Saturday 4 April 2015

SPOTLIGHT: Rediscovering Powder Blushes (Part 4) - Sleek...

I've never disguised my passion for Sleek i-Divine eye shadow palettes, and I'm sure not going to hold back how I feel about their blushes either I bought these on sale at the end of last year, and once I'd opened them, I put them aside because to be honest, I thought the colours were just a wee bit too bold, even for me! But after wearing some of them this past week, I've realised my initial impression was misplaced - these are just so fabulously fresh and enlivening, I feel kinda dumb that I've had them locked away for all this time...
This first trio is called Flame, and the swatches below are over the top of a thin layer of foundation. The beauty of these pigments is that you can use as little or as much as you like, and if you think you've gone a bit overboard, a gentle buff with a clean kabuki brush will bring the intensity back to where you want it to be, without any unevenness...


Looking at the palette, I thought that the middle matte shade (Bon Fire) would be the boldest, but in fact that honour goes to the slightly shimmery one on the far right (Furnace). Oh what Autumn stunners they are! The first shade is called Molten, and will be perfect when I'm wearing apricot tonings. I paid $7.49 with free shipping, so I'm definitely a happy kat 


And here's the other - Pink Sprint. I'm lucky that I have an overall warm colouring, but I'm a bit of a mix of warm and cool as far as skin and eyes are concerned, so I can get away with pinky shades as well as orange. I'm wearing the third pan colour today, and it's ever so flattering...

These pinks are all mattes, which I prefer as I'd rather have the option of adding a little highlighter along the top of my cheekbones rather than have the gleaming happening all over. That middle one is going to be perfect for my magenta and purple looks, which I usually put together at least once a week. I might even try that first shade as an eye shadow - whoa!


From left to right the shade names are Pinktini, Pink Ice and Pink Parfait - don't they sound delicious?

I'm enraptured with these blushes, and will be buying more of these trios - there are 8 combos to choose from, and I have my eye on Sweet Cheeks for my next purchase when it's back in stock. If you're keen, be quick as both of the above palettes are still on sale for half price on their website here 

Take care of you,
kats xxx

P.S. I've just added this review to Ingrid's Monday Makeup Madness #6 Link Up Party - you'll find lots of other interesting blogger contributions there too 

14 comments:

  1. Love the names of the pink blushes! I have a couple of Sleek blushes, and the rose gold one is my favourite by far!

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    1. I KNEW there was another one I needed to try - thanks heaps for the reminder TP ♥

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  2. I have both Flame and Pink Sprint, 'Bon Fire' from Flame is said to be dupe of Nars' 'Exhibit A'! I have some Sleek single blushes too, but I think my next Sleek blush purchase will be the Blush by 3 in Pumpkin :)

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    1. I'm pretty keen on that one too stackcats - boy if I'd known they were this good, I would have bought more before ♥

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  3. Woowowow Pink Sprint is gorgeous! I have a few of these in my collection, including Flame which I love, but I think you've made me need Pink Sprint! That first shade :| So amazing! Great review gorgeous! xx

    Sweetaholic Beauty

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    1. Thanks beautiful! I used the first pink today in an eye look - it's fabulous, and lasted the whole day. Will post the EOTD very soon ♥♥♥

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  4. I haven't tried the Sleek blush palettes, but their eyeshadow palettes are awesome, so maybe I should! The colours are just gorgeous!

    Di from Max The Unicorn

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    1. The pigmentation is amazing Di - in my opinion their blushes are as good as their palettes, even more brilliant when they have a sale ♥

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  5. Hello! I know Ive posted a comment here before, it was a few weeks ago and it looks like it didnt show up :( Anyhoo, these blushes look amazing, I'll definitely have to invest soon!

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    1. Hey babe, that worries me a bit hon, it drives me bonkers when my comments disappear on other gals' blogs - just checked the spam section and there's nothing there. Please let me know if it happens again. Their blushes are definitely worth the investment hon - I only need the barest scraping of the brush over the pans, in fact I could probably just wave it above them and have enough pigment ha ha!

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  6. I'm glad you swatched the Flame palette. My first reaction was that these were way too bright for me but looking at the swatches I really want to get this palette now!

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    1. It's really gorgeous hon - the shades are so flattering and I need so little on the brush this will last me way past it's use by date ♥

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  7. Oh my gosh those pinks....soooo pretty!!!! I have never really worn red blushes before, mainly just stick to pinks, corals or bronze ones. I think red looks fab on darker skin tones, my skin is much too light I think. xo

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    1. I usually stick to the tamer hues too hon, but I'm loving these reddish ones, in small doses of course ha ha ♡♡♡

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