A few months back, Bite Beauty launched their Prismatic Pearl Multisticks and I was super intrigued – I mean just look at the boxes! They’re rose-gold and holographic, who isn’t in to that??
While I was not pulled into the original release of Bite‘s Multisticks, I have to say that this range definitely appealed to me a great deal more. While the original lineup was all cream and matte formulas, this new launch is chockful of shimmering shades with definite duochrome edges to them. The Multisticks are intended for use basically everywhere – your lips, your cheeks, even your eyelids!
The shade range is fairly interesting too – while there are the usual pinks and roses, there’s a gorgeous blue-brown colour (Peacock Pearl) and a really neat white/clear base with pink shimmer (Blush Pearl) that really took my breath away.
Bite Beauty Prismatic Pearl Multisticks Swatches
Swatched out you can see there’s a lot of texture and reflection to the shades. They are definitely all super saturated with colour and have a lot of pearlized particles.
Pink Pearl is a soft pearlized shade that’s one of the most wearable on the lips in this collection.
Pink Pearl also makes an absolutely beautiful soft highlight.
Peacock Pearl is really neat looking on the lips, but a little bit patchy overall.
But uh… don’t wear this on your cheeks if you’re my skin tone.
Also… don’t wear this on your eyes. This is creasing within 2 minutes of application, and it’s on top of double-primed eyelids and powder shadow that, as you can see, is not creased on the other side of my lid!
Blush Pearl is ghastly on me. It’s chunky, patchy and just a mess.
Not bad as a cheek highlight though!
Oyster Pearl is easily my favourite. This is such a neat sheer gun-metal colour!
Bit less reflect on the cheeks, but still pretty.
Rose Pearl is a weird shade and I feel the colour doesn’t really come off very well on the lips because it moves around a lot.
I was expecting more of a blush out of this one, and there is some colour tint to it.
My Thoughts
Ugh.
I absolutely despise these. I tried to keep my commentary kind of succinct and neutral above to describe the product, but I have to tell you these are absolute garbage in my eyes.
On the lips they are a gritty, chunky, patchy mess. They never feel comfortable since they’re always moving around (you can literally feel the bits moving if you squish your lips together AND it leaves horrible clusters on the inner corners of your lips). They almost dry down… but not quite…. leaving you with dehydrated lips and a chunky mess. It just FEELS wretched.
On the cheeks… I’ll admit that the overall sheen in some of the photos I posted above is quite beautiful, but they just don’t dry down. I cannot handle having a sticky cheek for an entire day, so that makes it completely unwearable as a highlighter to me.
On the eyes… another no. VIOLENTLY NO! Since they’re chunky and don’t dry down, you’re going to end up with severe creasing in a matter of minutes. And to make matters even worse, it’s STICKY. So your eyelid ends up sticking to itself in the most unflattering way. Chunky, creased and sticky? I seriously cannot think of a worse eye look.
In short, the only way these Multisticks are wearable is by using them as a lip topper on top of another lipstick. On their own these things are completely unwearable on every facet of my face that these are claimed to be made for. They’re uncomfortable (seriously, that grittiness on the lips is just awful) and awkward to wear.
Overall, I find this launch to be so incredibly disappointing for Bite Beauty. I *love* the brand and wear their lipsticks all the time! But this useless product was so bad that I really couldn’t recommend these to anyone unless you’re doing something editorial and won’t be wearing it for the whole day. Blech.
The Bite Beauty Prismatic Pearl Multisticks can be purchased on sephora.ca for $28 CAD each or on sephora.com for $24 USD.
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