CelesteTerry Makeup

 

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Where I got it

I have actually got my eyes on this brand in early 2024, but their products have been sold out for a long time with no indication on when it will be back in stock. The brand – CelesteTerry is a Taiwan-based small brand, I believe developed by a makeup artist. Her Bouncy Mousse Blushes seems to be her most popular product and there is a cult-following. The product has since sold out some shades and never return, but of course she has released new and improved shades.

After a few months of jumping through manufacturing hoops and perfecting the formulation, in late October of 2024 the brand announced that they will be restocking their best-selling and very sought-after blushes. I quickly downloaded their app to be first in line to order the shades I wanted.

When I ordered these products, they had a combo offer so I got these with a small discount. The usual RRP of these are NTD$450 ($415 discounted) for the smaller ones and $600 ($551 discounted) for the larger ones. The brush is $620 ($540 discounted). They also offer free international shipping for orders over NTD$2500. These are around NZD$26 for the small ones and $34 for the large ones. The brush is also around NZD$36.

What I got

These are the Bouncy Mousse Blush by CelesteTerry. I picked up 3 of the face filters and 2 of the actual blushes. Also, a brush that is designed to be used with these mousse products. The information online were all in Chinese, and even though I understand Chinese, some terms are slightly difficult to translate. I will try my best.

Bouncy Mousse Face Filter (15g). Comes in 8 shades.

Ingredients: Dimethicone, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Tribehenin, Polyglyceryl-2 Triisostearate, Cetyl PEG/PPG-10/1 Dimethicone, Sorbitan Isostearate, Diisostearyl Malate, VP/Hexadecene Copolymer, Nylon-12, Vinyl Dimethicone/Methicone Silsesquioxane Crosspolymer, Polyglyceryl-2 Diisostearate, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Aluminum Hydroxide, Silica Dimethyl Silylate, May Contain: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxide Red (CI 77491), Ultramarine Blue (CI 77077), Iron Oxide Yellow (CI 77492), Iron Oxide Black (CI 77499), Red 40 Lake (CI 16035), Red 7 Lake (CI 15850), Iron Oxide Red (CI 77491), Iron Oxide Red (CI 77491), Yellow 5 (CI 19140)

Bouncy Mousse Blush (10g). Comes in 5 shades.

Ingredients: Dimethicone, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Tribehenin, Polyglyceryl-2 Triisostearate, Cetyl PEG/PPG-10/1 Dimethicone, Sorbitan Isostearate, Diisostearyl Malate, VP/Hexadecene Copolymer, Nylon-12, Vinyl Dimethicone/Methicone Silsesquioxane Crosspolymer, Polyglyceryl-2 Diisostearate, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Aluminum Hydroxide, Silica Dimethyl Silylate, May Contain: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxide Red (CI 77491), Ultramarine Blue (CI 77077), Iron Oxide Yellow (CI 77492), Iron Oxide Black (CI 77499), Red 40 Lake (CI 16035), Red 7 Lake (CI 15850), Iron Oxide Red (CI 77491), Iron Oxide Red (CI 77491), Yellow 5 (CI 19140)

How I find it

I picked up shades Butterfly Pea Flower, Pistachio, and Custard. Butterfly Pea Flower is one of their best-selling shades, and it is a beautiful soft lavender shade to help with turning down yellow tones and brightening up the skin. Lime is a pale green to counteract redness on the skin. It also brightens up overall skin tone. Custard is another best-selling shade. It is a skin-toned beige to even out skin tone for mild redness with very sheer coverage.

This lavender shade is beautiful on the skin. It brightens up yellow-toned skin and cools your skintone down. It is great for my yellow undertone skin colour and when my foundation is a little too yellow or oxidizes as the day goes by. Something I use this on it’s own to just gently even out my skintone and brighten up my complexsion. When used on their own, they do not provide any coverage, but blurs your pores to a certain degree like a filter. A light layer does the job, as it is actually quite long-lasting on the skin. Applying too much might cause your foundation to pill or might not mix well with your foundation. So far, this lavender shade is my favourite.

This shade is nice around my nose and in the centre of my face just between my brows because I tend to get red around this area during the day. It is very subtle, so I’m not sure if it does a good job covering redness from rosacea , but it does help with some minor redness on my skin. Not something I would use all around my face as the lime green can look a little strange on where I do not have redness.

Custard is a shade that I could use on my entire face, to even out skintone and blur my pores. I would use custard on my nose and my chin area where it can be a little dull-looking. When I am using lavender, I would skip custard and vice versa. This shade is sheer, so it will not add much coverage, just like a pore-blurring cream.

For the blush shades, I picked up shades Haw and Strawberry. Haw is a deep brownish red blush shade. Brights out cool tones to lighten skin tone. Strawberry is a pale pink, looks flattering on fair skin but hard to show up as a blush on medium to deep skin.

Strawbery is a light pink blush shade which looks beautiful from the swatch. However, on my light/medium skin it doesn’t show up very much. I would use this when my skin a little more pale and when I’m going of a very minimal makeup look. I would use this just under my eye area, near the centre of my face for that innocent, clean girl look. This shade could also brighten and plump up the area under my eye as well. I would say this looks great on someone with fair to light skin tone that has a cooler undertone. It would give you that wintery, cold cheeks look.

Haw however turns up on my cheeks a lot better and I only need a very tiny bit to give me a gentle wash of colour. Slightly mattifying, more like a blurred blush which can look very natural. I like to use this more on my cheekbones, blending near my temples to give my face a slimmer look. The brownish tone narrows the side of my face, giving it a slight contouring effect.

Finally, the brush to apply these products. I have used this brush a couple of times but I have mixed feelings. While it is nice to have a specific brush to blend these products, I find that I prefer to use my fingers and I’ll tell you why. The brush picks up a decent amount of product and blends the product out evenly, but when I am using a mixture of the shades on my face on a single makeup application, I can’t be cleaning the brush each time I blend the colours out. If I do not clean the brush between colours, everything will be mixed together, thus rending the targeted colour-correcting pointless. Furthermore, the product seems to stay on the brush and build up within 2-3 uses and it just clogs up the brushes and it’s not as fluffy. It gets a little cakey.

I find using my fingers still picked up the amount that I want and I can easily clean my fingertips between each shade and not mix colours together. I think I would use this if I need to apply a single shade all over my face, but I would skip purchasing this brush again.

 

Overall

Overall, I am very pleased with the filter products, especially the lavender shade as it does brighten my skin and give me a more cool-toned look. The mild blurring effect looks nice on my skin and the colour-correcting effect was also very long-lasting. I find that if I do not wear this, my skin can look a little dark and uneven as the day goes by, when my skin tints or foundation wears out or oxidizes, but when I wear this my skin still looks pretty good at the end of the day. It works as a primer as well, but make sure you use a small amount as it can react with foundation and create some pilling.

For the blushes, a little goes a long way. I find that Haw is a lot more pigmented than Strawberry. Strawberry is more suitable for lighter skin tones with a cool undertone, but Haw is suitable for most skin tones because it is deeper and blends out with a blurred, matte finish.

I will be purchasing other colours as well and when lavender runs out, I will be repurchasing this shade too.