Make It Up: The Essential Guide to DIY Makeup and Skin Care

Marie Rayma has given us a fantastic, high quality, book that is readable, informed, and highly useful. I found Marie's channel and website, HumbleBeeandMe, to be a free mini course in skincare ingredients. Marie gives excellent source info so that a hobbyist like myself can backup our work and products with fact based information. Skincare is vas, so there is room for all of us! Marie shares with us her passion for formulating and provides easy recipes/formulas that we can use as is or modify for our needs. I have already made several of her recipes, modified for my skin type. Truly, this is a Must-Buy book. You will save time and money. It covers body butters, facial, clays, and makeup. I cannot tell you how liberating it is to be able to make my own lotions, and to actually know WHY I am using a particular ingredient and HOW it works. May I also suggest giving this book as a gift to someone you know who suffers from allergies and has difficulty finding suitable, affordable skincare products. I started learning about skincare because we found out my family members suffered serious 'eczema' and 'atopic dermatitis' due to allergies to Glycerin and Sunflower oil. Glycerin and Sunflower is in EVERY lotion including medicated lotions. I found someone who made body butter using only Mango and Shea. Bought it, tried it, and it worked great! So I watched a TON of vids before finding Marie Rayma's. channel, then her website, and now her book. It took me 10 tries using slight variations to find three formulations of body butters and creams that my family LOVES! This has changed our lives and I am saving so much money on useless creams that only numb the skin. On a side note, I also created some lotions for myself and plan to make some as gifts for family and friends.

I stumbled upon the Humblebee & Me YouTube channel by Marie Rayma about two months ago and it is easily one of my favorites. She presents the instructions well, gives fantastic information and is easy to watch. As a fan of DIY and creating things of all sorts I decided to give this book a go! I’m very happy with my purchase. The book is beautifully put together and offers a wealth of information on ingredients and supplies including costs which were pretty spot on. I ordered some from TKB Trading. The recipes are easy to follow and lots of resources are provided on where to get some of the supplies if they are not readily available to you. Also, She offers great tips on substitutions and ways to customize your product for you. I love the layout and organization of the book. It starts with the essentials, moves into starter projects and concepts and then chapters covering skin care, face makeup, eye makeup and lip makeup. If you are new to cosmetic and skin care DIY like I am this book is a perfect book for you! I also highly recommend the YouTube channel and blog. Time to get back to flipping the pages of this amazing book! *Not sure why it says the Kindle version under my review. I have the actual book

I never thought I'd be the type of guy to make my own makeup and skincare products, but thanks to this book, I'm now a beauty guru! My wife forced me to buy it for her, but I secretly enjoyed reading it and trying out some of the recipes. The book has everything from DIY lipstick to face masks to hair treatments. I was skeptical at first, but after making my own lip balm and using it throughout the day, I felt like a new man. My lips were so moisturized and soft, I couldn't stop touching them (much to the embarrassment of my coworkers). I even made some products for my wife, and now she's constantly asking me to make more. I never thought I'd be in the business of making my own makeup and skincare, but I must say, it's pretty fun. Who knew mixing different ingredients could be so satisfying? The book itself is easy to follow, even for someone like me who has no experience in this area. It has helpful tips and tricks, and the recipes are straightforward and don't require any fancy equipment. Plus, the satisfaction of using a product you made yourself is priceless. So, if you're like me and never thought you'd be interested in making your own makeup and skincare products, give this book a try. Who knows, you might just become a beauty guru too! And if all else fails, at least you'll have soft, moisturized lips.

I was introduced to Marie's work via her blog and had just began making homemade soaps and lotions. As most people, I try to balance products that have ingredients I understand and know aren't bad for you and products that work! I was hesitant to purchase this book and the materials because it's a large initial investment (I spent $50 to get makeup making supplies, but I can make almost everything in the book...I already had many of the oils and such from making soaps and lotion so this was makeup specific supplies). I was worried I would invest and be disappointed with the outcome and have all these weird ingredients. However, makeup making proved to be a success! In about an hour I was able to make a concealer, makeup, and airbrushing powder. I'm in my mid-30s with some large pores and fine lines showing. I found the dry mineral makeup was too dry and settled in my imperfections too much. However add that dry power to the liquid recipe and magic! I loved the coverage. I also found that my face looked great throughout the day. With my store bought makeup I had to reapply every time I was going to go somewhere. I just don't feel this way with this makeup. I also tried both her long-wear and creamy vegan lipstick recipes. Let me say as someone who has always struggled to make lipstick color selections, having the freedom to sit there and tweak my own lipstick color to my liking is a game changer. I used both carmine, brown and red oxides, and a mica for shimmer. In the future I will order ultramarine to allow for some more cool tints. I did feel that the long-wear lipstick was a bit dry: I had to be sure my lips were moisturized before applying for it to work. I loved the creamy recipe...felt like it was doing great things to my lips and providing color! The way that Marie approaches skin care in the book is really nice...she is giving you enough recipes to do a total cleansing, moisturizing, and makeup routine all DIY. I look forward to trying more of these recipes out and possibly being free from the beauty industry...now wouldn't that be amazing ladies?

This amazing book has completely changed where my expendable income goes. Before it went to Sephora and Beautilish on makeup products. NOW it goes to ingredients and lab equipment to make MY OWN MAKEUP!! If you have watched her YouTube channel “The HumbleBee and Me” she refers to this book often and the recipes and color formulas in this book are not available on her blog or videos. So JUST BUY IT! One video I do recommend that came out after this book is the one called, “ stop spending your money on Micellar water” OMG I got those ingredients and I swear spot on to Bioderma! Thank you for this wonderful, well thought out, informative beauty recipe cook book. Face masks, ckeansing balms, cleaning products, concealer, mineral powder, pigment blends for blush and bronzers. Cream and powder ,eyebrow pomade and even mascara and eyeliner!! I’m not there yet but I’m getting there! BTW All other cosmetic chemistry books are like 200$!!! Marie pleeeeease make a second book!

I had given it 4 stars since I think it is a starting point in making your own cosmetics which I think are easier on the skin. I believe that anyone can change the formulas to suit their own needs, at least Marie gives you the equipment and easy to read & how to incorporate ingredients etc. Since, I myself haven't made anything from the book, the only recipe that I think is most expensive is carmine, but she points out good alternatives to this. I have made my own lotion so I had to up my game in making much more complex products so I can test it on myself and it reduces me to not buying high end and low end cosmetics which ends up unused and wasted since not all products work on my face. So if you like having fun in DIY, then this books delivers!

Marie Rayma is the ultimate professional-amateur DIY guru. She started out in 2011ish trying to make her own cosmetics and beauty products so she would always know what she was putting on her skin. Like many of us, she started out thinking she’d go as natural as possible. She still does a great deal of natural formulating, but has evolved much from her early formulations and while not everything she recommends is precisely natural, she researches all of her ingredients thoroughly to know what they are, what they should do, and what the potential risks are. If you are a beauty/DIYer, Ms Rayma is a great resource for newbies and experienced formulators alike. She has spent the last 10 years blogging her formulas, including detailed explanations, research, substitutions (including possible natural and vegan options when available) and why’s for all of it. She’s great about explaining why something does or does not work and even detailing her own successful versus failed experiments for the benefit of her readers. Her blog includes hundreds of recipes including those that she once offered and now explains why they are no longer viable, whether because she now knows better, the official recommended use of an ingredient has changed, or because she’s made a better formula. She also cites sources for purchasing ingredients world-wide as available, resources for research, and peer resources for tips and tools that others may have more experience or better explanations. I highly recommend both Marie’s book and her blog at humblebeeandme.com for an expansive DIY formulation resource.

Great book of formulations

The book is very informative and in addition the pictures add interst to the reader....best buy

Manchmal kauft man ein Buch und denkt: sehr nett ... aber da mache ich wohl eher nicht so viel damit ... Nicht dieses! Fantastisch! Schon allein ihre Website ist grossartig, ich verändere die Rezepte ein bißchen, weil meine Haut anders ist und ich nicht so gerne diese süssliche Düfte habe, die sie mag. Aber ich mache sehr, sehr viel von dem was sie vorstellt. Habe mit ihr meine ersten Schritte in die Kosmetik gemacht und seitdem kaufe ich nur noch Zutaten, weil je mehr man versteht was in den Produkten drinnen ist, desto weniger möchte man manche Dinge davon auf der Haut haben .... Aber jetzt hat sie die Rezepte nochmal verbessert und in ein Buch gegossen. Ich werde mit Sicherheit 95% der Rezepte in diesem Buch machen. Zuerst habe ich die Gesichtsabdeckcreme gemacht. Dazu mischt man zuerst eine Basis und färbt die ein so wie man es braucht. Dazu gibt es sehr genaue Anweisungen und es werden Vorschläge für verschiedene Hauttöne gemacht. Man muß ein bißchen probieren. Ich habe 4 Varianten gemacht und seit einer Woche trage ich Nr. 4 und bin super zufrieden. Nicht nur, dass man genau kontrollieren kann wie die Inhaltsstoffe sind, ist es auch um Klassen besser als was man so kaufen kann (oder als das, was ich immer gekauft habe). Ich habe also eine Creme gemacht (super einfach) die abdeckt, ein Puder darüber, etwas mehr mit rosa, als Highlighter (sorry, ich kenne die richtigen Ausdrücke nicht). Dann habe ich noch Lidschatten gemacht, da hat mir eine Zutat gefehlt, aber ich konnte nicht warten. Super! Endlich die Farben die ich will! Als nächstes kommt der Mascara. Auf den warte ich schon sehr ungeduldig (hatte noch keine Zeit), weil meine Augen sehr empfindlich sind und ich sehr wenig vertrage. Und wieder: sie gibt einem alle Mittel in die Hand, erklärt sehr ausführlich, gibt Hintergrundinformation, warum diese Zutat und nicht eine andere, gibt Varianten, man kann alles sehr gut für sich selber zurechtschneiden. Ein wunderbares Buch!

good book it has everything you need to make your own products

La entrega excelente,el libro llego en bunas condiciones,el contenido del el libro muy completo.

Easy DIY make up using natural ingredients. I've had a read and a flip through and I'm very impressed. Cannot wait to start making some of these.