Review of the New Mary Kay Mineral Makeup
I received this email from a visitor named Kristen. I think you’ll find it entertaining. I did.
I found your site while looking for a place to complain
. I just had my introduction to Mary Kay products trying the mineral makeups. I am NOT impressed!
I purchased a new mineral eyeshadow, and when I opened it to excitedly use my new shade, I find a PUNY portion in a VERY MISLEADINGLY sized container! PLUS, the eyeshadow is not made to adhere within the container. There is NOTHING to hold it in!!! I suppose you’re supposed to remove it and use it for their new compact. I find this a CHEAP marketing ploy. I don’t WANT to buy that compact, and now I have my insultingly small eyeshadow fall out EVERY freaking time I open it. I just know one day it is going to fly out of that stupid container, hit my wall, and shatter all over my carpet- and I want to send Mary Kay my carpet cleaning bill!! Either that or I need to get better at catch…
Also, I HATED how they kept PUSHING me to be a salesperson. I don’t WANT to sell Mary Kay- you’re lucky: I’m here trying and buying your products!! That is SUCH a turnoff.
The “Mineral” foundation I’m not too sure about. It made my skin look decent, but again, the size is very small for the money. The first two ingredients are Talc and Cornstarch, and it contains parabens. All of those ingredients are considered sketchy to use in makeup at the moment.
I just wish that HONESTY was more important for manufacturers than making money by twisted marketing schemes and cheap, unsafe ingredients. But, alas, this is the world we live in- and Mary Kay is not exempt.
All I know is, my father ironically, LOVES their skin care products! I haven’t much experience with those- but honestly, I don’t know that I can stand dealing with this Mary Kay lady again to order more.
Lipstick on 
Ann on 
Brooke on 
Tam on 
“it was like putting face powder on your face, zero coverage and totally worthless as a foundation!”
Lipstick i have to agree with you on this one. It did nothing for me. No coverage. I do use the medium coverage foundation and apply the mineral foundation as a powder LOL
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Cynthia, JMO…but you would be better off buying the MK loose powder for $12.50. You get a lot more and it costs less than the Mineral Powder.
Thanks for posting, appreciate yur opinion and input.
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Lipstick, i agree but i have it already i might as well just use it as a powder. But thanks for the suggestion i’ll be getting that when MK MF runs out.
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*UPDATE* Loose powder is $ 14 now
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Thanks, Tam….been out for almost 2 years and have forgotten how often MK goes up in price…but wait aminute they say they don’t make many changes at all right?
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Hey! To Kristin! I am so sorry you had such an awful experience with the “psycho” MK Lady!! I deal MK, too, but not in that manner! I never push people to sell…I’d lose some of my best customers! Did she ever offer to show you how to use the proper techniques for applying the eye shadow or the mineral foundation? We do have a great skin care program. No wonder your father loves the products! I’d be really surprised that “your” MK lady did not delve further into skin care with you. We sell more skin care than makeup, honestly. We do have a 100% satisfaction guarantee, so if you are not completely satisfied…she will have no trouble doing an exchange for you. I hope this one lady doesn’t spoil it for the rest of us! Hopefully, you find a great product that suits you! Good luck!
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Guess it really depends on the individual. I am not a consultant, but I love most MK products. The mineral foundation has given me my best coverage of all of the others I’ve tried…and I’m 43 with my share of things to hide!
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I tried to find ingredients for Mary Kay makeup and theyre basically no where to be found on the Internet, and definitely not on their site. Wonder what theyre hiding. I just emailed them. btw, they managed to complicate their contact information as well. You even have to leave your phone number just to ask a simple question. But of course I left a fake one. ANyway, waiting for their reply now.
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ruby, your consultant has the ability to look up and even print out the ingredients out for you to see.
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Hi again,,,Just to keep you guys updated. After I emailed MK I received an email from them asking in which country I live (without answering my simple question about ingredients, THAT was all the information I needed). So I emailed them back answering where I live (in Sweden.)
Then I got another email from MK, again NOT answering my question but informing me that ” it is not possible – at the present time –to pursue a career as an Independent Beauty Consultant in Sweden or buy products, as we neither have a subsidiary there nor are we registered as a company in Sweden.”
I emailed them back (once again!) explaining that I never wanted to start selling MK products in Sweden, or elsewhere. I also said that I might buy MK makeup through friends who live in other countries or on ebay. All I want are the ingredient lists of some of their products (which I have listed in my first email to MK).
Then I finally received a reply with the information I asked for. They also adviced me strongly not to buy their products on ebay. Considering that their supposedly more natural formulas are stuffed with chemicals found in any other cheap makeup, I wont be buying MK anywhere. Even their supposedly Mineral makeup line consists of typical ingredients, with only some minerals, not more than found in an average eyeshadow. I certainly wouldnt call it “mineral makeup” if it barely contains any minerals.
Mineral eye color:
Ingredients Talc , Aluminum Starch Octenylsuccinate , Zea Mays (Corn) Starch , Dimethicone , Isononyl Isononanoate , Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate , Zinc Stearate , C26-28 Alkyl Dimethicone , PCA Dimethicone , Methylparaben , Imidazolidinyl Urea , Nylon-12 , Dimethiconol , Trimethylsiloxysilicate , Octyldodecyl Stearoyl Stearate , Octyldodecanol , Tocopheryl Acetate , Ascorbyl Palmitate , Retinyl Palmitate , Iron Oxides
May Contain Ingredients Carmine , Ultramarines , Ferric Ammonium Ferrocyanide , Titanium Dioxide , Mica
Mineral Cheek color:
Ingredients Talc , Polymethyl Methacrylate , Zea Mays (Corn) Starch , Octyldodecyl Lactate , Zinc Stearate , Dimethicone , Octyldodecyl Stearoyl Stearate , Nylon-12 , Silica , Isononyl Isononanoate , Methylparaben , Imidazolidinyl Urea , Ethylhexyl Palmitate , Tocopheryl Acetate , Ascorbyl Palmitate , Retinyl Palmitate , Luffa Cylindrica Seed Oil , Octyldodecanol , BHT , Iron Oxides
May Contain Ingredients Mica , Red 7 Lake , Titanium Dioxide , Ultramarines , Carmine
Mineral Powder Foundation
Ingredients Talc , Zea Mays (Corn) Starch , Zinc Stearate , Dimethicone , Boron Nitride , Zeolite , Methylparaben , Sorbic Acid , Ethylene/Methacrylate Copolymer , Propylparaben , Tetrasodium EDTA , Isopropyl Titanium Triisostearate , BHT , Iron Oxides , Mica
May Contain Ingredients Titanium Dioxide
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