Alongside the BECCA x Jaclyn Hill Champagne Collection release, BECCA released a new addition to their highlighting range: the Shimmering Skin Perfector Slimlights.
With the highlighter craze having no end in sight, the beauty world’s insatiable demand for more highlighters means we’re getting a lot more options to make us shine up to the heavens. And I, for one, hope this craze never ends!
So far the Slimlights have been release in three shades that match their predecessors that are also available: Pearl, Champagne Pop and Topaz.
The Slimlights are a twist up tube highlighter that makes for quick and easy application. I’ll be honest, the first time I tried this, I applied it straight from the tube onto my cheekbone and tried to blend it out with my finger. The shine and finish I was accustomed to with BECCA‘s highlighters was just not there and I was more than a little confused. How could my favourite highlighter brand let me down like this??
….and then I read the packaging and Sephora’s site. The Slimlights are intended to create added dimension in targeted areas – down the bridge of your nose, on your brow bone, the top of your lip and the inner corners of your eye. Suddenly this product made a heck of a lot more sense to me!
The Slimlights come with a sharpener in the base of the tube which you can pull out and use to sharpen the crease product if you so desire. Personally, I don’t see the point in that since I’m not likely to use this as a liner.
Swatched out, you can see the Slimlights deliver a punch of pigment as well as a lovely sheen. I was especially impressed with Topaz because the bronze-gold coming off on that shade is beautiful! It’s not quite for my skintone, but it is a STUNNING shade.
Since I had pressed versions of both Pearl and Champagne Pop, I wanted to compare them for my own sake. Pearl is a dead ringer in both the Slimlight and Pressed formulas, but you can clearly see that Champagne Pop is a much different shade. The Champagne Pop Slimlight is more of a pale yellow-gold (it looks a lot like Moonstone I think, although I don’t own that shade), whereas the Pressed version has far more peach in it.
With my knowledge of how to wear these now intact, I found I preferred to wear the Slimlights on my eyes. Champagne Pop makes the most beautiful inner corner highlight. I like that the shade is slightly paler than the pressed version because I think it works well on me. I also liked adding a bit of Pearl to underside of my brow to add a hint of shine. I did find Pearl was a bit more difficult to blend out than Champagne Pop, but nothing that would deter me from using the products.
Final Thoughts
If there’s one thing I can highlight about this product is the fact that it’s meant as a targeted highlight for smaller areas of your face. I remember reading the tear sheet I had after I’d used the product the first time (on my cheek) and I was like “well aren’t you dumb, Chelle!”.
After figuring out how to properly use the Slimlights, I am pleased to report that I love what they do. I have often struggled with inner corner highlights for my eyes because I feel like when I use a pencil brush to apply powder it goes freaking everywhere, including getting directly in my eye. With the Slimlight, I was able to target the inner corner directly and blend it out with my finger. It’s a small thing to be relieved about, but it definitely made me feel better about applying product there. Not to mention that it definitely felt quick, easy and foolproof! (Sidenote, I have tried Topaz on my eye as a lid colour on a whim, and I found it creased pretty quickly. So while the product says nothing about using it on your eyes, I thought I’d just give you the heads up that I tried it and it didn’t work out for me.)
Do I recommend these cheekbone highlighting? Absolutely not – but they’re also not meant for it! Do I recommend these for specific highlighting needs on smaller areas of your face? 100% percent. My personal shade preference? Champagne Pop – but get the one that you feel would suit you best!
The BECCA Shimmering Skin Perfector Slimlights can be purchased on sephora.ca for $34 CAD each or on sephora.com for $28 USD each.
The products featured in this review were sent to me for consideration.
These really remind me of the Burberry stick highlighters! I can also see these as a really pretty wash of colour on the lids…easy eyeshadow to go!
I think it might depend on your lid type for eyeshadow. I found it creased on my lids (but I’m also greasy AF there). I’ll have to take a peek at the Burberry stick highlighters – this is the first I’ve heard of them!
These are gorgeous! The variation between the two Champagne Pops is really surprising though. They do not look anywhere near the same thing!
Yeah the colour difference is really surprising!
The champagne pop shade in the powder version was always too much for me as a highlight, but the other version of it in this slimlight is a favorite of mine !
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That’s great news if you felt the pressed version was too deep for you!
These shades are STUNNING, I would love them as a normal highlighter so it’s a shame they don’t work that well for this! x
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Just get the pressed ones for cheekbone highlighting! I loooove those so much!
Inner corner highlights! Do you find that when you blend the highlighter,it can interrupt the product underneath it? I find that I always make the product drag, whenever i apply a cream/stick overtop of a powder.
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So the only section that it touches the powder (the cream stick) is where I have to blend the two together. I wore Pearl today on my inner corner and now that I’m LOOKING for it, I notice a slight bit of lifting where the colours connect (between my lid shade and the inner corner). But I’m not sure I’d notice it unless you had pointed it out. I know Champagne Pop didn’t do that though – it blended in surprisingly easy.
Champagne Pop is gorgeous as the SlimLight and I love how it’s so much paler than the original. This is such a genius product as I always like highlighting along the nose and cupid’s bow but it’s tricky with a brush.
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Totally agree – especially about the cupid’s bow. I don’t do it often, but when I did highlight my upper lip with powder, I always got way, WAY too much product in that area!
Aww, dammit! I shouldn’t have read this review especially with the upcoming VIB sale, Topaz is stunning!
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Hah! Topaz has amazing colour payoff!
champagne pop is still a gorgeous shade<333
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Yes! It’s lovely!
Gorgeous! TBH I would only use these on the eyes…I wouldn’t think about the cheeks, forehead or lips…just on the eyes! They look so pretty!
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On the lid, they didn’t work out that well for me. Creasing within an hour and they stayed tacky all day (on my lid) which was just a bit odd. Inner corner and brow bone? Perfect for that!