Estee Lauder Pure Color Illuminating Powder Gelee Review, Swatches and Photos

This is a very interesting product, I still can’t decide if it’s a bronzer or highlighter. On the one hand, the actual colour is too dark to highlight my skin tone; on the other hand it’s far too shimmery to be a bronzer. So I’m left feeling curious. I like the product design, it’s unusual. I actually didn’t want to use it so I could preserve the design, but then what so of blogger would I be? Especially since the lovely ladies at Estee Lauder provided this for me, the least I could do was use it!

Based on my experience I think this would actually really suit people with a darker skin with warm undertones. Which means I really ought to test this theory out on Sefie! But in my mind I can see this giving her a really sun kissed glow.

As for myself and my NC15 / NC20 skin tone, I’ve actually been using this as an eye shadow for all over the lid which is my favourite way to use it. I have also tried it on my cheek bones as you’ll see below and the result was better than I expected! It blended well into my skin tone. I probably wouldn’t turn to it as my primary highlighter though because I think it tends to make me look a little tanned.

I haven’t been able to find this on the Estee Lauder website, so I’d recommend going to one in store to see if they are still available. These go for $75AU a pop so I recommend testing this in person first anyways before handing over that much moola.