By Hannah Powling
Tarte Cosmetics was originally created as a brand that carried glamorous style yet still maintaining pure and powerful ingredients. Tarte is a cruelty-free brand, offering eco-chic products infused with invigorating ingredients like superfruit and plant extracts, vitamins, minerals, essential oils and other naturally-derived ingredients. Nice. Their focus on ingredients also doesn’t sacrifice their performance; Tarte’s formulas are highly focused on creating effective products, offering from budgeproof, waterproof, sweatproof, and SPF. All of their products are free from parabens, mineral oil, phthalates, sodium lauryl sulfate, triclosan, synthetic fragrances and gluten… to name a few!
Tarte Cosmetics is well-known for one particular ingredient that appears in a number of their products; Amazonian Clay.
So what’s great about this ingredient anyway?
Well, Amazonian Clay claims to be ‘Nature’s most perfect ingredient’ and completely beneficial to all skin types. What’s not to like? This clay is sourced from the Amazon River as it collects all of the nutritious plant and fruit matter as it flows for around 4000 miles. It all gathers at the banks of the River’s basin where it is collected, and at it’s highest nutrient concentration.
The clay is then harvests through a selective process that maintains the integrity of the region whilst preserving the purity of the Amazonian Clay. It is then baked in the sun which locks in all of the nutrition and shaved into a fine powder and infused into Tarte Cosmetics’ natural makeup fomulas.
So this special ingredient is great for controlling oil on the skins surface, while it nourishes and hydrates at the same time. Amazonian Clay helps with the skins clarity and texture to maintain a flawless complexion.
QVC have an exclusive Tarte 4-Piece Miracles of the Amazon Collection featuring an eyeshadow & blusher palette containing six eye shades and a full sized blusher, a double ended eye blending brush, a limited-edition clay smart mascara in black, a lipsurgence liquid lip shine in Exquisite and also a limited-edition make-up bag to help carry all your Amazonian essentials.
The packaging deserves a mention as it is quite charming- it features a mosaic-style gold and purple design, revealing their Amazonian theme; with wooden detailing.
The eyeshadows in this palette are cooler toned, with hues of pink and greyish-plum. They have a high pigmented formula, especially the matte shades. They feel soft and smooth, almost like you can feel the clay texture in them. Here’s the swatch including the blush also – which is a pinky-coral tone, which would lend itself to most skin tones well. It can be as soft or strong as you make it, with its soft and blendable powdery texture.
The Smart Macara gives a natural look to the lashes, and theyve added the ‘smart’ bit as the Amazonian Clay treats your lashes as well as making them look pretty! It conditions, repairs and replenishes brittle or dry lashes.
The liquid lip shine is a sheer, berry toned sheen which smells super sweet and delivers a great natural tone to add a bit of oopmf to your lips.
For an ever-so-worth-it £34 you’re getting a huge saving on this 5 piece set.. The mascara alone is worth £21, with their palettes ranging from £20-£40, so don’t miss this one.
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Tarte Cosmetics Miracles of the Amazon 4-piece Collection available now on QVC for £34
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