For Holiday 2017, NARS released a collaboration collection with Man Ray, the famous American visual artist who came to prominence in the early 1900s and was best known for his photography. There are two ranges with the NARS x Man Ray collaboration: a gifting collection and a colour collection. The colour collection has a total of 11 products, including one new and limited edition highlighting powder called Overexposed Glow Highlighter, which gives "second-skin luminosity" with a "golden touch." It is housed in a black rectangular soft-touch mirrored compact with the NARS logo, Man Ray's signature, and a graphic of a pair of lips in gold. The powder itself is embossed with a series of lip graphics that match the one on the compact lid. Each Overexposed Glow Highlighter contains a total of 6.5 grams of product and retails for $52. It is currently available in select Sephora locations and online at NARS.
Double Take is a medium warm muted peachy golden bronze with a luminous gold shimmer-sheen in a metallic finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft, finely-milled texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is darker and more metallic than NARS Hot Sands, darker and more gold than NARS Jubilation #1, darker and more bronze than MAC Oh, Darling!, more bronze than MAC Beaming Blush, lighter and more peach than MAC Global Glow, darker and more peach than Fenty Beauty Hu$tla Baby, more gold than Anastasia Beverly Hills 143 (Nicole Guerriero), darker than Anastasia Beverly Hills Glo Getter (Nicole Guerriero), lighter and more gold than Becca Rose Gold, and lighter and more gold than ColourPop Total Package.
Okay, firstly, how cool is this NARS collab with Man Ray? One thing I really appreciate about NARS is that they collaborate with amazing artists from all decades from Sarah Moon to Guy Bourdin, bringing a spotlight on to artists that might not be so well-known now (or, at least, outside of the art world). But this one with Man Ray might just be my favourite, from the colour story to the artist himself. (I grew up admiring Man Ray's work and even re-imagined his famous Larmes (Tears) for my senior year photography project.) The highlighter from this collection, Double Take, is a gorgeous peachy gold with a coppery edge and gold reflects designed for medium to deep-dark skintones. It has fantastic pigmentation with full colour pay-off, applies beautifully smooth with a gorgeous luminous finish, and blends out like a dream. I find it has the texture and density of the NARS Highlighting Blushes and the blendability and finish of their Dual-Intensity Blushes. It's fairly pricey at $52 a pop, but Double Take is a truly stunning highlighter that makes the perfect gift for makeup and photography lovers and highlighter fiends alike.
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