With the launch of their summer collection, Too Faced added two brand new items to their Sweethearts lineup!

Until now, the Sweethearts lineup had always been all about that blush life. This launch introduced us to a new blush *and* a bronzer shade! (And you KNOW how I feel about bronzers!)

Encased in ridiculously adorable packaging, the Sparkling Bellini blush has three stripes of oranges and pinks.

Since two of the shades in the pan are more on the orange side of things, this blush does lean quite orangey-coral. It’s also worth noting that there is some particles of glitter in the mix that will adhere to your skin. If you’re adverse to glitter, go easy with your brush!

In Sparkling Bellini, the middle stripe had the least amount of frost/glitter in it. This is a very luminous blush – to the point where you may not even need a highlighter. I wore it a few days without highlighter, but then ultimately decided I still needed BECCA’s Champagne Pop in my life! 😉

With my incredible love for bronzers, I was most interested by the Sweet Tea Sweethearts Bronzer. *Especially* because the left half of the pan can look almost grey/white in some lighting.

In terms of customizing your bronzer tone, this product works out really well. If you’re a bit paler, you can stick to the left hand side. Darker toned? The right hand side. Or do what I do and swirl the brush into the two of them! Unlike the blush, the bronzer does not have glitter particles.

Pigmentation is STRONG on these! I should probably opt for the paler side until I get my full summer tan, but I’ve been swirling my brush into the two shades and going in with a very light hand and blending out like crazy just so I can use the product to their full effect.

I’m wearing Sweet Tea on my temples, backs of my cheekbones and along my jaw line. Sparkling Bellini has been applied to my cheeks and blended backwards.

You can get a very subtle glow with both the  bronzer and the blush, which is something I really appreciate.

OR, you can amp it up and get a lot more colour impact out of both of them.

Final Thoughts

This was my first time trying any of the Too Faced Sweethearts products and I have to say they’re a lot of fun to use, although there is a bit of a learning curve.

I found the Sweet Tea bronzer intensely pigmented, which I definitely wasn’t expecting based on how luminous it looks in the pan. In my experience, luminosity usually means more sheerness in the powder but that definitely wasn’t the case this time! I had to scale back my bronzing technique in order to get the flush I wanted. If you’re fair, don’t be afraid! The product does blend out nicely so you’re not left with any kind of streaks! This is also potentially great news for those who are a deeper skintone than me and need that extra pigmentation to make a bronzer work for them.

Sparkling Bellini blush was also super pigmented and I definitely booped too much on my cheek the first time I applied it (I wish I had a shot of that, I looked hilarious!). With a gentle hand, this is a gorgeous blush that comes with its own built in subtle highlighter. You will find small particle shimmer suspended in the blush which will stick to your cheeks – just a heads up for those who are adverse to any kind of glitter.

The new Sweethearts bronzer and blush are permanent additions to the Too Faced lineup and each retail for $30 USD (blush, bronzer)  or $38 CAD (blush, bronzer).

The products featured in this post were sent to me for consideration.

My ongoing quest to own every single Too Faced Melted Liquified Long Wear Lipstick continues…

During the Sephora VIB sale this past April, I opted to pick up a shade I didn’t yet own: Melted Melon. It’s described as a “guava-colour” and it seems a bit more up my alley compared to Melted Coral which feels a lot more orange to me.

If you’re new to the Too Faced Melted formula, here’s a brief run down:

• They are liquid lipsticks, but they do not dry down super matte and stiff like the usual suspects (Kat Von D, Anastasia, Colour Pop, etc.)
• They go on glossy and then dry down to a soft matte formula within about an hour that is still comfortable to wear.
• The wear time on these is fairly impressive as I get 6+ hours of them (without eating).
• They are not transfer proof.

Of course, just owning Melted Melon isn’t enough – I had to see how much it compared to the shades I already owned! When I pulled out my collection of Melteds, Metal Coral and Melted Strawberry were the only shades that were remotely similar to Melted Melon.

In swatches, you can see the significant colour difference between them all, but they are like varying intensities of the same colour range. It really made for a beautiful gradient on my arm!

Melted Coral is definitely the orange of the bunch. Whereas Melted Melon is very similar to Melted Coral, just with a lot more red in it. And Melted Strawberry is just straight of strawberry-red goodness.

So how do I feel about this shade? Quite frankly… it’s to die for! Melted Melon has rapidly become a brand new favourite lip colour in my collection (mentioned it in my May favourites video too!). I love how vibrant it is and how it’s not quite as orange.

I feel light it lights up my features, and, of course, I can wear it with allll of the coral blushes I’ve been throwing on my face lately! In short? It’s a total win for me!

If you’d like to see lip swatches and round ups of the other Melteds I own, be sure to check out these posts:

• Melted Chocolate
• Melted Metallic Chocolate
• Melted Rainbow
• My Too Faced Melted Collection
• The Entire Too Faced Melted Collection – Swatched!

Too Faced Melted lipsticks can be purchased for $25 CAD each on Sephora.ca or for $21 USD on Sephora.com.