Daley Quinn is a former magazine beauty editor turned full-time freelance journalist, blogger, and content strategist. This is The Daley Dose, a place to get your fix of everything from working in the NYC media industry, Daley’s favorite beauty and fashion finds, life updates about sobriety, and so much more.
In case you haven’t noticed on TikTok, Ogee makeup is blowing up. Specifically, the clean beauty brand’s Crystal Contour Collection. Featuring three stick makeup products, the collection works to contour your face, add a beautiful highlight to your cheekbones, and create a pop of color.
The Ogee brand includes both makeup (think tinted sculpted lip oil, lipsticks with various lip colors, and sculpted face sticks) and skincare products (like jojoba glow face oil, luminous botanical face mist, and renewal cream). I like this brand because it’s cruelty-free, gluten-free, certified organic, GMO-free, and features natural ingredients like cold-pressed jojoba oil, peppermint essential oil, and hyaluronic acid.
While there are a bunch of best-sellers from the Ogee brand, I will be focusing my Ogee makeup review on the Crystal Contour Collection, which features three Ogee sculpted sticks.
Truthfully, I’ve only tried the Contour Collection from Ogee, so I can’t speak to the other products that the brand carries. That being said, I do think that the sculpted face sticks that I have are good. Additionally, there are a ton of great reviews for Ogee products on both Amazon and TikTok. I would say that most of the products are natural yet effective.
The Crystal Contour Collection is one of Ogee’s best-selling products. It comes with three makeup sticks including the Copper contour, Rose Quartz blush, and the Opal highlighter. Each product is made with 83% organic ingredients, including cold-pressed jojoba seed oil, beeswax, and olive fruit oil.
Considering this is a natural and organic makeup and skincare brand, I think the sticks are as pigmented and buildable as other non-natural or organic makeup lines on the market. However, I don’t think these are as blendable as some other contour sticks I’ve tried in the past. Read on to see more of my thoughts on the Crystal Contour Collection.
This contour stick looks really dark and scared me at first. I thought it would be way too dark for my fair complexion. It turns out, it’s basically the perfect shade to contour my face without looking ridiculous. The product blends in really well and doesn’t look like I have brown streaks on my face.
I also really like the color because it’s not orangey. Unlike some of the bronzers that I’ve used in the past, the Copper sculpting stick has more of a brown shade and doesn’t look like orange streaks. Because it’s more brown than orange, I think it looks more natural on the skin.
I like to drag this stick in the hollows of my cheekbones, along my temples and hairline, and along my jawline. Then I use a stiff makeup brush (I like the Real Techniques Expert Face Makeup Brush) to blend it all in.
Most folks like to apply their highlighter over their blush. I learned from Sir John (yes, Beyonce’s makeup artist) to apply your highlighter underneath your blush. This gives the appearance of a “lit-from-within” glow, rather than an obvious layer of highlighter on top of your cheeks.
Thankfully, the Opal sculpting stick looks pretty dang natural, either on top of your blush or underneath it. Just as the name suggests, this stick has more of an opalescent, pinky-kind of sheen to it. It’s not shimmery, but gives off the slightest bit of gorgeous sheen to the skin.
Normally, these types of white/pearl-based highlighters don’t look great on darker skin tones. Because this highlighter is so sheer, I actually think that darker skin tones could easily pull this off without it leaving a sort of “white cast.” I really like this highlighter and can see myself incorporating it into my regular makeup routine often.
This is the most vibrant blush shade of all the Sculpted Face Sticks that Ogee offers. It’s a deep rose color that’s matte but pretty sheer. It blends into the skin beautifully, and looks really natural on the cheeks. I like to apply this on top of my highlighter.
Don’t be alarmed by the vibrant color—this pick is really sheer and can be buildable if you want more pigment on your cheeks.
One of the things I don’t love about these sticks is the bulky packaging. I wish they were a little bit smaller so that they didn’t take up so much room in my travel makeup bag. However, some folks really love bulkier makeup packaging because they think it feels more expensive and luxurious.
Another thing I don’t love about these sticks is that they are really pricey. Especially if you buy each of them individually. I feel like they are a competitor to the Westman Atelier Highlighter and Blush Sticks, which costs $4 less than the Ogee Sculpted Face Sticks.
Finally, the blendability of these is the slightest bit tricky. When you apply these to your skin, you might need to swipe it across your face a few times to get the pigment to latch onto your skin. Once you get the formula onto your face, you’ll be able to easily blend the product into your skin.
There are other products on the market that glide across your face more easily than these, but those products aren’t organic or natural. Because these have a natural formula, I think they are a bit less blendable than others. However, I still think they are pretty incredibly blendable and I don’t think that should deter you from purchasing these and adding them to your makeup routine.
I receive most beauty products for free through my work in beauty journalism. The Ogee Contour Collection was not one of them—I purchased the sticks with my own money because I saw that they were getting rave reviews on TikTok.
I purchased my Ogee Crystal Contour Collection from their website. The trio cost $126, plus shipping. You can buy each of these products individually, which will cost $52 each. You can purchase them at multiple retailers below:
Crystal Contour Collection ($126) | Individual Sculpted Face Sticks ($52)
Crystal Contour Collection ($126) | Sculpted Face Stick ($52)
Sculpted Face Stick ($52)
Crystal Contour Collection ($126) | Sculpted Face Stick ($52)
I hope you’ve enjoyed my Ogee makeup review! If you’ve tried these sticks, I’m curious to hear your thoughts in the comment section below! If you’ve got any questions, please ask below or reach out to me on my Instagram!
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Daley Quinn is a former magazine beauty editor turned full-time freelance journalist, blogger, and content strategist. This is The Daley Dose, a place to get your fix of everything from working in the NYC media industry, Daley’s favorite beauty and fashion finds, life updates about sobriety, and so much more.
I think the blush is too rosy on your skin. My skin is also fair but I have natural rosy cheeks. Is there any way to make the color less rosy. I was going to order this but if you can answer my question it will hp md decide…thanks
Hi Carol! Thanks for your comment! When applied to the skin, the blush looks super pigmented and bright, but once you blend it in, it doesn’t look so bright. In the pictures that I featured on this blog post, I had applied a few layers of the blush on my skin because I like a heavy blush look. But you can definitely add less and achieve a less-rosy effect. Please let me know if you have any other questions, thanks!