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April Showers, May Flowers

Product: Clinique’s Peony blush, from their Fresh Bloom Allover Colour line.
On the pattern: Sure, it’s cute, but that’s not the only purpose! Blushes that have designs like this one are [usually] great because it means you have more choice – using them one at a time, or blending them together. The fullsize (mine’s a GWP) is large enough that you actually can use them on their own, which is nice!

On the product: I’m not loving this for $38.50 a pop. I know they said “sheer, subtle radiance”, but seriously, there is no pigment in here! I wanted at least a little bit of an apricot glow, but it’s just shimmer – super soft* shimmer pressed into a pretty flower. I know the swatches below are crap (I took them when I had the weird light bulb, so let me know if you’d like me to re-swatch!) but what you can see is that this thing is less pigmented than dollar store watercolours. (enlarging might help)

Top horizontal: the lighter area
Bottom horizontal: the darker area/flower
Right vertical: blended

The Verdict? A huge pass on this one. Yes, it makes a nice hilighter, and it’s pretty, but it’s a waste of money in my opinion. You can get the same “glow” from pretty much everything else out there, and “everything else” doesn’t a) cost this much, or b) have the same tendency to break.

*I mean this in the most bitter way possible, because mine broke. I didn’t even drop it or anything – it just broke.

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