This is such a beautiful product; the presentation is faultless, but I’ve got to confess I’m not sure what it does in terms of priming. The coloured pearls are fat and when you pump the bottle you seem to get a burst of one shade rather than all the shades; it comes out as a pearly irridescent gel with a few shimmery bits. I can’t say I looked any more illuminated as a result of using it but it felt very unobtrusive on the skin. This might come into its own in the summer on natural skin to give it a little bit of a boost. It’s £23 and launches in Harrods in February.
NB: There’s a bit of confusion and it’s my fault for not explaining very well. Okay, so the little spheres of illuminating pigment are suspended in a clear gel, so when you pump the bottle the illuminating spheres are crushed as they come through the pump opening giving you a pearly fluid. The spheres are not hard balls, they’re soft with no ‘skin’ as such.. really no idea how the formulators get them to behave like that but nonetheless, they do. Might be something to do with wet-chemical processing of spherical pearl lustre pigments… umm..Hope that helps!
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Oh I totally need this! I don’t care if it does nothing!
Lmfao! Exactly! I dont care whatever it does, it looks so super sweet I feel like I need it:D (Although I wasnt sure when I look at the for the first time whether it is some sweets or vending machine game:D) xx
This is totally gorgeous! Such a great item for a makeup table 🙂
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I honestly don’t get this!! How does it come out? Is it not little balls. Do they burst as it’s dispensed?
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This is adorable, I love Paul & Joe packaging…it kind of makes me want the product even if it doesn’t do much (seems I’m not alone in that though).
I’m going through an ‘illumination’ phase at the moment (to counter all these dark grey days), so I’ll have to check it out just in case.
Never heard of paul & joe pearl but that bottle reminds me of dipping dots!… but in a bottle.. I wonder how those balls get pumped out or what it looks like when you’ve pumped it out of the bottle.. very interesting…
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This looks so baffling! I don’t understand, it is little beady things but then it is a gel/cream? So pretty. I’d just want it to look at and play with!xxx
Is this similar to the Guerlain Meteorites Light Diffusing Primer? I have that one and like it very much. It is also a gel with tiny pearl balls that get crushed as one presses the pump to dispense the primer.