Highlighters have been all the range lately, every brand seems to be making a new pressed powder style highlighter. I am a big fan of stick products (stick foundation, stick cream blush, etc) so I was not very sold on getting another powder type item.
I am lazy, I like using my hands as application tools whenever I can. I almost went and got Clinique's Chubby Stick, but I really did not want to spend that much money on such a simple product.
Fortunately, the Wal-Marts in my city started carrying Drew Barrymore's makeup brand Flower. Flower has a lot of great items, and to my surprise they had a highlighter stick nearly identical to Cliniques! It comes in a whiter shade, a gold based shade, and a bronze/contouring shade.
It was 10$ CAD.
My skin is NC25 in MAC for reference.
This really is everything I wanted in a highlighter. It is not too gold or too white. The stick of it is a large enough diameter to add a good amount of highlighter to your cheekbones without highlighting your whole cheek/face.
You can screw the bottom (like a chapstick) to get the top to come out more after you use some of it up.
It blends very easily. I add this to my cheekbone zone, the bridge of my nose, and my chin.
It gives a very nice, but not over exaggerated dewy look. I may not reccomend this if you have very oily skin.
Swatches
On the left is the product applied without blending, and on the right, with blending. I am not including facial pictures because I am terrible at taking good quality photos of myself, and its hard to get one specific product to show up well in a photo (unless you have camera/photography knowledge, which I do not)
Overall Thoughts
I can definitely call the Flower Chubby Stick a duper the the Clinique Chubby stick! It was half the price, which is a bonus if you don't like spending money on high end makeup. This adds more dimension to my face, and its more or less all the contouring I can get away with because I have a very round chubby cheeked face.
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