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Smashbox Soft Lights
What it is:A highlighting powder.What it does:These jumbo pots of silk-like powder add soft color and/or shimmer to the face and body.
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Review 1 for Soft Lights
BosBeaut
Location:Boston
Awesome
-05.18.13
Quick Take: soft shimmer, sheer coverage
Absolutely love this highlighter!
I was using Benefit High Beam, but a consultant at North Shore Sephora turned me onto this!
I use "Shimmer" and it is the perfect all over highlighter for my fair complexion.
I was using Benefit High Beam, but a consultant at North Shore Sephora turned me onto this!
I use "Shimmer" and it is the perfect all over highlighter for my fair complexion.
I used to use High Beam on a daily basis, but haven't even touched it since I bought this! Well done, Smashbox.
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Review 2 for Soft Lights
Love It
-05.06.13
Quick Take: soft shimmer
This is a nice highlighter, spendy though. I just found Physicians Formula has illuminizing pearl compact, I bought it and works like this does, for 1/3 price. So I will use this for special occasions and but the other brand from now on.
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Review 3 for Soft Lights
Prism over blush adds glow
-05.01.13
Quick Take: soft shimmer
I bought Prism specifically to wear over blush, to give the blush an iridescent glow. Awesome!!! Works beautifully :-)
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Review 4 for Soft Lights
Healthy Looking Skin
-03.26.13
I have been searching for several years for a replacement to my Estee Lauder Shimmer shell that was introduced as a spring item several years ago. This product is as close to it as possible. Not too shimmery and yet highlighting. I like to use it with a tinted moisturizer or a BB cream. It makes for a quick makeup and healthy looking skin. Love it.
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Review 5 for Soft Lights
mrsjfresh
Beautiful
-03.23.13
Awesome product - layers well, great for controlling how much shimmer you'd like. I'm so glad I bought this!
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Review 6 for Soft Lights
rlg918
HG Status
-03.20.13
I'm sort of obsessed with highlighters, and powders are my favorite. While I love my NARS Albatross, it's a little much for day wear (not that I let that stop me very often). This highlighter is so soft and subtle, much more of a realistic lit from within glow than some other, more glittery products. I got it in Shimmer and it's a pretty pink champagne. Perfect for the tops of my cheekbones, I always get tons of compliments on my skin when I wear it. Plus the tub is so huge, I'll never run out! I can't rave enough!
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Review 7 for Soft Lights
Great. A little goes a long way!
-02.25.13
Quick Take: light weight, sheer, sparkly
I usually don't wear blush too often or highlighter. But this was the perfect combination between the two. And very subtle, and a little goes a long way. Cant't wait to wear it in the summer time!
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Review 8 for Soft Lights
great for fair skin
-02.08.13
Quick Take: soft shimmer, sheer coverage
I wanted something that made my face have a healthy color, a subtle shimmer, and NOT be a blush. I'm very fair skinned so I didn't want something too pink or too bronze. This checked everything off my list. Love it!
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Review 9 for Soft Lights
Normally love smashbox, but not this product
-02.07.13
Quick Take: heavy
I did not like how cakey the highlighting powder was....it made my face look heavy instead of giving it a glow. I wish Philosophy would bring back their highlighting powder.
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Review 10 for Soft Lights
Excellent product
-01.28.13
I have this in the pink pearl, the warmer of the two. I use a large fan brush to add luminosity to my matte fdtn, as I do not use the "glow from w/i" foundations, I want to control where the "glow" is, and this is so creamy it does not look drying at all. Wonderful product from a true "m/u artists" line.
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Review 11 for Soft Lights
me0312
Sweet
-01.26.13
I love the light pink glow it gives me and makes me feel very feminine :)
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Review 12 for Soft Lights
lexylauren
prism shade
-01.22.13
I use it as a blush and it looks flawless everytime. Perfect color, perfect pigment.
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Review 14 for Soft Lights
Smashbox Soft Lights
-12.28.12
Really nice product - leaves my skin looking very healthy. I have recently started layering this with a sheer bright pink blush so there are a lot of possibilities with this highlighter.
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Review 15 for Soft Lights
-12.13.12
Quick Take: soft shimmer
I borrow when my mom isn't looking! She has this in the colour "Shimmer". It gives a nice luminous look. I would say to use a light hand when applying, just to avoid fallout to areas of the face you don't want to highlight. The texture of the powder is indeed silky smooth. The pigmentation is not at all over-powering or anything like that. I'm not a huge fan of the packaging. This has a twist on lid, and there seems to be a lot of powder in the grooves of the base (that might just be because my mom is messy though!).
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Review 16 for Soft Lights
jg81583
Perfect!
-12.08.12
Gives your face a great splash of color. Highly recommend!
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Review 17 for Soft Lights
the only highlighter for me!
-11.19.12
Quick Take: soft shimmer, silky, subtle glow
love this product. i use primarily on my cheekbones (over blush), then lightly dust the top of the forehead, bridge of nose and chin to impart a subtle "lit from within" glow that lasts the entire day. it's the perfect finishing touch to any look.
deducting one star because it's a little pricey and the packaging doesn't protect the product at all. one drop and the powder breaks into a million pieces (which inevitably happens to me every time - argh!). otherwise, a must-have for everyone's makeup wardrobe!
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Review 18 for Soft Lights
maggiek1223
Location:San Francisco, CA
Skin Type:Combination
amazing powder
-11.17.12
Quick Take: soft shimmer
I love this highlighting powder. It gives you such a nice glow, and gives your face that extra bit of luminosity.
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Review 19 for Soft Lights
puppyface
-11.16.12
This product was pretty but it gave a little too much color to my face so I ended up returning it.
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Review 20 for Soft Lights
Shimmer is the best!
-11.10.12
I tried this in the Sephora store because I was on the search for a new highlighter. I have tried quite a few different ones and this is by far the best powder highlighter. I am completely sold and actually use it every day. Sometimes I would skip highlighting, but because of this product, I use it EVERY DAY, absolute staple and necessity now. If you use a light hand on the top of the cheek bones, gives you a very subtle glow. It is EXACTLY what a highlight should be, just that, a highlight! Not overly shimmery or overpowering, very subtle. Just gives your face that extra 'pop' in the morning. Love it and highly recommend it.
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