This palette contains 5 limited edition 12 hour Amazonian clay blushes. It retails for $42 (USD), I found mine at Sephora, but it is also available at Ulta, and at Tarte. Although at the time, it is not available at any of those three places online, but may be available in store.
These are all blushes, I know last years little palette like this had a bronzer. All of these blushes are soft and extremely pigmented. This is my first time using any of Tartes blushes and I used Whimsey with a relatively heavy hand. Needless to say I had to use a makeup remover wipe and start over. I love blush, but I hate clowns. These are relatively soft blushes, they do kick up a bit of powder when you try to get it on your brush. It is easy to clear away, on the plus side
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| (L to R) Breathless, Embraced, and Whimsy |
Breathless is a pinky beige, that I personally think leans more beige than pink. This color is perfect for when you have a lot going on on your face. It gives you a natural little flush, that is beautiful but not distracting. This blush is matte.
Embraced is a hard color to describe! It looks mauvey-purpley-iridescent-rose-ish shade. On the box they, who are much better at describing colors, simply call is a plummy rose. Well I was close. When sheered out it looks simply stunning. It gives you a "lit from within" kinda glow (hence the iridescence mentioned earlier). It builds beautifully, even sheered out you can tell it is more of a plum shade.
Whimsy, I have a love hate relationship with this blush. I want to hate it because of the first time I used it disaster but it is SO BEAUTIFUL. This light pink almost bordering Barbie pink matte shade will give you a youthful glow, when used with a gentle hand.
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| (L to R) Whimsy, Bashful, and Irreplaceable |
Bashful, to me I would say that is definitely coral, but to Tarte it is a rosy peach shade (shimmery with some small glitter). If you are worried about the minor glitter in this shade, never fear you don't really notice it on the skin :). This one reminds me of Coralista, I could be wrong as I'm not looking at them both side by side, but it is REALLY pretty. This is the shade I want to marry. Haha just kidding. This is good for a subtle natural looking makeup day. Since there is shimmer you could skip the highlighter if you are short on time.
Irreplaceable is a mauve/rose matte blush. Like with Whimsy you need to use a really light hand. This color gives you a "just-outside-in-the-cold" natural kind of flush.
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| (L to R) Breathless, Embraced, Whimsy, Bashful, and Irreplaceable |
All in all, do you need this palette? Yes, if you can get your hands on it. I think it is a good way to get exposed to some of Tarte's more popular products at a cheaper rate. Each blush in this palette is .158 Oz and a full sized blush is .2 Oz. So with this palette you are essentially getting around almost 4 full sized blushes worth of product for the price of 1 and a half blushes. I do think the packaging is cute, a little bulky but really cute and as a bonus you get two wearable hair pins. Also an FYI just because it is out of stock online does not mean that your local store does not have it. When I purchased it, it was out of stock online but they had it in stores.
Have a fabulous day ducklings!
