I was so so happy yesterday as I came home with two packages. One from Purely Cosmetics ( which I finally nailed the shade, yay! review’s for tomorrow!) and one is the package from Pure Anada. My co-mineral makeup lover pal Aileen sent me samples of mineral foundations in Mountain View and Ivory Chinook ( which is good for fairly light warm skin tones ) , and I was not able to find my shade in them, but was able to find a very good ( no not just very good, but extraordinarily good! ) mineral foundation in Pure Anada! So imagine my glee when the samples I ordered finally landed.
Amongst the 12 samples worth $9 (with free shipping, isn’t that great? ), I immediately grabbed the three foundation shades: Golden Harvest, Soft Wheat, and Mountain Sunset. ( on the first photo, from L-R, and Mountain Sunset is at the bottom ) Here are swatches on my tissue paper :
Pardon the poor picture quality of the mineral foundation swatches as my room has poor lighting conditions. ( I better do something bout it ). The shades look very warm, and yellowish but there is also a mix of olive in the tone. From my eyes, they look like fusions of yellow and olive tones. Golden Harvest is perfect for light to medium shades with warm tones ( and even yellowish ), Soft Wheat happens to be my chosen shade, that can be used by light to slightly more medium shades with warm tones ( even with yellow undertones like me ), and Mountain Sunset is for those more on the deeper medium shades, but my issue with Mountain Sunset is that it won’t probably work for those who have strong yellow undertones because it’s too red for them. This would probably work best for tanned girls or medium shaded “morenas” or dusky belles. ( I can’t quite explain , but I hope you got it! haha! )
Anyway, I’m so recommending everyone to try Pure Anada Mineral Foundations because they offer such great coverage, make my skin look poreless and porcelain-like ( and it’s such a hard thing to do because I admittedly have crater scars on my face ! ), and well, sampling is 12 ziplocs for $9, free shipping! Haha!
Your thoughts?
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Hey there,
I’m happy to read about Pure Anada in your blog (I frequent your site on a weekly basis) because I am currently test driving their line. But like you, I am also having a hard time finding a color match. Soft Wheat actually comes close, but it does not have enought yellow in it for my light-medium skin tone. I am hoping that I would be able to find a good match in Pure Anada because I just so so so so love the coverage it gives me! I am going to do some more testing, but if I have no choice but to settle with mixing shades (which I dread) then I guess I’ll have to suck it up because I love it that much =) So good luck to you on finding your shade as well!
Hi! I love your reviews! I agree that Pure Anada is one of the best foundations out there. It’s very creamy and upon application, the powder sticks to the skin. It’s unlike any other foundie that I’ve tried before. I have found a close match Ivory Chinook but I’m still gonna try mixing shades to get an exact match!
I was informed that Candace of Pure Anada can custom-blend a shade, what’s exciting is she does this with precision. What more can we ask for from such a company that makes one of the best, if not the most outstanding foundation by far
oh, the blushes stay longer than most brands too.
Hello Ladies,
I can’t tell you how honored I feel to read such wonderful reviews about our line.
With the surge of sampling that has been taking place (thanks to the beauty blogs!), we have discovered a missing link in our foundation shades!
We have made the new “Golden Harvest” for light yellow skin tones. Would it be safe to make a color with the same “depth” as our Soft Wheat, but with more yellow undertones?
Any feedback would be great! Thanks so much!
Candace G.
Pure Anada
Hi Candace, if you read this, yes. It’d be good to have a darker foundation than Golden Harvest with yellow tones. I’m from Singapore which is right above the equator. Thus, although I am Chinese with the typical yellow/sallow undertones, I am more of a darker medium. I have been hesitating to order the samples from Anada because I don’t really see any suitable shade. Golden Harvest would be too light for me. Cheers!
hi Sophie and ms. Candace!
are these shades really this yellow? @_@ it looks so different from the swatches in Pure Anada’s website O_o
Hi auau! well that’s what my camera got me!
they’re lighter in person. I think the colors were saturated. they’re ok for Asian skin tones 
Hello Candace!
Yes! I think that idea would work. Over the three samples you sent me, Soft Wheat comes the closest. But I’m just looking at The Pure Boutique website right now and I noticed Mountain Sunset. For some reason I don’t remember seeing this before, not sure if it’s a new shade. That might be something I should try first.
Out of the 3 samples I rec’d (Golden Harvest, Flaxen Field, and Soft Wheat) Soft Wheat came the closest. But like I said, it didn’t have enough yellow in it. Have yet to to try Golden Harvest, but just looking at it, it looks like it would be too light on me. I will test drive this shade today since I won’t be really going anywhere. But I wonder if Mountain Sunset would be an even closer match since it is described as “warm gold” shade. Not sure if it will be too dark though. I really thought Flaxen Field would be a good match, but it’s just too ‘cool’ for my slightly tanned Summer skin and I don’t have any olive in my skin. I am going to try Mountain Sunset first and see how that is.
Ok, so I was able to test out Golden Harvest all afternoon today and I was wrong! This is actually a lot closer in shade than Soft Wheat! Right now, because I have a light tan, the color is bit off. But I know that come Winter this would be my perfect shade. Golden Harvest is not too yellow at all. I am so in shock that I almost completely over-looked Golden Harvest! I am so happy that I gave it a chance. I am going to place a full size order for this very soon! Yay! Thanks Candace!
Thanks a lot for featuring Pure Anada! =) I can’t stop raving about it…got my samples today…love the coverage. for some reason mountain sunset was kind of “orangey” on me while the soft wheat was “beigy”…fortunately, I found my match with Amber Honey. Golden harvest was a close match but with amber honey was just perfect, yey! thanks very much for introducing me to Pure Anada! =)
It’s hard to see the colours.. but it still looks nice. Do they have darker tones?
-Em
[...] With the previous shades that I’ve tried, they were too brown or too light on me that I had to tweak shades to be able to achieve my desired shade. I’m not a big fan of tweaking colors since I’m always on the go, so it’s really comforting just to have one shade, in one pot to use for everyday. As I tried Medium Golden by Pure Anada, the tone of yellow was just right on me, it wasn’t brown on me, it was just a medium-yellow tone on me that was just right. As for the shade, this is definitely for those who use medium shades like Monave’s Saturnina or Bare Escentual’s Medium Beige ( with golden undertones ). With my paler valor this season, I’ve switched back into being a user of light-medium shades, so this was a bit dark on me. But that does not mean that I won’t be able to use it because summer’s not so far away! In fact, I still wear it nowadays whenever I feel like I want to look tanned. Totally works because of my tricky arms ( which are tanned all year ) [...]