Morning Star
Melt Cosmetics Digital Dust Highlight
Melt Cosmetics Morning Star is a moderately warm-toned, very light gold with a metallic finish. It is a permanent highlighter that retails for $39.00 and contains 0.28 oz.
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Melt Cosmetics Morning Star Digital Dust Highlight ($39.00 for 0.28 oz.) is a bright, pale gold with warmer undertones and pink and gold micro-sparkle over a metallic finish. It had opaque pigmentation in a single layer, which was easily blended out for sheerer coverage or applied with a lighter hand (or more feathery brush) for more buildable coverage. It had a moderate glow in one layer, and it built up to more metallic, lit-from-space kind of glow with two layers of product.
The texture was smooth to the touch, firmer and denser without being heavy or thick, so it needed a more rounded, moderately dense brush to pick up product evenly (as it had more of a gel-powder formula). The powder applied evenly to my skin and blended out without difficulty. It didn't emphasize my skin's texture unless worn at high coverage and built up for a more intense glow, but one layer (and blended) of product was luminous without accentuating my skin's texture. It wore well for eight and a half hours (though it was marketed as 12-hour wear) on my skin before fading noticeably.
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Morning Star
PPermanent. $39.00.
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