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The Viral Hourglass Ambient Lighting Edit Unlocked Palettes

By Maggie Sugar

September 08, 2023

I just woke up to a message to Hourglass and oh boy, am I excited! The iconic Hourglass ambient light edit unlocked palettes are coming back in stock. Yep! I read that right they are coming back, so hold my purse I have some shopping to do.

What Is Hourglass Known For And Who Are They?

The brand is well known for their butter-soft blushers, light-reflecting powders and the ultimate primer, Hourglass is the perfect fusion of science, luxury, and beauty. Famed for their soft-focus Ambient Lighting Palette, ultra-refined Veil Translucent Setting Powder, and seamless Vanish Foundation Stick to deliver the glow-worthy goods. Another plus? The chic packaging is to die for.

The brand is committed to reinventing luxury cosmetics through innovation and commitment to animal rights. Hourglass is a vegan and cruelty-free beauty brand redefining luxury cosmetics through innovative formulas, cutting-edge performance and covetable packaging.

Since their first product launch in 2004, the luxury cosmetics brand has been proudly cruelty-free. They donate 1% of annual profits from hourglasscosmetics to the Nonhuman Rights Projects, a U.S. organization that works to secure fundamental rights for animals.

In 2017, the Unlocked Collection has supported the Nonhuman Rights Project’s mission of unlocking the cages of wild animals in captivity. Hourglass donates 5% of annual profits from Unlocked products to the NhRP’s efforts of securing fundamental rights for animals.

The Hourglass Cosmetics Unlocked Collection includes Unlocked Instant Extensions Mascara, Ambient Lighting Edit Unlocked Palettes, and the Unlocked Satin Crème Lipstick.?

Continuing its commitment to animal welfare, the luxury beauty brand created an exclusive vegan replacement for carmine. Confession Refillable Lipstick and the new Unlocked Satin Crème Lipstick in Red 0 features a patent-pending vegan ingredient that replaces the industry’s go-to red pigment produced from crushed female insects.

With nearly 70,000 female insects used to create one pound of the crimson dye traditionally used in cosmetics, Red 0 is a ground-breaking product that symbolizes our commitment to animal welfare: zero animal by-products, zero animals harmed.

What Are The Hourglass Ambient Lighting Edit – Unlocked Palettes?

The Ambient Lighting Edit Unlocked collection includes limited-edition palettes featuring Snake, Leopard and Jellyfish that support the Nonhuman Rights Project in their efforts to secure fundamental rights for animals. 

The OG luxury brand will also donate 5% of annual profits from this collection to the Nonhuman Rights Project.

Build your personalized unlocked palette by choosing your favourite shades and palette design.

About The Restock

The highly coveted Ambient Lighting Edit Unlocked palettes are back, this year featuring Jellyfish, Leopard, Snake and Owl artwork by esteemed artist Katie Scott. Katie freaking Scott you guys!The artwork that celebrates the beauty of nature and helps unlock change to protect animal rights.

Wondering where to shop the cosmetics? The Palettes will be available on HourglassCosmetics.com and the UK site starting today.Pre-set palettes & the Phantom Volumizing Glossy Balm Duo will be available globally at Sephora starting September 22.

The brand will again be providing the opportunity to customize your palette with your preferred artwork + colour story.

In addition – for the first time, each colour story includes all the essentials – finishing powder, blush, bronzer, and highlighter, to create a glowing complexion in one sleek palette.

And that’s not all! This year there will be a fourth design (Owl) available for customization, exclusively on HourglassCosmetics.com