Review of Raw Minerals
So I recently tried a free trial from glow.com (I am not linking it because no one should be visiting this site) for only $4.95! That is until 30 days go by and if you don’t read the fine print (i didn’t) then they charge you a whole lot more! I called and they are refunding me half – but its not good enough. Especially because their product sucks. And I’m not just saying that because I failed to read the fine print. I’m saying it because its the gosh darn truth. If you want your face to age 10 years right in front of your eyes then by all means cake on the Raw Minerals! They want you to believe that this 4 (four!!) step process of putting foundation on your face will make you glow like the airbrushed models in their ads. I’m not that much of a sucker ok, I live in reality, I know what photoshop is, but I thought I would try it. With each new layer I put on it was like the natural glow of my skin (yes, i have that) disappeared only to be replaced by a desert… a cakey, dry desert…on my face. And no, its not because I didn’t apply it right. I think any time you are required to put 4 layers of stuff on your face its not going to look good. I knew that already somewhere in the recesses of my brain, but now I know it for REAL!
Emilily, 
Carmen, and 
Olga 3:28 am on October 6, 2009 Permalink
Whoa there Silver! Thems are fightin’ words! I’m getting the feeling that you might not think too highly of the above product. I found a jar of this product on my bathroom floor just a few weeks ago (i think a guest dropped it and left it). Anyway, I tried it out because I’m always game for new facial product and well… it was free. I thought it looked good for the first 30 minutes or so.. then it went flat and had a drying effect on my skin. Of course I had only one layer on, I can only imagine what 4 layers would do!
Emilily 11:20 am on October 6, 2009 Permalink
Oh, the fine print. I am embarrassed to admit, I fell for one of those a few months back and bought, of all the snake-oil hocus-pocus loony-bin products, a bottle of acia berry multi-vitamins. It was during one of my ill-advised attempts to kick the caffeine habit, and I thought “maybe this will help me off coffee, and hey, it’s a free sample, what could go wrong?” Oh, famous last words. You know what happened – I had to call and argue with this obnoxious call center in Indonesia after they tried to tell me I had signed up for a one-year supply, delivered and chargeable monthly. The fine print actually said you had 30 days to cancel, but when I called within the 30 days, they said the return policy had recently been changed to 14 days, how shady is that?! Finally, I called my bank and they helped me block the charges; apparently, they have an SOP for just this type of scenario because I guess I was like the 10,017th person to fall for it. What a sucker.
Four layers of face product is excessive, I agree. But I see how you were tempted by the promise of glowing skin; the luminosity of my aging skin is something that keeps me up at night. Seriously.
Carmen 11:28 am on October 6, 2009 Permalink
Emily, losing sleep over your aging skin is exactly what will cause your skin to lose its luminosity (not to mention sleep apnea). I guess its time to invest in La Mer??
Emilily 11:56 am on October 6, 2009 Permalink
Oh yeah, cause I have way more faith in miracle Canadian seaweed than miracle rain forest berries. Maybe I’ll just burn my money and plaster the ashes on my face instead.