I can never get enough of ! Rainbow palettes, rainbow glitter, and rainbow highlighters – they all make my heart sing. I was recently gifted the Revolution Beauty (or is it under the I Heart Revolution brand? I *cannot* keep up with Makeup Revolution and their different brand names) Unicorns Heart Rainbow Highlighter by a friend and was eager to give it a try.
Revolution Beauty‘s Unicorns Heart (that’s some weird spelling by the way… shouldn’t it be possessive? Unicorn’s?) is a rainbow highlighter that veers on the more pastel side of things. There’s 10 grams of product within the pan, and you’re looking at a price tag somewhere around $7-10 USD depending on where you purchase.
The packaging is very reminiscent (or really, just straight up the same) as the Too Faced cardboard heart blushes. It’s a heart-shaped cardboard box with a lift off lid. I don’t find the product is too secure in the base though – you can actually remove the pan itself as it sits on a raised flimsy plastic piece, so be careful with how you store this piece because it’ll get smacked around easily.
I had initially wanted to wear this as a straight rainbow (and tried to do so in my most recent Pride tutorial), but I found that the swatches of colour lined up side by side were far too large to use on my face as a straight highlighter unfortunately. You can see just how LARGE the swatch is in the photo above – it’s massive and I don’t have cheekbones that large! Instead I ended up opting to swirl my brush in the whole product which makes it much easier to apply… but sadly you’re losing the rainbow aspect as the shade comes out as a very cool-toned (verging on blue), icy highlighter.
On the cheeks, the Unicorns Heart Rainbow Highlighter is incredibly reflective. A little goes a very long way, so I’d recommend using as little product as you can and building up from there. Overall, I found the tone to be quite icy and didn’t suit a makeup look unless I was wearing strictly cool-toned eyeshadows. This will not pair very well with warm-toned look (unless you’re going for a sort of mixed metals look) just because it’s SO cool-toned.
Final Thoughts
I’m a bit torn on this highlighter. On one hand you’re getting a fantastic amount of product for a low price tag. It wears and applies nicely, and the reflective quality of the highlighter is really lovely. On the other hand, for me, I find that blue-toned highlighters are some of the hardest to wear because they tend to leave a bit of an ashen sheen on my face. I don’t love that the rainbow aspect is rather unwearable as a highlighter just because the pan is so large and will leave an absolutely massive streak on your face (even if you blend out the edges). Fundamentally, I think this is best used all swirled together – so if you like the colour that way, then by all means snatch up the Unicorns Heart Rainbow Highlighter!
Awe mega bummer that you can’t use it as a rainbow, it’s so pretty! What a waste. I bought a rainbow highlighter from Etsy a couple years ago and I use it as a rainbow on my cheeks and every Pride hehe. Thankfully it’s small enough to do so, however I do still end up with a bit of the blue colour a little under my cheek (where my blush would be).
I’m glad you found one that works as a full rainbow! And yeah, the blue/purple shades to end up being wear blush would be which certainly adds a weird cast to that area!
It would look so pretty as a rainbow, but not if it covers half your face! I do love the cool tone of it mixed up, but can totally see that it’s not that versatile. It’s really pretty to look at though, maybe more of a display piece? lol! But yeah, the name, makes me cringe a bit – where’s the apostrophe?!
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Sadly, I don’t really have room for display pieces! A shame it didn’t work out in the end as a full rainbow.