Natural Translucent Face Powder Update & Wednesdays Adorned From Above Link Party 11

Sorry Everyone.  The link party is up and working again.  I have been having problems since yesterday.  (My messing with blog problems to get the feeds out.  Still not working, and I accidentally removed the code for the link party.  Oh well!!!)

Welcome to my Wednesdays Adorned from Above Link Party 11. I hope that all of you have fun, and I can't wait to see all of your beautiful work from the last week.

The first thing I am going to ask any of you to do is to become a GFC Follower if you are not already following me.  I would really appreciate it.

This week I am featuring the three top blog that had the most visits. Clicking on the like button will also help to pick which posts you like the most.  Right now I am picking the links with the most page views.
 
I am thrilled to feature the following posts this week.  So without further ado, I would like to present these beautiful and informative bloggers.  To those of you that I featured I would love for you to feature this link to the blog showing that you are featured blogger at the Wednesday Adorned from Above Blog Hop. Just copy and paste the link below somewhere on your page.

I am a featured blogger at Wednesday Adorned From Above Link Party

The Basics Homemade Peach Tea from God's Growing Garden

Fitted Dress from The Daily Me

Homemade Twix Bars from Steak N Potatoes Kinda Gurl

I want to thank everyone who linked with my Wednesdays Adorned From Above Link Party.  All of your projects are wonderful and I would post all of them if I could, but I think that the blog would probably be a little too long.  I hope that all of you link more posts this week.  Let's Party!!!

Your posts can include:

• anything DIY
• Recipes
• Arts and Crafts
• Sewing
• Knitting and Crochet Ideas and Patterns
• DIY Cleaning Solutions
• Natural Beauty Product Recipes
• Decorating Ideas
• Thrifting
• Book Reviews, Movie Reviews, Christian Music
• Inspirational Articles, Poetry, Life Stories, or Short Stories
• Bible Studies 

The only rules are to follow me, have a link somewhere on your post to Adorned From Above ( you can copy and past the link below, and visit some other posts - after all it is a party.

• Wednesdays Adorned From Above Link Party Link

Now on to a new DIY beauty product.  Some readers were concerned that my Natural Translucent Face Powder would not be sheer on their faces.  It goes on sheer, not white, but I said that I would try to make it with some color.  I had read somewhere, I am not sure, that you could add unsweetened cocoa to it to give it color.  So the science experiment for the day is to make a flesh toned Translucent Face Powder.  

The original recipe for Natural Translucent Face Powder was:

2 TB Potato Starch
2 TB Arrowroot Powder.

I have decided that I like this recipe better.

New Translucent Face Powder without Tint

2 TB Cornstarch
2 TB Arrowroot Powder

Mix together well and use with a powder brush.  I feel like this is a little sheerer then with the Potato Starch.

To add color I have added

1 tsp cinnamon  (a light brown color)
3/4 tsp Mace  (a golder color)
1/8 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder (a dark brown color)

Once, I started adding cocoa powder, I felt that it was a little to dark for my skin, so I mixed up a different batch with Mace and Cinnamon.  Mace is more a lighter gold color then cinnamon.  Even though I am giving amounts to add, you will need to play with it a little until you get a color that you like.  Test a small amount on your wrist until it is the color that matches your skin best.

Mine is still pretty light, which is all right with me, also I just use a small amount.  I dip my brush in the powder and then shake it off, and then brush it on my face.  If you want this darker you can add more cinnamon or more unsweetened cocoa powder, depending on the color that you want.  You could also add more mace, though I didn't love the smell of that.  I have also read that some people add some of their own foundation mineral powder to give it color.  I don't use mineral powder because it makes my fine lines show, I don't need to look any older!!!

Let me know what you think of this face powder.  I am always happy to hear from you.  I hope this is something a little closer to what some of you are looking for.

Enjoy!!!
Debi
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