ColourPop Poor Unfortunate Souls Super Shock Highlighter Review & Swatches
Poor Unfortunate Souls
ColourPop Poor Unfortunate Souls Super Shock Cheek (Highlighter) ($10.00 for 0.15 oz.) is a light lavender with subtle, cool undertones and cooler blue and violet pearl. It had buildable pigmentation from sheer to semi-opaque and was most pigmented by applying with fingertips. The texture was smooth, emollient without being too slippery, and thin–it felt more like a powder as soon as it came into contact with my skin. It applied evenly and blended out with little effort, but I did find that this shade did not blend out as easily as most Super Shock shades have for me. It stayed on well for nine and a half hours before fading noticeably.
FURTHER READING: Formula Overview for details on general performance and characteristics (like scent).
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Formula Overview
$10.00/0.15 oz. - $66.67 Per Ounce
The formula is supposed to have "buildable" coverage and can be applied with fingertips (which will yield "higher coverage") or a brush (for sheerer coverage). It's a cream-based product that has a subtle, "wet" feel to it but never has the thickness of a true cream-based blush.
It goes on with the smoothness of a cream formulation but diffuses and blends (without lifting up one's base) more like a powder product. The product sets to a powder finish, so the product won't slide around during the day.
On me, the wear tends to be between eight and 10 hours. Most shades have medium, buildable pigmentation with some being semi-opaque to opaque on occasion. They are typically blendable, easy to use, and long-wearing.
Browse all of our ColourPop Super Shock Cheek (Highlighter) swatches.
Ingredients
Dimethicone, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Ethylhexyl Isononanoate, Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Aluminum Calcium Sodium Silicate, Trimethylsiloxysilicate, Silica, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Boron Nitride, Isopropyl Myristate, Cetyl Dimethicone, Phenoxyethanol, Stearalkonium Hectorite, Tin Oxide, Ethylhexylglycerin, Propylene Carbonate. May Contain: Aluminum Powder (CI 77000), Carmine (CI 75470), Ferric Ferrocyanide (CI 77510), Iron Oxides (CI 77491), Mica (CI 77019), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Yellow 6 (CI 15985).
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It’s interesting that they’re now happily packaging super shock formulas in cardboard flip top packaging as opposed to the screw tops they usually come in… Either they’ve tweaked their formula or they don’t dry out as quickly as first thought…
Reading above how it didn’t apply as easily and fuss free as the usual SS Cheek formula now has me a little worried about CP’s decision to house these in a regular case. Idk, but perhaps this will become problematic within a short time after purchase? Hmmm… ?
As for this shade, I know I’m set with Nyx Lavender Steele for those times when I just have to rock a purple sheen on my cheeks!
The ones they put in the quads have been fine for me!
That’s very good to hear! I’d been wondering about how well the quads have been holding up. Just never thought to ask, though!
Thanks. I have a dupe, and the clear with sparkle glosses aren’t totally appealing to me in general, so it looks as if the Ursula set is out; any order will be individual pieces from CP, Ulta points notwithstanding. You def save us in the moolah dept!
Gorgeous look! I’m glad I did purchase this now; I loved the colour of the My Little Pony ‘Trickles’ powder highlighter CP did back in the day, but the formula was terrible. Hopefully this will be perfect for touch-ups, because as much as I love the Super Shock highlighters, they’re not as portable, and the stick ones NYX used to do – they had this shade, I think it was called Electric Warrior – have been discontinued in Australia.
How does this compare to their highlighter Monster? Wasn’t that lavender too?
It’s on the Dupe List – it’s just low so it isn’t going to show up in the top 10!
Thanks, Christine!