Hi guys,
I recently purchased this highlighting palette from Sleek in 'Solstice' and after trying it for a while, can confirm that I love it. I just had to share it with you guys in case you were in the market for a lovely new highlighter... or four.
Not going to lie, this purchase was almost fully enabled by Sam from Pixiwoo who used it in one of her recent tutorials, as it looked amazing on her. I was in the market for a highlighter anyway, and when I saw this palette I was sold. I couldn't tell whether it was because of the fact that there were four products in the palette that looked beautiful, or because the palette was just so nice to look at on the outside too that made me want to buy it, but I was sold non-the-less and had high expectations from how I'd seen it looked on Sam.
So after purchasing it and delving in I was not disappointed. Yes the packaging is beautiful and definitely a bonus to the product, the gold mirrored packaging reflecting light almost as well as the products themselves...and being a magnet for fingerprints...but easily cleaned so its all good.. I stand by and support that all of these four products are just really lovely highlighters.
As a make-up buff, I felt like highlight was my weak point. I have had a few other ones over the past couple of years, both powders and creams, and have tried to make them work so that they had the effect I always see on other people and in photos but somehow it just wasn't working for me. For me, this has revolutionised that and I can finally see what all the fuss is about.
The four shades from left to right are:
Ecliptic: champagne cream highlight
Subsolar: yellow-y powder highlight
Hemisphere: lilac/pink baked powder highlight
Equinox: golden baked powder highlight
These shades are so pigmented too. As you can see in the image above, they really do their job and a little goes a long way.
Anddd even better, I've also found these products to be multi-purpose. I particularly have been loving the cream shade Ecliptic as an eye-shadow base and for using under the brow, and it blends like a dream. I'd say I have been reaching for the two baked shades of hemisphere and equinox for the top of my cheekbones the most although I stand by that every product in the palette gives a lovely highlight.
This palette comes in at £9.99 and for me it's totally worth it. If you're in the market for a new highlighter, I couldn't recommend it more. It does come with a brush and I have attempted to use it, but the bristles are far to hard and the brush deposits the highlight in more of a stripe than an even blend, so I wouldn't recommend it. But as for the products, they even feel high- end quality to me.
Have you tried this product?
Thanks for reading,
Kelly T x
