This range includes four dual shades of Killawatt Freestyle Highlighter, which is described as "a weightless, long-wear cream-to-powder hybrid" that "ranges from subtle day glow to insanely super-charged shades that were designed for all skin tones." It "keeps skin lit beyond sundown with its weightless long-wear formula… that instantly melts into skin and blends with almost zero effort." They are housed in a white mirrored octagonal compacts with the Fenty Beauty logo in grey on the lid, with secondary packaging that features a black-and-white graffiti design. Each Killawatt Freestyle Highlighter contains a total of 7 grams of product (3.5 grams per shade) and retails for $42. In North America, Fenty Beauty is available exclusively in-store and online at Sephora, and online at Fenty Beauty.
Lightning Dust is a light-medium warm shell beige in a soft pearlized finish. This is a permanent shade. It has a soft, finely-milled texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium pigmentation and semi-sheer to semi-opaque buildable colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is warmer and more muted than Fenty Beauty Fire Crystal, lighter and cooler than Fenty Beauty Mean Money, darker and more pinked than Fenty Beauty Metal Moon, and more muted than MAC Soft and Gentle.
Fire Crystal is a light neutral silvered shell beige with soft rose gold micro-shimmer in a metallic finish. This is a permanent shade. It has a soft, finely-milled texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is cooler and more metallic than Fenty Beauty Lightning Dust, cooler than MAC Soft and Gentle, darker and more pinked than MAC Double-Gleam, lighter and cooler than Becca Opal, and darker and more pinked than Becca Moonstone.
Mean Money is a medium warm golden beige in a soft pearlized finish. This is a permanent shade. It has a soft, finely-milled texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has low-medium pigmentation and sheer to semi-sheer buildable colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is darker and more golden than Fenty Beauty Lightning Dust, softer and more muted than Fenty Beauty Hu$tla Baby, more golden and less metallic than Fenty Beauty Girl Next Door, warmer and less metallic than Too Faced Ray of Light, and more golden and slightly more shimmery than Hourglass Luminous Light.
Hu$tla Baby is a medium warm peachy champagne gold with soft golden peach micro-shimmer in a metallic finish. This is a permanent shade. It has a soft, 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 and more metallic than Fenty Beauty Mean Money, darker than MAC Beaming Blush, more golden than Anastasia Beverly Hills Mimosa (Gleam), lighter and more golden than Becca Rose Gold, and darker and more peach than Becca Prosecco Pop.
I realize that I'm posting this review two months after these launched and there are hundreds of reviews for these highlighters out now, but I figured I'd put in my two cents because I've been wearing these for a several weeks and have really given them a solid test run (plus, I already took the photos). First, I want to note that these are not cream-to-powder. They are a soft, finely-milled powder so they feel creamy, but they function and apply as powders. I say this because that description of "cream-to-powder" almost deterred me from checking these out as I am strictly a powder girl. So in case there are people like me out there, I just wanted to clarify that. Each of the highlighter duos comes with one shade that is softer and more subtle with a muted pearlized sheen, and one shade that is more intense and saturated with a strong metallic finish. In theory, this provides more options for the consumer: the more muted shade is ideal for areas like under the brow or cupid's bow or the nose bridge, where you don't necessarily want a beaming highlight, and the stronger metallic shade is great for cheekbones and inner corner highlights.
However, the flaw in execution here is that the consumer looking for that beaming, high-shine highlight is only going to like the right-side pan of these duos, and likewise, the consumer looking for a soft, subtle highlight is only going to like the left-side pan. I feel like the majority of people won't use both shades in each compact; they'll generally favour one more than the other, leaving the other shade wasted. I do wish these highlighters had come out as singles for this reason. That having been said, all the shades here are smooth, finely-milled, and creamy. They apply evenly and really do look stunning on the skin, especially with Fire Crystal and Hu$tla Baby looking almost wet on the skin. My only real complaint is with the shade Mean Money, which seems to be more sheer than any of the other shades in this range. It doesn't give off much pigmentation which in turn looks almost like nothing on the skin, so I feel like it's more suited as an all-over illuminating face powder (similar to the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder) than a real highlighter. Overall, if you like variety in tone and finish with your highlighters, then these Fenty Beauty duos are worth checking out. But there are plenty of dupes for all of these shades out there, so if you know you like one shade or finish more than the other, I would look elsewhere to get more bang for your buck.
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