Limited edition for summer, the Too FacedNatural Love palette is a humongous 30 pan eyeshadow palette that focuses on neutrals. The fun thing about this palette (well, fun for me, maybe less so for others) is that it incorporates a lot of previously existing shades in Too Faced‘s collection. Since I never really bought most of their neutral palettes outside of the Chocolate Bar range, I was REALLY happy to see a lot of them in one big palette all at once!
Too Faced Neutral Love
Out of all of the shades in here, and considering how enormous my Too Faced collection is at this point, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I only had three shade duplications: Heaven, Satin Sheets and Makeup & Chill. So if you haven’t purchased some of Too Faced‘s older neutral palettes, this is a very good jumping off point for you instead.
Too Faced Neutral Love
The Too FacedNatural Love palette is a limited edition item and can be purchased at sephora.com for $59 USD. I’m not currently seeing it on the Sephora Canada site, so check in stores if you’re Canadian!
There are some products that are just so mindblowingly beautiful that I just HAVE to have them, no matter what the price tag (for example, Guerlain’s Flocon Enchantees)! I first saw these Cover FX Custom Enhancer Drops in Halo on my beauty blogging buddy Shawna (see her post on these here) at an event many months back and was immediately enchanted. The insane reflection on her cheekbones was killer!
Cover FX Custom Enhancer Drops in Halo
So what is it? It’s a liquid highlighter that comes in a dropper style tube. Cover FX makes a few shades (I reviewed the shade Moonlight earlier this year) but the shade Halo is by far their most unique shade in the range. They’re billing this as a “holographic, multi-dimensional” product, but we all know by now that unless you can see rainbows, it’s most certainly NOT holographic.
Cover FX Custom Enhancer Drops in Halo
(Although the package certainly tries to lead you to think that it actually is holo!)
Cover FX Custom Enhancer Drops in Halo – swatched
The product initially appears quite white, but it shifts to a lavender, blue, silver – it’s absolutely gorgeous and extremely ethereal looking (which is a quality I’m always looking for in makeup products as I love that kind of fairy aesthetic).
Wearing Cover FX Custom Enhancer Drops in Halo (natural light)
On the cheekbones it’s truly something else. These shots were taken in natural lighting so that I could attempt to capture just how beautiful it is.
Wearing Cover FX Custom Enhancer Drops in Halo (natural light)
Shawna remarked in her post that said she couldn’t believe how many people came up to her and commented on her highlighter when she wore it. And she was bang on. I wore this to an event last night and EVERYONE I talked to asked me about what was on my cheekbones. Considering that I often wear “irregular” coloured highlighters (I’m a big fan of Anastasia’s Moonchild and Kat Von D’s Alchemist), I was surprised that people chose to comment on this highlighter instead of the greens, purples and blues I’ve worn in the past. But I guess that’s a testament to just how much this one stands out!
My favourite way to apply this is with my fingers. I’m not a huge fan of using fingers for my makeup in general, but it does work best for this highlighter in particular. I’d drop a blob on the back of my hand, dip a fingertip into it, and then pat a few drops onto my cheekbone. Then I’d take a clean finger and pat along my cheekbone to blend it out. I found two layers of this is what looked best for me. I did try it with a brush because I liked the shade Moonlight with a duofiber brush, but I found it just didn’t have the right amount of oomph when I did it that way (plus it blended out kinda funny with a brush).
In terms of whether or not this is worth your money… I’d say yes. This is a VERY expensive product in my opinion ($52 CAD/$42 USD), but I feel like it’s truly unique. There’s a TON of product in the bottle, so you needn’t worry about running out. If you’re balking at that price tag though… do what I did, and buy it during a Sephora sale. I picked mine up during the April sale, but there’s another one coming in November!
Morphe’s released their latest 35 pan palette collection: The Jaclyn Hill palette. I picked this up because although I have not been a fan of Morphe in the past (seriously, check out my scathing review of the 35B palette), I am quite the fan of Jaclyn Hill so I wanted to give this one a shot.
Morphe – The Jaclyn Hill Palette
It’s an extremely warm toned palette, with a fun random shots of colour in the bottom left corner of the palette.
Morphe – The Jaclyn Hill PaletteMorphe – The Jaclyn Hill Palette
I had high, high hopes for the Hard CandySheer Envy Prismatic Highlighter! It’s billed as an iridescent pearl powder that is intended to catch the light and give you good lighting no matter where you go.
Hard Candy Sheer Envy Prismatic Highlighter
The product itself retails for $6 USD at Walmart and contains 12 grams of product, which is not only a great price point, but also a ton of product. However… the goodness stops there. (And this pains me, because I do really enjoy Hard Candy.)
Hard Candy Sheer Envy Prismatic Highlighter – swatched
Swatched on the skin, you get a white, chunky, speckled-glitter mess. As someone who is IN LOVE with glitter, I was even astonished with just how much I did not like this. The powder has a bit of a purple/pink cast, but none of that is displayed on the skin. All you get is a white chalky mess with glitter thrown in.
Wearing Hard Candy Sheer Envy Prismatic Highlighteron my cheekbones
Like, can you even see it on my cheekbones? Because I applied it very heavily. Let’s zoom in.
Zoomed in shot of my cheekbone
Oh there we go. Now you can see it. You can see the stuck-in-my-pores type glitter mess it’s created too.
Final Thoughts
Hard, HARD pass on the Hard CandyPrismatic Highlighter. I was so eager to try out a drugstore highlighter that would potentially compare to the higher end highlighters that are on the market right now, but this doesn’t even do anything but create a mess on your face. After writing my review I went to the internet to find other reviews and I had to laugh/cry at all the one star ratings I was seeing. I am definitely not the only person who felt this product was a total dud! Yikes.
My recommendation? Pass on the Prismatic Highlighter and get Hard Candy‘s Tiki highlighter instead. It’s insanely beautiful and actually worth your money.
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Earlier this year, Clinique launched their Blend It Yourself (BIY) Pigment Drops – a pure pigment product that is intended to be mixed with your moisturizer to create varying levels of coverage.
Clinique Blend It Yourself (BIY) Pigment Drops
Clinique indicates that “one drop of creates sheer cover[age]. Two or three, a flawless finish”. The more drops you use, the thicker your coverage will be! The BIY pigment will take on the finish of the moisturizer you use it with, so you can expect a more radiant coverage with a radiant moisturizer and/or one with a sunscreen base, or a more matte look with a mattifying moisturizer.
Clinique Blend It Yourself (BIY) Pigment Drops
One thing most people don’t realize is just how small the bottle is! Because this product is strictly a pigment, it’s lacking in all of the other “stuff” that would usually fill out a foundation bottle to the normal one ounce/30 ml size. These bottles do contain 0.34 ounces of product, which is the third of a size of a regular size of foundation. So it’s not THAT tiny – it just LOOKS really tiny.
Clinique Blend It Yourself (BIY) Pigment Drops – swatches of BIY 105, BIY 110 and BIY 115
I have three of the shades starting from the lightest BIY 105 through BIY 115. The shot above is the product just after I’d tipped it out onto my arm (after shaking it vigorously to mix the pigment). You can see just how liquid the pigments are because they were dripping down the underside of my arm very quickly!
Clinique Blend It Yourself (BIY) Pigment Drops – swatches of BIY 105, BIY 110 and BIY 115
Smoothed out, you can see the colouring a lot better in the pigment.
Clinique Blend It Yourself (BIY) Pigment Drops combined with moisturizer
I ended up mixing the pigment with Clinique‘s Moisture Surge moisturizer. More often than not, you need far less pigment from the bottle than you think you do. Every time I used it I was taken aback by just how much the pigment spreads throughout the moisturizer.
Clean face
Shot above is with no makeup on for comparison.
Side by side drop comparison
And this shot is a split view using BIY 105 (which is slightly pale for me, I’ve since started using BIY 110) and the Moisture Surge Moisturizer.
On the left side (as you’re viewing this) is a single drop mixed with moisturizer. You can see how it keeps the coverage of the BIY product very, very sheer.
On the right is three drops mixed in with moisturizer. The coverage becomes a lot denser, and I’d argue to say almost too much since I’m looking a little ghostly.
Final Thoughts
I really like the blend it yourself aspect of this product as I think it’s a fun way to customize how much coverage you have. For me, however, I feel this is best used when you create a lightly tinted moisturizer instead of trying to build up the coverage to get a full coverage foundation. I found one drop mixed with the amount of moisturizer I would need to cover my whole face was the way I preferred to wear it. When I tried for full coverage I felt like it looked like the product sat on my face instead of sinking into it. (And really, if you’re going to be buying a product like this, I truly doubt you’re going for full coverage – you’re more likely to go buy a full coverage foundation!)
Best way to apply it? Use your hands! I plop a dollop of whatever moisturizer I’m using that day on the back of my hand, add a drop of BIY and then mix it together with my fingertips. I’d then smear it on my face as I would any regular morning moisturizer. When done this way, my makeup blends nicely on top and you get a really nice natural finish. It’s not a ton of coverage, granted, but that’s how I prefer to wear product on my face during the summer!
