 Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. So my goal for today's video was to make an informative video about hourglass powders as well as feature the Hourglass Ambient Metallic Strobe Lighting Palette that just re-released from 2017. What I'm going to be doing just so you know what you're in for is I'm going to start off with featuring this palette, talking about it, my thoughts and opinions, whether or not it is right for you. And then I'm going to continue to swatch it to my other metallic strobe powders that I have from Hourglass as well as compare it to the Ambient Lighting Formula as well to give you more information about hourglass powders in general, how to use them and how to make the best decisions for purchasing them. If you would like to see that, then just keep watching. Before I get into swatching, showing you guys kind of my hourglass powder collection, I do want to demo for you the brand new metallic strobe lighting palette. So like I just previously mentioned, this just re-released. This little trail came out in the holiday collection from 2017. So almost two years ago, it got such great reviews. Everybody loved it so much that they finally re-released it, which you know, can be disappointing because is it really limited edition then if they're re-releasing it? In my personal opinion, I don't mind when they come out with items that they said were supposed to be limited edition again because you know what? It's makeup and if it's a really good product, why not give other people the opportunity to purchase it? I know sometimes when they put things as limited edition, it kind of puts a rush in you like you need to purchase it or you're going to miss out, which is annoying because it is a marketing technique a lot of times and brands aren't being honest and all they want is for brands to be honest. So for that reason, it's in very poor taste of the brands, but as a makeup enthusiast, I feel like everybody should get a chance to divulge in products that are amazing. So I'm very happy that this re-released. Now it does say this is only back limited once again and it's back as limited edition for this summer. If you would like to get your hands on it, I'm pretty sure they're going to actually get rid of this eventually. A funny fact about this little trio is that this has two homes. It has my makeup collection and my mom's makeup collection. So it's definitely been traveling through our collections over the last couple of years. Sometimes I'll use it and keep it for a while. Then my mom will use it and keep it for a while. So this one doesn't have a permanent home, but I definitely ran into my mom's collection to grab it to talk about this with you guys because I know a lot of you are interested and I've already received questions about this product. First thing I want to do is cover this. So just so you know, this is their metallic strobe lighting powder. So our glass has two main kinds of powders. There's the ambient lighting powder and then there is the metallic strobe lighting powder. Now the ambient powders mostly are used as finishing powders, not setting powders, but finishing powders to add an overall glow to your face. However, I do also use the ambient lighting powders for highlight. That is what people also use them for until they came out with this metallic strobe highlight. So if you like a more subtle highlight, ambient lighting powders are the way to go. But if you like that boom bright metallic highlight, definitely go for their strobe powders because that is what's going to give you the really bright glow that people have been asking for. So that's why this formula originally came out a couple of years ago. That was when we were in the age of crazy bright metallic highlighters, which right now I'm not really into. I like those soft focus kind of highlighters that the ambient lighting powders give, but the metallic strobe powder does give you that really bright beam on the face. So I'm going to demo this for you right now. So you get three shades in here. We have absolute strobe light, pure strobe light and lucid strobe light. Now all three of these are limited edition shades. They don't sell these in their regular line. So you can only get these three specific shades in this trio, but they do have this formula now in the regular line. So you can purchase more colors of this formula if you do like that bright beaming formula. So I'm going to get in closer. By the way, forgot to mention this. This little baby is $64 and can be purchased right now on the Hourglass website. Can't believe I forgot to mention that. For application, I'm going to just use this really old Morphe highlighter that I got in a set. It's no longer sold, but Morphe has really good highlighting brushes if you're looking for something to put your highlight on with. I also love my blinked brushes highlight brush, but that one's a little bit too dense. For this formula, I would recommend something a little bit less dense. We're going to start off with absolute strobe right here, which is a little bit more of a pinky based highlight. So as you can see, you get that immediate glow with this powder. And what is very unique about the Hourglass formula is how seamlessly it blends into the skin. So I don't know if you can see that, but just like that, it has blended into one with my skin. It has this weird amazing formula where it doesn't emphasize your texture. So I love this and you can continue to build and pat if you want more blindingness. But for me, I'm going to stop right here. Just so you know, this does have a buildable formula. And even though this is a metallic strobe powder, you can get this very nice subtle level of highlight. This finish versus the ambient lighting finish, if you do use those as highlights, because this has more reflective properties in it. It does reflect a light more. All right, cleaning off the brush. Now I want to show you the Lucent strobe light. Now this one is going to be great for medium or deep skin tones. I did get a question as to whether or not this will work on deep skin tones. Absolutely. It most definitely will. You might struggle with this one just a little bit as it might be a little bit too stark on your skin. But this shade will look really good if you kind of just work it into your skin. And this shade's going to look really nice on deep skin tones. So I'm going to show you on me. So again, this is Lucent. It has almost a little bit of a gold undertone. And if you are light like me, this still does work. It just doesn't show up as well as it would on somebody of a deeper skin tone. But I still really like this on me. It doesn't leave a cast. But when you turn your face, the light hits it and you have this glow. So this almost creates that glow from within kind of look where it is reflective when the light reflects off of it. Whereas with the absolute strobe light, I mean, you can kind of tell I got highlighter on. Now I'm going to go into the center of pure strobe light. Obviously, this one's going to be great for fair skin tones if you are more of a medium to deep. What I would suggest you do if you want to use this is you can use it all over the eyelid. You can use it for that bomb inner corner highlight or just as I'm doing just pop it right in the center right here to give you that extra BAM. So do you see that really, really stunning? I'm going to put just a bit like right here so you can see and then let me grab a brush. So I'm still using that center highlight. I have had plenty of time to play around with this palette and truly it is one of my favorite highlight formulas. It is one of the prettiest highlight formulas. What I like is how buildable it is. So you can really get your highlight to just how you like with this and our glass has such a unique finely milled formula that it just blends into the skin beautifully. So that is what makes it unique compared to other brands. So I definitely highly recommend this if you're interested. What is also awesome about it is that these are limited edition colors that you can't buy individually. So if you're looking to build your hourglass collection or just get something unique, this is a great way to go. So I do recommend it obviously during these times it is not necessary highlighter is not the most important thing in life right now. But if this is something you are eyeing, I just want to let you know that this is a really nice palette are colors that are universally flattering in here and it's a beautiful formula. There you go. You see it. So now what I want to get into is showing you different formulas from hourglass different colors that I personally own. I don't own the whole line from hourglass, but I do want to share with you some of my other favorite powders that you might be interested in. If you're not interested in this metallic strobe powder. First thing I am going to do though is compare these colors to my other metallic strobe powders that I have. So I'm going to start off by swatching these three in this trio for you. We have absolute pure and lucid. So one thing about hourglass powders that you really do need to note is it's not about swatching with these guys where hourglass shines is how it looks on the face. I mean these swatches are very, very nice and they're quite reflective, but it doesn't really embody how it looks on the face. So just keep that in mind. So we're talking about the metallic formulas solely right here that I'm going to get into my ambient light powders that I really like if you're looking for something more subtle and how I like to use those. I have one individual of the strobe light powders. This one is iridescent. So I'm going to let you take a look how this differs. So this one is a little bit more champagne, a little bit more pink. So compared to the closest one right here, which is absolute. The one in this trio is it's just more metallic. It's more reflective. It really is. But I do want to kind of show you how they compare. So I'm going to compare it directly with absolute right here. So even then this is a strobe powder, but it's not as reflective as the one in the trio. So I'm telling you this trio really is very, very special. This looks chalky and not shiny. It looks beautiful on the skin. That's what makes this video hard. You kind of have to wear it and even when you put it on, you're like, yeah, but then you go out and you live your life and you're like, these are awesome. Let's see what else do I have? I know I have a few more strobe powders to kind of show you. This is from the ambient lighting edit volume three. They come out with these babies every year. So number two right here. This is a strobe powder and in hypnotic light. See again, this is only going to give you a very subtle glow on the face swatches are making this trio look better and better. This is the ghost unlocked. So this is an older palette that was re-released in packaging. They have a metallic strobe powder. So there is a strobe powder, which is not as metallic. And then there is a metallic strobe powder, which is what that trio is and what is in here as well. So also keep that in mind. So the two eye swatch that are not in the trio. Those are just strobe powders. This is the metallic, which is also very unique right here from that ghost edit. That's how that's looking compared to the others. This is a little bit more champagne kind of closer to my personal skin tone. We have another strobe powder. So not a metallic strobe powder, but this one is in the lighting edit ghost palette. This is the newest one. This is just that lighting edit ghost palette. And in here, you only have one strobe powder. So this is not going to be the metallic strobe powder. So different layers, the ambient lighting and then you have the strobe powder, which is a little bit more beaming and then you have the metallic strobe powder, which you can do the math. You know what that is. This is just a regular strobe powder from the edit palette. So as you can see, those metallics really do stand out much more going through those strobe powders and the metallic strobe powders. You can see these metallic strobe powders. They're just better. That's what makes this formula kind of unique to hourglass. It's just not as common within their regular big palettes. So this is a great way to get that formula if you want that metallic punch. So we're going to quickly talk about some of my favorite ambient lighting powders. These ones are much different than the highlighting powders because these can be used as highlights. They're mostly supposed to be used as finishing powder. So you're still supposed to set your face and then you put those ambient powders on top and it kind of diffuses everything on your face, kind of blurs everything, but adds I would say an ethereal glow to your face that you don't notice until you go out into the real world and certain lights hit you. So these ambient lighting powders especially don't watch them because they're just not going to look like anything special. It's all about how they look on the face. So my number one recommendation if you're into the ambient lighting powders would be this little trio right here. This gives you everything you need dim light right here is one that I definitely recommend to you guys the most if you're looking to buy a single because this one you can put all over your face. It's one of my favorites. It's one of the most universal incandescent light. This is what I use as an actual highlight. So before I tried the metallic strobe powders. This is what I use as a highlight. It's very subtle but it does add brightness to your face in the areas that you need and because I am like to medium skin tone and this does work as a highlight. Of course, if you're very fair, this could be your all over color and then dim light is great for medium skin tones as that all over finishing powder and then you can use it as a highlight for deep skin tones. So truly I really love this palette. This is the one I most highly recommend. Now how I like to apply it. I haven't applied a finishing powder yet. You want to get a not dense brush at all. Very loose, fluffy brush. I recommend this refer number six brush. This is what I've been using as a bronzer. So I don't want to use that. The blinged brush f15 is also not very dense. It's a great way to kind of disperse the product over your face. Today, I'm just going to use my esum x51. So I use the darkest shade over my bronzer to diffuse that kind of get rid of those harsh edges. But I'm just going to actually mix all three today. This is a great technique as well with this palette. And if you just go over everything, it really blurs your face and makes the makeup blend together. So if you struggle with those cheek products making your makeup blend together, this is the ultimate trick that you need. You're not going to be able to tell the difference. That's the thing that is sad. But instantly my face just looks better. It looks more blurred when I go outside. That beautiful glow from within is going to just make my skin look much more perfected and much more glowy and ethereal and just overall beautiful. This is definitely the ambient lighting powder that I most recommend. Let me swatch this for you just so you can see how boring they are. Like you can see there is nothing special about these. That's what I don't want to swatch them for you. But they do have that very subtle glow and this one definitely does stand out. That's why I use it as a highlighter. But just kind of compare it to these luminous light is a great highlight for more medium skin tones where I like to put this is I'll just do it under my eyes. Please don't use this to set your under eyes. It would not work. It would emphasize all the texture you have down there. But for me today I put a concealer on that was too dark and this just kind of using that very loosely packed brush is just going to kind of add a little bit of brightness in that area when certain lights hit and then we have diffused light which this one is a little bit white. I would not recommend this for deep skin tones. But if you are fair to light this is a really great powder. If you're medium uses as a highlight just right on the tops of the cheekbones if you don't like really reflective highlights this is the way to go and then of course within each of these edit palettes you do get a lot of ambient powders that are going to allow you to play around. I'll sometimes they'll have colors from their original line. Sometimes they will have brand new colors but for the most part the way that I would gauge how to use your ambient lighting powders is based on your own skin tone. If it is closer to your skin tone use that as an all over finishing powders to blur everything together to just make your face look seamless. It's really amazing how much a powder can actually affect your skin like that. If it is lighter use it in the areas that need highlighted with a little bit of a lighter color which would be in the chin if you want to make the chin kind of stand out more in the center of your forehead especially if you have a very short forehead and then of course in this area right here then if you were to purchase a deeper one that is what I used to diffuse my bronzer make everything seem more seamless so that is all dependent on your skin tone what ambient lighting powder to use. They all definitely blur the skin and that's just the best way to use it from what I've discovered. I hope this video was helpful in some way shape or form. I just kind of wanted to be a little bit more informative about our glass powders in general what I think of the new trio that is out whether or not you need it also just sharing with you how I use the regular ambient lighting powder and how it differs from the strobe powders and the metallic strobe powders. I hope this video wasn't too confusing. I mean overall if you still don't know if you want the new hourglass trio I will say it's much more different than the other items that they have to offer right now and it is a great highlighting formula so that's all I have for today's video and thank you guys so much for watching. Hourglass powders are so special so I would love for you to comment down below some of your favorite hourglass powders and how you like to use them. If you aren't subscribed to my channel I hope you guys take the time to do so and I will see you guys in the next one. Bye guys have a good one.