Nope, not getting tired of ColourPop‘s monochromatic 9 pan palettes at all over here!
The Blue Moon palette is, fittingly, 9 shades centered around the colour blue.
The ColourPop Blue Moon palette can be purchased on colourpop.com for $12 USD.
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My obsession with yellow eyeshadow is in full swing lately, and I think that was largely inspired by this ColourPop palette!
The Uh Huh Honey palette features 9 gorgeous shades revolving around yellow.
8 of the 9 shades are eyeshadows, but the colour in the middle is actually a pressed glitter that isn’t intended for the immediate eye area.
The ColourPop Uh Huh Honey palette can be purchased on colourpop.com for $12 USD.
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I feel like more and more bronzers keep popping up on the market lately… and I ain’t mad about it because it’s one of my favourite face products to apply. I just love swirling my big ole brush in a massive pan of product and using it to warm up my face. It’s the next best thing to having a real tan, and obviously much, much better for your skin. I’ve been trying out the new(ish) Maybelline City Bronzer range lately for all of my bronzing needs.
The City Bronzers are actually labelled as a bronzer and contour product, but it’s going to depend entirely on your skintone if these will work for you as a contour shade. I don’t contour with any kind of frequency, so I use these strictly as a bronzer. The City Bronzers are infused with whipped cocoa butter and come in three matte-finish shades.
Of the three shades, I have 100 and 200 which are the most likely to suit me. There’s quite a shade gap between 100 and 200, so I think medium skintones may be able to use 200 if it’s applied quite heavily. 200 also has a bit more of a warmer edge when compared to 100. For me, 100 is a winter bronzer, and 200 is a summer bronzer on my skintone.
Since it’s July right now and I have a bit of sun on my face, 100 comes across very, very pale. You can barely even tell I have bronzer on my face in the above shot. For me, this makes it an ideal winter bronzer since I know it won’t look too obvious when I’m at my palest.
Right now, 200 definitely has more depth on my skin and I’ve been using it a lot to add some strength to my summer tan!
Final Thoughts
Although I didn’t use the Maybelline City Bronzers as a contour, I’m impressed that they lean neutral enough that I could’ve potentially used them that way if I wanted. Bronzers, for the most part, tend to have a very warm edge to them which can make them harder to wear as a contour product so it’s so nice to see a bronzer that isn’t so warm toned because not everyone is comfortable using such warm shades. In practice, they’re easy to apply and quite pigmented. I used a lighter hand for 200 in order to ensure I wasn’t going ham with the bronzer, but I think that’s good because medium skintones may be able to use as a bronzer. There is only one darker shade though (300), so I’m not sure how super deep skintones will fare with these shades.
TL;DR: Nice tones and good shades for light (potentially medium) skintones. Soft and easy to blend.
The Maybelline City Bronzers can be purchased on shoppersdrugmart.com for $10.99 CAD or on ulta.com for $9.99 USD each.
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I can never get enough of ! Rainbow palettes, rainbow glitter, and rainbow highlighters – they all make my heart sing. I was recently gifted the Revolution Beauty (or is it under the I Heart Revolution brand? I *cannot* keep up with Makeup Revolution and their different brand names) Unicorns Heart Rainbow Highlighter by a friend and was eager to give it a try.
Revolution Beauty‘s Unicorns Heart (that’s some weird spelling by the way… shouldn’t it be possessive? Unicorn’s?) is a rainbow highlighter that veers on the more pastel side of things. There’s 10 grams of product within the pan, and you’re looking at a price tag somewhere around $7-10 USD depending on where you purchase.
The packaging is very reminiscent (or really, just straight up the same) as the Too Faced cardboard heart blushes. It’s a heart-shaped cardboard box with a lift off lid. I don’t find the product is too secure in the base though – you can actually remove the pan itself as it sits on a raised flimsy plastic piece, so be careful with how you store this piece because it’ll get smacked around easily.
I had initially wanted to wear this as a straight rainbow (and tried to do so in my most recent Pride tutorial), but I found that the swatches of colour lined up side by side were far too large to use on my face as a straight highlighter unfortunately. You can see just how LARGE the swatch is in the photo above – it’s massive and I don’t have cheekbones that large! Instead I ended up opting to swirl my brush in the whole product which makes it much easier to apply… but sadly you’re losing the rainbow aspect as the shade comes out as a very cool-toned (verging on blue), icy highlighter.
On the cheeks, the Unicorns Heart Rainbow Highlighter is incredibly reflective. A little goes a very long way, so I’d recommend using as little product as you can and building up from there. Overall, I found the tone to be quite icy and didn’t suit a makeup look unless I was wearing strictly cool-toned eyeshadows. This will not pair very well with warm-toned look (unless you’re going for a sort of mixed metals look) just because it’s SO cool-toned.
I’m a bit torn on this highlighter. On one hand you’re getting a fantastic amount of product for a low price tag. It wears and applies nicely, and the reflective quality of the highlighter is really lovely. On the other hand, for me, I find that blue-toned highlighters are some of the hardest to wear because they tend to leave a bit of an ashen sheen on my face. I don’t love that the rainbow aspect is rather unwearable as a highlighter just because the pan is so large and will leave an absolutely massive streak on your face (even if you blend out the edges). Fundamentally, I think this is best used all swirled together – so if you like the colour that way, then by all means snatch up the Unicorns Heart Rainbow Highlighter!