Top: Bronzing Pressed Powder in Tropical Bronze, Bronze Celebration

Bottom: Pressed Bronzing Powder in Tan, Multi-Colour Bronzing Pressed Powder in Natural Bronze

The product: Marcelle Bronzers

I have a couple different bronzing powders on hand to share with you today, and I think I want to get it all done at once and kind of gloss over them – but feel free to ask for more detail if you need!

I’m not much of a bronzer girl, but I’m quite fond of Marcelle and Annabelle bronzing products. If I do wear bronzer, there’s a 95% chance that it’s going to be either FaceFront Third Kiss (because it’s ‘cone-free), Annabelle Zebra, or one of these. I find that Marcelle balances out their tones really well – never too much red or too much yellow – so the result is really natural and healthy-looking.

Redundancy is one of those things I’ve been thinking a lot about recently, and Group Marcelle kinda has a strange tendency to hit it right out of the ballpark. Like with the blacks of Annabelle’s Black Box collection, all four of these bronzers are really different – you couldn’t swap out any one for any other, even though there are a lot of them.

Swatched L-R: Natural Bronze, Tan, Tropical Bronze, Bronze Celebration

If you want an all-over powder to bronze up your skintone, I think you could go with anything but Bronze Celebration. The other three are all matte, and which one you choose would really just rely on your skintone and personal preference. I’d recommend Tropical Bronze if you’re fair to light with more of a yellow undertone (it’s my current favourite of the bunch), Natural Bronze if you’re looking for a neutral-warm bronzer, and Tan if you like a bronzer with a little more red in it – think MAC Bronze, minus the annoying shimmer.

If you want a really glowy bronze, then Bronze Celebration is your obvious choice. It packs a ton of finely-milled (and oh-so-soft) shimmer, so make sure to tap off the excess product and really buff it in – but the results have the potential to be absolutely breathtaking. Unlike the others, I wouldn’t use this one to contour, and I wouldn’t use it all-over: just on the high points of the face, lightly, like a highlighter.

L-R: Natural Bronze, Tan, Tropical Bronze, Bronze Celebration

Watch out for

The super-soft Bronze Celebration! My pan completely crumbled in the mail (it’s actually supposed to look like this), which is a pretty sure sign that the product’s softer than the others. Similar shimmery strip cheek products, like Bobbi’s Shimmer Bricks, have a well-known track record of shattering easily – so try not to drop it on the floor if you can, ya hear? :P

And one last thing two last things three last things

1) Marcelle also does their pressed powder in Suntan, but I put it in with the non-bronzing pressed powders instead, so it’s not in this photo set.

I’m still not really sure why.

I think maybe because I use it to contour, instead of to bronze?

2) For those of you looking for a paraben-free option, I can confirm that the Bronzing Pressed Powder and Multi-Colour Bronzing Pressed Powder (the two in the brown packaging) are a go. Marcelle doesn’t have ingredient lists up at the moment for the Pressed Bronzing Powders (in the silver packaging), though, so I’m not sure if that formula contains parabens or not.

3) US and Canada readers: you can find these on the Marcelle site for about $15 – an awesome deal, if you ask me! I *think* they’re still doing free shipping with orders $50+ right now, so go get on that before your tan starts to fade :P (What? It was really cold in Edmonton today, shush!)

L-R: Natural Bronze, Tan, Tropical Bronze, Bronze Celebration