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Classes in Making Mineral Makeup
Pure mineral makeup pigments
Monave is holding its second class of 2012 on making mineral makeup. The class is hands on. Participants receive formulas and outlines via email, and can order supplies, pigments and more from the Monave store, prior to the class. Participants will learn how to make beautiful, easy to wear blushes and eyeshadows, using time-tested techniques by the expert formulators at Monave.
For more information and tickets: Learn How to Make Mineral Blush and Eyeshadow<
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Hot off the Press
Monave has restocked their natural skin care section. Back in stock are a variety of well loved items. First are our wonderful lotions from our natural bodycare line , Cocoa Butter and Shea Butter for Face and Body. Both lotions are amazingly moisturizing with no synthetic waxes and scented with essential oils of Lavender, Sweet Orange and Peppermint. The Lavender/Rosemary Shampoo and Condtioner are also back in the house, this duo is wonderful for all hair types leaving the hair soft and silky! For the ultimate in deep conditioning the Rosemary Deep Treat with Shea Butter is amazing, it can also be used as a leave in for those unruly locks!
Green Clay bar and the Luxurious Lavender bar are in!! As some of you may know our original soapmaker recently had to put her business in hiatus as she nurses her husband back to health following a serious health crisis! We were lucky to find Geralyn, a soapmaker from Charm City Soaps. She does beautiful soaps and was able to perfectly execute our soaps! Go Geralyn! So visit our site www.monave.com and stock on some old friends.
Popularity: 23% [?]
Monave Memorial Weekend Sale
Hi Everyone
Monave Mineral Makeup is having a Memorial Weekend Sale! Sale starts on Friday May 28th to Sunday May 30th! So if you have been putting off getting your mineral foundation or trying a color from our new collection of mineral eye shadow now is the time to do it! The sale is 30% off the entire retail site, only retail customers are eligible not wholesalers. To take advantage of the sale input MONAVE30 in the Promo Code box when placing your order! Have a safe and wonderful weekend!
Popularity: 30% [?]
Monave’s New Crystal Collection
There are some new gems being mined at Monave Mineral Cosmetics this Spring! Our new Crystal Collection have a total of four new mineral eye shadows and two mineral lip colors. The mineral eye shadows are, Tourmaline, a rich verdant green, Peridot, a delicate apple green color with a shimmer of gold, Carnelian, a fiery orange and Smoky Opal, a pearlescent smoky pink! These new mineral colors are awesome with a shade for everyone no matter what skin tone you are! The mineral lip colors are Crimson Agate, a lush cranberry and Rose Quartz, an opalescent pink.
We incorporated these new mineral shades into our Spring/Summer Collection. We have a Pastel palette which has a couple surprises. Babe Pink, normally a mineral lip color, Lilac Mist, normally a mineral blush became semi matte mineral eye shadows along with the new Peridot! The lip color, Rose Quartz rounds out the collection. Our Vibrant palette is the Tourmaline, Carnelian and an old favorite Dragonfly, a shimmery purple haze with Crimson Agate complementing the gem like versatile powders. So step into fashion with these new additions to Monave’s kaleidoscope of mineral colors!
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We’re doing final preps for our mineral makeup seminar!
This Sunday, we’re hosing yet another informative and fun seminar (with the addition of a webinar) about making mineral make up, selling natural makeup and this time, marketing on a budget. Kim Platko, our wonderful formulator and friend, will be teaching a class on making dramatic eyeshadows, using Monave blended powders, such as versatile powders, and blushes. She’ll also be showing participants how to correctly melt down, color and fill lip gloss and lipstick into tubes, pots, and balm sticks.
Just in time for this event, Monave has launched three new products: vegan moisture mousse, (with coinciding vegan rose daily cream), vegan cream to powder base, and lip balm base. The lip balm base is shiny, takes color very well, and can be injected or poured into our new slim-line lip tubes, which are an easy fill option for making lipsticks, no mold necessary. The cream to powder is the perfect product to make any mineral makeup powder into a pressed or poured makeup. Featuring cute silver capped compacts, Kim will demonstrate how to mix, pour, and tidy up the cream to powders for professional sales, or personal use.
Webinar attendees will be able to watch from far-flung places and follow along with their own supplies’ kits of mica powders, iron oxides, lip tubes, lip gloss and liptick base.
Check back for pictures and reports, as well as videos of the classes!
Popularity: 15% [?]
Give the Gift of Healthy Beauty; Monave’s Holiday Gift Campaign
Hello!
Deborah in the Monave Makeup studio
I’ve been thinking about an email I received from a man who had recently lost his wife to terminal illness. I wondered if someone had taken the time to talk to her about the dangers of toxins in cosmetics, the atmosphere, food, and home care products, if it would have helped. Perhaps an article would have begun a process of education and lifestyle change? Sometimes, we can try all we want, and the information is not well-received. But it’s always, always worth a try if it saves someone’s life. And it’s always worthwhile when someone has more confidence because their skin looks clearer, and healthier.
So, to help spread the word, we’re going to help our loyal users introduce our makeup to a sister, mother, or friend, with a special program for this Holiday season, called, “Give the Gift of Healthy Beauty”. With some special treats (our way of making it fun), we hope that more women can become ambassodors of our product line. We still stand by our main tenents:
- Simple, short formulas with ingredients that are simple and easy to understand
- Ingredients that are both non-irritating (short term) and non-toxic (long term)
- Shades for all women. No ethnic group should be excluded from Healthy Beauty
- Women’s entrepreneurship. We all have dreams; tiny seeds in the beginning. Women are natural entrepreneurs, who just need some nurturing and mentoring to realize their ambitions
- Products that are easy to apply, stay put, bring out a woman’s natural beauty
We hope that as our customers share (many already do), our products with loved ones, office mates and teens, that they will also communicate these ideals. It’s not just about a product, but about the values that we express through the choices that we make.
So, for the Holiday Season, until the end of 2009, we are offering 20% off of any full-sized orders, PLUS a free sample of any full sized product purchased to share with a friend. For example, if Jenna shops online for her foundation (19.50), blush (12.00), and lip glaze (13.50), she’ll be able to subtract $ 9.00 off of her total. Then in the comments box of her order, she can list a foundation sample, blush sample, and mini-lip glaze for her best friend Emilia to try. She will pick the colors or let her friend in on it, and they can go online and pick her shades together. Then we’ll place Emilia’s gifties in a baggie, pop it in Jenna’s packaged, and send it all off.
If Emilia loves the products, and wants to order some for herself, her first full-sized order can also recieve the discount!
Please let others know about this special campaign via email, Facebook, however you stay in touch with the world. And if you’d like some materials to educate your friends, there are articles on allnaturalbeauty.com about lots of things, but especially about Healthy Beauty. We have articles online as well at www.monave.com/index.php?p=page&page_id=articles
Enjoy and share the Gift of Healthy Beauty this holiday season
Deb
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Monave’s New Economy Line- Mineral Makeup by the Gram
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Monave Mineral Cosmetics Fall Seminar
A flurry of women in all stages of the mineral makeup business descended on our warehouse on September 27th at 9am to participate in our final mineral makeup seminar of the year. The participants, one of whom came from as far away as British Colombia Canada, got to hear great information from a long time formulator on how to expand their mineral skin care line by using lip bases to create new products for continuing and future success. Another contributor, David Craig the owner of an emerging label company Arcana Graphics, gave invaluable insider tips on how to choose and use the correct labels to sell and market their products successfully. He also gave tips on what you need to know when having dialogue with your label company, it was an eye opener!
The highlight of this makeup seminar was the discussion on Intellectual Property and the ramifications of choosing a name that is being used by another company! Now that got the class hopping as several horror stories were exchanged! Deb Bilezikian, company owner, gave a class on using existing products in your line and combining or adding different pigments to create a whole new product. Imagine taking a mineral foundation adding a versatile powder and making a mineral eye shadow or combining two versatile powders and making a mineral blush. The possibilities can be endless! This makeup class was a seminar favorite too! The ladies were really impressed by this method of thinking outside the box!
There will be a video on the blending for new mineral skin care available for download on the website soon. A video from the previous makeup seminar on June 18th which features Julie Edwards, whose class on making mineral makeup for women of color was wildly popular, will also be available in the near future! See you next year for more great makeup seminars. Let us know what you’d like to learn!
Popularity: 36% [?]
Monave gets Beauty with a Conscience Award….Again!
Monave strikes again! Monave’s Moisture Mousse foundation got Editor’s pick as the best liquid foundation by the Natural Solutions magazine. Natural Solutions Magazine is a great magazine that is always chock full of information on health and beauty issues. For the past two years the Natural Solutions magazine has held their annual Beauty With a Conscience Awards, where natural and organic cosmetics and skin care companies are judged on various categories within the beauty industry.
The Moisture Mousse foundation is formulated for women with normal to dry skin, handmade with ingredients such as organic shea butter, organic jojoba oil and rose hydrosol it glides on the skin for a weightless feel and total absorption. Unlike other liquid foundation the Moisture Mousse gives excellent coverage and comes in all shades of our regular loose foundation with no color differentiation.
Last year, Monave racked up awards in three categories: Best Eye Shadow with our Versatile Powders, Blush with our Matte blushes and Cleanser with our Honey Clay cleanser , which they loved as a three minute mask too. We were so excited as we work so hard to get quality products into the hands of women who want natural beauty products that are beneficial for them. The Beauty With a Conscience Awards feature will be in the October 2009 issue of the Natural Solutions magazine…..don’t forget to pick it up!
Popularity: 59% [?]
