ColourPop Fly By Pixie Puff Highlighter Review & Swatches

- November 25, 2019

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Colour Pop Fly By Pixie Puff Highlighter ($16.00 for 0.44 oz.) is a soft, peachy copper base with a soft sheen paired with larger, gold micro-sparkle throughout. It had semi-sheer, buildable color coverage–I used a tapered highlighting brush to apply to my cheeks–which seemed in line with it as it was described as an all-over powder.

The texture was finely-milled, picked up well with the included pouf for all-over body application with a subtle deposit of shimmer and faint sparkle. When applied as a cheek product, I had no trouble applying and blending the product out on my skin. It wore well for eight hours on my cheeks, but it seemed to have slightly shorter wear worn on my collarbones near my neckline as it wasn’t transfer-resistant.

Every time I put the lid and pushed it downward, in place to close it, I had a significant amount of pixie dust (see what I did there?) fly every which way. It did this repeatedly, without fail, even though there was (seemingly) no excess product in the lid.

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