Pressed Bronzer | Endless Summer

Because it is laid down so sheer, you control the depth rather than the pan deciding for you. If you are fair, use a nearly empty brush and one light pass and it looks like a week outdoors. If you are deeper, build two or three layers rather than pressing harder. That sheerness is the whole design. And if you would like an honest opinion before you order, send me a photo in daylight and I will tell you exactly how I would apply it on you.

Direction and colour. Contour is a cool shadowy tone placed in the hollows, under the cheekbone and along the jaw, to create depth. Bronzer is warm and goes on the high points where sunlight would naturally hit. One sculpts, one warms. The current look leans firmly toward warmth, which is also far more forgiving to apply.

Lightly, yes, and plenty of my customers do. Being warm rather than cool toned it reads as sunlight rather than shadow when you place it under the cheekbone, which gives a softer and less structured result that many women prefer. For genuine sculpting you want a cooler taupe.

It is formulated specifically to avoid that. Most pressed bronzers are talc based, which is what grabs onto texture. Rice powder with jojoba and grapeseed oils pressed through it blends into skin instead. A light hand and a fluffy brush rather than a dense one will keep it seamless.

Soft and fluffy rather than dense. A dense brush deposits too much in one spot and bronzer is unforgiving about that. There is a suitable one in our Luxe Makeup Brush Set. Whatever you use, tap the excess off before it touches your face.

Do not wash your face. Take a clean fluffy brush with nothing on it and buff over the area in circles to disperse it, or press a little foundation or setting powder over the top to knock it back. Far easier to fix than it feels in the moment.

For most women, yes, very much so. Alongside the rice powder and oils there are small amounts of organic oregano, thyme, olive leaf, rosemary, lavender and goldenseal, there for their natural preservative and antioxidant qualities. If you know you react to botanical extracts, try a little on your inner arm first, as you would with anything new.

Yes, and cruelty free and gluten free, with seventy five per cent certified organic ingredients and no talc.

We are Australian owned and run. This bronzer is made to our formulation by our mineral makeup manufacturer overseas, and every order is packed and posted by us from our studio here.

$9.95 standard, free on orders $99 and above, express $15. Packed and posted by us from our studio here. Returns are for damaged or faulty items, reported within 5 days, so do ask me first if you are unsure about the shade.