The sweetest part of the Glisten Cosmetics x Strawberry Shortcake collection might just be seeing what happens once the palettes leave our hands and enter yours.
Six colour stories were always going to mean six very different moods, but these looks prove there is far more than one recipe to follow. From smoked-out glamour to clouds of pastel colour and something altogether darker and icier, here are three ways our creators have been wearing the Strawberry Shortcake Makeup Recipe Books.
There is something wonderfully unexpected about the way @courtneyquarentine wears Lemon Meringue.
Rather than leaning completely into the palette’s sunny sweetness, the finished look feels sharper and more grown-up: an elongated wing, beautifully sculpted eyes and a deep lip that gives the whole thing an almost retro glamour. It is polished without feeling overly perfect, with just enough softness around the eyes to balance that precise liner.
If the Strawberry Shortcake universe could somehow dissolve into a cloud and land on someone’s face, it might look a little like this.
@anya.tisdale creates a beautifully soft collision of pink, lilac and powder blue, diffusing the colour from the lids all the way through the brows and temples. Rather than keeping each shade neatly in its place, everything seems to melt together, blue becoming purple, purple disappearing into pink, with a generous flush across the cheeks tying the entire colour story together.
The tiny star details scattered through the look make it feel even more playful, while the soft brown lip keeps all that pastel colour grounded.
Using the Strawberry Shortcake Full Bundle means there is no need to choose a single character’s world, and this look makes a very convincing argument for mixing them instead.
🛍️ Strawberry Shortcake Full Bundle
And then Strawberryland goes somewhere considerably moodier.
@ghoul.in.japan pairs Blueberry Muffin and Sour Grapes for a cool-toned look that feels almost otherworldly. Icy blue and lavender shimmer sweep across the eyes before smoking out into deeper shadow, with the colour pulled onto the cheekbones so the glow feels less like traditional highlight and more like light itself catching the skin.
Against the black lip, those frosted blues and purples become even more striking. It is dark, dreamy and slightly strange in the best way, which is proof that the sugary nostalgia of the Strawberry Shortcake makeup collection can be taken somewhere entirely unexpected.
🛍️ Blueberry Muffin & Sour Grapes Palette
That is really what we hoped would happen with this collection.
The Strawberry Shortcake Makeup Recipe Books may arrive with their own characters, colours and little worlds attached, but there is no correct way to wear them. Smoke them out. Mix two together. Use the entire bundle at once. Make Strawberry Shortcake grungy or Sour Grapes impossibly sweet.
Recipes are much more fun when you start changing the ingredients.
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By Ellie Black
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