New Mineral Makeup Products
Pick your own - Mineral Lip Color Base
GeoGrafx is pleased to offer a wide variety of warm, cool and neutral lip colors in three all natural bases.
Butter Rich Natural Lipstick - Natural mineral pigments folded into a smooth, buttery base formulated with cocoa butter, meadowfoam, macadamia nut, sesame and other and other rich plant oils. These moisturizing, long wearing lipsticks do not contain beeswax and are suitable for vegans.
Lip Reflections Lip Gloss – A sheer glossy formula rich in Coconut Oil and Vitamin E packaged in a convenient sponge-tip wand.
Orchid Lip Treat – The smooth saturated color of a lipstick, the staying power of a pencil and the soothing and nourishing properties of our Orchid Lip Butter Packaged in a slim stick tube.
Silky Mineral Concealers
Cream Concealer Stick - Diminish the look of dark circles, blemishes and other imperfections with this creamy, easy to manage concealer stick. Available in 4 shades.
Loose Mineral Concealer/Corrector -GeoGrafx Loose Mineral Concealer/Correctors are formulated to minimize the appearance of a variety of skin imperfections including redness, sallowness, under eye circles, blemishes, broken capillaries, uneven skin tone and age spots.
Handcrafted pencil lip liners that help prevent lipsticks from feathering while defining the shape of the lips.
Our handcrafted eye liner pencils define the eye with rich long wearing color. Each pencil is injection filled, sharpened and finished by hand. Pencil making requires a great deal of care and patience but we believe the result is worth our effort! The creamy texture is ideal for blending and creating smoky eye effects. GeoGrafx pencils are highly pigmented for all day wear. Our gentle, eye friendly formula is paraben-free, dye-free and perfect for contact lens wearers and those with sensitive eyes.
Catalina Limited Edition Multi-Purpose Mineral Powder Collection
Catalina Limited Edition Blush Collection
Catalina Limited Edition Lip Color CollectionThis year, our travels took us to enchanting Santa Catalina Island, 22 miles off the coast of Southern California. Despite its proximity to the hustle and bustle of the mainland, Catalina feels remote and unspoiled. Indeed, since 1972, 88 percent of the land has been owned and managed by the Catalina Island Conservancy, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and restoring Catalina Island’s unique ecosystem.
Catalina’s hilly interior, spectacular coastline and sparkling waters teem with plant and animal life, some species of which, including the Catalina Island Fox, the Catalina Ironwood tree and the Catalina Mazanita are found nowhere else in the world.
Between 1919 and 1975 the island was owned by a company controlled by the Wrigley family of chewing gum fame. The purchase of the island was to usher in a golden age during which the Wrigley family invested millions of dollars in infrastructure and attractions, including the landmark Catalina Casino (which was never used for gambling but as a concert hall, grand ballroom and theater). Although the Wrigley family promoted the island as a tourist destination, the Wrigley’s were excellent stewards of the land, putting in place many of important conservation practices that have preserved the island’s scenic beauty. The Wrigley family generously deeded most of the island to the Catalina Island Conservancy in 1975.
In 1927, extensive clay and mineral deposits were discovered on the island. During the next 10 years, Catalina Island Tile and Pottery was established to use these resources to create building materials for the development of Catalina (including the tiles used in the red mission tile roof of the Casino) as well as a line of highly colorful pottery which is prized by collectors today. Developed from native oxides, the colorful and distinctive glazes used on Catalina pottery, include Toyon Red, Descanso Green, Catalina Blue, Coral Island and Monterey Brown.
Sadly, on May 10, 2007, a wildfire destroyed over 4000 acres of the island’s interior (about 10% of the island) and threatened the scenic harbor town of Avalon. Although the Catalina Island Conservancy reports that there was significant damage to Catalina’s sensitive ecosystem, ecological restoration of the disturbed area is well underway.
We hope you will enjoy our interpretations of the wonderful and unique colors we discovered on Catalina and hope that, if you have not been to the island, your travels may one day take you to this quiet place of natural splendor.
The Inspiration
Avalon -The cozy harbor town that is the center of activity on Catalina. The number of cars permitted in the town and on the island is strictly regulated. There is currently a 10 year waiting list to keep a car on the island. The clean air and crystal blue waters of Avalon’s picture perfect harbor make outdoor dining in Avalon a treat.
Berry Lemonade - An evergreen shrub with rose pink flowers that grows on Catalina. Native Americans soaked the sticky, lemony tasting berries in water to produce a refreshing drink.
Casino - The Catalina Casino gets its name from the Italian language, where “casino” means a gathering place. Opened in 1929, this landmark structure with its Moorish inspired architecture was an elegant venue for concerts, dances and other entertainments. Movie moguls, movie stars and other luminaries of Hollywood’s golden age were frequent visitors to the island. Visiting the Casino’s exquisite Art Deco ballroom, it is easy to imagine starlets in glamorous gowns dancing the night away. Red was “the” lipstick color during the 1930’s. Red lip color is extremely difficult to formulate without using dyes, many of which are still used today. Happily, the red shades we create at GeoGrafx are dye-free!
Coffeeberry – The California Coffeeberry is a small evergreen shrub so called because its berries, when fully mature, are black and resemble coffee beans.
Descanso Green - A beautiful green pottery glaze used in Catalina Pottery. Thomas Kinkade’s painting Catalina, View from Descanso Canyon captures the beautiful greens of the canyon foliage and the azure blue of Avalon bay below.
Fire Poppy – A species of reddish orange poppy that has proliferated in the fire damaged areas of Catalina. Some plant species will only germinate after fire. These “fire followers” leave seeds that may lie dormant for fifty years or longer. Fire Poppy is an example of one such plant. Fire poppies germinate profusely after a fire and may thrive on the burn site for a number of years. Eventually, more dominant species will drive them out, but seeds from their blossoms remain buried in the soil, awaiting the next fire cycle.
Gray Fox - The Catalina Island Fox is the largest endemic mammal on the island. The species is highly endangered. The recovery efforts of The Catalina Island Conservancy and other conservation organizations have brought the species back from the brink of extinction.
Ironwood - Endemic to Catalina, this evergreen has narrow fernlike leaves and grayish-brown bark.
Monterey Brown - A rich golden brown glaze used in Catalina Pottery.
Rancho Coral – The Rancho line of Catalina pottery and dinnerware was available in a number of pretty pastel shades including light blue and light coral.
Silver Sands - Catalina Island is rich in minerals, including silver and quartz. Accordingly, some of the beaches on the seaward side of the island have unusual silvery gray sand.
Snapdragon – The Island Snapdragon with its vibrant pinkish red flowers is one of the rarest and loveliest wildflowers on the island. We were fortunate enough to see this pretty flower at the Wrigley Botanical Gardens.
St. Catherine’s Lace - An endemic wildflower of Catalina that grows on dry rocky slopes throughout Catalina’s interior. The flowers are white in the spring and change with the seasons to ivory, light brown and deep russet in the autumn months. The flowers were a beautiful ivory beige during our visit.
Terracotta Tile – Building materials made from native clays were used extensively in the development of Catalina. The Spanish style tile roof of the magnificent Catalina Casino was built with locally made tiles.
Wild Lilac - A fragrant evergreen shrub that grows abundantly on Catalina on dry shrubby ridges and in canyons. The flowers range from white to lavender to blue depending upon the species and the nutrients in the soil.
