Becca Rose Quartz Flashes Seashell & Opal Flashes Jade Light Chaser Highlighters Reviews, Photos, Swatches
Rose Quartz Flashes Seashell
Becca Rose Quartz Flashes Seashell Light Chaser Highlighter ($34.00 for 0.23 oz.) is a light pink with a luminous sheen and subtle, warm undertones. It had good color payoff with a soft, smooth consistency that wasn’t dry but did not seem as finely-milled as Becca’s more popular highlighting powder formula. This shade was a more subtle shade in the range (though I would classify it as a moderate highlighter in the grand scheme of all that is highlighting), as it did not have the high-shine finish, and it definitely did not have anything like a duochrome shift. This shade lasted for eight hours on me.
The Light Chaser Highlighter formula is supposed to be “more than a highlighter” and have a combination of “kaleidoscopic color and light” that makes it “shift as you move.” There are six shades in the range, and a few of them have more of a visible shift in person (less so in photos) while others just seemed like a typical highlighter. From the brand that seemed to put highlighters back on the market with their Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed formula, the formula lacked the finesse in texture and blendability I would have expected from Becca. The texture varied from shade to shade with some being drier, looser, and less blendable to smoother, more blendable, and fairly good as a tinted highlighter/subtle blush.
Top Dupes
- Clinique Ballerina Pop (LE, $21.00) is less shimmery, warmer (95% similar).
- Urban Decay Going Native (Highlighter) (PiP, ) is less shimmery, darker (95% similar).
- Giorgio Armani No. 07 (P, $62.00) is lighter, cooler (90% similar).
- ColourPop Sugar Trap (P, $7.00) is more shimmery, warmer (90% similar).
- ColourPop Just for Us (P, $7.00) is lighter (90% similar).
- Smashbox Petal Metal (LE, $39.00) is less shimmery, less pigmented (90% similar).
- Wet 'n' Wild Halo, Goodbye (P, $5.99) is more shimmery (90% similar).
- MAC Gleamer (LE, $29.00) is lighter (90% similar).
- Makeup Revolution Moon Glow Lights (P, $6.00) is less shimmery, lighter (95% similar).
- Hourglass Pink Flash (P, $42.00) is more shimmery (90% similar).
Ingredients
Talc, Mica, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Extract, Zinc Stearate, Silica, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Phenoxyethanol, Sorbic Acid. [+/-]: CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide), CI 77491 (Iron Oxides), CI 75470 (Carmine).
Disclaimer: Ingredient lists are as available by the brand (or retailer) at the time of publishing. Please always check product packaging, if it exists, for the ingredient list applicable to the product you're purchasing, or the brand or retailer's website for the most up-to-date ingredient list.
Rose Quartz Flashes Seashell
LELimited Edition. $34.00.
Opal Flashes Jade
Becca Opal Flashes Jade Light Chaser Highlighter ($34.00 for 0.23 oz.) is a warmer, light beige with a moderate, greenish-gold shift that became warmer and cooler as the angle changed. The shift was noticeable in person and did not look “off” in any way but was a delightful reflection and interplay of light and color. It had opaque color payoff with a fairly smooth, soft, and blendable texture, though it was not as creamy as Becca’s other powder products. It lasted for eight hours on me before fading slightly.
Top Dupes
- ColourPop Lantern Fest (LE, $10.00) is less shimmery, warmer (95% similar).
- Becca Ocean Glow (LE, $38.00) is less shimmery, cooler (90% similar).
- Milk Makeup Blitzed (P, $28.00) is less shimmery, darker (90% similar).
- Pretty Vulgar Glow Up (P, $32.00) is more shimmery, lighter, warmer (90% similar).
- Clionadh Vesta (P, $12.50) is lighter (90% similar).
- Dior Nude Glow (001) (P, $50.00) is warmer (90% similar).
- Pat McGrath Lunar Nude (LE, $60.00) is less shimmery, darker (90% similar).
- Charlotte Tilbury Lightgasm Multi-Glow (LE, ) is less shimmery, darker (90% similar).
- Too Faced Satin Sheets (PiP, ) is lighter (90% similar).
- Glossier Play Platinum Rose (P, $20.00) is less shimmery, lighter, warmer (90% similar).
Ingredients
Talc, Mica, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Extract, Zinc Stearate, Silica, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Phenoxyethanol, Sorbic Acid. [+/-]: CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide), CI 77491 (Iron Oxides), CI 75470 (Carmine).
Disclaimer: Ingredient lists are as available by the brand (or retailer) at the time of publishing. Please always check product packaging, if it exists, for the ingredient list applicable to the product you're purchasing, or the brand or retailer's website for the most up-to-date ingredient list.
I would never wear it but opal x jade is very unique and pretty!
It was more unique!
Agree with you.
Opal Flashes Jade looks so pretty but I don’t think it would work on my fair skin because I can see the base colour turn ashy/grey on me.
The Rose Quartz Flashes Seashell looks pretty but I haveMakeup Revolution Peach Lights and L’Oreal Ice already. 😉
I would be curious to hear from those with fair skin who have tried it to see!
Someone fair and cool-toned on YouTube tried it and said it looked like a bruise on their face in certain lighting.
I have super fair skin (hello translucency!!!) and, yes, the base color is visible on my skin. It shows as a light pinky stripe. Granted that’s a little odd since it’s placed high on the cheek bones, but if I do a little bronzing (it is summer after all) then it’s fine. And it does give a rather lovely fairy glow.
I think I’m going to be the only one who likes these. I like my glow to be very diffused and natural. I know you can sheer out highly pigmented highlighters by using a fan brush or a light hand, but they always still look pretty unnatural on my skin. I hated champagne pop and Becca’s permanent line of highlighters, but I think these might work just fine on me!
It’s interesting that you’d call these natural! Rose Quartz Flashes Seashell more moderate highlighter, just subtle compared to Becca’s more famous highlighting formula, and I wouldn’t consider Opal Flashes Jade subtle, natural, or diffused – it was metallic!
Hmm, in that case, these might not work then. When you said moderate, I took that to mean not metallic and more buildable than Becca’s permanent line, so I figured a light hand would work. I have read some reviewers complaining about the pigmentation, so I kind of combined your thoughts and theirs. Thanks for the clarification. It’s probably better for me to see these in person before buying then!
I think this is a poor product naming choice. It took me 10 minjtes of a scrambled brain to figure out “Rose quartz flashes seashell” was meant to describe the color shift. Especially when tacked on to “Light Chaser.” They should have just called it Seashell.
Yeah, the highlighters are Something Flashes Something, and then the glosses are Something x Something. They’re all really long names, though, and they might have simply dome better with a shorter, combo name vs. trying to get it all in one. “Rose Seashell” or “Seashell Quartz” and “Opal Jade.”
If only they would have, Christine! These long names are maddening to remember! ?
Do any of the dupes have the green flash? I love this kind of “worksafe color with hints of bolder color”; do you have any other recommendations for that kind of blush/highligter?
I don’t think they do.
I got the Champagne Flashes Bellini and Rose Quartz x Seashell is in the mail – I found Bellini to be super dry, and very difficult to use even as a blush topper. Will keep trying different brushes and techniques but I think this will go back. Was hoping for a creamy, wet finish but this feels like dollar store quality 🙁
Reader Katherine said her Amethyst one improved after a few layers, so maybe try that before you bring it back (though you should not have to do so – more a suggestion if you really want to make it work).
Thanks Christine + Katherine 🙂 I did try building Bellini up, and turns it HOT PINK! I’d dig it if it wasn’t so dry, building it up makes it look very chalky on me at least
Yeah, these new highlighters definitely aren’t the same quality as Becca’s regular range, so I can see why people are disappointed, but I’m willing to work with them if the color is interesting enough. Looks like I need to check out Opal x Jade
Glad you’re enjoying them anyway!
Christine, I was able to check out all the highlighters in store today!
*Rose Quartz x Seashell – agree with you there, subtle, finish isn’t shiny, no duo chrome shift at all
*Opal x Jade – I was excited for this one, but think there are QC batch issues. While it’s good quality (smooth, pigmented, and very metallic), I only saw a warm bronzy gold, no green at all, and certainly no shift to green. And I even tried turning my arm back and forth in full sunlight. It’s pretty, but I’m disappointed 🙁 But others on Sephora, including you, are noticing the green, so maybe I swatched a bad batch, so recommend buying where you can easily return
Oh yikes so sorry! My comments about Opal x Jade were meant for Topaz x Gilt! So sorry, getting my highlighters mixed up here. But I did swatch Opal x Jade in store, and it was a very muddy, murky looking mix of a beige base and green on top, there was some shifting, but I just don’t think the color will look good on me. Your swatch looks so much prettier! And all those testers were new, barely touched as they were hidden at an aisle endcap facing a small, tight corner, far away from the main Becca display section, I had to ask the SA for them. So I think there are definitely QC batch issues with this line
Opal Flashes Jade is my jam! However, because I’m really trying to reduce my spending, especially if I can dupe something, I will see if using my ABH Forever Young with some KVD Alchemist Emerald over it looks before I jump on this.
Opal Flashes Jade is pretty!! I like that one a lot!!
I love the first one but the one with the jade “flash” just seems so odd. There are times I look green without any “help” from cosmetics!
Very pretty, but I think you would have to try it yourself to see how they look on you first.
Hi, You look gorgeous! Your look is really flattering.
The Rose Quartz Flashes Seashell is so pretty on you! I’ll be checking it out next time I go to the mall. Can’t get enough pink lately.
I like Opal x Jade, it’s different from anything I own, but it’s sold out online. Considering they’re LE it might never come back.
These are both quite nice! I’m not sure if the jade flash would look good on my skin, I’d certainly have to try it before I buy.