MAC Studio Fix Foundation | Cult Product Gone Wrong

Let me start off by saying I used to swear by this foundation. It was my day and night. It used to be absolute perfection in a bottle and give a flawless finish like it was nobodies business. My face and this foundation used to be a THING. . .but now we might as well be a really bad summer fling. 

Currently MAC Studio Fix and I are sworn enemies because it has wreaked havoc on my face. It was the nightmare of breakouts---I wish I was over exaggerating. For the past two months every morning I would wake up, look in the mirror, and CRY. Call me shallow, call me superficial, call me facile---I don't care! When you look in the mirror and feel absolutely awful---when you're not happy with what you see staring back at you---when you lose all your confidence---when you don't feel beautiful---when you start feeling like a STRANGER in your own body it begins to EFFECT your whole life. Not only physically, but mentally too and there is nothing superficial about that that!

In the beginning I didn't suspect my foundation at all. . .I mean why would I? I've been purchasing the same foundation devotedly for the past three years---it was like clock work when it came to me and MAC Studio Fix. So I thought what everyone else things when they go through a sudden breakout---it must be something in my diet. I relatively eat pretty healthy, but over the summer I let my sweet tooth go a little crazy. I basically began giving myself no slack. No fast food. No restaurants. Little to no sugar. Guess what happened it's gonna be a shocker---NOTHING. So I thought maybe it just wasn't a big enough change. More exercise? Nada---no change. New skin care products? That just made things way worst. Way worst.

But, then it dawned on me---what do I do nearly everyday? Put on foundation. What did I do two months ago? Buy a new bottle of my holy grail Studio Fix. I've been off the stuff for a good three weeks now and I've already seen massive improvements in my skin. Now in hindsight I remember how much worst my skin looked after I took off Studio Fix---my pores would be so clogged, my skin would look irritated, and worst yet there would be new break outs! It's been hard not wearing foundation especially when you so badly want to cover up---but what's a girl go to do. The health of my skin is more important!

Now don't get me wrong I still love MAC and their products (Hello, their lipsticks anyone?!)---but I feel like the formula for their foundations have changed. It used to deliver such a flawless and effortless finish---but now if I dare to even wear it I can tell I'm wearing foundation! Their already thick foundation is now difficult to blend when it used to just melt in my skin. Something is just not the same or who knows maybe it's just my skin. Either way I'm on the hunt for a new foundation. 

Got any recommendations for me? 

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