{"id":30324,"date":"2021-07-21T20:46:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T20:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=30324"},"modified":"2021-07-21T22:04:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T22:04:03","slug":"glossier-solar-paint-bronzer-review","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/glossier-solar-paint-bronzer-review\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Made Glossier\u2019s New Solar Paint Bronzers Work for Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30370\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30370\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/07\/final_60f87abb168ec5006247a95d_196233.gif\" alt=\"glossier\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Photo by Amanda Mitchell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a makeup connoisseur and beauty writer, I have lot of opinions on makeup, skincare, hair care, and everything in between. I am ultra passionate about beauty \u2014 something you, dear reader, likely agree with, given that you&#8217;re&#8230; reading this article \u2014 and regular discussions of new launches and beloved products with my friends shows that what works for me may not work for them, and I love that for all of us. For years, Glossier has been one of the biggest &#8220;good for you, not for me&#8221; brands on the market \u2014 and for good reason. The Insta-girl brand has been handed their fair share of criticism for only working a certain type of complexion and not being made for anyone with more than one zit a week and not for anyone darker than <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/gabrielle-union-billboard-music-awards\/\">Gabrielle Union<\/a>. They&#8217;ve done their best to respond to the criticism by expanding their shade ranges and formulas, admittedly, but we digress. But the brand maintains they&#8217;re listening to requests and criticism from their fans, and today, they released their most-requested item, a cream bronzer called Solar Paint.<\/p>\n<p>Glossier described Solar Paint as &#8220;a weightless, luminous bronzer cr\u00e8me for instant summer skin,&#8221; &#8220;designed to capture the warm glow you get from spending a day in the sunshine.&#8221; They call Solar Paint&#8217;s formula as a gel-cr\u00e8me, infused with a micro-emulsion of plant oils and extracts like Jojoba and Aloe Desert Milk\u2122, as well as\u00a0 Ayursense\u2122, a botanical known to boost the look of skin\u2019s luminosity and give a lit-from-within glow, meaning it will perform and look as natural in daylight as it does in your makeup mirror. &#8220;Each community-tested shade has a touch of ultrafine, light-reflecting pearls that are fine-tuned to complement each range of skin tones,&#8221; the brand says in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Glossier breaks down the shades as such:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li><strong>Flare<\/strong>\u00a0provides a neutral, balanced bronze to fair (formulated for fair-light skin tones)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ray<\/strong>\u00a0provides subtle warm bronze to light (formulated for light-medium skin tones)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heat\u00a0<\/strong>provides a balance of rich, warm bronze to tan (formulated for tan-deep skin tones)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Volt\u00a0<\/strong>provides warmth and brightness to deep (formulated for deep-rich skin tones)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I will admit, when I first heard about this launch, I was skeptical. My favorite Glossier products are the ones that don&#8217;t use color pigments \u2014 I am a Lash Slick \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/fluffy-brows-products-2020\/\">Boy Brow<\/a> \/ Brow Flick \/ Futuredew stan \u2014 and didn&#8217;t love the Cloud Paint blushes as much as other people (and I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/lys-beauty-cream-blush-review\/\">gone on record<\/a> about my love for blush.) I was big into the fact that Solar Paint comes with a doe-foot applicator, and I love the idea of a &#8220;whipped&#8221; formula that comes in a tube, but as a Black woman with a nearly neutral undertone to her skin, I was like &#8220;Who is this product bronzing, because I don&#8217;t think it will bronze me!&#8221; Admittedly, bronzer and I have never been the closest of friends, given that my preferred type of glow is &#8220;wet&#8221;, not &#8220;bronze,&#8221; but I tried it out for y&#8217;all. It was the least I could do.<\/p>\n<p>I started by swatching the four shades on my arm and quickly <em>noped<\/em> away from shades Flare and Ray. My best friend, Hillary, who makes Casper look tan, just sent over the big eyes emoji. We knew those shades, designed for light-to-medium skin tones, are not for me, something I was totally okay with. But even from the swatches alone, I was blown away by the formula, and how the bronzer looks matte out of the tube but dries down to a shimmer. If you like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glossier.com\/products\/lidstar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Glossier&#8217;s Lidstar<\/a>, it&#8217;s similar to that texture, which makes this easier to work with and you don&#8217;t need to rush as much as you would with similar creme bronzers that seem to dry down within seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Glossier&#8217;s instructions for the bronzer are as follows: &#8220;For a naturally-sun kissed glow, dot around the top of your forehead, onto the chin, apples of the cheeks and bridge of your nose. For a more sculpted look, also dot onto the hollows of your cheekbones, around the face, along the jawline, and blend.&#8221; I chose the former because it&#8217;s 2PM on a Wednesday and it&#8217;s raining, and I am not sitting in my apartment with a full sculpted face just watching reruns of <em>Schitt&#8217;s Creek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s me with my concealer \u2014 a blend of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sephora.com\/product\/pro-filt-r-instant-retouch-concealer-P88779809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fenty Beauty&#8217;s Pro Filt&#8217;r Instant Retouch Concealer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sephora.com\/product\/hollywood-flawless-filter-P434104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Tilbury&#8217;s Hollywood Flawless Filter<\/a>,\u00a0 a product I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;m using incorrectly but as you can see from this story, I don&#8217;t believe in rules or doing what the label tells me to \u2014 as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sephora.com\/product\/makeup-by-mario-soft-sculpt-shaping-stick-P472327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MAKEUP BY MARIO&#8217;s Soft Sculpt Shaping Stick<\/a>, before applying the bronzer in Heat, following Glossier&#8217;s instructions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30368\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30368\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/07\/concealer.jpg\" alt=\"glossier\" width=\"1024\" height=\"832\" data-gz_credit=\"Photo Credit: Photo by Amanda Mitchell\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Photo by Amanda Mitchell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s me after having blended it out:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30373\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30373\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30373\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/07\/final_60f87f4c6851a3011d036d6a_728397.gif\" alt=\"glossier\" width=\"444\" height=\"250\" data-gz_credit=\"Photo Credit: Photo by Amanda Mitchell\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Photo by Amanda Mitchell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I can&#8217;t see a huge difference, can you? Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m not used to wearing bronzer, but I don&#8217;t see a huge *dramatic* change. But then again, it&#8217;s Glossier \u2014 they&#8217;re not known for dramatic makeup or a massive payoff in terms of effect. But that wasn&#8217;t going to deter me, no ma&#8217;am, no Pam. In fact, these may not be what makes me addicted to bronzer, but it did, however, become my new go-to eyeshadow look.\u00a0 I applied the shades Volt and Ray on my eyelid and used my finger to blend them together, creating a beautiful clay-colored, shimmery-but-looks-like my skin, liquid eyeshadow. I applied Flare in the inner corner, as well as my highlight, and finished off the face with a spritz of Mac Fix and&#8230; well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30372\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30372\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/07\/finish.jpg\" alt=\"glossier\" width=\"1024\" height=\"832\" data-gz_credit=\"Photo Credit: Photo by Amanda Mitchell\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Photo by Amanda Mitchell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOOK AT HOW GOOD THAT LOOKS. Who is she? She&#8217;s giving everything she needs to give, she is\u00a0<em>providing<\/em>. My therapist is so lucky she gets to look at me for an hour, let me tell you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pros<\/strong>: Yas, the formula! Yaaaaaaas, we love a doe-foot applicator.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cons:<\/strong> That shade range is a\u00a0<em>yikes.<\/em> I hoped we&#8217;d moved past just launching with four shades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Review:<\/strong> I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m best to critique this product because I don&#8217;t usually use bronzer, but it tried. It really did. But will I use these again as a liquid eyeshadow? Without question, and especially as a highlighter. That glow cannot be bottled, yet somehow, it has been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29169,"featured_media":30382,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[30,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Glossier New Solar Paint Bronzer Review - Grazia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At long last, Glossier has finally given the fans their ultimate request: cream bronzers with their new launch of Solar Paint. 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