Review: NYC Limited Edition Blushable Creme Stick in Gold Radiance

If you caught my post last week about the new limited edition NYC summer collection called Bronze Bliss, you know that I was SO excited about the two limited edition Blushable Creme Sticks! I love these things, and I was thrilled to see a bronzer and a highlighter in this collection.

I picked up the highligher, Gold Radiance, at Rite Aid, and I've been testing it out for about a week now:

 NYC limited edition Blushable Creme Stick in Gold Radiance

(retail: $3.99, 0.28 oz)

My camera really distorted the true color of this product,  but in post-editing I was able to tweak the following pictures to get them as close as possible to what I see with my naked eye (by the way, I try to do this with ALL photos I post on this blog--it really bothers me if I post a pic that doesn't closely resemble what I see with my naked eye):

Here are few pics of what Gold Radiance looks like when swatched on my arm. Keep in mind that this is BEFORE blending:

As you can see, this shade is a lovely pale gold with a tiny hint of champagne. I LOVE it.

But I do want to warn you non-glitter-lovers out there that once this product is blended on the skin, there are some gold glitter particles that you can see quite easily with the naked eye. Here's a pic of it blended on the top of my hand:

And here's a pic of Gold Radiance blended onto my (otherwise makeup-free) face:

You can see that the gold glitter on the top of my cheekbone and to the right of my eye reflects off the flash of my camera in this pic. In real life, the light has to hit my face at a certain angle for the glitter to become obvious, but when I see it, I can REALLY see it. In other words, you're going to have to love sparkle to use this product, for sure.

I found that this product lasted all day on my skin, but the shimmery color did lose its vibrancy before the end of the day, leaving behind just the gold glitter on my skin.

FINAL VERDICT: Used strategically, the NYC Blushable Creme Stick in Gold Radiance is a very easy way to give your skin a golden sparkle exactly where you want it. This product didn't seem to migrate to other areas of my face, and I like using it on my upper cheek bones for a golden sparkle to help illuminate my skin. I would probably only use this product at night, but that's only because I'm not big on glitter in the daytime. I don't regret this purchase at all because I don't have another cream product like this in my stash, and for $3.99 I think it's quite a bargain given how easily it blends on the skin. I can't wait to try the LE bronzer next!

Have you spotted the NYC LE Bronze Bliss collection in stores yet? Have you purchased anything?