You may, or may not, have heard that theBalm Cosmetics are releasing a new luminzing,highlightering, shimmery shadow goodness in the form of 'Cindy Lou-Manizer a.k.a.The Con-tour Artist'. The swatches are making me hyperventilate! It is very pretty and looks to be a great shade for us pale skin girls. I am waiting patiently until it arrives on our shores though, shipping off of theBalm website to Aberdeen is $25! Thats one dollar more than the actual item itself!
I digress, seeing the new release made me take another glorious look at my 'Mary'. This is one of the best highlighters I have tried and I thought I would do a comparison with a product from another of my favourite brands, Benefit.
I digress, seeing the new release made me take another glorious look at my 'Mary'. This is one of the best highlighters I have tried and I thought I would do a comparison with a product from another of my favourite brands, Benefit.
Meet 'Moon Beam' liquid highlighter and 'Mary-Lou Manizer' powder highlighter.
So lets start on ease of use. 'Mary' is nice and easy, just lightly dust across where you require a little glow and you're done. The 'Moon Beam' is a bit trickier because it is liquid. A little goes a long way with these liquid highlighters and it's usually best to just put a few dots along where you need it and then blend. This is the bit I struggle with as I often feel I end up undoing my base to blend this.
So colour wise, initially they would appear in the same colour family, so to speak, 'Mary' is a bit of a lighter, champagne gold whereas the 'Moon Beam' has a bit more warmth to it. However, once you get to blending, that changes more than I had expected!
The 'Moon Beam' ends up with a reddish, apricot tone to it which is totally different to the 'Mary'. The change is quite drastic, and although it is very pretty, it has the potential to change the make up look that you were intent on having. It's still nice and shimmery but on my pale skin, to suddenly have reddish tones along the top of my cheekbones makes me look a bit oddly flushed. Not ideal if you were aiming for Kim K. style contours.
A few more pics just because I was thrown by how much the 'Moon Beam' changed!
It's very pretty and on skin with a bit of a tan, the apricot tones would look gorgeous but for now, 'Mary' suits my paleface and my needs much better.
'Moon Beam' is discontinued now but that's not to say it won't come back, however, I did some digging and found a blog post by What Larry Loves, which compares 'Moon Beam' with a super cheap, easy to get a hold of alternative, if the colour sets you aflutter!
I got my 'Mary' from feelunique when they had a 10% off sale however I have noticed it has went from £15 to £16! Sad times! Save your pennies up and wait for the sales folks!
Hugs,
Jodi
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