After winning the darker Diorskin Nude Tan Healthy Glow Enhancing Powder in 004 Sunset in a blog giveaway I was so impressed with the formula and finish that I knew I wanted to find the one more suitable for my complexion 002 Sunlight. When the bronzers were first released with Dior’s summer 2012 collection I had considered trying it out but had managed to talk myself out of the purchase. I was kicking myself for possibly missing out as it was starting to appear that it was sold out everywhere. I was delighted to find it at Shoppers Drug Mart a few weeks ago when I was on a bit of a shopping spree. 

The palette comes in a large box as included with the powder is an adorable mini kabuki brush of excellent quality.

Both are protected by their own black velvet pouch.

I love the quilted, shiny silver packaging. So luxe and sturdy.

Isn’t the presentation lovely. I love the embossed letters and variations in colour. You will be happy to know that after several weeks use I can say that it appears these shades trasnlate all the way down through the powder. I had hoped the pink toned powder would be more prominent in the overall swatch. Sunlight is definitely more pink toned than it’s darker counterpart Sunset but the overall tone of the shade is still quite peach. 

Here is 002 Sunlight and 004 Sunset together for you. You can see Sunset is much darker and much more orange toned than Sunlight. Both shades have a nice subtle shimmer that gives a bit of a glow without looking shimmery. The glow is a little more prominent with Sunlight.

Even though the Diorskin Nude Tan Healthy Glow Enhancing Powder in 002 Sunlight isn’t as pink toned as I had hoped I am still extremely happy with it and have been wearing it regularly. You can see in the blended out swatch above that it does blend in very nicely with my skintone for a healthy dose of colour.

I wore it in my Guerlain Les Fauves Face of the Day if you would like to see it in action.

It appears to still be available online at Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom,  and Sephora.

I was lucky enough to be one of two winners of a crapload of bronzers from BeautyCrazed.ca. The first one I chose to dug into was the Diorskin Nude Tan Healthy Glow Enhancing Powder in 004 Sunset. Ya, I know. Not my colour. But hey it was too pretty not to play with and I can use it in my pro kit. Won’t my clients feel special when I pull this baby out?

I was really surprised by the size of the box and then I saw “with Kabuki Brush”.

The palette and kabuki brush in their individual black velvet pouches.

I was very tempted to get the lighter, more pink toned, release from this collection 002 Sunlight. The quality of this bronzer has me seriously considering going out and tracking one down. I was trying to behave and resisting getting it and thought I was safely distracted by fall releases. Darn!

Such a beautiful pattern! Anyone else find it odd that the product in the centre between all the letters is different than the rest of the palette and doesn’t carry through the corner shades? 

The powder is very soft and not at all powdery. I didn’t have any kick up at all. It the most subtle shimmer that gives you a very natural glow. They are barely detectible in these photos. It’s a nice, soft step up from matte.

The swatch above blended out with the included kabuki brush.

So yeah, too dark for me. But the fact this doesn’t look completely ridiculous on me is a credit to how lovely this bronzer is.

You should still be able to find the Dior Diorskin Nude Tan Healthy Glow Enhancing Powder at a counter near you. They still had them on display at the Sears I was at a couple of weeks ago.  It is still available online at Sephora, Neiman Marcus, and The Bay as well.