Wednesday, July 13, 2016

The Sculpting Cheek Palette

 
I know that it would take a tonne of people from Kim Kardashian's squad to transform my chipmunk cheeks into anything resembling a sculpted face, but this is as close as I've come with ease to having anything resembling cheekbones, so lets just let me indulge for a moment. When this product hit my desk I thought it was cute, but didn't think much more if I'm honest. I'm not one to wear bronzer everyday, I prefer my highlight more intense than the daily average, and trying to pry a Chanel Joues Contraste blush out of my hands is a task in itself - but I'm happy to report that my cheek look lately was done with a single palette, from the drugstore!

Kate Moss for Rimmel London has created this sculpting palette in 002 Coral Glow* that is adorably packaged, and actually brings the goods when it comes to pigment and lasting power. For my first few uses I neglected the blush shade and used the aforementioned Chanel pan, but during the second week of use I figured that if I liked the contour and highlight shade that much, I should probably give the seemingly plain blush a red hot go. It turns out that Rimmel know what they're on about when it comes to cheeks - the easy to wear blush colour is a winner and I featured it in my recent favourites post!

pretty neat guide on the back of the packaging
I knew I needed to dedicate a post to this when I caught myself raving about it to my Mum, sister and nieces when they asked what I was wearing, and a few have since bought it for themselves on my recommendation. I use the very tame 'day appropriate' highlighter first on the tops of my cheekbones (or where they would be if you could see them) and then the contour shade underneath the cheekbones. I'm not game enough for a full on contoured look like Kim K (and this shade has some slight shimmer so I'm sure diehard contour fans wouldn't approve anyway!) but this blends with almost no effort to give my face a bit of shape, and I take it up through my temples and the top of my forehead which warms up my very pale complexion without looking like Snooki circa 2009.
A helpful photo if you've forgotten where cheeks are...LOL

This palette gets two thumbs up from me, and if you follow me on Snapchat (emmabovaryt) I'm sure you've spotted this product quite a few times in my flat lays and get ready with me shots! It's a bargain at $16.95 and my niece sent me a Snapchat saying she scored it for half price at last week, so keep your eyes peeled at the usual drugstore haunts (Priceline, Woolworths, Coles etc)

Emma x

*Product provided for consideration. Honesty, always.

10 comments:

  1. Ah I also love this! It seems to work well on so many different skin tones, including my pasty pasty complexion! :)

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    1. Glad to hear you love it too! I love how it warms up pale skin like ours without making us look like we're trying, haha

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  2. Thanks for posting your review, Emma! I'm in the market for a new blush and this sounds fab.

    SSG xxx

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    1. I'm so glad you liked it - it's well worth picking up, I can see myself using it all up one day!

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  3. You look so gorgeous! I tried to get this at my local drugstore but it was sold out. I'll need to keep checking x

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    1. That's so sweet of you to say, thank you! I can see why it would be sold out, a bargain for a palette like this :)

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  4. These still haven't managed to make their way to Canada yet! It looks great, though - that contour colour is just perfect.

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    1. That blows my mind that we would get something before you, I always assume since you're so close to US that it will all be there first up! I adore the contour the most, so so good

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  5. You look glowing! Really like the fringe, not sure if I said it before. Always out of stock here :(

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    1. Aw thank you - it's all in the highlighter, haha! I keep thinking about growing it out and then someone says they like it and I hang on for another fringe trim...so thank you!

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