{"id":15030,"date":"2015-02-13T08:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T00:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=15030"},"modified":"2018-11-01T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T01:30:34","slug":"cle-de-peau-beaute-radiant-fluid-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2015\/02\/cle-de-peau-beaute-radiant-fluid-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends, meet my photoshop in a bottle : Cle de Peau Beaute Radiant Fluid Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"
Every time I’ve sat down to tell you about the Cle de Peau Radiant Fluid Foundation<\/strong>, I’ve found myself checking myself. It’s by Cle de Peau which means it’s a luxury product, which means it’s expensive. Very expensive for a 30ml bottle. Which means I’ll have people moaning at me about how expensive it is. So I’ve sat on it for over 4 months since its launch last year<\/a>, dithering…<\/p>\n But I’ve raved about it at every opportunity to anyone who’d listen, or who’d ask. I’ve convinced\u00a0a friend to buy it (and I think she loves it as much as I do!) So, I finally decided that ok, I’ll talk about it on the blog. Again, please bear in mind that this is expensive, so please don’t moan about the price – it’s not as if I haven’t warned you \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The thing though, for the asking price, I do wish that Cle de Peau had thought to put the product in a packaging with a more luxurious look and feel. The liquid foundation comes in a pump bottle, but the deep navy body is plastic, and so is the golden cap.<\/p>\n It often boggles my mind when I see incongruity like this. Perhaps the cost is in the product itself (because it’s an amazing product!) but I’m quite sure a little bit of the cost could have been spent on making it look better and more luxurious. At least give it a little heft. Or perhaps the idea was not to make it too hefty so you won’t demur from taking this foundation everywhere you go – because if you travel a lot, you’ll want to. It just looks amazing when worn. There’s that word again.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When you lift off the cap, the navy blue packaging extends to the pump. It’s quite a sleek packaging, I’d give them that despite my complaints, and you don’t even have to shake it up. I do, out of habit but even when I don’t, it’s never once separated on me when pumped out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With regular use, the nozzle and surrounding pump can get a little grubby but not so that you can’t just wipe it clean with a piece of tissue.<\/p>\n I use the shade B10 which is one of the lightest shades, but I do find that it has a decidedly pink cast. I won’t complain because I can handle pink based foundations and often seek them out. Cle de Peau also makes the Radiant Fluid Foundation in O (Ochre) which may suit those with warm tones better.<\/p>\n Here is a comparison swatch next to some other foundations I wear and love, so you have an idea about the shade selection. The shades do shift across the cool-warm spectrum but they all look fine once I wear them and blend them out, which confuses me, but hey, there you go. It’s makeup \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/p>\n L-R: Chanel Perfection Lumiere Velvet B10<\/a>, RMK Gel Creamy Foundation #201<\/a>, Cle de Peau Radiant Fluid Foundation B10, Lunasol Skin Modelling Liquid Foundation OC-01<\/a>, Urban Decay Naked Skin Foundation 1.0<\/em><\/p>\n I wear the pink based range in RMK foundations but you may notice how much more pink based the CdP one is next to the RMK. Lunasol and Chanel are both more yellow toned while the Urban Decay one is pretty neutral.<\/p>\n But swatches aside, what is it about this luxurious Cle de Peau foundation that has me hesitating to tell you to empty your wallet and run out and buy it RIGHT NOW? Well, you know how we all want to have that wonderful lit from within glow to your skin, while maintaining an even tone and looking like we\u00a0have been air-brushed in real life?<\/p>\n Well, this Radiant Fluid Foundation gives you all that!<\/strong> I call it my photoshop in a bottle \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n I only need a very thin layer (I only use 1 pump of foundation, draw 5 lines on my face and then I use a flat top foundation brush to blend it out. The gist of the technique is here<\/a> and is the only technique I use to apply all my foundation) and it just gives me the appearance of a perfect, dewy complexion. It hides any redness in my skin, it evens out my skintone, it adds luminosity and a glow and it does all that without feeling heavy, oily or greasy; and it stays put. All day long. In the case of this foundation, dewy and glowy does not equal shimmery and greasy. At no point in the day do I ever feel like I need to do something about the shine, because it isn’t a shine, it’s a GLOW.<\/p>\n While using this foundation, I’ve never had it settle into my pores or lines. I do apply a thin layer of powder or Guerlain Meteorites powders to set it which I feel is useful in our hot and humid climate. In a drier climate, I don’t think it’s even necessary. I have normal-dry skin and this one glides on like a dream over my skin.<\/p>\n