shopping42 I will check it out-but being a beauty junky I have more stuff enough to open a shop-but I made a resolution to use what I have up or toss-thnks for info-

Please do a review - I'm super curious about rawminerals!

I'm curious as well to see how it compares to bare minerals.

Wow - it looks like it would feel really nice on!!!

I have been using www.everydayminerals.com and love them. I don't notice a difference between them and Bare Escentuals... so I don't imagine them to be different from Raw. So, you might want to give them a look at. They are not as spendy.

I always avoid the makeup department unless I need something specific because they always attack me from all sides and want to work me over & sell me all their line. Thus I have tons of unused stuff that I bought and never used. I like a natural look that I can use in 5 minutes and out the door I go! so please feel free to share why this product is worthwhile vs my Clinique makeup with sunblock I continue to use year after year. thanks for the post!

They feel so natural but you can get them over the counter for less expense.

Thanks for the info girls! I have just started wearing Bare Escentuals and I like it, but it is kinda pricey. My daughter is just started to wear makeup too (very little) and I definitely like the minerals because of no breaking out(acne) but with her just learning, etc how to use, I don't want to spend a ton of $$$. I actually really like Maybelline Mineral makeup foundation also. It is very nice and covers well. I think the big clincher with the mineral foundations (for me anyway) is the primer. It is absolutely essential for me to use that or I am not impressed at all with Bare Escentuals. I have the skin revver upper (came with the $60 starter kit) but I have been using Smashbox Primer samples with it also. LOVE. Has anyone tried the Leeza Gibbons one? It looks really nice too and cheaper.

I agree with Rubydreams

Yes guys, the Raw Minerals makeup is Crazy good!- I think they should be paying me to sing their praises like this! lol!! The powdery foundation is so fine but the coverage is very good, I don't know how that works- but I like it! I literally apply one loaded brushful(and thr foundation brush is a bit smaller than a quarter) in the morning over my own drug store concealer - I use their concealer brush they gave me- at 7:45 and then top off with the glow all over the places the sun would naturally hit if I were laying out that morning- best tip ever!- and then I use a brow filling powder from MK with my MK brow-brush and some eyeshadow with their brush they give you for the bronzer(it;s too small for the bronzer,IMO, but when half-in, since it's a retractable brush, it's perfect for a wash of color on my lids- and then I use walmart mascara and walmart eyeliner, run a comb through my lashes and the brush over my brows, slap on some lip medex and I am SET for 12 HOURS! I am not kidding!-literally, I will only touch up my eyeliner if I need to if I go out after dinner or something. And I have an oily t-zone guys, I don't have that perfect peaches and cream skin some lucky girls have that never gets dry or oily- I can actually be oily and dry at the same time at different places on my face, I am so nutsy! lol! I just LOVE this product to DEATH. I have decided that if I have to send back the empty containers on the 21st, fine (because I'll empty and keep all the product,lol- since they let you, heyyyy) but I do NOT want to give back the brushes- I actually want to buy their eyeshadow, brow and liner brushes too! I do makeup and I have an older Bobbi Brown brush set I got in the later 90's, let me assure you these brushes are SO much better than those! (Sorry Bobbi,I love you still!) There is just no way that I can give them back, but I def. don't need a new shipment of the 2 powders and a bronzer every month- the one container of each will last me months!- you use so little every day!- and the bronzer will prob. last a YEAR, so I gotta tell them to stop the monthly shipment deal but I will keep and pay for the brushes, plus order more of them!, and buy the products as I need them... they better let me do that LOL

kiwi, I saw the ad for everyday minerals in my family circle....I wondered what they were like, and your right- less pricey for sure. I have not tried bare minerals but have tried bare escentuals and Raw is better than them, you said that bare minerals is comprable to everyday minerals? Hmmmm, I wonder how they stack up to my Beloved Raw!! I may have to find out- free trial style, of course!

I will let y'all know!

Pam, I haven't used Clinique in years! not because they are not good, LOVE their stuff, and I guess it is all up to your tastes if you would prefer the powdered minerals foundation on your skin or the liquid- Raw does come with sunscreen spf 25 within it- so that is a good match- but if you like the feel of silky powder on your skin and that's it, and it lasts all day, then I say free-try the minerals, why not! But if you prefer the sinking-in feel of the liquid and you don't use powder normally, then you may not like the silky feel of the ever-present 12 hour + wear of the mineral foundation on your skin....

Really, rubydreams? I have seen that someone- I think L'Oreal?- was or did just come out with a minerals line, but that was when I was waiting for this, so I figured I'd try this first... I am hooked, I can't try L'oreal or anyone now (-unless it was free to try of course ha ha ha!!)

Really, Coach? Maybelline has one? Hmmmm.... well I haven't heard of the Lisa Gibbons one either but she has some FAB skin so I would try it!!!Smashbox
IS totally awesome, I have yet to try thier primer- gotta try now!!!!- I have the MK primer and it is good, but it is $25 a bottle and, I just don't feel like I need it-- with Raw I don't feel like I need anything but my moisturizer on my face before I apply it, and that is GREAT

I don't know guys, I feel so ~*~*~FREE~*~*~*~ with Raw on! I feel unencumbered and pretty....lol!I feel Pretty, Oh so Pretty, I feel Pretty and Witty and Gay!.... hah ha ha ha ha *coughz*

"If the lion lies down with the lamb, the lamb must be replaced frequently." --Attributed to Martin Luther In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist violence of September 11, 2001.

awesome. Glad I could help! Everday Minerals has the free trial ones but I think you have to pay for shipping.

Thanks Kiwi, and I am mailing back my empties of the RAW tomorrow, and keeping the awesome brushes. I will then try Everyday Minerals and see how I like them. In the end, I will choose whatever works best for the price, I suppose. I will miss my cute little Raw cannisters, how gay am I?? Lol! I just am in *love* with thier cute little cannisters; I hope the Everyday folks have some cute cannisters!

"If the lion lies down with the lamb, the lamb must be replaced frequently." --Attributed to Martin Luther In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist violence of September 11, 2001.

They have light purple lids.