Hourglass Unlocked Animal Ambient Lighting Palettes | Holiday 2022

Every year, Hourglass launches their Ambient Lighting Palettes, and for 2022, there’s three! The Hourglass Unlocked Animal Ambient Lighting Palettes are super unique this year, because the three palettes have been designed by Katie Scott (an amazing illustrator and designer), and they’re each themed around a different endangered animal.

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Hourglass Unlocked Animal Ambient Lighting Palettes

There are three palettes available this year, and the palettes will be available from the 8th of September, and the three palettes each contain six Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powders, just like their other holiday palettes.

Prices are getting up there, and all three of the Hourglass Unlocked Animal Ambient Lighting Palettes are £78, although Hourglass will be donating 5% of the proceeds to Nonhuman Rights Project.

Just like last year, the palettes are housed within tin-style packaging, which I know was very divisive last year, but it was obviously popular, as the tin palette presentation is back for 2022. However, all three palettes feature an illustrated design, to represent three different animals.

The first of the Hourglass Unlocked Animal Ambient Lighting Palettes is the Hourglass Unlocked Tiger Ambient Lighting Palette, which features one existing shade, and five brand new shades. This palette is housed within a blue tin, with a print of oriental-style tigers all over the outside.

Inside the Hourglass Tiger Palette, you get the following shades;

• AMBIENT LIGHTING BLUSH (NEW): Burnished Glow (Warm Coral)
• AMBIENT LIGHTING BLUSH: Iridescent Rose (Warm, Medium Rose)
• AMBIENT METALLIC STROBE LIGHTING POWDER (NEW): Brilliant Glow Strobe Light (Translucent Peach Highlighter)
• AMBIENT METALLIC STROBE LIGHTING POWDER (NEW): Divine Strobe Light (True Gold)
• AMBIENT METALLIC STROBE LIGHTING POWDER (NEW): Copper Flash Strobe Light (Copper Shine)
• AMBIENT LIGHTING POWDER: Transcendent Light (Warm Sienna)

It’s so different to anything we’ve seen from Hourglass before, and it gives me Chantecaille vibes, as Chantecaille frequently launches endangered animal themed collections, with the animals featuring on the packaging.

Next up is the Hourglass Unlocked Elephant Ambient Lighting Palette. This palette is a pretty peach colour, with an Indian Elephant design on the front of the tin.

Inside the Hourglass Elephant Palette, are the following shades;

• AMBIENT METALLIC STROBE LIGHTING POWDER (NEW): Beaming Strobe Light (Golden Sun)
• AMBIENT BRONZING POWDER (NEW): Lustrous Bronze Light (Bronze Heat)
• AMBIENT LIGHTING BLUSH (NEW): Iridescent Coral (Peony)
• AMBIENT LIGHTING BLUSH (NEW): Radiant Rose (Berry)
• AMBIENT LIGHTING POWDER: Dim Light (Neutral Beige)
• AMBIENT LIGHTING POWDER: Soft Light (Pale Peach)

This is my favourite tin design from the three palettes, the elephant looks so cute and majestic. Inside the Elephant Unlocked Palette, there are two existing shades, then four brand new shades of the Ambient Lighting Powders.

Finally, the third of the Hourglass Unlocked Animal Ambient Lighting Palettes, is the Hourglass Unlocked Butterfly Ambient Lighting Palette, and this tin has a metallic gold tin.

Inside the Hourglass Holiday 2022 Butterfly Palette, you’ll find the following shades;

• AMBIENT LIGHTING BLUSH (NEW): Soft Flush (Deep Mauve)
• AMBIENT LIGHTING BLUSH (NEW): Sunset Glow (Terracotta)
• AMBIENT METALLIC STROBE LIGHTING POWDER (NEW): Celestial Strobe Lighting (Golden Champagne)
• AMBIENT LIGHTING POWDER: Ethereal Light (Cool Translucent)
• AMBIENT LIGHTING POWDER: Diffused Light (Warm Pale Yellow)
• AMBIENT STROBE LIGHTING POWDER: Incandescent Light (Opalescent Pearl)

Layered over the gold, there’s a peach and gold butterfly print tiles all over the tin. Nestled inside the Butterfly Unlocked Palette, you’ll find three existing powders, and three brand new powders.

All three of the animal palettes contain a mix of Ambient Lighting Powders and Ambient Lighting Blushers, which can be used as highlighters, blushers, and bronzers, depending on your skintone.

The designs are so different to what we usually see from Hourglass, and I imagine they’ll be super popular, and the Hourglass Holiday Palette 2022 Collection is available right now.

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Credit goes to @weizhe0315.