Too Faced Rainbow Strobe Highlighter Review, Photos, Swatches
Rainbow Strobe
Too Faced Rainbow Strobe Rainbow Effect Highlighter ($30.00 for 0.28 oz.) is a light gold with strong, yellow undertones and a sparkling finish. I found that the pigmentation of the yellow and gold were strong, but the aqua and lavender were very weak with the coral somewhere in-between, which I expect is why it was dominated by a light gold color overall. Swirled together, it had good pigmentation with a sparkling, drier consistency that had a tendency to sheer out on the skin. It wore well for seven hours but had noticeable sparkle migration during the day.
While there were multiple stripes of color, I really could not get them to appear individually on my cheek bones, even when using a dense, flat brush (not Too Faced’s but ones similar in shape). They just… ran together… and sheered out quite a bit due to the drier, chunkier texture. I tried using my fingertip just to try and get a swatch of the shades as a rainbow, and again, it just looked like glittering gold with a few cooler flecks of shimmer toward the bottom.
Top Dupes
- Tarte Daylight (LE, ) is less shimmery (95% similar).
- ILIA Decades (P, $34.00) is less shimmery (95% similar).
- Urban Decay Now's the Time (LE, $26.00) is less shimmery (95% similar).
- Linda Hallberg Cosmetics Virgio (P, $21.00) is less shimmery (95% similar).
- ColourPop Goody Two Shu (LE, $10.00) is less shimmery, darker, cooler (90% similar).
- Anastasia Sunburst (LE, ) is cooler (90% similar).
- ColourPop Thimble (LE, $10.00) is less shimmery (90% similar).
- Milani Pearl (PiP, ) is lighter (90% similar).
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- Hourglass Pure Strobe Light (LE, ) is less shimmery, darker (90% similar).
Ingredients
Golden Peach: Talc, Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Squalane, Diisostearyl Malate, Boron Nitride, Mica, Zea Mays (Corn) Starch/Zea Mays Starch, HDI/Trimethylol Hexyllactone Crosspolymer, Aluminum Hydroxide, Caprylyl Glycol, Dimethicone, Dimethiconol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Limonene, Linalool, Fragrance, Quartz, Silica, Tin Oxide, Zinc Stearate, Red 7 Lake (Ci 15850), Yellow 5 Lake (Ci 19140), Iron Oxides (Ci 77491), Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891). Amesthyst Pearl: Talc, Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Squalane, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Diisostearyl Malate, Silica, Boron Nitride, Mica, Zea Mays (Corn) Starch/Zea Mays Starch, HDI/Trimethylol Hexyllactone Crosspolymer, Aluminum Hydroxide, Caprylyl Glycol, Dimethicone, Dimethiconol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Limonene, Linalool, Fragrance, Quartz, Tin Oxide, Zinc Stearate, Red 7 Lake (Ci 15850), Ultramarines (Ci 77007), Iron Oxides (Ci 77491), Ferric Ferrocyanide (Ci 77510), Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891). Sunshine Yellow: Talc, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Squalane, Diisostearyl Malate, Boron Nitride, Mica, Zea Mays (Corn) Starch/Zea Mays Starch, HDI/Trimethylol Hexyllactone Crosspolymer; Caprylyl Glycol, Dimethicone, Dimethiconol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Limonene, Linalool, Fragrance, Quartz, Silica, Tin Oxide, Zinc Stearate, Yellow 5 Lake (Ci 19140), Iron Oxides (Ci 77491), Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891). Ice Blue: Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Talc, Squalane, Diisostearyl Malate, Boron Nitride, Mica, Zea Mays (Corn) Starch/Zea Mays Starch, HDI/Trimethylol Hexyllactone Crosspolymer; Caprylyl Glycol, Dimethicone, Dimethiconol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Limonene, Linalool, Fragrance, Quartz, Silica, Tin Oxide, Zinc Stearate, Yellow 5 Lake (Ci 19140), Blue 1 Lake (Ci 42090), Chromium Oxide Greens (Ci 77288), Ferric Ferrocyanide (Ci 77510), Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891). Candy Pink: Talc, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate, Calcium Aluminum Borosilicate, Squalane, Diisostearyl Malate, Boron Nitride, Mica, Zea Mays (Corn) Starch/Zea Mays Starch, HDI/Trimethylol Hexyllactone Crosspolymer; Aluminum Hydroxide, Caprylyl Glycol, Dimethicone, Dimethiconol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Limonene, Linalool, Fragrance, Quartz, Silica, Tin Oxide, Zinc Stearate, Carmine (Ci 75470), Red 7 Lake (Ci 15850), Yellow 5 Lake (Ci 19140), Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891).
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This is so 80s. I feel liked I need my Care Bears bike and Rainbow Bright doll.
If only it had the same intensity of the Care Bear stare 🙂
Not like I’m into rainbow highlighters or anything, but this one falls FLAT. WnW did it far better, as did a few other brands. If one is for that striped cheek effect. As for this one being used swirled together, it’s not terrible, not great, either. My conclusion: Meh.
It was so strange that it didn’t have more… nuance!
I passed on this. I have the Wet n Wild version.
Glad you have a dupe!
Yikes.. why does Too Faced do this. They keep releasing really kitsch products that really seem like it could be children’s play makeup. I wouldn’t mind the playfulness of it if the product was actually well performing because I’m sure I would probably buy it. I hope their next releases will be better!
I wish it was better!
I hadn’t planned on getting this. I feel the unicorn/rainbow theme just needs to end – and really, how many of these rainbow highighters are there already on the market?! Still, I was curious. Thanks for the swatches. Makes for an even easier pass!
I was done with the unicorn/mermaid craze about a week after it first took off (am I officially getting old? Is that it? Oh dear), but if you’re going to go colourful and bold, at least make your product perform well. At some point it just feels like exploiting a gimmick and perhaps a younger audience who will soon move on to the next trend and forget all about the misses in these collections.