Charlotte Tilbury X Norman Parkinson Collection: Dreamy Glow Highlighter Review

Hi Everyone!

“Capture the youthful, soft-focus light of Parkinson’s lens, encased in the dreamy glamour of vintage Hollywood.”

Charlotte Tilbury has teamed up with Norman Parkinson grandson to create an exciting collection based on & featuring some of the portrait and fashion photographer’s most iconic images. I’ve posted an overview of the collection, which you can read here, but wanted to show you the product I picked up, the Dreamy Glow Highlighter, in more detail.

I pre-ordered my item so it arrived in a special presentation box with a booklet inside showing the two looks, Miss 1975 & Miss Kensington, & the products used to achieve them. Some of the products are in the collection & others are permanent. The highlighter box is cream as opposed to the standard burgundy colour of the presentation box and has the signatures of both Charlotte Tilbury and Norman Parkinson. I liked this tough, it felt like the perfect way to marry the work of photographer and makeup artist.

The Dreamy Glow Highlighter is described by Charlotte Tilbury as “a soft, mood-lit Youth Highlighter that creates ‘peaches and cream’, dreamy skin… With golden, mother-of-pearl tones, this highlighting youth powder uses light flex technology to capture light and radiate it out across the skin, for a dreamy soft-focus effect.” The highlighter was created as part of the Miss Kensington Look, giving a fresh faced glow.

The vintage-style compact features an image of model Carmen dell’Orefice, as featured on the cover of the ‘New Holiday Looks In The Bahamas’ edition of Vogue, 1959. I love this image; it’s beautifully shot, beautifully modelled & the playsuit is gorgeous!

When I picked my highlighter up from Selfridges, the makeup artist suggested using it not only in the usual highlighting areas (cheekbone, down the bridge of the nose, on the tip of the nose & on the brow bone), but also with a duo fibre brush as an a finishing powder. I’ve done this in the pictures below. It is worth noting that the packaging states to avoid the eye area, so I personally won’t be using it on the inner corners of my eyes.

“Carmen has been my best friend for over thirty years – she’s electrically charged.” Norman Parkinson

Tania Xx

Ingredients:

TALC, MICA, ISONONYL ISONONANOATE, ORYZA SATIVA (RICE) STARCH, DIMETHICONE, ZEA MAYS (CORN) STARCH, ZINC STEARATE, CAPRYLYL GLYCOL, PHENOXYETHANOL, DIMETHICONOL, HEXYLENE GLYCOL, POLYMETHYLSILSESQUIOXANE, SILICA, TRIMETHYLSILOXYSILICATE, [MAY CONTAIN (+/-): TITANIUM DIOXIDE (CI 77891), MICA, IRON OXIDES (CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), TIN OXIDE (CI 77861)]