Oooh it’s quite pricey, but what an absolute treat this is: the Filmstar Bronze & Glow palette from Charlotte Tilbury. I have actually used it for a few years now** but recently my dependence on it has become quite alarming. This morning I bronzed-and-highlighted myself just to nip to Sainsbury’s!
There’s just something very glitzy and satisfying about its effects. It’s officially a contouring duo, but the bronzer is slightly too warm for a contour powder and looks better used in a more diffused way. At any rate, the overall result is far more beautiful and flattering than a stripe-it-on-and-fake-weird-cheekbones contouring product; applied with fluffy brushes and a light touch, it gives the most gently glamorous all-over glow.
Don’t get me wrong, I still apply the powders in all the standard contouring places – bronzer (or “sculpt” powder) vaguely beneath the cheekbones and backwards towards my ears, to the sides of the temples, beneath the jawline, highlight on the parts that the disco lights would naturally hit – but I don’t do it strictly. Or precisely. (God forbid.) I fluff it on and then sort of blend it together (Real Techniques B03) and in return the Filmstar Bronze & Glow gives me two levels of glam, depending on how much I build up the colour:
With a light dusting of Bronze & Glow, I’m suddenly a bit of a (I like to think) sultry siren who’s just returned from a couple of week...