin, our ORIGINAL Foundation is beloved for a reason.

First, the formula (which remains unchanged since its launch) contains only 5 clean mineral ingredients that seamlessly blend away any imperfections, leaving behind a luminous, salubrious glow. Amazingly, our foundation also improves your skin over time, which makes ORIGINAL so pure you tin can really (yes, actually) sleep in it.

And while we take you, why non take a minute to gather some awarding tips and tricks from the professionals equally well as some fun facts virtually a truthful makeup icon that changed the face up of dazzler forever.

How to Apply Loose Powder Foundation

Swirl, Tap, Vitrify is the makeup application technique for all of our loose mineral products, including our ORIGINAL Foundation. You start by tipping a tiny bit of production into the lid of the jar (and we do hateful tiny — for a total face up of foundation, retrieve sprinkles on a cappuccino). And and then…

SWIRL: Swirling your castor in the minerals for 10-15 seconds picks them upwardly and warms them up so they'll apply with that famous creamy feel.

TAP: Tapping your brush on the border of the lid prevents you from applying too much — and from wasting product.

Buff: Applying with a swirling move continues to warm the minerals and mixes them with the natural oils and hydration in your skin. As the minerals warm, they expand, which is why the same amount of production will create fuller coverage if you just go along buffing.

Pro Tips

– Sing happy birthday to yourself, twice. That's how long you should buff a full face of loose pulverisation foundation! Buffing is really the key to achieving that perfect, flawless wait.

– But walk abroad. After you've applied your ORIGINAL, get make a cup of tea, text that friend yous've been meaning to answer, and come dorsum. You'll run into how the minerals accept mixed with your peel to create an even, flawless finish. Need a little more than coverage? Just buff again.

– Never become back to the pot. We've met so many women who have fallen in dearest with this foundation over the decades — and enough who haven't. The meridian reason the formula may seem to not piece of work for you it is that they're applying besides much, adding foundation for coverage instead of buffing it in fully to become that natural, no-makeup look.

How well practise you lot know the ORIGINAL?

– The colour of the lid has ever been the same. It was inspired by Japanese river rocks, which are smoothed by the flow of water to give them a silky feel. The sifter was a later on improver, based on client requests.

– ORIGINAL was the kickoff makeup product to be featured on QVC in 1997, and our airtime was really cutting. It had to be, since the product had sold out in only 6 minutes!

– It was the kickoff makeup product from Bare Escentuals, a Bay Area-based company that featured an essential oil bar for customizing bath and body products. Only a few customers knew about the jars of mineral pulverisation in its back rooms.

– In the beginning, ORIGINAL was available in simply four shades. We're upwardly to 30 and counting. Each one offers the same SPF foundation, and features only five ingredients — all natural minerals.

– The formula so forgiving that near people tin clothing more than than one shade. The real fundamental is knowing your peel'southward undertone and staying within that range. If you go on vacation and become super tan, go upward one shade inside your undertone range.

– Men love using ORIGINAL for interviews and important appointments considering it's sweat-resistant and nobody knows you're wearing it.

– Girls who nourish schools that forbid makeup too beloved information technology because teachers tin't tell they have anything on. (Shhhhh!)

– ORIGINAL is literally made of crushed mineral rocks from the earth, including some that provide natural mineral SPF protection.

– Our foundation has earned the Skin Cancer Foundation International Seal of Recommendation equally a broad spectrum UVA/UVB sunscreen.

– Information technology can be used as a concealer. Simply use a smaller brush and buff, buff, buff.

– ORIGINAL can be stored anywhere. Brilliant light? Nighttime bag? Humid embankment house? No trouble — it won't leak or separate.

– MATTE Foundation is a variation on the ORIGINAL. Launched in 2009, it has a few extra minerals to aid absorb oil and eliminate smoothen without drying skin. Information technology was created based on customer requests.