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.

As a rabid lover of all things Too Faced, I have no idea why it took me so long to get around to trying the Born This Way foundation. But hey, I’m trying it now! This review is going to cover the existing Born This Way foundation, as well as the brand new Born This Way concealer which I picked up at Gen Beauty!

The Born This Way foundation has an “undetectable medium-to-full coverage foundation” and contains your standard 30 ml/1 fluid ounce of product. There are 18 shades in the range: from Snow to Mahogany.

As per the packaging, Born This Way is infused with:

• Coconut Water to delicately replenish skin’s moisture levels
• Alpine Rose to brighten skin’s appearance and promote elasticity
• Hyaluronic Acid for a smoother, more youthful appearance

It blissfully comes with a pump that dispenses an appropriate amount of product. I use roughly two pumps to cover my entire face, but I could probably get away with only a pump and a half. The shade I have (which I think matches me PERFECTLY) is Porcelain and it’s intended to be for “fair with neutral-to-pink undertones”. (Sidenote: Natalie of Ivory Avenue passed on this shade to me because it didn’t suit her. Thank you!!) I would argue and say I’m more warm than cool toned, and I do feel like this foundation shade veers more towards the yellow side of things. I’m definitely not complaining though because it’s a perfect match for me, but it is something to be aware of if you’re trying to match your undertone. The foundation has a luminous finish that works well on my dry to normal skin.

Like the foundation, the Born This Way Naturally Radiant Concealer also contains coconut water, alpine rose and hyaluronic acid. It comes in 10 shades ranging from Very Fair to Deep.

The tube is slick and emulates the foundation packaging. It comes with your standard doefoot applicator to evenly distribute product onto your face. I would say it’s neither too thin, nor too thick in consistency. It’s somewhere right in the middle.

As you can see from the swatches above, the Light shade of the concealer matches quite well with the Porcelain foundation. I feel the concealer is a hint more pink, but once it’s all blended out onto the skin the two shades meld perfectly together.

On the left is my non-foundation face and on the right I’m wearing the Porcelain foundation with some of the Light concealer underneath my eyes.

There is ZERO editing done to this shot. You can see a hint of my freckles coming through the foundation, but if you compare it to the shot above without any foundation on, you’ll see that it covered up a heck of a lot of them. (By the way, I do love my freckles, I’m just trying to indicate how well this foundation can cover up “discolourations”.)

Because of the luminous finish of the foundation, I really do feel like this ACTUALLY looks like my skin in person. It doesn’t look cakey, or makeupy – it just looks like my face. And that’s not something I can usually say about foundation because generally there is SOME aspect of visibility of the product in your skin. This product seems to melt into my skin while not settling into fine lines. I have no idea how they’ve done it, but it’s wonderful!

Here’s a closer look at my eye where I’ve applied the concealer. You can see I’ve got some fine lines, but the product hasn’t sunk into them. I am exceptionally prone to “crepey” looking undereyes if I apply anything under them. I see a faint hint of that towards my inner tearduct, but nowhere near as much as I usually see. The concealer has also covered my broken blood vessel  (the slightly darker spot in the center) which is incredible since that thing is RED (to the point where people actually tell me I somehow got lipstick under my eye!).

Final Thoughts

Born This Way foundation: Guys… I mean… I’d heard the hype.. but until you EXPERIENCE this foundation… you just don’t know. YOU DON’T KNOW. The Born This Way foundation is INCREDIBLE. It gives my skin a gorgeous luminous finish and it covered ever aspect of my face evenly and effectively. This foundation is actually starting to rival my Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum foundation for most loved and I truly didn’t think that was ever going to be possible. This was one of those products that I put on my face and I was just KNEW it was a match made in heaven. There is no aspect of this product that I don’t love: the bottle is beautiful to look at and solid to hold. The pump is perfection. It even applies spectacularly to my face – especially on my nose which has always been a problem area for me! I am in *love* with this foundation!

Born This Way concealer: Much like the foundation, the concealer is also a winner which is something I didn’t expect to say either since I’ve had a LOT of problems with concealers over the years. Although concealer is not a product I use daily, it’s good to know that this sucker can cover up things if need be. I used it primarily on my undereye area and I experienced very, very minimal creasing after 6+ hours (without setting it so I could fully test it out). Please note that the Born This Way concealer is launching on June 15, 2016 – I just got an early sample via Gen Beauty.

The Too Faced Born This Way foundation can be purchased on sephora.ca for $49 CAD or on sephora.com for $39 USD.

The Too Faced Born This Way concealer can be purchased on sephora.ca for $32 CAD or on sephora.com for $28 USD.