Have you ever bought a product thinking it works in one way
and then later found out that it works in a completely different way?
That was my experience with The Body Shop’s Tinted Glow Enhancer
in shade 01.
For anyone wondering why an Indian lady with seriously warm
yellow skin tones, would go and buy Shade 01 of a face product, that too from a
foreign brand, read the story below.
For those who are here to know if the product is good or
bad, skip straight to the review section.
Story behind this –
Let this be a moral to all those ladies who get charmed by
the SA at a beauty counter and buy products thinking, ‘hey I wanna get her look so may be if I buy
what she says ill glow like her’. SAs are not beauty goddesses, let’s keep in
that in mind and may god grant me the strength to say No to the ladies at MAC and Sephora.
Here it is –Shopaholic Lady[SL] goes into beauty store - Gets blinded by
the 1000W smile of the SA - Looks around to see what she can grab to make her
look as good- SA demos anything that she feels didn’t sell much that month - SL
gets dazzled by the promises of radiant beauty awaiting her with one touch of
the product – SL buys it and the happy glow of a new purchase surrounds her
till she goes home and tries it………….
Try and believe – I went in to buy a foundation for a daily
wear and got bamboozled into buying a highlighter that is around 5 shades light
for my skin tone…That's the wicked power of SAs!!! BEWARE!
And I actually liked it when I tried it in store… I remember
thinking Wow, that will make me glow…
To my credit, I did ask the SA if there was a darker shade
but the Delilah assured me it suits me best..grrrr…
After finally accepting defeat that I cannot use this as a
foundation [ unless I get a job as a disco dancer] I checked some reviews and
found that this was actually a highlighter!!!!!!!
This was in 2011 and I was still not yet attuned to reading
reviews before buying.
Review of the product-
This is a very light colored pearl shine cream that doesn’t have
any tint, though it says tinted [unless white is a tint!] On blending it starts as a pearly whitish cream and then
blends into skin leaving some glitter [I think it is] and some shine.As I found out after a painful journey, this is actually a
highlighter and not a tinted moisturizer that can be mixed with a foundation.
The SA told me to mix it with my foundation to make it ‘glow’ and I tried using this with my
regular foundation [I think it was Lotus Herbals].I can’t explain how weird it looked, it didn’t look like I rubbed
some glitter but neither did it look like glowing.The best I can say is I looked like I tried to dress up as
Galadriel from LOTR and failed miserably.
My next plan was to use this as a highlighter and again, to
be very honest I didn’t like it.
It didn’t do anything much. It is very light colored for
Indian skin tones, I don’t know why they stocked this shade here.I have read good reviews of the tinted versions. This one
leaves a very very subtle shimmer if used as a highlighter. And it doesn’t last long enough. I tried layering it with
another matte blush, it didn’t work well.
That is the problem I face. If I use it over a foundation it
looks too subtle unless I lay it very heavily.
If I use it with foundation, it made me dressed for a
Halloween LOTR party.
If I use it on bare skin it just made it look very nice for
30mins or max 1 hour and then nothing- no tint, no glow, no moisture, nothing!
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| Blended into skin directly - it left a whitish cast over the skin for around 30-45mins and then faded |
I can’t find this product anymore in Body Shop website, so I
assume they finally got the message and took it off.May be I am doing it wrong, if this product worked for
anyone, let me know, I am keeping it till it expires Mar 2014.
