Anastasia Beverly Hills Glow Kit in That Glow

Last year, Anastasia Beverly Hills came out with their Glow Kits, which are highlighter palettes. They finally became available online at Sephora earlier this year (and is carried at select stores), so I picked up both because, you know, you can never have enough highlighters. The Glow Kit is described as "four velvety powders that instantly cast a lit-from-within glow. Complementing shades can be layered together to brighten cheekbones and décolletage, or worn separately over eyelids, brow bones, and inner corners. Results are flawlessly incandescent." The Glow Kit currently comes in two colour waves: That Glow, which is darker and more golden, and Gleam, which is lighter and more pinked. That Glow is housed in a tan ombre cardboard case; the four shades included come in removable magnetic pans. Each Glow Kit contains a total of 29.6 grams of product (7.4 grams per shade), and retails for $52 CAD.
Sunburst, Golden Bronze, Bubbly, and Dripping in Gold

Sunburst is a light warm brightened yellow gold in a metallic finish. This is a permanent shade. It has a soft, finely-milled, almost buttery texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It is lighter and more yellow than Anastasia Beverly Hills So Hollywood, darker and warmer than Becca Moonstone, more yellow than Becca Champagne Pop, brighter and more yellow than Hourglass Brilliant, and lighter and brighter than NARS Jubilation #1.

Golden Bronze is a medium-dark warm bronzed gold in a metallic finish. This is a permanent shade. It has a soft, finely-milled, almost buttery texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It is darker and more bronze than Anastasia Beverly Hills Peach Nectar, lighter and more golden than Becca Topaz, less sparkly than MAC Gold Deposit, more gold than MAC Cheeky Bronze, brighter and more yellow than ColourPop Glo Up.

Bubbly is a light-medium warm champagne beige in a metallic finish. This is a permanent shade. It has a soft, finely-milled, almost buttery texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It is more beige than Anastasia Beverly Hills Dripping in Gold, darker and more muted than Anastasia Beverly Hills Sunburst, lighter than MAC Global Glow, darker and more muted than Becca Champagne Pop, and more golden than Becca Opal.

Dripping in Gold is a light-medium warm champagne gold in a metallic finish. This is a permanent shade. It has a soft, finely-milled, almost buttery texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It is more gold than Anastasia Beverly Hills Bubbly, darker and more muted than Anastasia Beverly Hills Sunburst, darker than Anastasia Beverly Hills So Hollywood, lighter and more gold than MAC Global Glow, and similar to NARS Jubilation #1.

When the Glow Kits were first released, I wasn't that interested in them because I have way too many highlighters as it is and didn't care for travel-size palettes of them. But I was doing my friend's makeup and noticed that she had both Glow Kits, so I used them on her to see how they performed in real life. Not only did I discover that they are full size highlighters (and in magnetized pans, so you can remove them if you so wish), but they look stunning on the skin, like glowy and shimmery and "strobed," but not scary intense or ultra-metallic so they aren't hard to blend out or emphasize skin texture. They're so smooth and so soft and so pigmented, and very silky but not as creamy as, say, Becca's Illuminating Skin Perfectors, which can almost deposit too much colour in one go. There is literally nothing bad I can write about these. The shades in That Glow really fill a hole in ABH's original Illuminator line-up, and they're perfect for those who like golden highlighters. Plus, at $52 for 29.6 grams of product, the value is downright incredible.