While I’m not done with highlighting as a trend, I feel like I am personally done with limited edition highlighting kits – ESPECIALLY when they sell out so damn fast and then no one has a chance to get their hands on it ever again. And let’s face it… the ABH Glow Kits fly so fast off the shelves it’s a wonder we even get to talk about them before they’re gone! However, they fly off the shelves for good reason: they’re DAMN good products!
So for that reason, I wasn’t going to buy the Anastasia Beverly Hills x Nicole Guerriero Glow Kit – because I just didn’t need it. I’ve picked up a ton of ABH Glow Kits over the last year or so and I love them intensely – I use them constantly! But at a certain point, you’ve just had enough, you know? Like, there’s only so many shades of highlighter (especially in the champagne vein) that you can use before they all start to look the same.
So when my dear friend Julie of Swatch and Review offered to loan me this particular Glow Kit for review, half of me was like “ugh, why bother? I don’t need more highlighters and this doesn’t look unique” and the other side of me was like “oh dear god please do not fall in love with this so much that I want to buy one for myself”.
Anyway, my personal inner monologue aside, let’s take a look at the palette: the Nicole Guerriero Glow Kit is excessively warm, which seems to be a general trend with powdered products lately. You get six pans at 4.5 grams each – which is more than enough product, especially given the amount of variety you’re faced with!
One thing worth noting is that some of these pans do contain glitter in them. 143 for sure has glitter, and I think it was Daydream that had it as well. I know not everyone is a fan of glitter pieces in their highlighter, so I wanted to make sure that got mentioned.
Swatched out, I was surprised how similar all the colours looked. While I was supremely enchanted by the look of Kitty Kat, it’s really not that different from Forever Young beside it. Glo Getter and 143 also look surprisingly similar in swatches as well. The most unique shade in this assortment is definitely Daydream in my eyes – I’ve been hunting for an orange-tinged highlighter to round out my collection (I swear I have every other shade of the rainbow) and I can’t think of anything that’s similar.
Some would venture to say that the ABH x Nicole Guerriero Glow Kit is too deep for pale folk, but I feel like each and every shade of this palette works on my NW20 skin tone. If you’re paler than me, you may struggle with Glo Getter and 143, as I feel I’m right on the verge of those shades being a touch too deep for me. However, considering that when you look at this palette the overall shade range seems deeper than normal, I’m surprised and impressed that they did work out on my skintone.
Is this palette necessary in your life? I don’t know – I’m kind of struggling with my thoughts on this one. The palette itself is beautiful, and I love how each and every shade looks on my skin. The effect is ethereal, luminous and glowing and there isn’t a shade in here I wouldn’t wear on the daily. However… I also feel like a lot of the shades are very, very similar and don’t reflect enough variety for my own tastes. I also feel like I’ve got a metric ton of highlighters in my collection that make this palette somewhat unnecessary to own in addition to what I already have.
That being said, if you like the look of this palette and/or you’re a fan of Nicole Guerriero, I don’t think you can go wrong buying this palette. The quality is excellent and the overall effect is glorious. For me though, this didn’t fill enough gaps in my highlighter collection to necessitate buying it (although I’m damn glad I got to try it out. Thanks Julie! Sidenote, she also reviewed this palette today too, so be sure to check out her review here for her take on it!).
Let me know what your take on this palette is! I’m especially curious to hear from people who are looking to bulk up their highlighter collection – do you think this would be a great addition to your collection?
The Anastasia Beverly Hills x Nicole Guerriero Glow Kit is a limited edition item and can be purchased on sephora.ca for $52 CAD and on sephora.com for $40 USD.
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Digging through the archives here people! This is the holiday 2014 palette from Too Faced. The Everything Nice palette was very similar to the previous year’s launch (A few of my Favorite Things) and I think this was the last year they produced their holiday palettes in the USA (in my opinion, there was a decline in the quality of their holiday palettes as soon as they started to manufacture them in China).
I also think this was the last time we saw the Papa Don’t Peach blush before the 2016 re-release with the peach scent!
You may have seen my review back in December of the Sudio Vasa BLÅ earphones – a pair of wireless earbuds that gave me an immense freeing sensation while listening to music. No longer was I tethered to my iPod or phone! So when Sudio offered to send me a pair of their Regent headphones, there was zero chance I was going to say no!
The Sudio Regent headphones are a set of wireless headphones that are charged via USB. They also come with an AUX cable for situations when you can’t use the wireless capabilities (and that’s a good thing too – I wore these during a flight and I was really thankful to have that AUX cable!).
The headphones charge quickly and promise 24 hours of battery life. While I haven’t actually timed the battery life, I can tell you that I’ve only charged these once since I got them over two weeks ago and I’ve used them near daily to go to and from work, taken them on two flights (where I watched movies and multiple tv shows) and I STILL have not yet charged the battery!
And the wireless capabilities? Incredible. I was so shocked at how freeing it felt not to have a cable connecting me to whatever device I was using with the previous earbuds, but it’s even more astounding when using headphones! It’s also more comfortable for me overall – I do prefer these over the earbuds.
The headphones do clamp on your head quite solidly – I do experience a tiny bit of discomfort around the two hour mark of repetitive use, but it’s not an intense pain. They’re also INCREDIBLY soundproof – on my walks to work I can’t hear ANYTHING other than my own music!
The Regent headphones do give you the ability to style the set to your liking. You can pick up (at a cost) endcaps to attach to your headphones in case you want to change it up from their standard black and gold bar through the middle. Pictured above are the black marble endcaps.
In terms of audio quality, I am not the best judge of sounds to be perfectly honest, but the clarity seems excellent to me. I don’t feel like there’s any depth missing from the music I listen to (but again – I am not an expert in this field at all). For me, the most incredible thing about the Sudio Regent headset is that it’s a comfortable to wear set and the wireless capabilities make it truly a freeing experience while listening to music!
If you’d like to check out Sudio for yourself, please visit their website at www.sudiosweden.com – they always offer free worldwide delivery! If you decide you’d like to make a purchase, feel free to use the code “makeupyourmind” to get 15% off. (This is a strict discount code to save you money – I make nothing off of it!)
Product featured in this post was sent to me for consideration.