Blinded By the Light is a light warm beige in a pearlized finish. This is a permanent shade. It has a lightweight, silky 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 warmer and more muted than Too Faced Candlelight Glow Rosy Glow, cooler and more muted than MAC Double-Gleam, more metallic than MAC Lightscapade, more metallic than Hourglass Incandescent, and more sheer and more muted than Becca Moonstone.
Ray of Light is a light-medium warm peachy gold in a soft pearlized finish. This is a permanent shade. It has a lightweight, silky 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 more peach than Too Faced Candlelight Glow Warm Glow, more peach and more muted than MAC Beaming Blush, more metallic than Hourglass Euphoric, more peach and more muted than Jeffree Star King Tut, and more peach than Becca Champagne Dream Flashes Bellini.
You Light Up My Life is a medium warm yellow gold in a pearlized finish. This is a permanent shade. It has a lightweight, silky texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium-high pigmentation and semi-opaque to opaque buildable colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is darker and more yellow than MAC Oh, Darling, lighter and brighter than Becca Topaz, darker and more yellow than Becca Prosecco Pop, lighter and more yellow than Jeffree Star Dark Horse, and warmer than Jeffree Star So Fucking Gold.
If you like a softer glowy sheen as opposed to flashy, high-metallic, beaming-to-the-gods shine from your highlighters, then Too Faced's Love Light highlighters are for you. All three shades have that weightless, smooth, silky texture that baked powder-liquid highlighters are known for (e.g. MAC Extra Dimension Skinfinish, NARS Dual-Intensity, Laura Mercier Face Illuminator), but Too Faced's version is definitely more on the sheer side so they don't have as much metallic intensity. I wouldn't necessarily call these natural, per se, because they do still add that shimmering, illuminated finish, but they are definitely more subtle and are ideal for someone who wants a soft glow without going overboard; these are great for those who are just starting to get into highlighting, someone with more mature skin who doesn't want to emphasize skin texture, or someone who just wants a softer illuminated look overall (e.g. people that work office jobs). You can layer and blend them out easily, but if you want stronger colour pay-off, you're going to need to use a smaller, denser brush (even an eyeshadow brush) — a fluffy brush or fan brush is not gonna cut it here because they won't pick up enough pigment. That having been said, they are more versatile than you might think: you can use these wet to create a stronger metallic sheen, lightly dusted all over the face for a subtle glow, or buffed into blushes to give them an illuminating sheen. The three shades are also nicely curated, so at least one will suit every skintone (I recommend Blinded By the Light for fair to medium skintones, Ray of Light for medium to dark skintones, and You Light Up My Life for medium-dark to deep-dark skintones). But more than anything, the heart-shaped compacts with the diamond-cut powders inside are just too cute to resist.
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