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Too Faced 2026 Chocolate Soleil and Sun Bunny Bronzers

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In this post, we’ll be looking at the newest relaunches of Too Faced’s classic products. The originals were released over a decade ago, but until 2026, neither product were deep-skin friendly.
Whenever something I’ve been waiting years for becomes available, I find it difficult to resist purchasing, regardless of whether it’s a good addition to my collection or not. So, that’s how I ended up buying both of them.

I also have an update regarding the Too Faced Cloud Crush Blurring Blush, and I will showcase an additional shade.

Onto the review!

Too Faced Chocolate Soleil Matte Blurring Bronzer in Chocolate Caramel (and Chocolate Toffee)

This bronzer is soft to the touch, and it’s matte, but it doesn’t feel or look dry on the skin. It has an almost creamy feel and it’s on the thicker side for a powder, but not in an unpleasant way.
Because it’s very pigmented and easy to pick up with any brush, I tried to exclusively use my delicate natural hair brushes with it. The Chocolate Soleil Bronzer is pretty blendable, but not quite on the level of my favorite high end and luxury bronzers that are even more finely milled. So, I’ve found that saikoho goat and fox hair brushes that are bundled in an airy way give me better results than my squirrel brushes. This ensures I still get a diffused application, but with more blending and buffing strength. It’s not that the bronzer needs a lot of buffing, but the right tools make the task even quicker and easier!

I have no issues with this bronzer’s longevity. It lasts all day.

“Blurring” is the new buzz word that every brand seems to claim their powder products are capable of. I actually agree that this bronzer can be a little blurring, but it needs to be properly blended or else it has the opposite effect.

This contains a fair bit of fragrance and smells like chocolate (the same scent that’s in the Too Faced Chocolate Bar Eyeshadow palettes). I enjoy it, even though I generally prefer my beauty products to be unscented.
I have to admit that I might be viewing this product even more favorably because of the happy feelings I get from smelling the chocolate. I’m only human!

The aspect I was a little disappointed by is how orange the Chocolate Caramel shade looks. I believe I may have confused it with the shade Chocolate Toffee. I think the color still looks nice on me, but I have to be in a particular mood to want to wear such a warm bronzer. Chocolate Caramel is a reddish-orange-brown shade. Sienne from Hermes is a yellow-orange-brown, as seen in the swatch comparison photo below, so I like that one even more. Plus, I’ve had it for just over three years and it still swatched more evenly and smoothly than the brand new Too Faced bronzer. Swatches don’t tell the whole story, but the Hermes Plein Air H Trio Healthy Glow Mineral Powder is my number one bronzer for a reason.

I wish I had Pat Mcgrath’s bronzers in Bronze Divinity and Burnished Honey with me to show comparisons, but I left them behind in the US. I thought PML would continue releasing face palettes with repeat products and that I would end up with the bronzers again anyway, but that has not happened. Based on memory and my review photos, I believe Chocolate Caramel might be closest in undertone and depth level to Burnished Honey.

Even though I have plenty of bronzers that perform even better or have some special qualities about them, I still like this quite a bit. In fact, my insistence on not buying a second shade only lasted a week. Now, for the benefit of you who is reading, I can also compare Chocolate Toffee. It is indeed a yellow-golden kind of shade.

I considered not taking photos of Chocolate Toffee on myself because it’s like 5% darker than my bare skin. It gives the faintest hint of color, but because it’s still lighter than most of my foundations, it doesn’t show up on a full face of makeup. Mixing Chocolate Toffee and Chocolate Caramel is a beautiful combination, though I already have yellow toned bronzers (too light for me to use on their own) I could have paired with Chocolate Caramel. So, I know I shouldn’t have really bought the additional shade, but I had no self-control.

I wore the Chanel Water Fresh Tint in the photos with the solid pink shirt in the hopes that it would be sheer enough for Chocolate Toffee to be seen.

I have to say that it would be amazing if more brands had dark yellow-golden toned bronzer options. I only found a few, and most are too light on me to really be visible for most of the year. MAC’s is the only one that’s deep enough. It doesn’t look that yellow in the first swatch, but that’s because it deepens up a lot when swatched with a finger. The second photo has a brush swatch. I’m still hoping to one day have a shade like Rich Golden, but in an even better formula.
And speaking of MAC, they just launched the reformulated and/or repacked Sunstruck Bronzers in both finishes! The main reason I haven’t used mine more is because I always felt uneasy about them after they had been pulled from store shelves within days of their original launch and smelled terrible for so long. So, I am considering whether I want to buy the new ones because no other brand has a color like Rich Golden that shows up on me.

As for the Cloud Crush Blurring Blushes, last year I saw someone close to my skintone wearing the shade Head in the Clouds and once I saw it was on sale via the retailer Douglas, I immediately bought it.

The photo above was taken in April 2026 and is a more accurate depiction of Head in the Clouds than the group blush photo lower down. I no longer have them, so I could not retake that picture.

The photo above and the photo below were taken in September. When I was just about finishing, I noticed the dark spots around the rim of the blushes. I can’t say for certain what they are, but the pan edges didn’t look like that when I bought them. Head in the Clouds doesn’t have them either. So, I no longer trusted that my older ones were safe to use, and I tossed them out.

Velvet Crush looked the worst, and I bought it from Sephora-US in December 2022, but I bought Tequila Sunset exactly one month later. The differences between them is that I had actually left Velvet Crush in Florida for longer. When I moved to Germany, I only brought Tequila Sunset with me. I stored them properly in both locations, so I wonder what happened. The brand boasts about these having, “93% naturally-derived ingredients,” so perhaps they aren’t the best preserved. The blushes lasting almost three years is acceptable, but I have so many older products that are still in amazing condition, so I can’t help but be disappointed in needing to toss these early. To be honest though, I wish I remembered how strong the “Tropical Beach,” fragrance was in these blushes. It’s pleasing, but so heavy that sometimes I change my mind about using it when I open the compact and that wave of perfume hits me.

I could recommend the Too Faced Chocolate Soleil Bronzer, but I no longer recommend the Cloud Crush Blushes, even though they are pretty. I think the Soleil Bronzers are actually appropriately priced. The quality isn’t S-tier, but I’d give it a B+

Also, kudos to whoever decided to finally make an inclusive bronzer range for Too Faced. I’m impressed.

Too Faced Sun Bunny Blushing Bronzer in Sunset Bunny

When I saw the promo photos, I was practically salivating to buy this product. I was so entranced by how shiny and pretty the colors were, that I didn’t even stop to think about the fact that these are not going to be worn as highlighters. Why would I ever want a blush, and especially a bronzer, to look that shimmery on my face? I stopped wearing the Glossier Solar Paint Bronzers for precisely that reason (which others must not have liked either since it has been discontinued). The Solar Paints still looked better on my skin than this product!

This cheek duo highlights all the bumps and uneven texture I have on my forehead and cheeks. The colors themselves are beautiful, but I cannot ignore the obvious shimmer particles. The blush shimmer is as reflective as MAC’s Extra Dimension Blushes, but aren’t as refined. That makes the biggest difference. The amount in the bronzer is even more than the reformulated and repacked Kosas Sun Show Baked Bronzers that I never use, and Physicians Formula Murumuru Butter Bronzer that I got rid of.

Putting aside my preferences, another aspect that threw me for a loop is the fact that the blush side is so firmly pressed in the pan. It felt like there was hard-pan the first day I used it. It took about four layers of swiping to get that finger swatch that’s two photos up, yet only one swipe for the bronzer. I don’t know if I have a dud or if everyone’s duos are like this.

The biggest problem of all is the “Coconut Cream” scent. I always like the smell of Too Faced products, but whether I can handle them is another story. This one is so overpowering and headache-inducing! The photos I included in this post are the best I could do because the two times I tried to wear the Sun Bunny Bronzer, I needed to remove it within 20-30 minutes. This is on par with the Too Faced Peach Perfect Instant Coverage Concealer that I couldn’t use either because the fragrance in it gave me intense headaches.

So, I unfortunately could not do any wear tests and the packing (with its clear lid) isn’t cute enough for me to keep it as a collector item. This will be exiting my makeup collection.

So, that concludes this week’s post. The Sun Bunny was a total letdown, but the Chocolate Soleil powder bronzers made up for it!

I hope this has been helpful. Thanks for stopping by!

-Lili ❤

Too Faced Cloud Crush Blurring Blushes

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I vaguely remember owning the Too Faced Sweethearts Perfect Flush Blush, but in the shade that was a highlighter for my skintone rather than a blush. As for their other line of blushes, the Love Flush Blushes, I never owned any of those.

Photo Credit: Temptalia

Today’s review is what I consider to be my first time really experiencing Too Faced’s blushes with their new line of Cloud Crush Blurring Blushes. The collection is available, “in diffused satin and diffused matte finishes,” but Velvet Crush and Tequila Sunset are both mattes.

Because I have the Too Faced Chocolate Gold Bronzer, which is in similar packaging, I wanted to compare these in size and color.

The bronzer compact and pan is larger than the blushes in length and width, but about the same height. The outer rim of the bronzer is gold, whereas the blush rims are closer to silver. Both products are scented, with Chocolate Gold still maintaining its chocolate scent three years after I got it, and the Cloud Crush blushes have a pleasant fruity fragrance that smells familiar, but I can’t pinpoint what it is specifically. Too Faced just says it smells like a tropical beach.

The claims for these blushes is that they’re supposed to be “ultra-smooth, velvet-like, buildable and blendable with a natural blurring effect and a soft, second-skin feel.” There’s no mention of them being long-lasting, but they are. I’ve had no issues with them fading. They certainly are smooth to the touch, not patchy, and I find Tequila Sunset to be blendable, though I need a loose bristled airy brush and light hand for it to be buildable considering the amount of pigment. Velvet Crush showed up right away too, but due to the nature of the muted pink color, I had to apply a lot more for it to show the amount of color on my cheeks that I prefer.

I’ve mentioned in a previous post that I can sometimes wear light-medium toned blush shades, not anticipated to be flattering on dark skin, as long as they don’t have too strong of a white base to them. What I noticed with Velvet Crush is that it’s right on the border of having almost too much. My theory is that the “blurring” effect Too Faced describes is similar to the technique with eyeshadow of taking a lighter shadow to blend out the edges of a darker eyeshadow as one method of creating a blurred gradient look.
When I take my time really blending these blushes together, Velvet Crush looks gorgeous, provided I’m rocking my lighter winter foundation shades. When I wear one that’s a little bit darker, then the blush looks less flattering on top.
Tequila Sunset has that quality too, but because the depth of the peachy-orange pigment is so strong, it ends up having more of that blended effect that Too Faced was going for with these.

So, even though Too Faced demonstrates these blushes on multiple skintones to where it would seem they all could work on everyone, it’s my opinion that the line overall is more suited to those on the lighter skin spectrum because of those whitish ingredients that intentionally make these blush colors more muted. However, for those tan to deep (though maybe not rich), Watermelon Rain and Tequila Sunset are viable options.

Chocolate Gold works as a highlighter for me, not a bronzer, which is how I rationalized not decluttering it after buying a set that included it and other items from the brand. I only used it for that purpose less than a handful of times in three years, but something about the packaging makes it impossible for me to let it go, and I think it’s the same with the blushes.

Sure, these are pretty colors that are smooth with good longevity. I was extremely excited about them in the beginning, but the more I used them and compared them to other blushes within my collection, I realized they weren’t more special than my favorites. The “blurring” element isn’t as effective on me, which is the aspect that would have pushed it higher up the ranks. But, as it stands, I have blushes that are also buildable, ones that are easier to blend, are just as soft to the touch, also long-lasting, and fragrance free (which I prefer for avoiding the development of skin sensitivity despite how much I do enjoy their smell). One example of a line of blushes that does everything the Cloud Crush Blushes can and more (except in the packaging department) are the Sephora Collection Soft Matte Perfection Blush Duos, which I think Sephora is unfortunately discontinuing. I am obsessed with the shades English Rose and Peach Blossom, the latter of which is the only one of the two still available on the US website. I also have Sweet Pea, but mine broke, so I had to re-press it and that affected the way it applies, although that color is stunning too.

So, ultimately, these are nice blushes, but not as innovative as the marketing makes them seem. I love the packaging and Tequila Sunrise (even mixed with Velvet Crush) is such a beautiful color that I personally don’t regret buying them and will keep using them, but I don’t think anyone is really missing out if they give these a pass.

Thank you for reading.

– Lili ❤