Bronze

Natasha Denona Bronze Face Glow Palette ($55.00 for 0.4 oz.) is a new, seemingly-permanent palette that features four luminous shades with two cream-based formulas and two powder-based formulas. The cream formulas were disappointing and a deliberate departure from the brand's prior formulas but not in a good way. The powder formulas were consistent with past releases--they worked best with denser brushes/firmer hand but have no powderiness and "melt" a bit when applied to bare skin.

It includes a new formula--Bounce Cream--that's used for the highlighter and blush shades in the top row. I wish there was more information about the formulas on the brand's site. They are more of a cream-powder formula, but they were both quite thin, not that emollient, and firmer, which made them harder to pick up with any time of brush. They were only usable with fingertips, and I felt like I had to do a heavier swirl to get coverage to translate onto my skin.

Sephora has a very lightweight "how to" on the Cream Bounce shades that says to apply the highlighter with "your fingertip" and the blush with "your fingertip or a blush brush." From that minute piece of information, my best approximation is that fingertips will yield higher coverage while brushes will yield sheerer coverage (which is line with other brand's descriptions of comparable formulas, like ColourPop Super Shock Cheek).

The formula felt clay-like, so it indented and pushed to the sides as I pressed my fingertip against it, but it didn't have the traditional wetness of a full-on cream formula. The lack of glide in the formula reminded me of the brand's first iterations of cream-powder eyeshadows in pots that got much creamier in the next release.

As a note, Natasha Denona's palettes come with a plastic lid that goes over the cream shades to prevent the powder shades from getting into them.

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