If You’re Sick Of Wearing Makeup, Just Use This
If You’re Sick Of Wearing Makeup, Just Use This
WHAT: Jones Road Miracle Balm
WHY: You know how you’re starting to notice that makeup is actually making you look OLDER? Yes. Same. Isn’t it a huge bummer? We pile on serumy foundations and brightening concealers and cream blush and then we look at ourselves in the mirror and we look….worse? And this is because, I think, the issue with aging skin is not wrinkles. It’s texture.
Wrinkles are pretty. They make our eyes look crinkly and moony and cute. But the overall moisture/collagen loss in our skin makes it look parched, more porous, and when we layer and layer stuff on it, it exacerbates every little blip and mark and we want to wipe it all off and start over. At least, that’s what we’ve been experiencing as we creep past 40.
So the way we even LOOK for products has changed. We want one-step products that create lots of glow but not lots of layers. We want all products to illuminate the skin, making us look “lit from within” as they say. And potentially nothing does that in a less makeupy, but highly glowy way, than the aptly named Miracle Balm from Jones Road.
Is it a blush? A highlighter? A balm? A bronzer? It’s everything in one! You smear your fingers in the big pot to first “break the seal,” tap your fingertips together, and then just press all over your face where you’d normally put color. It’s not scary even though it feels like—what category of predict is this? Because once you use it, even once, you will honestly stop wearing everything else you own.
Here it is on our very own 45 year old editor in chief:
And truthfully, the title of this article is misleading. Because you will love this product even if you LOVE makeup. The natural glow. The NOT GLITTERY sheen. The many shades it comes in, all of which look natural. The soft-focus it will give your pores. The ability to wear it ALONE for a little oomph even without foundation. It just has a lot going for it.
And why wouldn’t it? Jones Road is Bobbi Brown’s new makeup venture. And she launched it the DAY her non-compete ran out after selling her original Bobbi Brown to Estée Lauder, 25 years ago.
Get it, Bobbi.
PRICE: $38
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