Since there are some new additions in my highlighters family I decided that I want to swatch them and see the diferences between them.
Highlighters are:
1. Too Faced Flush Luminazer (from Le Grand Palais De Too Faced) powder
2. Essence my base Illuminating Make-up base (discontinued) liquid
3. Catrice Prime and Fine Professional Contouring Palette - 010 Ashy Radiance powder
4. Essence soo glow! cream to powder highlighter - 20 bright up your life cream
5. Essence eyeshadow - 43 mystic lemon (discontinued) powder
6. Essence highlighting powder Merry berry TE - 01 i love my golden pumps powder
7. Catrice Prime and Fine Highlighting Powder - 010 Fairy Dust (discontinued) powder
Golden highlighters
First we have here the highlighters with golden shine. All of them are powder ones, the one from Catrice Prime and Fine Professional Contouring Palette is very subtle and compared to other two almost doesn't look like a highlighter. Essence highlighting powder from Merry berry TE is a lot more shimmery and the colour is champagne gold. Flush highlighter is also shimmery but a lot more darker that the Essence one, a true gold I would say.
Essence Merry berry, Catrice Contouring palette, Too Faced Flush
Pearl highlighters
Then we have pearl highlighters. Essence my base Illuminating Make-up base is my first highlighter and I like it very much, too bad Essence discontinued it. Because I will soon run out of it I bought Essence soo glow! cream to powder highlighter. The colour is almost the same, just the constitution is different. As a constitution I think I prefer the liquid one, but it is true that I actually never used the second one, I want first use up the liquid one. The last one is Catrice Prime and Fine Highlighting Powder and it is very subtle. As you can see from the swatches it is almost gold rose. I don't know why I don't use this more often because it's very beautiful and not so "in your face" highlighter.
Catrice Prime and Fine, Essence so glow!, Essence Illuminating Make up-base
The "changed purpose" one
Technically I think this is my first highlighter. A couple of years ago when Essence released this eyeshadow 43 Mystic lemon, there were speculations on some blogs that this is similar to the Nars Albatross highlighter (that was sooo popular at that time, where is it now with all the highlighter craze?) so I tought why not buy it, it just a couple of € anyway. To be completely fair I didn't use it very often, but maybe the now is the time :) I don't know how to describe this colour, but it is a duochrome, it changes from simple white pearl colour to more champagneygold colour.
Essence eyeshadow Mystic lemon
So this are my highlighters. I know this post is not very useful since you can't get most of them anymore. But maybe will you remember some of your highlighters that you don't use so often but are good nontheless. I did remember some of my highlighters that deserve more love than they get :)
Writing this post got me thinking about my ability to write reviews. Yes, I love beauty products, I like reading reviews about them but when it comes to describing them on my blog I don't think that I do a decent job. I'm wondering does writing good reviews come with experience or it is just something that you have or not? I will try some more, it would be good if the products are still availabe, so I must go on a shopping spree :) Just kidding.. maybe.
Have a great day! :)
