American Beauty Series: ColourPop

Welcome to a new blog post featuring American beauty. This time I am redoing the very popular, internationally known ColourPop. They are is mostly known for their lipsticks but they have such a wide variety of makeup products.
Gimme More! Highlighter palette
I have never been highlighter girl but I went for this Gimme More! highlighter palette. When they had the Black Friday sales. I thought this was a good opportunity to get started with highlighter. The palette has six shades but for my skin colour, I can only use one or two of them. What I love about it is that it caters for a variety of skin tones and I will also be able to use it in summer when my skin will be more tan. All of the colours can also be used as eye shadow – that way nothing gets wasted. One of the cons of this pallet is that it’s not very pigmented and I have to apply several times in order to get a decent amount of shine. What I would also do is use a wet brush into the powder and then apply. That way the highlighter will be stronger.

I swatched them all on my arm and, while they look really nice indoors and in the sun, I had to apply a lot of powder and in several layers, to get to this level of sparkle.

Fan brush
When I got to the highlighter palette I also went for the fan brush that would be perfect for applying highlighter. However when I received it I was very disappointed to see that it was very thin and it was not taking a large amount of highlighter on it. It does feel nice on the skin and makes applying highlight powder easy.

Lipsticks
It is not my first time ordering lipsticks from color pop I remember finding out when they were deemed to be good dupes for the Kylie cosmetics lipsticks. When I first tried them I was impressed by the quality to price ratio. But after a while I realized that I get what I pay for. I was very disappointed to see that the lipsticks – the liquid ones – were drying out fast after being open (few weeks). I figured out that ColourPop liquid lipsticks have a very short lifespan and have to be used as soon as they’re open. That’s why I opened for the first time right before writing this book post taking the photos. My recommendation for ColourPop lipsticks is the go for the lippie stix – they are slightly cheaper than the liquid ones, less drying and have a longer lifespan.

Metallic eye shadow
One of the most exciting purchases from ColourPop was the Supernova eye shadow. When I watched it on the skin, it looked amazing-very pigmented and dense. However when I applied on my eyelids it looked very watery and felt very sticky. That’s when I went to YouTube to check out some reviews. And I realized that I was not the only one that had issues with this eye shadow. Many YouTubers recommended against buying it; but to make it work, they proposed using a primer beforehand or use it as a topper, if you really want to use it. I have yet to use it myself because its consistency and the fact that it might be a whole process before applying it puts me off a bit. However, the swatch looks great and glittery!