Sephora Twilight Golden Hour Highlighting Powder Review, Photos, Swatches
Twilight
Sephora Twilight Golden Hour Highlighting Powder ($16.00 for 0.28 oz.) is a brighter, light-medium lavender with cool undertones and a luminous sheen. It had a noticeable glow on the skin, but it did not accentuate my skin’s natural texture.
The formula is supposed to have a “soft, luminous glow with a sheer wash of color” that can be “worn alone or layered.” It had sheer coverage, which was buildable to medium coverage if desired, and of the four shades, this shade was most true to the pigmentation claims made. The consistency was smooth and velvety, where it felt more like a cream product as it was denser. The powder applied evenly to bare skin, blended out nicely, and stayed on for eight hours.
Top Dupes
- ColourPop Trickles (LE, $12.00) is more shimmery (95% similar).
- ColourPop Poor Unfortunate Souls (LE, $10.00) is cooler (90% similar).
- Urban Decay Peroxide (LE, $26.00) is warmer (90% similar).
- Too Faced Unicorn Tears (Highlighter) (LE, ) is more shimmery, cooler (90% similar).
- Morphe Stardust (P, $14.00) is more shimmery, cooler (90% similar).
- ColourPop Rocket Science (P, $10.00) is more shimmery (90% similar).
- Jouer Celestial (LE, $24.00) is lighter (90% similar).
- Anastasia Purple Horseshoe (LE, ) is more shimmery, cooler (90% similar).
- Sleek MakeUP Hemisphere (PiP, ) is more shimmery, cooler (90% similar).
- Urban Decay Disco Queen (LE, $29.00) is more shimmery (90% similar).
Ingredients
Talc, Ci 77891 (Titanium Dioxide), Mica, Nylon-12, Alumina, Octyldodecyl Stearoyl Stearate, Dimethicone, Zinc Stearate, Polybutene, Caprylyl Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Ci 75470 (Carmine), Tin Oxide, Ci 77007 (Ultramarines), Hexylene Glycol, Ci 77499 (Iron Oxides), Tocopheryl Acetate.
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I like that you can build this one up, I’ll have to check this one out the next time I’m at Sephora! It looks pretty on the skin.
I hope you can find it, Aj!
I am so excited by this ranking – I’ve been keeping an eye on this so I’m kind of looking forward to swatching these in-store!
Yayy! 🙂
Because this is a “warmer* shade of lavender, it doesn’t give off as stark a purple hue. Instead, it seems that once you blended it out, it has enough warmth to it that those who don’t have cooler and/or pale/deep skin tone extremes can wear this one! So far, the only lavender highlighter that I’ve been able to wear without looking very strange, has been Nyx Lavender Steele. Sometimes CP Monster can look alright, too.
I’m glad you found one, though! Lavender Steele is a nice one 🙂
I can’t decide how this might look on me; I feel like it would be stark on my yellow skin, but it’s sheer enough that it would probably blend and “average” in color with my skintone. I’m intrigued.
Oh my gosh, this is so pretty!!!
It is!
It’s a lovely shade, I think it’s perfect for those of us that kinda want to buy into the unicorn look without looking like a teen.
It has a nice sheen!
I like it!
Woohoo!
A very unusual shade, but it is sure to suit some complexions.
It should!
I just bought this yesterday and I like it. The colour is really flatering on me. I swatched Dusk too, but Twilight looked best on me. 🙂