The Benefits of Multi-Functional Skincare Products with La Fervance
Multi-functional and versatile skincare products are increasingly gaining popularity, and for good reasons.
Vanessa Noy
June 7, 2024
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(M)anasi 7
Modern high performance natural & organic makeup
Stockholm born all natural makeup brand (M)anasi 7 has changed the way we use both foundation and colour makeup with their unique ground-breaking multi-functional pots of skincare in makeup. Founded by Susanne Manasi, a professional makeup artist and cosmetic product developer, (M)7 bridges the gap between high colour pay off of conventional long wear makeup and the healing and nourishing properties of organic skincare.
With a less is more approach to formulations, each product is brimming with minimal hero botanicals consisting of natural beneficial vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that are nourishing and moisturising to the skin. Anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties work with your microbiome leaving your good bacteria intact for a glowing calm complexion and a contemporary makeup look.
I will admit, these divine looking (and smelling) pots of colour can be a little perplexing at first. Let me assure you, once you master their simple application and see the amazing subtle enhancements these magic products perform and you won’t want to be without them.
What makes (M)anasi7 so unique is the ease with which they can be mixed and matched to create customisable looks. Here are a few suggestions I recommend to kick start you multitasking MANASI 7 kit. A base skin enhancer, a highlighter pot and two all over colour pot that can be used on the lids, cheeks and lips. Let’s take a look
All About the Base
The award-winning Manasi 7 Skin Enhancer is an organic all-in-one customizable foundation, concealer and eye primer. With great coverage this is created for an enhanced complexion that lasts all day. The Skin Enhancer is designed to mix-and-match to create the ideal colour for your skin tone as it changes from season to season. The base colours miraculously adapt and suit a wide range of skin tones and can be easily customised by using a drop of Jamocha to create a darker shade of your chosen base colour or a drop of Eburnean to make it slightly fairer for the cooler months.
Pick your base shade:
Sarcoline: The perfect light to medium shade with golden undertone
Beechwood: a medium shade with golden undertones suitable for many that melts into your skin
Jamocha: a shade for deeper skin tones that won’t appear ashy or use to customize a shade darker
Using the Manasi 7 Skin Enhancer
1. Prep and prime your skin with your daily serum and moisturiser.
2. If you have areas that need a little extra coverage apply your Skin Enhancer in its opaque form as a concealer first. You can use a brush, a damp sea sponge beauty blender or your index finger. Apply a very small amount of product in the palm of your hand, dab and blend into the area for full coverage.
Pro Tip: For a nourishing undereye concealer I like to add the tiniest drop of eye serum to my Skin Enhancer, blend together in my palm and gently pat around the orbital bone and over the eyelid for flawless under eyes. I gently layer the products when I need a little more coverage and my dark circles and tired eyes vanish.
3. For a nourishing BB Cream that creates a seamless dewy finish; one that looks like your own skin but better, use a little Skin Enhancer mixed with a dot of natural moisturiser for a more matte finish or a drop of natural face oil for a sheer dewy finish. Blend a light layer over your face. A sea sponge beauty blender is ideal for this application and allows you control over the coverage. The Skin Enhancers are very concentrated and a little goes a long way. Start light and build the coverage as you need.
Hero Ingredients
Certified Organic Jojoba Oil is rich in omega fats and vitamins A, D and E and works to restore the balance of the skin. It’s great for oily and combination skin types too. Certified Organic Macadamia Seed Oil is rich in essential fatty acids that moisturise and hydrate the skin without clogging the pores. Great for dry skin.
Manasi 7 Skin Enhancer is also the ideal body foundation for perfecting the décolletage and legs. Mix a little Skin Enhancer with your favourite body oil or body balm and apply where needed for even colour and tone.
Beechwood
Eburnean
Jamocha
Sarcoline
Glow Enhancers
Now that you have the perfect base, let there be a flood of subtle light to your best features, miraculously enhancing your cheekbones, eyes and cupid’s bow. The (M)7 Strobelighter is formulated with certified organic, natural and wild harvested oils, waxes and butters. The creamy formula is feather-light and melts into the skin creating a smooth, soft-focus finish. The ultrafine, light-reflecting pearls add depth and dimension to the skin, stay in place for long wear and are safe for use on sensitive eyes that are easily irritated by conventional shimmer.
Pick your shade:
Celestial: A sophisticated golden ivory hue that warms up your skin, it’s a great brow bone highlighter too.
Sunsubiro: a metallic sheen of chromatic gold-meets-pink that looks good on every skin tone, this is beautiful as an eye colour worn alone as well as a highlighter.
Elysian: a soft and warm champagne hue that adds warmth to the complexion, it mixes beautifully with your Skin Enhancer for an all over glow to the face and body.
Sunrise: a soft peach/ pink pearl that is universally flattering on all skin tones, creates dimension when mixed with a cheek or lip colour.
Celestial
Elysian
Sunrise
Sunsubiro
MANASI 7 Strobelighter
Natural crème sheer highlighter colour.
Enhances the skin's natural glow and features for a sophisticated look that adjusts in any light to impart a soft-focus glow for healthy-looking skin.
Best for: highlighting and added luminescence when mixed with your favourite primer, foundation, concealer, or moisturiser.
Volume: 13grams
Whatever shade you love, each one is subtle enough for daytime wear on all ages and concentrated enough that they quickly build so you can customize the intensity for sophisticated party looks.
Using the Manasi 7 Strobelighter
Apply from pot to skin, using your fingertips to warm the product then lightly blend into the skin. For a subtle sweep of light, blend the formula across the highpoints of your face, along the top of the cheekbones, in the corner of your eyes and a little on the cupid’s bow for a sassy pouty look.
For a dramatic and sophisticated event look, I love the Strobelighter swept down the centre of my nose, across the highpoint of my forehead and on my brow bone directly under my brows for a little added glamour.
Pro Tip: Mix your favourite Strobelighter with your Skin Enhancer to create an all over glow to your make-up base or mix it into your favourite face oil or body oil for added radiance to your décolletage and body. It’s beautiful for enhancing bronzed arms and legs!
A Natural Flush of Colour
For the non-makeup lover and the makeup junkie alike, multi-use and multi-functional colour pots cut the endless products you need to create a great modern look. MANASI 7 All Over Colour and the NEW Eye Glow Colour pots create a natural and beautiful flush of colour that enhances your look without making you look made up or overdone. They are chic and unique giving a polished and beautiful look rather than a makeup enhanced appearance.
Introducing Eye Glow Colour Eyeshadow Pots
The NEWEST product from (M)7 is the much-anticipated Eye Glow Colour. These are glorious organic cream eyeshadows – think the beautiful texture and skin loving ingredients of all the All-Over Colour pots, but add a little, sophisticated grown up shimmer!
Ayame
Chaminade
Jardin
Ochaya
Sublime
Why You’ll Love All Over Colour + Eye Glow Colour
Easy to carry, no leak and compact pots of organic, natural and wild harvested, this 4-in-1 multi-use organic cream colour is designed to be used on the lips, cheeks and eyes. They can be worn in limitless ways, built up from a subtle shade to a statement look, and best of all layered with other colours to create customised shades for every individual. Expertly balanced with oils and organic waxes, they are sublimely creamy and nourishing gliding on effortlessly and easily blended into the skin for a natural flush of colour.
Soooo versatile, you can apply with a light touch for a satin-like look, great for the eyelids and cheeks or you can build the colour for an intense and creamy opaque finish on the lips replacing your traditional lippy.
Pick your favourite shade
It’s almost impossible to do and they blend so beautifully together……but as we are talking just 3 (M)7 must haves let’s talk about single colour use.
We LOVE a single colour pick to create a mono-toned modern look where I sweep the one colour across my eyelids, cheeks and lips. It’s super quick and it’s a modern daytime look. Bisque, Manketti, Sisserou and Chamosiee are ideal for mono looks and they blend well with any Strobelighter.
To add life to your look a little Strobelighter on the eyelids and a bold statement lip with an ever so faint matching stain on the cheeks is truly transforming. Alizarin, Ikura and Kuranberi are perfect for statement looks.
The Eye Glow Colour Shimmer Finish pots are available in three skin enhancing tones and they make the most beautiful hint of shimmer when swept across the lids. The three shades are perfection worn alone or layered over one another or over the top of an All Over Colour. Ayame is the perfect romantic tone of rose gold, Sublime is a modern and chic bronze that looks just as sophisticated when paired with a red lip as it does with a neutral lip and Jardin a deep cool brown for the ultimate daytime Smokey eye.
Ayame
Chaminade
Jardin
Ochaya
Sublime
Alizarin
Bisque
Chamoisee
Damaskino
Densuke
Dianthus
Duras
Etruscan
Gazania
Ikura
Kobicha
Kuranberi
Mangosteen
Manketti
Sisserou
MANASI 7 All Over Colour
All-natural crème colour.
Use All Over Colour on lips, cheeks and eyes for an endless variety of results. Creamy and versatile, these natural pots of colour glide on effortlessly and blend easily for a truly natural flush of colour.
Best For: blendable natural flush of colour for the eyes, cheeks and lips.
Volume: 5 grams
Using the Manasi 7 All Over Colour
- Use the warmth of your fingertips and apply sparingly. Blend out across the eyelids repeating the application on the cheeks. Pro Tip: By using the warmth of your fingertips and swirling around on the surface it will activate the natural and organic oils and waxes and turn the texture creamier
- For a light stain to the lips use your fingertips or use a lip brush to apply an opaque saturation to the lips.
- For more shimmer or a slightly softer colour, apply a Strobelighter over any colour.
- For added shine apply All Over Shine on top of the colour as a lip gloss or under as a nourishing lip balm.
- If you wish to make the formula more matte and slightly more subtle you can mix in a small amount of the Skin enhancer.
Using the Manasi 7 Eye Glow Colour
Versatility is this formula’s strong suit. As above, use the warmth of your fingertips and apply one layer across the eyelid to keep it sheer and light for just a touch of glow. For a deeper intensity of colour layer the colour to take you from a subtle daytime look to glamour evening and party face.
There is so much to love about Manasi 7 makeup. Heralded by us for their use of pure ingredients and natural preservatives extracted from minerals, wild plants and flowers that are carefully selected for their quality, colour and scent. Each product is minimally processed at low temperatures preserving the natural moisturising and nourishing properties of these all-natural base botanicals. If that’s not enough, Manasi 7 whole heartedly exists to create timeless and multifunctional products that put emphasis on minimising their environmental footprint. And for that we along with our skin are forever grateful.
To celebrate the global success of Manasi 7, each and every product has a retail price roll back in 2022, making it just that little more affordable to buy into clean colour. The product size and quality have not changed, only the retail price point! Hmmm, sounds like the perfect excuse for one more colour pot, right?
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