Tarte Amazonian Clay Shimmering Powder

tarte Amazonian Clay Shimmering Powder in Rose

(tartecosmetics website)

A shimmering pressed powder infused with Amazonian clay that adds a customizable, luminous glow to cheeks, brow bones and décolletage.

Product Performance: These finely-milled powders deliver a luminous finish and highlight cheeks, brow bones, and décolletage for a completely customizable glow – add a little for a soft and subtle sheen, or add more for enhanced radiance. Available in 2 harmonious hues.

Powered By: Amazonian clay: this nutrient-rich, multitasking and total-skin-balancing clay reduces dryness and flakiness, improves skin clarity, elasticity, firmness, and texture while removing oil from the skin's surface for smooth application and wear.

If you like shimmery rose gold color then this shimmering powder by tarte probably is a must try highlighting product for you. When I first got this, I was a little hesitate because in the pan the color looks quite dark and more on the bronze side, so I was worried that it might not look good on me because I have quite fair skin. After I put it on and blend it out, it was just looking beautiful and I had no worry about the color. The texture of this powder is very silky and smooth, great quality, very very pigmented in terms of color payoff.
The color of this powder is really really close to the actual rose gold color, actually I can't tell the difference. It doesn't come out weird or odd on the skin even though it's very shimmering.  It will look good on most skin colors, pale or dark. I have quite fair skin (NC15-20) so I don't mind adding some colors on my face. I prefer to use my fingers with it because it's very very pigmented. I like to apply it as a highlight on the cheekbones, it looks very subtle and beautiful once its blend. Because of the rose gold color, it doesn't looks very obvious and flashy.
It comes with a large amount of products and you only need a tiny bit of products each time, so my only concern is it will last forever and I'm never gonna hit pan on this.

left: Tarte Amazonian Clay Shimmering Powder in Rose, right: elf Golden Bronzer

I own a few highlighting products and actually found two that are possible dupes to this shimmering powder. One would be the Physicans Formula Shimmer Strips Custom Bronzer, the other one is elf Golden Bronzer. In terms of the texture and finish, elf golden bronzer is closer to this one. In the picture above,  I swatched the elf one a little bit heavier otherwise they look almost identical.

What do you think? Like or hate? What's your current highlighting products? 

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tarte blush & bronze on the go

One thing made me really love shopping at Sephora online is that they have some great travel-size duo and value sets available, like this blush and bronzer duo by tarte. I always wanted to try the tarte amazonian clay blush, but felt hesitate because I have many other blushes and blush is the makeup that I felt took the longest to hit pan on. While in my memory, there's only one blush that I literally finished for the past 6-8 years, don't remember the brand, all I remembered is the packaging and color and that took me about 3 years to finish.

So back to this blush and bronzer duo, it was at the sale section at Sephora only for $12, I just thought it's a really nice deal. 

 tarte blush & bronze on the go 

 - 0.11 oz Amazonian Clay 12-Hour Blush in Dollface            - 0.11 oz Mineral Bronzer in Park Ave Princess 

It's a limited edition duo that it great for trying out and travel, besides that I think the two products in this duo are just great to use for most skin color, light or dark. The blush color dollface is a very pretty light pink color (no shimmer) and the bronzer is a true bronzy color with shimmer in it. The quality is quite nice, very smooth and silky, although they are not super pigmented as I thought, but that's actually how I like them to be. This way it gives more control when applying and no need to worry about putting on too much.

What do you think of makeup duo like this one, like it?

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