Too Faced Unicorn Tears Iridescent Mystical Bronzer (Review & Swatches)
With the launch of their Life’s A Festival collection, Too Faced added another highlighter into the mix – the Unicorn Tears Iridescent Mystical Bronzer! Too Faced already has a fairly enormous range of bronzers, however this one is limited to the collection and won’t be around forever!
Too Faced says that: “for the first time ever we’ve combined the effects of the warm bronzer of sunlight, the ethereal glow of moonlight and the twinkling effect of starlight together for a unicorn of a bronzer and a festival glow like nothing you’ve ever seen.”
They also describe it as a satin bronzer/holographic highlighter infused with their festival scent (which was, at one point, labelled as a unicorn scent. Haha!). A few things on that though – the highlighter is not holographic and this definitely does not smell like the rest of their Life’s A Festival collection which is more of a sweet tarts smells. The bronzer smells like the rest of their cocoa-infused products – like chocolate!
Those nitpicks out of the way, the product itself is incredibly interesting. This is definitely one of the deeper bronzers in my collection – which means it will definitely work on someone who is a medium skintone. On me, at my winter palest, this is verging on far too dark and I have to use an extremely light hand and blend it out with my foundation sponge. This is not a complaint – I love bronzer and am more than happy to work with the product, but if you’re someone who is pale and wants something easy, this may not be what you’re looking for in a bronzer.
Swatched out you can see the difference in the shades. The bronzer is more shimmery than satin and the highlighter portion is essentially their Unicorn Tears highlighter. Swatched together the bronzer pales out a touch, but not too much, and it gets imbued with the sparkle from the highlighter. The point of this bronzer, in my eyes, is that the shades are not meant to be used independently which is fine by me because I like swirling my brush in a compact without having to be worried about staying inside the lines.
I apply my bronzer in the “3/backwards 3” area on my face: my temples, backs of my cheekbones and along my jawline. And on first application it was too strong, so I had to blend it out with my foundation sponge. But wow… what a difference in colour from what I normally wear in bronzers. This IS like sunlight and moonlight mixed together. It does veer more warm than cool, but you can absolutely see the different dimensions on your face.
One thing worth pointing out is that there is particle glitter in this formula, and it all comes from the unicorn head highlighter. I didn’t initially notice it when I tried it on in my video (see that try on here), but after closer inspection upon wearing it several more times, I could see that there was definite shimmer wherever the bronzer had been applied. This doesn’t bother me – I am a glitter freak after all – but for those not keen on glitter particles, this is not the bronzer for you.
Final Thoughts
Wow – what an unexpectedly fun product! I have no idea how Too Faced pulled off a sunlight/moonlight Unicorn Tears bronzer, but they did actually nail it! The shade, although wearable for me in the winter with a light hand and some extra blending, will be best suited for me in the summer when I’ve got more colour on my complexion.
The Too Faced Unicorn Tears Iridescent Mystical Bronzer can be purchased at sephora.ca for $38 CAD or on sephora.com for $30 USD.
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Skincare Saturday: Lomelin Skin Brightening Cream
This post is sponsored by Lomelin.
There are some products on the market that you look at and you have to wonder if they actually work. You WANT them to work, but do they really? More often than not I end up passing over items like this because I just figure it’s a gimmick – something that the brand wants me to believe, but that won’t actually show any visible results. It’s a cynical outlook really – but I’m sure it’s one that we’ve all encountered when looking at a shelf full of skincare items that promise you better, brighter skin.
I’m so glad to say that Lomelin – a skin brightening cream that promises to brighten skin appearance from excessive sun exposure, freckles and brown spots – has turned this nay-sayer into a believer (and I’ve got the photos to prove it!)
Lomelin, in the brand’s own words, is “a gentle, non-irritating formulation to brighten overall skin appearance and dark spots”. The targeted usage is anywhere on your body – it doesn’t have to just be on your face.
The active ingredients in Lomelin are 2% Alpha Arbutin (a new more gentler derivative of hydroquinone with all the positive suppressing effects on melanin production without any harsh side effects) and 5% Melaslow (a nature-based citrus unshiu peel extract which evens out the skin tone and reduces age spots).
The instructions say that the product should be used on the affected area twice a day – morning and night – and that results should appear gradually, but that noticeable improvement would be visible within 6 to 8 weeks. I had no sensitivities to the application and it felt like any other lotion/cream that I routinely to my body. The only real difference is that the product itself doesn’t have the best scent to my nose and I found it a little bit icky. That being said, I am *hyper* sensitive to smells and when I asked my husband to smell the container he said he couldn’t smell anything at all.
I decided to test the product out on one of my forearms so that you would be able to see a visible difference (if there was one). I have some sun damage and freckling on my forearms from years of playing around outside in the summer: running, swimming, soccer, etc., and I figured that would be the easiest way to show a difference.
I applied Lomelin solely to my right arm (marked “Test arm” above) and left my left arm (“Control arm”) alone. The photo you’re seeing above is after 3.5 weeks of using Lomelin (morning and night) and there is actually a noticeable difference! I was floored! I hadn’t been expecting that amount of freckle reduction in such a short time frame.
Initially I thought it was just me seeing things – but when I told my friend I was reviewing a skincare product for an upcoming post and asked him what differences he saw in my arms, the VERY FIRST THING he mentioned was that I had less freckles on my right arm. I couldn’t believe it – the fact that he managed to pinpoint the difference without any prompting was incredible!
So in short, YES, Lomelin actually works to reduce hyper pigmentation! I had no side effects and it only took about three weeks to see actual results.
Another amazing thing? Lomelin isn’t expensive. A 30 gram tub will set you back $44.99 CAD. For visible results? I’d say that’s a really good price tag.
And psssst… they’re Canadian!
So let me know if this is something you’re interested in. Have you tried skin brightening treatments before? Have they worked? This is the first time I’ve ever been able to say that I saw a real difference, and I have to say I’m impressed!