Having Fun With New Eye Shadow Creations

Tired Of Same Old, Same Old In Relation To Your Mineral Eyeshadow Creativity?

Based on popular demand and receiving emails from our ladies wishing for us to give them a duplication of an eye shadow look they found and absolutely LOVE, we decided to create this new category on our website for finding the neatest to simplest, to creative to indulgent, to complicated to traditional, which translates to endless ways of using your old eye shadows to trying some new ones.

Most often, women are reticent to try new mineral eye shadow shades because the color seems out of their scope of ideas or due to keeping it simple they stick with safe and easy.

Break From The Boredom

Even Katherine (mineral makeup maven extraordinaire) has stuck with simple until recently!  She decided to push herself and to invite other ladies to break from tradition and boredom and shake things up a bit.  She personally has discovered some shades that she would not have dreamed of using in the past, only to now realize she has been missing out on enjoying truly amazing eyeshadow finishes.

That is why she has added to her categories in her Education section, Mineral Eyeshadow Tutorials.  This will be updated regularly and will provide extensive color and creative tutorials on recreating a mineral eyeshadow look you wish to try.  Plus, we will even provide the mineral eyeshadow shades you’ll require to duplicate the eye shadow look you want to achieve.

For more information on how we can help you find your look beyond what we already have created in our collection, check out  Creating Mineral Makeup Eye Shadow Looks at our website.

New Sunscreen Regs On Mineral Makeup & Other New Updates

Keeping You Up To Date In Case You Missed It

We are always striving to keep our customers up to date when we learn about the latest info so that you, our valued customers can also be well informed when it comes to your skin health through the use of your mineral makeup products and your skincare.

This info is so important, we will also post this same article in our Skin Care Guide since we have customers that read one or the other.  Yet, we apologize for duplication if you should be a subscriber to both.

Important Mineral Makeup Update In Regard To Sunscreen Regulations

We have updated our “What Is The SPF Of Our Mineral Makeup” page with the latest information as it pertains to new FDA regulations.  You’ll also learn about what those Skin Cancer Foundation Seals Of Endorsement really mean!  So click on the link in the text above to learn more.

Education Center

Our education articles are located in the bottom left corner of our website with easy to navigate titles for giving you fast answers to your questions and we are adding new articles and updating old ones on a regular basis.  No more endless searching through past blog posts.

The New Links Below Will Be Your Guide

Beauty Tips

Foundation FAQ’s

Ingredient FAQ’s

General FAQ’s

Skincare Education

Or you can use our convenient “Search” window at the top right of our website and simply type in your questions.

Two tabs will appear: Products / News & Information in upper left corner.  You then click on which tab you prefer as it pertains to your search.

Missing Out On Updates

We have recently learned from some of our customers that they are missing out on our website updates including new products being added and new product photography be implemented.

This is happening because you are holding onto a “cached” version of the site.  We all love to add websites to our favorites for immediate retrieval, but  unfortunately, this is also why you are missing our product updates which will also include promotions that we will place up front and center on our slide show as you enter the site.

Example: We updated all of our mineral makeup product photography with true to life color and they turned out incredible, yet some customers don’t see them and only the old pink framed products because they have stored the individual pages for quick return to shopping in the future.

To Fix: Simply dump the old version from your favorites, organically Google Sterling Minerals and click thru on the main page link then follow through to your product pages and voila, you should now be seeing the latest and greatest updates.

IMPORTANT TIDBIT FOR MOBILE PHONE USERS:  If you are shopping using your mobile phone, unless you switch to “FULL SITE” mode (located at the bottom of the web page on your phone), you too may miss out on our promos and latest updates.  So when you can, be sure to at least view us in Full Site Mode for the best possible experience.

Thank you and we hope this latest information continues to serve your needs.

Exciting News For Our International Customers

Lower Shipping Charges Now Offered For International Customers

We are elated and jumping for joy at the good news put out by our shipping carrier for shipping packages overseas and to our neighbors in the north and in the south, especially since past and future customers have asked us if we can ship out first class mail to their country.  Up until today that answer has always been, sadly….no!

However,  USPS just today, has implemented First Class Mail into their shipping module for our international customers.  So now when you shop with us, First Class Mail will be offered as a selection option for your to receive your packages at an incredibly reduced rate.

Samples and smaller orders no longer have to ship at the higher rates of priority mail if you so choose.  For a complete shipping breakdown you can view our updated shipping chart on our Shipping Policies page.

This Rate Does Lose Shipping Benefits Afforded By Choosing Priority Mail

Please be aware that there are some ordering parameters to choose this method:

• There is no tracking available

• There is no insurance available

• Your package will take longer to arrive

• This is a method that is chosen at your own risk against loss, damage or theft

• Your order also cannot exceed a minimum dollar amount to minimize loss prevention

So if you have confidence as we do in the USPS, then we are pleased to now be able to make available to those who wish to choose First Class Shipping Method.  We hope this makes all of those loyal customers we have overseas as happy as we are with this new USPS Shipping offer.  We are also looking forward to our many future international customers finally being able to get our products that found the shipping rates a hindrance in the past.

Our sincerest Thanks to USPS for taking our repeated requests and finally implementing this service into their shipping module.

We are standing by to take your order. WOOT!

USPS Rate Increase

Hello Everyone,

We wanted to bring you current on the latest  USPS shipping rates.

USPS has increased shipping rates across the board as of today.  We knew it was coming, however we had no idea on the details of the increases and what features would be added or eliminated.

Despite the increases, minor for domestic, greater for international shipments, there is a bright spot for those that used to select the “uninsured international flat rate box” option to save some money on costs.

USPS has recreated this to now offer tracking capability, yet this method is still uninsured.  Although the rate is higher to choose this selection, it now comes with delivery confirmation so smaller orders can now be located easier.   And with the tracking number, your package can be readily viewed online to see where your package is at any given time, including checking to see if  there had been a delivery attempt that you may have missed.

We also still offer the special rate for international shipments when meeting the required dollar total so we may continue to assist you with some of these shipping costs.

Even though all of us are faced with the rising cost of freight across the board these days, we have found that USPS still provides the quickest and best service over all other shippers for you to receive your products ASAP.  To receive similar rates with other shippers, we are looking at longer ship times for more money.  To even get close to the USPS rate you would have on average a week wait plus processing time, since it would have to go via ground and there is zero savings to you.

We always strive for the best in all customer service, mineral makeup and skincare products, including offering the best method to get you your products safely and without delays.

Thank you so much for your loyal patronage and understanding this is beyond our control.

For more information, please visit our Shipping Policy Page for the updates and rates now being offered.

Gift Certificates Are Available

They’re Here….Finally!

‘Tis the Season Everyone,

The wait is finally over, after many, many requests to offer gift certificates, that dream has become your reality.  We have finally equipped Sterling Minerals website with Gift Certificates for purchase for friends and family.

They come in two versions, one for the Holidays and one for General, such as birthdays, anniversaries, thank you’s, or just to share with a friend or family member your LOVE for our mineral products and / or ONATI Skin Care.

No more guess work either, just purchase a gift certificate, print it off once purchased and present it to the lucky recipient.  They are then free to choose their mineral makeup, makeup brushes, lip colors, or our wonderful ONATI Skin Care, whichever they would love to try.

They are located for purchase up in the Header menu where you log in and next to “wish lists“.  An example of the Holiday Certificate is below.

Have a Happy Holiday Season.