Cherry is a light-medium cool-toned baby pink with a soft pearlized sheen in a satin finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft and finely-milled texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is lighter and more shimmery than Urban Decay Obsessed, lighter than MAC Dame, slightly cooler than MAC Well Dressed, and lighter than Too Faced Justify My Love.
Easy is a medium-dark muted cool plummy rose with gold shimmer-sheen in a frosted finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft and finely-milled texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is more plum and more muted than Urban Decay Crush, cooler than MAC Dollymix, more muted and more shimmery than Too Faced Your Love is King, and darker and more plum than Clinique Heather Pop.
Angel is a light warm golden champagne beige with a soft shimmer-sheen in a frosted finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft and finely-milled texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium pigmentation and semi-sheer to semi-opaque buildable colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is less sparkly and more golden than Urban Decay Luminous, lighter than MAC Global Glow, lighter and more golden than MAC Soft and Gentle, and less metallic than Becca Champagne Pop.
Lo-Fi is a medium muted warm peachy tan in a matte finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft and finely-milled texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is more peach than Urban Decay Video, lighter and more peach than Sincere, lighter than MAC Eternal Sun, and slightly darker and more brown than Clinique Nude Pop.
Hush is a light-medium warm shell pink with soft gold shimmer-sheen in a frosted finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft and finely-milled texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is darker than Kevyn Aucoin Starlight, lighter and more pink than Clinique Nude Pop, warmer and less metallic than Anastasia Beverly Hills Riviera, and lighter and less metallic than Becca Rose Gold.
OC is a light-medium warm golden peach with pink duochrome in a frosted finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft and finely-milled texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium pigmentation and semi-sheer to semi-opaque buildable colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is darker and more peach than Urban Decay Blunt Eyeshadow, more muted than Makeup Geek Mai Tai Eyeshadow, more muted and more peach than MAC Motif Eyeshadow, and less shimmery than ColourPop Highly Waisted.
Like the eyeshadow palette, the UD | Gwen Stefani blush palette is definitely geared more towards fair to medium skintones — the majority of these shades would show up either ashy or simply as highlighters on dark skintones — but it is very reflective of Gwen's style. Keep in mind that this palette was curated by Gwen to "recreate her signature looks," so it's not going to be for everybody, and it wasn't designed to be. If you look at Gwen Stefani's makeup looks over the years, she focuses more on contouring and keeps her cheek colours muted — usually bronzy with a hint of peach and soft, glowy highlighting— and this palette reflects that really well, with a darker rosy shade for a brighter pop of colour (though the gold shimmer in it keeps it looking soft on the skin). I would say this is more of a blush and highlighting palette than a straight-up blush palette, which may be a pro or a con depending on what your personal preferences are in cheek shades. What I love about this palette is that each shade has a soft, finely-milled texture that blends out seamlessly, and the shades are neutral enough that they'll go with a multitude of looks. Plus, you can play around with the shades to create different looks (recently, I have been loving Easy with Hush buffed on top, and then using Angel as my highlight), making this an ideal palette to travel with. Overall, I think it's a beautifully curated and rather unique blush palette for lighter skintones — both the quality and value are there, and the shades are incredibly easy to wear and to incorporate with existing collections of colour.
I didn't know they were making a blush palette, too! It's pretty, but they all seem so metallic/shimmery.
ReplyDeleteThey are, lol. The only one that's matte is Lo-Fi. That having been said, though, I personally prefer shimmery blushes to matte ones. I find matte blush to look so flat on the skin that I always end up buffing a shimmery highlighter/skinfinish over it to give it life. :P And this palette is technically half blushes and half highlighters, which is what drew me to it to begin with. I think if it only contained matte shades, I would have been less interested. (As a blush fiend, I'd probably still get it. But I wouldn't like it as much, LOL.)
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