yellow toned ladies rejoice - bobbi brown foundation

so remember how i told you that so far make up for ever had been the only foundation yellow enough to match me? well i can now say that's not exactly the case.

i first tried bobbi brown's foundation months ago, i think during the summer. i wanted to give her stuff a shot and decided to see how her foundation was. the mua recommended me her oil free even finish foundation since i am normally oily. she matched me to sand, telling me that it ran a bit light and that in other foundations i'd probably be warm ivory. so i went home all happy dandy, and after a few days i felt like the coloring wasn't right. it seemed to orange. stupid me, i never actually went back to get rematched and buy a new one. so it sat there with me thinking "i thought bobbi brown was supposed to be really all about the yellow foundations? this is orange!"

well cut back to now, i decide after a while to give her stuff another shot. so i decide to check out her moisture rich foundation, hoping maybe it will be the answer to my woes about chanel's vitalumiere being a tad too dark for me. i decided to order it in warm ivory thinking that if sand was too dark, warm ivory might work. and it does! the color match is amazing. perfectly yellow (without looking like a sick yellow). the tone is great and i'm so pleased.

as far as the foundation itself, i'll say it's not bad, but not the best i've ever used. it doesn't moisturize me like vitalumiere does, but it goes on pretty evenly, give a nice natural finish. it can get a bit cakey if you load it on too much (totally did this by accident the first time i used it. why can't they put a damn pump on their foundations!?), but if you use a sponge or brush, you'll get a nice medium coverage. and like i said before, i can't rave enough about the match! so happy about that.

sometimes i just wish i could take my favorite things about my top 3 foundations and mix them together, then i'd have the perfect foundation. until then, my holy grail foundation search continues.

i'd say if you have normal to slightly dry skin, this foundation would be food for you, if you're looking for something to really kill those flakies and not keep making them pop back up, this might not be for you. but it's definitely not a bad foundation, i might even enjoy it more during the summer months, because it doesn't seem to make me greasy at all and will add a bit of moisture to my cheeks when they're not AS dry in the summer.

another discovery i made today, i tried chanel's vitalumiere with a sponge (the mua that matched me to it said they don't recommend it being applied this way) and i got a sheerer coverage than i do with my fingers and i found that it somehow made the color match me really great. so i'm thinking that this foundation is best for me as a sheer coverage (which i really am looking for from it anyway, i just have a habit of loading on foundation sometimes. oops.) and when it's put on sheer i get a much nicer match, very natural. so i am loving it once again after putting it down a bit because of the color.

so that's my update on the foundation hunt. if you've got any foundation recommendations, send 'em my way!

*disclaimer: all items have been purchased by myself, i have not received any free items or money for this review/post.