Price: $40 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 4 x 7.4 g The Anastasia Beverly Hills That Glow Kit comes with 3 shimmery highlights and 1 shimmery bronzer. The Glow Kit packaging is pretty simple: thin pink cardboard. Like Anastasia’s contour kit, this quad does not contain a mirror. This is fine for me, since it’s not a product I would travel with, but it could pose problems for others. All four shades in the That Glow Kit are on the warm side. What really drew me into this product is each shade’s consistent amazing formula. They are buttery without being powdery and have a very smooth and silky texture. All four powders are easy to apply onto the face and are easy to sheer out to achieve a more natural appearance. The only thing that I am not crazy about with this quad is that the shades Bubbly and Dripping in Gold are super similar in color, so I just wish there was more contrast between the two. $40 does seem to be pricy for a four pan palette, but each shade has quite a bit of product in it. For comparison, each shade in the That Glow Kit is 0.26 oz (at $10 a piece), whereas the popular Laura Geller Gilded Honey Baked Highlight is only 0.16 oz at $26. XOX ♥
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Price: $5 * Buy At: Five Below * Size: 3 x 4.5 g The City Color Contour Effects Palette is a contouring trio, including a bronzer, contour powder and highlight. The packaging of the trio is cheap cardboard, but for such an inexpensive price, what else can you expect? The package is super thin, so I figured it would be perfect for travel, although it does not have a mirror. The pans of product are quite large, definitely larger than the pans in the Anastasia Contour Kit. As I expected from a City Color product (after loving their blushes), the three shades are very pigmented! The contour shade, being so pigmented, can end up looking a bit intense on my light skintone, so I just have to use a light hand. I really could see this contour shade working on darker skintones, which is great. The white highlight shade may look stark, but it has a more sheer pigmentation, to avoid a bright, chalky look on the skin. It definitely does not have shimmer, but it does add a bit of a sheen to the skin that gives a glowy appearance. The Bronzer shade is warm, but it doesn't look too warm or muddy on my skin, which is a common problem for me since I have a light, cool skin tone. Overall I really like this palette, and like the simplicity of a trio in the midst of all the large contour kits that everyone is releasing. I have been reaching for it a ton and will continue to do so. XOX ♥
Price: $65 * Buy At: Sephora * Size: 6 x 0.12 oz & 1 x 0.29 oz The Nars NARSissist Cheek Studio Palette consists of seven cheek products: 4 blushes, the Paloma contour/highlight duo and a full sized Laguna bronzer. The NARSissist Cheek Studio Palette comes in a thick rectangular package with a mirrored lid. Although the palette doesn’t have Nars’s typical rubberized packaging, it is still quite prone to getting dirty thanks to the mirror. The formulation of the cheek products is great, there is not a single dud within the palette, which you would hope would be the case with a $65 palette. The Paloma contour powder is on the pink side, so while it works well on my cool toned skin, it may look more like a blush on other skin tones. The Paloma highlight does not do too much to highlight my fair skin, but I can still use it as a setting powder on certain areas of my face. My favorite thing about Nars blushes is how easy they are to blend, and these blushes do not disappoint. They make applying cheek color super fool proof! The only thing that I think would have made this palette better would be a shimmery highlight instead of a matte one, but I have plenty of shimmery highlights in my collection, so I guess it is a welcomed change. All in all, I really like this palette and although it is expensive, I find it to be more worth it than Nars’s other pricy palettes and other high end cheek sets. XOX ♥
Price: $39.50 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 7.4 g The Becca Afterglow Palette is a five pan highlight and blush palette. The Becca Afterglow Palette comes in a reflective rose package that is compact and travel friendly. The palette has a mirror under the lid and the color names are on the back of the palette. The Afterglow Palette includes three Shimmering Skin Perfectors in Moonstone, Rose Gold and Topaz, and two Mineral Blushes in Wild Honey and Flowerchild. On darker skin tones, two or all of the Shimmering Skin Perfectors could work as a highlight, but on my light skintone, only Moonstone works to highlight my skin. So, while I cannot use the other two as highlights, they are still very pretty for layering over blushes to add a bit of a glow. All the powders have a smooth texture, although the blushes are not quite as soft as the Shimmering Skin Perfectors. XOX ♥
Price: $38 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 6 x 0.04 oz, 2 x 0.14 oz, 1 x 0.21 oz The Tarte Showstopper Clay Palette contains six eye shadows, one blush, one contour/bronzer and one highlight powder. The Showstopper Palette comes in a gold circular package with a purple snakeskin design on the lid. The palette has a large mirror on the other side of the lid. The only complaint I have with the shadows is that all of them, except for the dark brown, are mid tone shades, so there is not a huge variety. However, the colors are beautiful and they all have a soft texture and amazing color payoff. All three cheek products also perform great, which is nice to see from a multi use palette like this one. The Champagne Pink highlight gives a very nice glow to the skin, and shows up nicely even on lighter skin. Due to the pink tone of the highlight, it may not be the most flattering on everyone, but it could always be used as an eye shadow instead. I also quite enjoy the Park Ave Princess bronzer. It does not look orange or muddy on the skin and is rather easy to blend out. The Fame blush performs just as nicely as the rest of the Amazonian Clay blushes from Tarte; it has great pigmentation and lasts on the cheeks longer than your average blush. This palette is a great choice for travel, as it is small and contains quality eye shadows and cheek products. So far, I have found my self reaching for this palette quite a bit! XOX ♥
Price: $11.99 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 6 x 1.5 g / 0.05 oz The Nyx Conceal Correct Contour Palette in Light contains six cream face colors: a neutral ivory, a yellow ivory, a pale yellow, a pink ivory, a warm brown and a light pink. The Conceal Correct Contour Palette comes in an ivory compact with a clear lid, straying from their classic black packaging. All of the colors in the palette have a very similar formula, which is great to see. None of the shades were a dud to me. The product feels creamy, but slightly sticky. It's not thick at all, so it is difficult to apply too much. Because of the thinner formula, I don't find the product to crease throughout the day. All of the shades, except for the brown, have a light to medium coverage that is buildable. The brown shade is quite full coverage and opaque. Since the lighter shades aren't full coverage, I don't find this palette to work great for someone that is looking to cover blemishes. I like to use this palette for cream highlighting and contouring, which I prefer over using powder. The brown shade is actually really easy to blend out when applied wherever you would contour. Typically, I contour under my cheekbones and on the sides of my nose, and I highlight under my eyes and down the center of my nose. The three lightest shades in this palette work well on my skin as a highlight, but I don't find much use for the yellow shade, since I have a cool and rather pink skin tone. I wouldn't say that this is a staple product for every makeup collection, but if you are into cream highlighting and contouring, I would definitely pick this one up, especially with the affordable price. XOX ♥
Price: $38 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 0.54 oz The IT Cosmetics My Sculpted Face Palette contains two powder highlights (one is matte and the other has shimmer) and four matte powder contour shades. The palette is made of a sturdy cardboard and has two mirrors on the inside, one is regular and the other is magnifying. I'm not a huge fan of how this palette looks, to me the graphic on the front and the back looks quite outdated. I would have preferred a more simple look, like what is seen in the rest of the IT Cosmetics line. The packaging also features two mirrors, one regular and one magnified. But, it's not about the packaging, it's on the inside that counts. All of the powders have a very smooth and soft texture and are pretty easy to blend out. I do like that the palette has a range of colors, but I don't find myself using the white or the dark brown very often. I thought I would use the white all the time as a matte highlight, but it's so sheer that it barely shows up. The three lighter contour shades give me a nice contoured right at application, but for some reason I find that the color doesn't last on my skin nearly as long as I would have thought. My contour is gone way before my blush, no matter what foundation is under it or if I set it with a setting spray. I found that some reviews on the Ulta website found the same thing to be true. I still think that this palette is a pretty good deal and is great for anyone interested in starting to get into highlight and contour. XOX ♥
Price: $18 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 5 g / 0.18 oz The Pop Beauty Blush Beam in Bare Beam is a shimmery highlighting blush made of five different shades. The first shade is a light neutral pink, the second shade is an orange, the third shade is a peach, the fourth shade is a peachy pink, and the last shade is a champagne. The texture of the product is pretty smooth, and the color glides onto the skin easily. All of the colors are quite shimmery, but I do not experience too much fall out. I think that only a few of the colors in the Blush Beam could work as a blush, but the way that each color is in a small strip, it's difficult to just pick up that one color. You could pick up one color with a small highlighting brush, but I would typically just swirl all of the colors together with a blush brush. When mixed all together, Bare Beam gives a subtle peachy glow that would be great to give the skin a dewy look for spring or for summer. (The rightmost swatch in the photos is all of the shades blended together) You could also easily use this product for eyeshadows as well, since eye brushes would fit nicely in the small strips of color. Any of these shades would make a pretty, shiny lid color. XOX ♥
Price: $18 * Size: 1.4 g * Buy At: Chella's Website http://chella.com/products/item/lace_highlighter_pencil The Chella Ivory Lace Highlighter is a jumbo pencil style highlighter. This product is very versatile and can be used as a cream shadow, shadow base, brow highlight, inner corner highlight, concealer, under eye corrector or even as a lip liner to prevent lipstick from bleeding. (This product was in my June Ipsy Bag) The Ivory Lace Highlighter is very creamy and easy to apply. It doesn't pull on my skin at all. This also blends easily with your fingers if you are using it as a concealer or corrector. It has some nice wear to it, but I do think it would need to be reapplied at least once during the day. SwatchesDespite the name, this highlighter isn't really an ivory color. It's much more peachy-toned than ivory. It looks good with my skin, though and creates more of a natural highlight than something more white. The peachy tone also allows it to work as an under eye corrector!
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