Becca Golden Mint Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed Review, Photos, Swatches
Golden Mint
Becca Golden Mint Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed ($38.00 for 0.28 oz.) is a very light green with soft, warm undertones and a subtle, green-to-gold shifting pearl finish. It had opaque pigmentation with a soft, smooth consistency that applied evenly to skin and blended out easily. The consistency was soft, silky, and lightly creamy, and the powder sat nicely on the skin and did not emphasize my skin’s natural texture. It wore well for eight and a half hours on me.
Applied, it looked more like a subdued gold than minty green, which seems to be in line with the brand’s marketing: “minty green that transforms to a beautiful, wearable gold on the complexion.” Since the brand already has a few golden-hues in their line-up, I personally was keen for something a little more different, but it’s still a nice highlighter regardless.
FURTHER READING: Formula Overview for details on general performance and characteristics (like scent).
Top Dupes
- Dior Peacock (434) Eyeshadow #3 (LE, ) is less shimmery, darker (95% similar).
- Huda Beauty Mint #2 (LE, ) is more shimmery, warmer (95% similar).
- Looxi Beauty Posh (P, $7.50) is more shimmery (90% similar).
- MAC Zestful (LE, $20.00) is more shimmery, darker, cooler (90% similar).
- Sephora Julie T (LE, ) is cooler (90% similar).
- Buxom Room Service (P, $12.00) is darker, cooler (90% similar).
- Looxi Beauty Voodoo (P, $7.50) is more shimmery, cooler (90% similar).
- ColourPop Ur Glowing (LE, $12.00) is lighter (90% similar).
- Melt Cosmetics Shadowplay (P, $22.00) is less shimmery, cooler (90% similar).
- Dior Emerald #2 (LE, ) is darker (90% similar).
Formula Overview
$38.00/0.25 oz. - $152.00 Per Ounce
The Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed formula is described as having an "ultra-reflective shine" with a "creamy" texture that "applies seamlessly." In general, the texture of the highlighters is incredibly smooth, silky, and finely-milled with frosted to metallic finishes and the occasional more sparkly finish.
They tend to have a high-shine, more metallic finish and are a stronger highlighter, so they are going to be best suited to someone who likes an obvious highlight over a very subtle one. That being said, with a fan brush and a deft hand, one could certainly achieve a subtler, all-over luminosity as well, but if one takes a typical, tapered highlighting brush, there will be quite a bit of pigment and highlight on the skin.
I find that some shades can emphasize the look of pores slightly to moderately, depending on application. They tend to last between eight to nine hours on me.
Browse all of our Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed swatches.
Ingredients
Mica, Talc, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Isostearyl Alcohol, Petrolatum, Silica, Boron Nitride, Nylon-12, HDI/Trimethylol Hexyllactone Crosspolymer, Dimethicone, Magnesium Stearate, Polyethylene, Sorbitan Sesquioleate, Paraffin, Cera Microcristallina (Microcrystalline Wax/Cire Microcristalline), Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Polyethylene Terephthalate, Acrylates Copolymer, Triethoxycaprylylsilane, Potassium Sorbate, Tetrasodium EDTA, Chlorphenesin, Tin Oxide. May Contain/Peut Contenir [+/-]: CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide), CI 77491/77492/77499 (Iron Oxides), CI 77742 (Manganese Violet), CI 75470 (Carmine).
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Happy sigh! I love green/minty highlights (as I’m sure you all know because I never shut up about it!) And while I adore this, I wish It was slightly MORE green, oh well! Money saved!
Phew!
Like a lot of Becca’s highlighters, it has a beautiful finish and it looks very pretty on you Christine.
Thank you, Genevieve!
I do NOT need a massive $38 pan of highlighter when I already have 3 (!!!) other green highlighters, but this one is such a natural gold-green and I know it would look so good on me. Green tones look weirdly natural (yay being slightly olive) as highlighters so this one has definitely piqued my interest.
But I’m on a highlighter no-buy because I have so many, haha. Unless BECCA makes a baby pan of this, I’ll just layer my KVD Emerald lightly over a soft gold and call it a day. 🙂
I can totally see why a less orange-toned gold (something greenish) would work well on olive complexions!
There are, thankfully, a few Emerald dupes out there, so should you ever finish it… you’ll have options, and we all know there are about 400 gold highlighters to layer under that, lol!
I see the green. Not a good look. Looks like youre kinda sick or something. No offense to you personally. You are beautiful. Don’t like! might look good on someone. Or maybe in real life it looks ok.
I’m sorry you feel that way – I didn’t think it looked bad on me at all, thankfully 🙂
Didn’t realize you had olive undertones I always thought you were more on the warm/yellow side but you pull the green off sooo well!! Are you planning on reviewing the ulta exclusive becca multi highlghter?? It has all their shades from the permanent range in one pan that in theory, you can swirl to get a unique bronze shade. They don’t specify if it is a bronzer or highlighter. Please consider reviewing it if possible!
Hi Sue,
I’m not olive-toned! I have yellow undertones 🙂
Sorry, I don’t have that Becca product.
I need this in my life. It’s such a unique colour. I have strong green highlights (Not Kat Von D or Anastasia) but this. I can wear this at work everyday! haha. Looks gorgeous on you! <3
Thanks, Melissa!
I feel like this would be excellent for the folks amongst us (like myself) who are plagued with redness. The green would help neutralize the red and give a good glow.
I’d be very curious to hear if it helps to neutralize at all!
I think this is such an interesting shade which, btw, looks gorgeous on you Christine! And I can see it working well on different skin tones, even on the porcelain and fair ones.
I’m curious to try it my fair skin w/ some redness on my right cheek (there is where a last portion of my skin affected by rosacea was contained after a successful seven-month treatment).
On my skin, the white gold and the very pale rosy highlighters work best for a very natural look or during winter-spring when I’m quite fair.
Let us know if you end up trying it, Nicole! 🙂 I’d love to hear if it helps with your redness!
I will Christine, if I can find it here in Canada. I don’t see it on Sephora CA and unfortunately Hudson Bay do not carry Becca anymore.
It doesn’t look good
Thanks for sharing!
MO is Christine looks great. HL, like all m/u, are a matter of taste, preference, and, dare I say, behavior/personality. Some like ‘offbeat’ HLs. Others hate them. Greige lips, red lips, coral…all will have fan clubs and detractors. Personally, I love ‘colored’ HL, I think best of all. Like with colored liner and mascara it’s a hit of color in an unexpected way/place, without an electric/ metallic glitterbomb. I may be 69, but my favorite HL palette is abh Aurora. And I’m out front enough to handle it. But you will never catch me in a pink coral l/s. Taste and preference, plus express yourself! I say wear what you like, given the constraints of your setting. And try ‘outside your comfort zone,’ occasionally. It all washes off.
Thank you so much, KJH!
And well-said 🙂
I love the pigmentation of this, but I don’t know if it’d work out with my skin coloring! I’m afraid it’d start to pull a little too green! haha!
Beautiful! Gives your skin a porcelain look.
I have a green “highlighter” and I like it, but it’s darker than this (darker than my skin, really), so I can’t actually use it as a highlighter, but the color works exceptionally well with my very yellow skin tone.
Oddly, the highlighters that look the most unnatural on me are the pinks, but I still occasionally use them in a contrast-y way. Peaches and bronzes look very muddy. Golds can look either muddy or good, depending on the tone, with the lighter, cooler, and/or more “silvery” golds working the best.
From a color-wheel perspective, this one is a step beyond cool yellow, and likely perfection on me. Yep, this one looks like a “go.” On my list!