I’ve always been super keen to try out Tarte‘s face palettes – their 2013 Off The Cuff holiday launch is still one of my favourites to date, so I’m always eager to see what else they’ll put out in the face department.

New out in the face palette department for the brand is their Tarteist Pro Glow + Blush palette. It features four shades of blush, a highlighter and a bronzer. There is a definite emphasis on glow in this palette – all the blushes have a shimmery edge, and the bronzer does have specs of glitter throughout the formula that are readily apparent on the skin.

The palette retails for $59 CAD/$45 USD and each pan contains 5.6 grams of product. They say the product is their traditional Amazonian Clay formula, although I found the formula on these to be not as stiff as their regular Amazonian Clay blush singles. I usually use a duo fiber stippling brush for those singles, but with these I found a normal powder blush brush worked the best.

Swatched out, you can see the varying levels of shimmer inherent in each powder. The highlighter is very reflective, whereas I’d say only two of the blushes have a LOT of shimmer – the others are more on the subtle/softer side.

In all of the shots below I’m wearing the bronzer in Solo and highlighter in Hi-Fi. Only the blush colour changes.

Electric is an easy-to-wear pink with gold shimmer.

Beat is a peach with gold shimmer.

Tempo is a golden mauve with high shimmer. I was surprised by this one! Given the shade in the pan I thought this might be a touch dark, but it actually worked out well when I used a light hand.

Amp was my favourite of the bunch because it’s a coral with gold shimmer.

Here’s a more direct face shot so you can see how it plays out on a full face. I feel like the bronzer is quite seamless on my skintone, but I have to point out that the shimmer specs in it are actually tiny particles of glitter and I was surprised as heck when I noticed the random glitter on my face at one point while I was doing my makeup. I thought I’d accidentally used glitter without realizing it. That being said, it took me a long time to actually notice it (third time I was using the palette), so I wouldn’t say it’s something overtly obvious.

The previous face shot was in warm-toned lighting, whereas this one is more cool-toned, and I feel like the bronzer still looks good despite the tone change.

Final Thoughts

Although I was surprised that the Tarte Tarteist Pro Glow & Blush palette was all shimmery, I can see how it works considering that “glow” is in the name of the actual product! If you’re someone who prefers a matte blush and bronzer, then this is most definitely not the palette for you. If you’re up for all the glow, then this is definitely worth looking into. If you’re a deeper skintone than me I feel like the blush and highlight shades will work for you since they’re quite pigmented and veer on the golden side of things. The bronzer may work for skintones a bit deeper than mine, but if you’re deeper than a medium I don’t think it’ll look like much.

I found myself pleasantly surprised that I liked the shimmery blushes so much. There are varying depths of shimmer (the deeper tones definitely have more of it) which I think make it more interesting since I don’t necessarily want all shimmer all the time. The highlighter works really well with all of the blush shades since all the shades do have quite a golden edge to them. The bronzer blended in seamlessly despite the tiny glitter specks too, which made me really happy.

The Tarte Tarteist Pro Glow & Blush can be purchased on sephora.ca for $59 CAD or on sephora.com for $45 USD.

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