Cover Girl's Ultimate Finish Liquid Powder - the Ultimate Breakthrough in Cosmetics

Over the past ten years, the cosmetic industry finally, finally 'got' it: The women who use their products are busy by choice or by necessity. If you design a time-saving, dual use product for them, they will come!

Cover Girl's "Ultimate Finish Liquid Powder Makeup" is exactly as the label says. In one relatively small, compact and manageable container, the product can be used as both a foundation applied first to the face, and also as a 'finishing' powder to cap off your makeup. Cover Girl touts it as being 'dermatologically tested' (we certainly hope so!) and 'fragrance and oil free'. "The smooth, even coverage of a liquid and the camoflaging of a concealer with the beautiful finish of a powder - all in one easy step!" (The exclamation point at the end of this sentence is theirs.)

I actually started using this product about eight months ago, by accident, actually. I was looking for a foundation that came in a small package, one that I could carry easily in my handbag's makeup case. I didn't want to load it down with those oversized jars of liquid foundation that I kept and used at home. Because of the creamy consistency of the product, I mistook it for foundation in a compact. What I didn't realize was that not only does it serve very, very well as a base foundation, it also makes for a pretty nifty finishing powder as well.

In 'ancient times' (i.e., ten years ago), a woman who wore makeup as part of her daily routine needed to have both a liquid foundation and a compact which held the finishing powder for that foundation, to give it a 'settled' look. With the combined foundation and finishing powder as one product, not only does this save a ton of money (by not having to purchase two separate products), it also saves time and space. Actually, I was somewhat leery at first about trying it. If it can also be used as a 'finishing powder', just how good could the foundation itself be? What I did find was pleasantly surprising.