• Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum Foundation // review - on acne scarred skin •

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Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum Foundation in 52 Vanilla

It's no secret that I love this foundation - I've raved about it on my 2013 beauty favourites post and mentioned that I wear it everyday. I wanted to write this post to show mainly the coverage of the foundation and how it covers up my acne scars, whilst providing you lovely people with my review on the product.

Packaging

The packaging is cute, nothing amazing about it but does there need to be? I enjoy the fact that there's a pump which pumps out the right amount of foundation needed to cover your entire face (why can't other companies get this right?!) and which is useful for sanitary reasons. The signature red cap is rounded, showing the difference between the serum and the normal foundation, and is secure enough to not flimsily pop off in your handbag - this is a personal annoyance of mine, so this packaging is spot on in my eyes.

Type

The serum foundation is, as it a suggests, a serum texture. It's a liquid foundation which is sort if gel-like in consistency and is medium in thickness. For reference, it's not as thin as MAC Face and Body, but not as thick as MAC Studio Sculpt.

Coverage

The coverage is medium-buildable and as you can see in the photo below, covers and fills scars. It also disguises any redness and literally never looks cakey. It can be sheered down to a light coverage by applying half a pump and blends beautifully. It's pretty hard to cock this up and I usually apply one or two layers to get my desired coverage.

Shade range

The colour range isn't great to be honest; it's pretty restricted to fair to medium skin, which is a real shame.

Opinion

I reach for this more than I do any of my other foundations. I've not compared it to the normal Healthy Mix foundation as I didn't bother to buy that one when I bought this one, I was so impressed by this. It fills pores, covers my scars, hides my redness - to me, it's perfection in a glass bottle. In all honesty, if it weren't for the fact that I'm a cosmetics whore and buy new bits and bobs all the time, I don't think I'd ever buy another foundation again (do not fear though, I will - all in the name of reviews and blogging of course). 

I prefer this to my high-end foundations and can't fault it in any way other than the poor shade range. One thing I have found, though, is that I had to go a shade lighter than my Healthy Mix Concealer - for some reason, the shades of the concealer and foundation don't quite match up. Hey ho, that's what testers in the shops are for, I guess.

Anyway...I shall leave you with this very flattering photo of my exposed acne scarred cheek (damn you, skin) compared to a photo of the same cheek with one layer of the serum foundation. Pretty good, huh? Admittedly, I used to cake my face in thick foundation to cover up my scars (Dream Matte Mousse was my best friend) but now I kind of...embrace them? In a weird kind of way? Yeah, I had acne. Yeah, it was horrible. But there are maaaany many many worse things in the world than a few spots. And with a foundation like this, I don't mind them. Side note - along with the foundation, I also think I've grown up a bit and realised there are more important things to life...and as I've matured I've realised that actually, people don't really care as much about your face as you think they do!

I hope you liked this post and found it useful. If you haven't gathered by now, I freakin' love this stuff.

Have you tried the Healthy Mix Serum Foundation? If so, what did you think?

Daniela