THIS BRONZER IS LIFE....I finally shreak as I sit here on my sofa contemplating if I am ready to tell you about the sheer joy this bronzer has brought into my life in the past month. I fucking love this bronzer. Yah...I said fuck. It's that good, sorry for my language. As you already know, bronzers are a staple items for me. I wear a bronzer everyday...every face includes a bronzer. Fevered by my makeup obsession, I figured I would splurge. Kevyn Aucoin has never done me wrong.
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| Kevyn Aucoin The Celestial Bronzing Veil Tropical Nights |
Kevyn Aucoin Makeup is sold in Canada at
Sephora.com and I have purchased before from
beautymark.ca as well, they have free shipping over $99.00 in Canada and great customer service. I purchased the Celestial Bronzing Veil in Tropical Nights from Sephora as I needed to meet my VIB quota..needed..come on, first world issues. Sigh.. This bronzer costs......$58.00 CDN for .34 oz. yah, $58.00 plus tax in Manitoba is $65.54 for a god damn bronzer. I think it's cray cray but I knew going into this that it was a gift to myself. It's a small amount for the price but I swear it will last you forever!
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| Kevyn Aucoin Celestial Bronzing Veil Tropical Nights |
First off, let's talk packaging for a $58.00 bronzer. This beauty came in a gold box, opened up to a small velvet sleeve which holds "my precious". The bronzer is contained in a Maroon and gold plastic container. The mechanism of opening is ridiculous..a gold bar that you press down on with a smooth glide opening. Nicest packaging of a bronzer that I own. Fact. Boom.
The bronzer itself is an ombre/gradient definitely not matte with the lightest highlight near the top and the darkest cool brown on the bottom. I love cool bronzers. When my face tans..it tans brown...not orange or copper. So cool bronzers on myself replicate and enhance my natural tan. Tropical Nights is the darkest of the 2 shades. As Sephora only sells this product online and there would be no way for me to see it in person living out here in the sticks, I had to take a chance. For a medium skin toned gal, this shade is perfection. It would be way...way too dark for my blonde fair friends and I even have to use a very, very light hand.
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| Tropical Nights |
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| Tropical Nights |
This bronzer is true cool perfection. It is hella pigmented, I take a mac powder brush and touch that shiz once, I mean touch once, no rubbing or swiping or I would end up blending for days. I do think that a fan brush is probably a better tool for this bronzer but I do not own a fan brush so that's that. The highlight would then hit your cheekbones and bronzer in cheek hollow. I touch more in the middle and use a separate highlighting product (Becca shimmering skin perfector in opal). I can't even tell you how beautiful this is.
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| Tropical Nights on Pretty Dark Arm Skin |
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| Kevyn Aucoin Celestial Bronzer in Tropical Nights Left (top of bronzer) Right Bottom of Bronzer |
Would I repurchase...holy balls... yes yes yes. This is my new favourite bronzer that is not matte.
