Hourglass Pink Flash Vanish Flash Highlighting Stick Review, Photos, Swatches
Pink Flash
Hourglass Pink Flash Vanish Flash Highlighting Stick ($42.00 for 0.21 oz.) is a light pink with soft, warm undertones and a metallic sheen. It had semi-sheer, buildable color coverage (up to semi-opaque), and it was the sheerest shade in the range that I tried. The consistency was incredibly lightweight with some slip–enough to feel like a cream-based product, but it never felt too slippery or greasy on my skin. It dried down somewhat, but it never fully set and yet still managed to wear for a solid eight hours over bare skin. The highlighter blended out easily along the edges and did not emphasize my skin’s natural texture.
FURTHER READING: Formula Overview for details on general performance and characteristics (like scent).
Top Dupes
- Becca Rose Quartz (P, $38.00) is darker (95% similar).
- Urban Decay Going Native (Highlighter) (PiP, ) is lighter (95% similar).
- Chanel Perles et Fantaisies (Right) (LE, $80.00) is lighter (90% similar).
- ColourPop Go Honey (DC, $12.00) is lighter (90% similar).
- MAC Warm Aura (LE, $34.00) is more shimmery, warmer (90% similar).
- Sephora Dusk (P, $16.00) is more shimmery, darker (90% similar).
- Makeup Revolution Moon Glow Lights (P, $6.00) is lighter (90% similar).
- Guerlain Holographic (Left) (LE, ) is more shimmery, warmer (90% similar).
- L'Oreal Ice (P, $12.99) is more shimmery (90% similar).
- The Estee Edit 1st Light (LE, ) is lighter (90% similar).
Formula Overview
$42.00/0.21 oz. - $200.00 Per Ounce
The formula is supposed to be "long-wearing" that feels "weightless" on the skin. It is supposed to have a glow that is "seamless" and creates a "flash of light" and "intense payoff." It's a cream highlighter with a smooth, thin, and very lightweight consistency that has a touch of tackiness and never fully dries down on the skin, but it did not slide around during the day like I worried it might. It could be applied directly from the tube, but I did prefer using my fingertips to pat it onto the areas I wanted, as it made it easier to build up and diffuse along the edges. When applied from the tube onto the skin, it was definitely intense and opaque in a single layer, as described. There was a softly luminous sheen from it being a cream texture, but there was also a lot of shine from the shimmer, too. I found that none of the five emphasized my skin's natural texture, and they were easy to blend on bare skin as well as over foundation (liquid). They lasted around eight to nine hours on me before starting to get a touch patchy.
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Ingredients
This long-wearing, innovative formula adjusts to your body temperature to blend effortlessly into the skin. Soft-focus technology creates a flash of light on the skin for a virtually perfect highlight every time. Itās also formulated with hollow microspheres for a weightless feel on the skin. The unique, triangular bullet is designed to give you the most precise application. Layer multiple shades to create your own custom shades and looks. Vanishā¢ Flash Highlighter is designed to work synergistically with the Vanishā¢ Seamless Finish Foundation Stick.
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This is the one I was most interested in but, at $52 here, a B rating simply isn’t good enough and I have at least 2 dupes (the Maybelline one and one from the Estee Edit palette), making this a painless “pass”. I’ll wait to see how the rose gold one performs (are you reviewing that one also?)
The shade is absolutely beautiful!
With love from Bavaria/Germany, Rena
I glad to hear that these work over foundations as most cream/stick highlighters to break down foundations. But none of these lighter shades work for me and my pale skin. lol
It’s *nice*, but it doesn’t compare to the other 3 of these that you just reviewed over the past several days. Besides, I have CP Teasecake!
I wanted this at launch, but the price and what I feel I would get out if it are not forming a planetary conjunction
I love the shade of this, but I definitely need something that sets down!
This is sooooo pretty! But for that price, Iād need it to be pretty AND wash my dishes too.
Hmmm, for $52 it better be an A.