Mica

Enhancing your cosmetics with an illuminating shimmer, mica is one mineral that's found its way into many of the makeup products you use today. Its unique, flexible texture makes it easy to process into cosmetics and the payoff is truly striking. Finely milled to be featured in all textures—powders, creams and liquids—mica has been featured as a pigment in makeup and cosmetics for centuries.

What makes mica a makeup standout is its ability to transfer a pearly, shimmery luster into eye, face and lip products alike. This distinguishing characteristic can be seen through light-reflecting particles evenly dispersed in the cosmetics you use. Microscopic and delivering just enough gleam for multifaceted impact, it's the beautifying addition you see in many highlighters, primers, eyeshadows and lip glosses. It also appears in velvety, liquid foundation formulas for a more subtle shimmer and dewy finish.

Mica's ability to bounce the light at any angle helps to diminish the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, making it just as popular in mature makeup products as it is in self-tanners and bronzers.