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Nuance Salma Hayek Flawless Mineral Cheek Trio
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Too Muddy!
Those looking for a good highlighter, blush, bronzer trio should keep looking and skip this one. I tried the shade Apricot, which contains a peachy/apricot colored blush, a champagne with purple speckles highlighter, and a typical brown bronzer. The formula does claim to be triple milled, and is definitely luxurious and smooth when I dipped my finger in or when I swirled my brush in it. However, u...read morepon swirling, there was definitely a lot of product being kicked up all at once. The colors and the packaging are really where this product fails. While the blush and highlighter look really pretty in the pan, they apply poorly when I tried swatching it and then when I applied it to my face (I have a neutral skin tone that's darker golden in shade). The highlighter contains a lot of sparkle, and could still work for basic highlighting purposes, but the blush, too, contained a lot of sparkle and I ended up with a big sparkly, streaky, splotch on my cheek rather than a well defined blush and highlighter. And then there was the bronzer. If it looked unappealing in the packaging, it was definitely more so on my face. A pretty typical brown in color, the bronzer looked muddy and rather 'dirty' when applied. So obviously, when I tried swirling all three colors together, I got nothing but a sparkly muddy patch that did not blend well and applied rather terribly on my face. Packaging wise, I don't quite understand why the plastic needed to be so bulky in size (or the odd teardrop shape), which made it hard to travel with or store. I did like the large pan the trio came in, which made it easy to dip a brush into any of the three colors without picking up all of them. I paid a ridiculous $13.00 for this trio at my local CVS, and I daresay it was returned almost immediately! Those with lighter skin tones may find it easier to work with and may even want to try it for the nice formula, but this definitely was not for me nor for anyone darker than a medium shade, that's for sure!This review is: Helpful | Not helpful | Inappropriate | 0 of 0 people said helpful
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