Sweet Peach Glow Illuminator is a light-medium warm golden peach with a peachy champagne shimmer-sheen in a metallic finish. This is a new and permanent shade. It has a lightweight, silky texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium pigmentation and semi-sheer to semi-opaque buildable colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is more muted and more peach than MAC Beaming Blush, more golden and less sparkly than MAC Show Gold, lighter and more golden than Anastasia Beverly Hills Peach Nectar, more peach than Anastasia Beverly Hills Bubbly, darker and more muted than Becca Champagne Pop, and lighter and more golden than Urban Decay Fireball.
Sweet Peach Glow Blush is a medium warm orange-coral with a golden shimmer-sheen in a shimmer finish. This is a new and permanent shade. It has a lightweight, silky texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium-high pigmentation and semi-opaque to opaque buildable colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is more orange and less frosted than Too Faced Papa Don't Peach, more shimmery and more pinked than Too Faced I Will Always Love You, brighter and less shimmery than MAC Style, more shimmery and more coral than MAC Peaches, brighter and more shimmery than MAC Melba, more orange and more shimmery than Becca Damselfly, and more orange than NARS Deep Throat.
Sweet Peach Glow Bronzer is a medium warm golden tan with a pearlized sheen in a satin finish. This is a new and permanent shade. It has a lightweight, silky texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium-high pigmentation and semi-opaque to opaque buildable colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is darker and more golden than MAC Golden, warmer than MAC Refined Golden, lighter and more shimmery than Urban Decay Bronzed, more golden and more shimmery than Urban Decay Sun-Kissed, lighter and warmer than Benefit Hoola, and warmer and less shimmery than NARS Laguna.
First and foremost, I think Too Faced should have called this a face kit rather than a highlighting palette, because there's only one highlighting shade in it, so it's actually kind of misleading. (This is a highlighting palette, as it's, you know, a palette of highlighters.) That having been said, this is a really nice face kit, with three very wearable shades that are easy to work with. All three shades have the same lightweight, baked texture as many other powder-liquid hybrid formulas (like MAC's Extra Dimension Skinfinish, NARS' Dual-Intensity Blush, Anastasia Beverly Hills Illuminator, etc.) so they are firm and dry to the touch, but go on very smooth and pigmented, and are easily blendable. Because of the firmer texture of this type of powder, I would use a denser brush to pick up sufficient product — a lot of people that are complaining about the colour pay-off of these shades are likely using brushes that are too fluffy or sparse. (A fan brush might work well with an ultra-buttery Becca highlighter, but it's not going to work the same with a much firmer, drier texture.) This palette is definitely geared towards light to medium skintones; those with darker complexions (say, NC42 and darker) will find the blush and bronzer disappears into their skin, and those with lighter skintones (say, NC20 and lighter) will find that the highlighter disappears into their skin. I don't fault Too Faced for that because it's near impossible to create a face palette that will flatter all skintones, but I do think that Too Faced should've come out with at least two colour waves of this palette to capture more complexions. As it is, I like the idea of this face kit and I think it's really, really cute, but now I kinda wish Too Faced came out with an actual highlighting palette. Can you imagine how stunning that would be?
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