Back to the Past: Physician's Formula eyeshadow Quad in Sierra Naturals (discontinued)- a perspective.

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Physician's Formula eyeshadow quad in Sierra Naturals

I wanted to take some time out of the monotony of blogging, and blog about something that has been discontinued. I know it may sound like a complete waste of time. But I am hoping I may get the attention of the makers of Physicians formula. I hope......just hope.

The eyeshadow quad you see above is actually my second one. I still have another one with only the color of walnut and mahogany half way used (first one I owned).
This quad is quite old. I will say easily is about 13 years old. YEP 13 years I have held this quad so dear to me. Before the Urban Decay naked eyeshadow or anything like it, Physician's Formula came up with an awesome matte eyeshadow quad: Sierra Naturals. These are the most buttery eyeshadows I have ever used, drugstore wise.I WILL SAY WITH COMPLETE HONESTLY: THE MOST PERFECT MATTE EYESHADOW QUAD EVER EXISTED- DRUGSTORE WISE--- EVER!!!!!!!!!!

Physician's Formula eyeshadow quad Sierra Naturals color from left to right: Walnut, Willow, Mahogany and Maple

Walnut is a gray based brown-purple color, Willow is a beige tones eyeshadow, Mahogany is a brownish red cafe latte color. Maple is a soft brown color. This quad was my everyday quad when I went to the university. Why would Physician's Formula be stupid enough to discontinued this gem of a quad, beats me. If I am gonna throw them an idea it will be this.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.......CREATE A MATTE VERSION OF "SHIMMER STRIPS". GO BACK TO THE OTHER AWESOME MATTE FORMULAS YOU DECIDED TO FORGO, AND RE-INTRODUCE THEM AS THE NEW "MATTE STRIPS" COLLECTION. HAVE MATTE EYESHADOWS THAT ANY WOMAN CAN WEAR FOR ANY REASON.

There I spoke my peace.

Clean and Clear Mattifying Moisturizer review and photos

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Clean & Clear mattifying moisturizer box

Clean & Clear mattifying moisturizer box, backside

Clean & Clear mattifying moisturizer, bottle

Another review, way overdue. Before I start on the review,let me state that this product has been discontinued. I have done some online search regarding this product and I was surprised to find out how many people were actually upset that this product had been discontinued. When I was at Big Lots, I saw a huge stock of this at the price you see on the box. So on to the review!!!!!!!!!!

I have the oiliest of all oil skin. My curse. Whilst browsing at Big Lots, I saw this huge stock of this mattifyer. I only have 2 that I have used NYX Shine Killer and the Rimmel 2nd formula all in one mattifyer. Before I decided to nabbed this, I made sure this product was not expired, which thankfully it wasn't.

So how does this perform?

I will say this is one HELL of a marvelous moisturizer. It in fact, dried my skin into a perfect matte state. My face looked impeccable with this mattifyer. My skin looked shine free for about 3-4 hours. Not so bad at all!!! What I need to do, is test this with my neutrogena Shine free foundation. But for those inquiring minds, I have provided here the Neutrogena shine control primer for comparisons. The Neutrogena one retails at 12.00, this one at $4.00. And hint hint, the Clean&Clear ALSO INCLUDES the "Rice Protein" !!!!!!

Clear & Clear mattifying moisturizer, back of bottle

Clean & Clear mattifying moisturizer swatch

Stock of Clean & Clear mattifying moisturizer at Big Lots!

Neutrogena image does not belong to me. Neutrogena Shine Control Ingredients

The Clean & Clear contains 1.7 oz, while Neutrogena contains 1.0 oz!! As for the ingredients?????? Not Identical, but share many properties like Dimethicone, Rice protein. A small issue I had using this is that I needed to make sure my skin was saturated well with this product. Also, if you do not go over your skin well, you will see small white streaks of the moisturizer that has not been blended.

Final Thoughts??
Clear & Clear were absolutely incredibly undeniably stupid to discontinue this product. Whatever numbers they were calculating in their heads, they should have atleast made this product available online; if they could not justify having it available at the stores.

My Recommendation? Buy one and test it out. If the performance of this moisturizer-mattifyer blows your mind, stock  it up FAST my friend!!! Who knows when will the stock run out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!