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Soft Sculpt Transforming Skin Enhancer.

Makeup by Mario Soft Sculpt Transforming Skin Enhancer
Blush & Bronzer

About this product

A creamy bronzing skin enhancer from Makeup by Mario designed to add warmth and dimension to the face with a soft, blendable finish.

Blush & Bronzer

The Guru Index verdict

87%

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What the gurus are saying

Gurus are unanimous in their enthusiasm for this cream bronzer, calling it effortless to blend and exceptionally natural-looking. The standout quality is its balmy texture that melts into skin without looking powdery, muddy, or overly glowy, making it beginner-friendly and flattering on mature skin. It's versatile enough to use as an all-over complexion product, contour, or eye color, and wears well throughout the day. The shade range and balanced undertone (not too warm or cool) earn consistent praise.
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Key actives & flags

Salicylic acid (BHA)SPFFragrance-freeAlcohol-free

Full ingredients

Talc, Mica, Dimethicone, Hdi/​Trimethylol Hexyllactone Crosspolymer, Zinc Stearate, Silica, Isononyl Isononanoate, Pentaerythrityl Tetraisostearate, Caprylyl Glycol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Caprylic/​Capric Triglyceride, Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate, Laureth-23, Nylon-12, Lauroyl Lysine, Phenoxyethanol, Laureth-4, Salicylic Acid, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Fruit Extract, [Vitis Vinifera Extract], Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891), Iron Oxides (Ci 77491, Ci 77492, Ci 77499), Red 7 Lake (Ci 15850), Yellow 5 Lake (Ci 19140), Yellow 6 Lake (Ci 15985)

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"The Makeup by Mario Soft Sculpt Transforming Skin Enhancer is a beautiful jelly type of textured product. It's a creamy bronzer that I love and I still love it. I still use it. The Makeup by Mario is more of a balmy type of texture. It's really nice and it stays in place. It's very longwearing. It doesn't wear off. It doesn't fade. It really is a beautiful formula."
Top Pick: cream bronzer
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"The Makeup by Mario Soft Sculpt Transforming Skin Enhancer is a beautiful jelly type of textured product. It's a creamy bronzer that I love and I still love it. I still use it. The Makeup by Mario is more of a balmy type of texture. It's really nice and it stays in place. It's very longwearing. It doesn't wear off. It doesn't fade. It really is a beautiful formula."
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"The soft sculpt transforming skin enhancer has this nice creamy texture and it just gives that nice pop of dewiness to the cheeks. I like to use it around my forehead and my nose. If you purchase this in your shade then you can use this as an all over color just to slightly even out your skin tone and you will have this nice radiance to your skin. Or you can use it as a bronzer and this is excellent as that cream bronzer and it just looks like your skin. It's really beautiful."
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"The Makeup by Mario Soft Sculpt Transforming Skin Enhancer is honestly the best cream bronzer I have ever used. It actually has more of a balmy type of texture and it just glides onto your skin so nicely. You can build the color up but you can also shear it out and it just has the most beautiful texture and finish. This will give that skin-like finish but it also provides your skin with a little bit of that dewiness as well, which I really love. I use this to warm up my skin on my cheeks and around my forehead area, but you can also use this as an all over color as well to even out your skin tone. This shade just gives that pop that I'm looking for and it's really beautiful. If you haven't tried this and you're into creamy bronzers, you're going to love this one."
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"This is his creamy bronzer. I absolutely love this. This is honestly the best cream bronzer I have ever used because it's easy to apply. You can build it up. You can shear it out and it gives the most beautiful healthy bronze to the skin. It just looks so natural. It gives this incredible healthy look to your skin and I can't explain it until you try it. It just looks like your skin honestly. It doesn't look powdery. It doesn't look muddy. It doesn't look anything like that. It just melts and blends into your skin so nicely. You can use this as a crease color on your eyes. You can bring this down your neck and your chest to add color. You can use this so many different ways and it has that nice balmy texture to it as well. Every time I take a break from this and I use something else and then I go back to this I always say to myself why did I stop using this. Because when I have this on my skin my skin just looks incredible."
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"This is really creamy like a bomb. It contains vitamin A, D, and E so some great antioxidants for anti-aging support. It also has omega-6 fatty acids which helps to give that protective layer over the skin but also it helps to nourish your skin at the same time. This is amazing. I love a lot of products from Makeup by Mario but this has to be one of my favorites."
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"This is an all-over bomb that you can use to color correct, you can use this as your foundation basically, but I use this as my bronzer and it's that nice creamy bomb texture that allows your skin to look like your skin. Usually when I wear a powdered bronzer for example you can tell that my skin has that powdery look. This keeps your skin looking like your skin and it just looks like you've been outside and the sun has sun-kissed your skin. It looks very natural. It wears for a long time as well. It does give that nice little subtle dewiness to the skin as well. I do like to pair this with liquid or cream based blushes as it just all ties in with one another with that same type of finish and that's how I get that nice glow and dew to my skin. I have this in light medium. I did once pick up the light and I just found it was too light for my skin tone, especially to use it as a bronzer. For a bronzer I like the light medium the best."
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"This is the Makeup by Mario Soft Sculpt Transforming Skin Enhancer. I personally use this as a bronzer because I love creamy bronzers that have that balmy texture to it because it just gives more of that skin-like look when it's on your skin and it gives more of that dewy complexion as well, which I really do like. I love that glowing complexion. It just melts into your skin and it just looks like your skin is naturally bronzed from the sun. But you don't have to use this as a bronzer, you can actually use this as an all over color for that complexion product. There are different shades available. It's very lightweight."
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"One cream bronzer that I think is phenomenal is the Makeup by Mario Soft Sculpt Transforming Skin Enhancer, and this is shade light medium. They have a good shade range. It's such a good medium tone bronze. It's not too cool. It's not too warm. It's certainly not orange, which I think is another huge mistake with bronzer. The texture is gorgeous. The way it blends on the skin is just effortless. It looks very skin-like. It doesn't look too glowy or too oily. It's not shiny. It doesn't dry matte or get patchy. It is just perfection in my opinion. This is makeup for dummies, meaning if you're newer to makeup and you want products that are just going to blend really effortlessly, you don't have to have a lot of artistry to make them look good. It's great for mature skin because mature skin tends to lean dry and can look a little bit dull and so this adds some natural radiance and luminosity."
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"I'm going to take my Makeup by Mario Soft Sculpt Transforming Skin Enhancer in the shade light. I'm going to do a bit of bronzing before we go in with concealer. The way I've been dipping into Makeup by Mario products ever since I did like the full face of Mario video. I can't put these things down. They're just so good."
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"I'm going to take my Makeup by Mario Soft Sculpt Transforming Skin Enhancer in the shade light. I'm going to do a bit of bronzing before we go in with concealer. The way I've been dipping into Makeup by Mario products ever since I did like the full face of Mario video. I can't put these things down. They're just so good."
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"The soft sculpt transforming skin enhancer does not have as much glow and has a bit more coverage than the bronzing serum. Both are very sheer and buildable, which I love. It kind of gives you that nice baseline sculpt before actually going in with the contour stick."
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"This is the Makeup by Mario Soft Sculpt Transforming Skin Enhancer in the shade Light. I'm using this to warm and sculpt the face, sticking to a little bit more of a healthy glow, especially on the sides of the face. It feels like skin care, it's so beautiful."
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"I'm going to use this Makeup by Mario Soft Sculpt Transforming Skin Enhancer as my bronzer today. I've been really loving using this one from Mario. I'm just pressing this in all over the skin. It's nice and blended."
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