I'm not a bronzer person, but I loved these instantly. Revlon says these contain "light-capturing, crystal-like pigments" and that "innovative technology creates the effect of glowing skin with depth and dimension." - and it does have something unique, as it's adds glow without being obviously shimmery. I have two shades, but a third exists.

This texture is a winner for me and I love this "prismatic effect" Revlon managed to make. If only they had blushes in this formula, I'd be all over them, but at least they have highlighters. Both of these shades are lovely for pale skin tones and don't look orange at all. They are quite light, though, so on deeper skin tones they'll need building up. 

If I had this is the right shade, I'd keep it and wear it a lot. But I'm happy with just having MasterCreation, which I have in a shade fits me. It's more dewy and better for dry skin, while I feel this one would suit a larger range of skin types. 

Regular price 23.90 €, current price 14.99 €

My third batch of these pearls and again they have a great pigmentation as well as a glow with fine shimmer. This shade is a bronzer shade, not a highlighter, I don't care what they say, but this is a highlighter only on deep skin tones, maybe medium-deep. I've tried it by removing the darkest pearls like they recommend and I still got a warm bronze stripe on my cheeks. I need to apply very little, since it's so pigmented, but this just isn't a shade for my skin tone. I have them also in Sublime Radiance, which is a lighter natural peachy-bronze shade, while Natural Radiance was too dark for me. The packaging is super pretty, as this one has a gold lid. 

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I got this as a birthday gift from my cousin after it's been on my wishlist for years. There are two versions of these Shimmer Strips palettes, one is called Natural Nude and mine is a Warm one, though both look warm to me. It's a combination of 12 shimmery-satin shades that can be used in many ways making it an all-in-one product. 

Texture: These are mostly fairly light shades with a good pigmentation. The deepest shades in the bottom right corner are so dark I can only use as an eyeshadow. It’s meant to be an all-in-one product so most of the shades are so pale that they can be used as a setting/finishing powder, but you have to use a very fluffy blush.

Shade: The three top shades are golden, the next three are rosy, then it's a mix of taupes and copper and the bottom row are warm browns. This palette can be used:

- as an eyeshadow palette: it works, but it’s subtler than other palettes. I tend to use one of the shades from the third row on the lids and the deepest brown in the outer corner.

- as a highlighter: using 1st and partly 2nd row. It works well with a medium strong glow. This is my favourite way to use this palette.

- as a blush: using partly 2nd row. It gives a peachy flush, but it's only for pale skin tones as only one shade is a proper blush colour. 

- as a bronzer/contour: using the bottom two rows. It’s a glowy bronzer, so not for contouring as they recommend. It's a warm shade that’s best for pale skin tones with a warm undertone, though the last shade is already quite deep.

- as an all over powder with all shades: using only with a very fluffy brush and avoiding the bottom right shades. It works, but it’s like applying a highlighter in a sheer coat, so not for everyone’s taste. Mixing all shades together makes a pale peachy shade.

Lipstick: Bourjois Rouge Fabuleux 07 Perlimpinpink. Uhani: Fatalka.si

Staying power: I noticed nothing exceptional and neither bad when it comes to staying power. These last averagely on me in any way I use these shades. On my eyelids I get no creasing.

Packaging: It comes in a typical big Physicians Formula box packaging that has two sides. In the back there's an extra compartment with a mirror and two brushes. A bigger thin face brush is surprisingly good because it picks up just enough, the size fits stripes well and it blends ok. The small eyeshadow sponge applicator isn't all that helpful and these shades work much better with eyeshadow brushes.

Price and availability: It's sold on iHerb for $10.44.

Overall I'm happy with this. It is very close to a proper all-in-one product. I tend to use it as an eyeshadow palette, a highlighter and occasionally as a blush, but as I said it's too light for any significant flush. It's nice palette especially for carrying in the bag or for travelling because you can get so much from it. 

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I remember these pearls from way back when I just started getting into makeup, though I'm not sure if they are still exactly the same thing, as I never owned any. I picked a blush shade called Natural Pink, but the box states these are a bronzer (with this name of the shade on the box) and I think a separate bronzer exists too as it was marketed separately in the catalogue - it's kind of confusing, but if you get this shade, this is what you get and two more blush shades exist.

Texture: These have a strong pigmentation, which I did not expect at all and I was sure I'll need my densest brush because I won't be able to pick up much, but these were a big surprise. I need to use very little or I get a strong streak of colour. Formula of these applies smoothly and even that overly applied streak was blended away easily. They don't apply patchy and the colour is evenly mixed. Finish as you can see from the swatch is satin with no shimmer. 

Shade: I have the shade Natural Radiance and based on the colour of pearls I expected something pink with some bronze tones, but this mixes into a very warm peachy shade. It's not really a bronzer, but more like a bronzer-meets-a-peachy-blush. There are four shades of pearls inside: a cool light pink, dark warm pink, light bronze/tan and a champagne colour. As I said pigmentation is so strong that I need to use my fluffiest brush and use a light hand, so these are more meant for someone with a darker and warmer skin tone than mine.

Staying power: is impressive, but it's not surprising given how pigmented these are. They last all day on  me.

Packaging: Pearls are stored in a pretty black box with a screw lid. There is a sponge inside to keep the pearls from moving too much, I think they didn't mean that sponge to be an applicator because it doesn't work well and these pearls need to be applied with a brush.

Price and availability: The peals are available in Oriflame's catalogue with a regular price 20.90 €, but currently they are 9.99 €.

Shade Natural Pink is not the best name for this shade as it ends up a peachy-bronze shade on me, so this is a better shade for those with a warmer and darker skintone than me. Pigmentation is exceptional and a light hand it needed at these, so they'll probably last forever even if you use them every day. I might tinker with the ratio of pearls or just take the bronze ones out to see if I can get a pinker shade.

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Catrice again launched a ton of new products for spring/summer 2018 and this time they also included some interesting palettes. This one is an all-in-one type with two blushes, two bronzers and a highlighter, all in warm, summery tones. As far as Catrice powder products go, they are usually great quality, especially their blushes, but this palette didn't quite convince me. However, most of my fellow bloggers like it, so I'm in the minority here.

Texture: Quality of the powders varies in palette. The top left coral blush is the second best quality here, but that's mostly because of the shimmer which is finely milled and has a highlighter effect. Blush has a good pigmentation, but it's a bit harder to blend than their Defining and Illuminating blushes (both discontinued). The second blush which looked a lot more my colour than the coral one, disappointed me with its pigmentation. When I tried to swatch it the first time there was no colour on my finger, but after I used the brush once, it became better. Still pigmentation is the weakest in the palette and it needs to be build up on the cheeks. Both of the bronzers have a good pigmentation, especially the right one, but they've got that patchy, powdery formula that's difficult to apply nicely and blend, so it can look muddy on the skin. But all four powders are perfectly useful if you dedicate more time to blending. Highlighter is a completely different story than the rest of the palette. It's a soft, very pigmented metallic formula with a great colour pay-off and a strong glow on the skin. Not all shimmer is finely milled, but most is. 

Like I said a lot of my fellow bloggers like this palette and say it works for them (check reviews of Beautysaur and Memento Mori), but the reason why I think it should be better is not just because I know Catrice is perfectly capable of making great powder products, but also because their (blush) competition, L'Oreal's Infallible Blush palette, has so much better formulas and for 3 € more (again you get five shades, but all are blushes). The matte shades in those palettes are similar to old Catrice Defining blushes.

Shades:

Top Left: an orange coral shade with shimmer. Similar to Wet n Wild Apri-cot in the Middle

Top Right: a matte peachy-pink shade. Only a little bit pinker than the left shade even though it looks more muted and pinker in the pan.

Bottom left: a matte medium tone bronzer with a yellow undertone. Reminds me of most Essence Sun Club bronzers.

Lower right: slightly darker matte bronzer than left and with a red undertone. It's better for my skin tone than the left and it reminds me of Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess Soft Matte bronzer due to the red undertone.

Highlighter: a gold metallic highlighter.

Top left blush with the highlighter.

The palette packaging is a classic Catrice quality that's perfectly ok.

Price and availability: Palette costs 10.49 €. I'm not sure, but I think this is one of the items that might only be sold on the large 2 m stands. Those who don't have Catrice in their country can buy it online on kosmetik4less.de.

Apart from the highlighter I'm not a fan of this palette. Catrice can and has done better, especially when it came to matte textures. But it's far from a useless palette and you just need more effort for a nice application. The shades are also perfect for someone with a warm undertone.

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I have to say, this one of the most eye-catching collections I've seen in a while. The packaging was inspired by Pop Art and it also definitely has that Benefit/TheBalm vibe to it. I just got the collection sent with no additional information, but I hear it's already on the stands (I go to drugstore twice a month, so I'm not really up to date with things, but I send someone awesome to check for me). There are more products than just what I got - there are two shades of bronzer (Barbados Babe is lighter than Hawaii), two shades of blush (another is Let Me Be your Peach) and three shades of lipsticks (alongside Pow Wow are a medium cool pink Pop Artist and red Red my Lips). You can see the whole collection here. 

Pop it Up Gel Eyeliner & Eyeshadow

01 Black Outlines, 15 Blue Eyes Wide Open and 22 Look up to you

5.99 €

As the name says these are gel eyeliners and eyeshadows in one, and though they work as both, you need to work fast if you want to wear these as eyeshadows because they set quickly. I got all three shades in the collection: 01 Black Outlines (black), 15 Blue Eyes Wide Open (blue) and 22 Look up to you (green). All are well pigmented, very smooth, apply very nicely with no spaces and they are not too creamy that they would sheer out on the lids. It's just a pleasure to apply them, except then you have to deal with dirty brushes after -  that's the only downside to gel eyeliners for me. Staying power is impressive as well and on my normal lids they last pretty much all day with no problems including (my tiny) wings. As eyeshadows they can look a bit patchy because the texture is of course thicker than most cream eyeshadows (it's more a gel eyeliner formula than eyeshadow), so I would rather use them as eyeshadow bases. I applied them as eyeshadows just once for the purposes of pictures and they were so hard to remove that I had to use an oily cleanser and it still wasn't properly clean. As regular eyeliners I wear them quite a lot, especially black and sometimes black + blue together (so I have definition from the black and a pop of colour from the blue. In fact I'm just wearing this combo today). All have a sticky plastic cover on them, which is reusable, so it should help a lot to keep them fresh longer.

01 Black Outlines

01 Black Outlines is a classic black with the usual gel matte finish. It reminds me of Mac's Fluidline that I had a few years back. It's smooth, it applies nicely and it's all round a lovely gel formula.

15 Blue Eyes Wide Open

15 Blue Eyes Wide Open is a cobalt-royal blue, again with a matte finish. I love this one because I just feel it suits my eyes and as I said before I combine it with black for more definition. All three give me an Ancient Egypt vibe, but this one especially fits the bill. It's more patchy on the eyes when worn as eyeshadow because it's thicker than the green one, so it needs a lot of quick blending, but I would suggest applying a powder eyeshadow over it to even it out. It's very opaque as an eyeshadow due to being so thick.

22 Look Up to you

22 Look up to You is a lighter emerald green and it's the thinnest out of the three that's why it works best as an eyeshadow, but again you need to work fast. Since it's a lighter shade than black and blue, it feels like it's not as intense, but it has the same pigmentation. Since it's smoothest out of the three, flick might get a bit out of control when drawing them. 

Pop it Up Powder Blush

08 You Make me Blush

4.99 €

There are two blushes in this collection and I got 08 You Make me Blush, which is a bright, medium Barbie pink in the pan. I have nothing like it in my collection, but it actually doesn't look as intense bubble gum pink on the cheeks than you might expect and it's a more subdued shade of pink. It's a bit powdery, especially compared to the smooth feeling bronzer and pigmentation is not as good either, but it's not hard building it up and it still looks good on the cheeks. Staying power is decent, after about four hours it's still on my cheeks, but I do apply a bit more layers than I would normally to get the colour going, so I'm sure that helps a lot. The packaging is just so totally my jam - pink polka dots. You can just imagine my excitement when I opened the parcel because this is just the cutest box ever. I just might get the peach one as well to display them on my vanity. 

Pop it Up Bronzing & Contouring Powder

61 Hi From Hawaii

4.99 €

Now that is some seriously pigmented bronzer. It's smoother and more buttery that the blush, so the brush picks up a lot of colour even if you just touch it. I have to be super careful with this, wiping most on the back of my hand and slowly building up the colour. It's a yellow toned bronzer, so quite warm, but it's not orange. For my skin tone it could be a touch cooler or redder, but it does create a fairy believable tan if I use it lightly, however, it can quickly turn muddy. I've applied a lot on the picture below, just so you can see how it looks, but of course I don't wear it like that and there is a picture at the end with a smaller amount. I've tried it as a contour and I can pull it off, again applied very, very lightly otherwise it's just brown on me, so it's not as good a shade as more taupe shades. I think this would suit medium warm skin tones, but they have one other bronzer which is lighter and i' would probably be a better fit for me, hence you'd see better looks. It lasts ok on the skin, for me it's hard to tell when it's gone because bronzers are like face powders. The packaging is again adorable and I actually prefer this one to the lighter Barbados bronzer box. 

Pop it Up Lipstick 

20 Pow! Wow!

5.99 €

 There are three shades in the collection and I got probably the most summery one, since Pow! Wow! is definitely something for those who love orange-red lip colours in the style of Lady Danger. It's a thick lipstick, but with a shiny finish, which means it's a lipstick you feel on the lips, but despite being glossy, it manages to cling on a lot longer than most such formulas. The shade is an orange-red that is more orange than Lady Danger by Mac, which on me is already completely orange, but on medium skin tones, it'll probably look more red. The lipstick has a scent of vanilla pudding, so very nice and delectable. The packaging is cardboard with an orange popsicles design.

Pop it up Gel Eyeliner & Eyeshadow in 01 Black Outlines on the eyes, Pop it Up blush in You Make Me Blush on the cheeks.

A couple more full face looks:

Pop it up Gel Eyeliner & Eyeshadow in 15 Blue Eyes Wide Open on the eyes, Pop it Up blush in You Make Me Blush on the cheeks and Pop it up lipstick in 20 Pow! Wow!

Pop it up Gel Eyeliner & Eyeshadow in 20 Look up to you, Pop it Up Bronzing & Contouring powder in 61 Hi from Hawaii and Pop it up lipstick in 20 Pow! Wow!

My top choices are gel eyeliners, especially the black and blue one as they are truly top notch quality. The blush could be a bit smoother and more pigmented, but it's still fine and the packaging is gorgeous. Bronzer is nice quality, smooth and very pigmented, also not orange, but more suited for warm medium skin tones than my pale neutral one. I should check the lighter one next time I'm in Müller. The lipstick looks cute and the formula lasts well for a glossier one, but again I think it's a shade for more medium skin tones and you know I like my lipsticks matte (also it's a bit thick feeling for my taste, but I'm sure most won't be bothered). This was actually my very first time trying Misslyn and I'm pretty impressed, also the fact the collection looks so nice is a big plus for me because I'm super shallow. 

Misslyn is available in Müllers.

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