Hourglass Ambient Lighting Edit Vol. 3 for Holiday 2017
Hourglass Ambient Lighting Edit Vol. 3 for Holiday 2017
The Details
A limited edition Ambient® Lighting Edit featuring three best-selling and three new exclusive powders for a flawlessly lit complexion. This travel friendly palette of lighting essentials takes you from day to night so you can create your perfect light anytime, anywhere. Available in a limited edition rose gold compact this holiday season.
Exclusively at Hourglass now, September 2017 at other retailers
Ambient Lighting Edit Vol. 3, $80.00 (Limited Edition)
Editor’s Note: I know in the past, the value of the Hourglass palettes has been an issue, so I did the math for these – each powder was listed as 0.049 oz. each, which is comparable in size to last year’s palette. The breakdown is: $12.88 worth of Ambient Lighting Powder, $6.28 worth of Ambient Bronzing Powder, $24.83 worth of Ambient Lighting Blush, and $11.64 worth of Ambient Strobe Lighting Powder for a total value of $55.63.
- Dim Light Neutral peach beige powder
- Diffused Light Soft, warm, pale yellow powder
- Luminous Bronze Light Medium tan shade fused with Luminous Light
- Surreal Halo Deep berry blush fused with Surreal Light
- Pure Effect Bright petal pink fused with glimmering rose
- Hypnotic Strobe Light Champagne powder
Pretty but pricey!
Nice. Easy pass for my chocolate complexion. Christina i was considering the regular Ambient light palette with Dim, Radiant and Incandescent light. Do you think this will work for my neutral-yellow warm chocolate skin tone??
I have it and I am pretty pale. And the colors hardly show up on me, they are very subtle. Maybe all three will be highlighters on you!
So, they’re doing it yet again – $55 worth of product for the inflated price tag of $80. Even if I loved this stuff, I would pass because I don’t like the blatant highway robbery of it. It’s not like Hourglass’s stuff is cheap to start with so making these “holiday heists” even pricier seems insulting to me and it’s why I’ve sworn off the brand entirely (with one small slip – a Lip Stylo) for the past 3 or 4 years.
Yup same. Nice marketing but not all that imho
Hope it’s around for the VIB Sale in November!
I will wait until then, too. From past experience I expect it’ll be around for sometimes:)
I love the colors they chose, but it’s such a terrible value! Hard pass.
Here we go again, Hourglass holiday-wise. I am very fortunate that very few HG multiproducts suit me. Got the original…and only Dim was ok, and only in summer. Only the berry appeals, and 1/6 is an easy write off. Wallet sparing is a good thing. Especially with the glut of enticement we can expect. Hey, it’s before LD, and HG has a holiday announcement, not just a tease. Heeeeere they come. Get ready.
Is every skin tone supposed to be able to wear these shades? I’m really interested in buying Hourglass ambient lighting powders, but doing so individually is so daunting … it’s not as though Sephora has great lighting. If I could buy an entire palette and know I could wear most of the shades, though, I would during the VIB sale.
I love Hourglass products, but wow. Outrageously overpriced! Sets are *usually* supposed to be a savings… I’ll have to pass on their holiday palette yet again. :/
Julia, with other companies they are a savings/added value at the Holidays. Hourglass is the one that stands out in my memory as pulling this rip off stunt every year with their Holiday release. If Too Faced and so many other companies can give us a bit of extra value, what makes Hourglass too “special” to do the same, I wonder?
$55 worth of blushes/highlighters for $ 80? Uh no thanks. When will Hourglass ever learn?
When people quit buying them and that doesn’t seem to be happening.
Disgusting.
(To be clear im talking about the $55 value being priced at $80. Is shudder at what it would cost in CAD)
Yup. As a Canadian my a$$ hurts.
It’s being sold for $95 CAD 🙁
at .049 oz these are technically smaller than the average eyeshadow…
Small pans and sooo overpriced ! Cannot even imagine the price in CAD. You won’t get my money Hourglass. I would gladly spent the same amount on something really worth it, but this is a rip-off.
I bought the 3 powders for $60 I was using them for everyday for awhile but liked the pinky one best. I like the shades but that price point is too much. I’m out.
The shades are pretty, but also fairly similar to all their other expensive models.
Hourglas heir head up their hoohoo.
That should have been Hourglass has their head up their hoohoo.
Gonna pass. I still have the original holiday palette from 3 years ago and the ambient lighting palette. I don’t need dim light in 3 different palettes. ?
I am uninterested in this one.
Even with the VIB sale its still $64, way too much for what it is. I have Dim light, which is perfect and more than enough for me, I have my favorite highlighter, blushes and bronzers and won’t waste money on this thievery . The price is criminal.
When is the next VIB Sale? I don’t mind $64 compared to $80! ?
November
I skipped on the limited edition blush trio they did and have regretted it since. So when I saw this, I was so excited. Then I saw your cost breakdown. Hard pass now. I cannot believe the value vs what they are charging! Thanks for pointing this out so we can be informed consumers!
Same dang thing every year. Pass. I have mood exposure and that’s all I need!
Again terrible value but I guess they just don’t care. At least give me $80 worth of product then I would buy it.
I will definitely pass. I have so many of their powders, blushes and bronzers. I don’t need more!
I was hoping the reveal might be a customizable palette but releasing the same idea with the same pricing scheme makes it an easy pass.
P.S. Thanks so much for calculating the value for price on this and other products, Christine. It helps to us to be informed, even astute, consumers.
Gunna start my own company…one time use only items for $25 a pop…take that hourglass
I was going to pass (like the past few years), but looking at my Ambient Lightning Palette, I’ve been using that one for over a year on a daily basis and I’m not even close to hitting pan. Each of those is double the amount (ish), so it does make sense for me. That price though… I think I might wait for the November sale.
I have to agree with everyone else who is balking at the price of this palette. It’s pretty, but this will probably land in Canada at around $100.00, and the value just isn’t there.
I don’t think most makeup lovers do the math when seeing this in store, and most don’t do it when seeing a beautiful product online either. I would just assume I’d get good value for my money, as with (most?) other holiday palettes and bundles.
I really find it disgusting of a brand to trick their costumers like this. Shame on you HG!
And a big Thank You to Christine for doing the math for us!
I checked the colors as I was curious although is quite expensive, and that for me is a blush palette, in the photo in the pale arm I count 4 powders working as blushes I’m yellow enough that Dim looks like blush ,so there’s the bronzer and the finishing powder, I already have those and I’m not interested in getting blushes, so I’m quite happy I’m not even tempted for this.
As an econ major, you really should stop perpetuating the incorrect meaning of ‘value’, Christine. Looking at the comments, even people now increasingly think price is value, If something is free yet of no value to me, then value is zero. Price is never ‘value’.
It’s important to use terminologies, words, and the like that resonate and are understood by one’s audience–and this isn’t an economics blog–it is extremely common practice for brands in beauty specifically to provide the value of a set/palette by providing what the retail value would be if the products were sold separately. (See: Nordstrom, Sephora, and Ulta, and how they list sets — they provide the retail price for the set and then a dollar value for the products included).
Merriam-Webster defines value as “the monetary worth of something: market price” – the value of a set is effectively calculated using the current market prices of the equivalent items for an equivalent quantity. It can otherwise be thought of as the estimated monetary worth if the products were purchased separately. This usage and understanding of value is exceedingly common in things like sets, sales/deals, property value, net worth, estates, and the like.
Words make sense “in context”. Christine’s use of “Value” is in context to the Beauty industry. A quick reality check – this IS a Beauty Blog.
The term “Value” has been used in the same context as what is used by the Beauty Industry and is understood by the consumers of the Industry. As you would see from the comments – ALL readers are able to comprehend the meaning in exactly the sense it was mentioned.
This was going to be the year to finally buy a Hourglass palette until I saw that price breakdown! I wouldn’t have done the math, thanks for pointing it out. I assume the holiday palettes are a price break. I won’t do that again.
When it’s going to be at Sephora USA ?
Sep.12th
How about in Sephora stores?