Hi! I saw this facebook reel and I’m trying to figure out what eyeshadow palette she’s using in the video. If anyone recognizes the palette, the brand, or even just knows of something similar, I’d really appreciate the help!
TIA 🫶🏻🫶🏻
Wanted to do a walkthrough of my WHY
I need to find a replacement for the bronzers I picked up in the Sephora Sale: the Saie Sun Melt Cream Bronzer. I go for ultra-natural, sun-kissed, no-makeup-makeup looks with dewiness/glow/radiance.
Ideally, I'm looking for a couple of bronzer options that...
There seem to be so many good options at Sephora. Since the Saie didn't work out, I want to instead focus on powder, liquid and balm-like sticks. I might pick one from each of those categories to trial. But even picking just one is so difficult.
The reason I'm moving on from the Saie Sun Melt Cream Bronzer: two fold. Firstly, I feel like it's more challenging than I anticipated to build up subtly. What I mean is if you want just the tiniest wisp of bronzed tan it can work well, but if you want to dial that coverage up just the tiniest bit, it gets more challenging. It can go from ultra sheer to a little too heavy too easily. And, the cream texture is probably too dense or stiff to give me this ultra-natural, diffused look I'm going for. It's especially challenging to blend this one in naturally at my hairline.
Please weigh in! And, I'm a detail oriented person. Don't be afraid to share the "why" behind your positive or negative reviews of any of these. If you had to pick one from each of these 3 categories, which would it be? And, of course, let me know if there's something I missed.
Pictured above...
POWDER BRONZERS:
LIQUID BRONZERS:
BALM-STYLE BRONZING STICKS:
(Edited to add: I should note: the Makeup by Mario Skin Enhancer Cream Bronzer is not an option here. It's a beautiful formulation and totally ticks a lot of my boxes, but, the shade range doesn't work with my complexion. The Medium one vanishes on my skin and the shade darker than that shows up, yes, but runs too cool/grey on my medium/tan complexion. I know this one is popular and should hit my brief.)
I recently picked up the new Natasha Denona HY-Glam Brightener in shade B3 (the second darkest) and I'm having mixed feelings about this one. I would love to hear from any ladies (or gents) with medium/tan or even deep skin tones about how we're liking this one.
For those who don't know, this is not the same product as Natasha's Color Corrector. It's a Brightener sold in four pink shades and its not just the colors that are different, but the formulation is... it diffuses light more than the color corrector or concealer do. At least that's what they claim.
Honestly, I have to say, I immediately saw what they're describing. It is a really thoughtfully formulated product. It does legitimately brighten the skin. I don't know what kinda witchcraft (aka cosmetic chemistry) is involved, but it brightens in a very noticeable way without making you look reflective, pearlescent or glittery. My under eyes definitely look refreshed and healthy.
I don't know quite what the right terminology is to use here, but it's also a very dense product. What I mean is, a tiny amount will go a long way. The pigment somehow doesn't stay PINK once you spread it, but the product also doesn't get super viscous/thin. The first time I used it I placed just two small dots under my eyes. I honestly only needed one tiny dot. The emollience of the product lets is slide/glide so smoothly and it spreads so easily without thinning out. So, if this product works for you, it will last a long time!
The problem for me was, even when using a very small dot, it ends up making my under eyes (or any spot I'd use it on) look ghostly in comparison to the rest of my skin. And I don't wear full coverage foundations... only light-coverage tints. In fact, the three times I've used this product, I've then used a little of my cream bronzer and/or my medium toned Pat McGrath Under Eye Powder to warm up my under eyes afterward. I'll admit, it actually looks great after I've done that, but now I'm wondering if I should return it and venture to the deepest shade, B4.
The thing is, my skin tone is definitely not deep. It's medium/tan. It basically is the exact skin tone shown on the B3 model above (swipe thru on the carousel.)
So, yeah, any melanated folks have experience with this product? Do you think I should exchange it for B4? Am I better trying to blend it with my concealer? Or maybe even with my color corrector?
Right now, my sequence is:
I do this sequence, because ND herself has recommended it for brightening and canceling out any remaining shadow/darkness after your color corrector and concealer. But, I believe the product can be used in a variety of sequences.
I recently opened a brand new Too Faced Chocolate Gold palette that I had bought in 2018 as a back up since I loved the colours of the original. However, I could see some discolouration on some of the colours. Not sure if the photo has captured it properly but there’s something on the surface it seems.
Similar thing happened with my Naked Heat palette on a couple of shades.
Since I love both palettes, I’d ideally want to be able to still use these 😩
Any ideas on what it might be and if there’s a way to safely remove this top layer?
Thanks in advance! X
I’ve heard many good things about Topicals and this seems like a good set to try! I’ve always heard people raving about the makeup by Mario brush and I’m curioussss! I’m a sucker for a good makeup brush. The perfume mists just seem fun to try (and could be a great gift also!) 🤭
- LoveShackFancy
Mini Hair and Body Mist Perfume
Discovery Set
- Topicals
Faded Brightening Bundle for Discoloration on Face & Body
- MAKEUP BY MARIO
F4 Dual-Ended Foundation and Face Brush
In 2026?! Really? I really wouldn’t expect this to be their darkest shade. Being a dark skinned girlie who loves sun kissed looks isn’t for the weak. Lots of bronzers on brown skin are either too light or straight up cool toned to the point that they are contours.
I’d expect Dior to have more shades of their bronzer in 2026…and being a well known/successful brand. Fingers crossed the Rhode bronzers will have a good shade range! I already like the formula of those (assuming it’d be the same formula as the pocket blushes).
OnTrac says my package was delivered. It was not. I checked the Ring Cam around the time they claimed it was delivered and there was no one here, a vehicle didn’t even drive down our road around that time either. When I reported this to OnTrac they said it was “too late” to find my package and to contact Sephora 😐 Thankfully Sephora is reshipping the order, but without any of my samples/bonus minis and just gave me 150 pts as a consolation but now I’m reading online that apparently this happens all the time with this company??? WTF?
Also, someone said that if you order any kind of aerosol in your order OnTrac cannot ship it so they always throw in a mini hairspray or something with their order to bypass OnTrac and now I’m thinking back and I’m pretty sure all the packages in the last year or so that did arrive here properly with no problems did have aerosol items in them 🤔 Coincidence? Or can anyone confirm that this hack works? If so, I will do the same moving forward just to avoid ever having to deal with this crap shipping company again.
As of May 31st Marc Jacobs beauty will be re launching in Sephora on the app in both Canada and the USA.
From the screen shots there will a mixture of eye and lip products with a bronzer and highlighter as well. The prices on screen are Canadian.
Im extremely excited to see their return to the beauty market especially since so many of the products are colourful and the formulas looks great.
What do you have your eye on and what will you pick up when everything’s launched?
suggest me good setting spray
I’m happy to see the brand back up and running but the packaging is so tacky imo. I definitely thought they would recreate this style of packaging 🙄
I swear, this is gonna be the last freaking time I place an order with Sephora. Saved up quite a bit to grab some of my favorite items for my birthday. Used my points and half the order ships out and I receive it. AMAZIN, so excited, I get to enjoy some of my favorite perfumes again. I get a notification that UPS (groan) is delivering the second half of my order, and of course it’s at some godforsaken unknown address. Whatever I go through the hassle of waiting the allotted time to see if it’ll show up before reaching out to CS. I do, and opps sorry we can’t do that! BULLFUCKINGSHIT! I’ll be damned if you guys keep nearly $500 worth of skincare, makeup, and other little things. The last time this happened, I ate the $50, whatever it was a small brand, I ended up reaching out to the brand directly, she was super apologetic and sent me a replacement, but Sephora can suck it.
Why am I having to battle for my money or product when the people y’all have an open contract with can’t do the one job they’re hired to do… deliver to the correct address on time???!!!?? Why are you telling me to hit the streets and look in the most random places and talk to my neighbors to find my items?!? Y’all need to get on the phones and rip UPS a new one and start filing all these claims against them. I’m already opening a case with UPS, which wont be successful because I of course can’t file the claim as I’m not the shipper and then of course I’m filing a chargeback because wtf do I look like allowing some billion dollar corporation to just keep my hard earned money. 😡🤬😡🤬
Anyways, at least I have proof of all the bullshit I just spent an hour of cycling through agent after agent after “supervisors” with photos being sent back that the second delivery is not my address, has no address listed within the photo and doesn’t even look close to anything around me.
I’m more so sad that after this I’m basically ending my relationship with Sephora and if it’s not in store, it wont be purchased. Oh well, guess to Ulta I go 🤷🏾♀️
i bought 2 rhode lippies in person and got 4x points on them so shouldn’t that work online??
These have no pigment and the shade range is atrocious 😭 these do not work for dark skinned people like myself at all. At this point I feel like SF is all marketing, I had the same problem with the blushes. Please watch Toni Bravo’s video on these bronzers if you haven’t already. How are brands getting away with releasing products that only work for light skinned people.
I'm on tret and that made my balanced skin sadly dry.
I dont powder my face cause my makeup for the most part lasts through the day.
But, just wondering if I dont use powders can it make a foundation that sets matte to be actually dewy? Can you use it under foundation, and on top of SPF? Or mostly on top of your makeup.
Getting back into makeup in my late 20s and I’m so confused with all the new products to try. I decided I’m just going for it and having fun!
- makeup by Mario soft sculpt skin enhancer
- makeup by Mario F4 brush
- merit day glow
- Bobbi brown cream shadow stick
- Huda Beauty creamy kohl eye pencil
I have been trying to finish up my nudestix bondi belle but saw it in some unique lighting and it looked SO orange! Plus I don’t want to support that brand anymore. I think next I’d like to try more of a balm so I can blend better. I am very cool toned and can’t stand looking orange. Any thoughts on these three?
How come I never see anyone talking about this absolute gem? I need to put you guys on this because I would die if it gets discontinued 😭. I have mixed-type skin and I live in an area with real low humidity so my skin would get really dry, I’ve tried a lot of facial moisturizers, Aveeno, Cerave, Clinique, etc, most of them pretty unremarkable. One day at Sephora I asked for some recommendations and after trying close to most facial moisturizers they had in-store I was able to find my holy grail 🧎♀️➡️🙏I’ve gone through two large containers and I’m about to start with my 3rd. It’s crazy good because it lasts all day and I don’t even feel the need to use a serum( feel like most of the are marketing bs anyways 🤣)