Anastasia Beverly Hills Glow Kit in Sun Dipped

Last year, Anastasia Beverly Hills came out with their Glow Kits, which are highlighter quad palettes. They became available online at Sephora earlier this year (and is carried at select stores), and ABH came out with a new colour wave for summer called Sun Dipped. 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 now comes in three permanent colour waves: That Glow, Gleam, and Sun Dipped. Sun Dipped is housed in a bronze 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.
Bronzed, Summer, Tourmaline, and Moonstone

Bronzed is a medium-dark warm coppery bronze 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 Golden Bronze, more golden than MAC Cheeky Bronze, more brown than MAC Gold Deposit, more brown and more muted than Becca Topaz, and lighter and more metallic than Laura Mercier Seduction.

Summer is a light warm whitened 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 darker and more gold than Anastasia Beverly Hills Starlight, lighter and brighter than Anastasia Beverly Hills So Hollywood, slightly darker than Anastasia Beverly Hills Sunburst, more gold than Becca Champagne Pop, and more gold than Becca Moonstone.

Tourmaline is a medium warm muted pinked taupe-bronze 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 brown than Anastasia Beverly Hills Riviera, darker and cooler than MAC Global Glow, cooler and more muted than MAC Cheeky Bronze, darker and more bronze than Laura Mercier Devotion, and darker and cooler than Becca Opal.

Moonstone is a light warm whitened 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 slightly less yellow than Anastasia Beverly Hills Summer, more metallic than Anastasia Beverly Hills Starlight, brighter and more metallic than MAC Lightscapade, brighter than Becca Moonstone, and slightly darker and warmer than Becca Pearl.

Not only do Anastasia's Glow Kits include full size highlighters (and in magnetized pans, so you can remove them if you so wish — I usually put two pans from each Glow Kit into a Z Palette to use on freelance jobs), but they look stunning on the skin; perfectly glowy and shimmery and "strobed," but not scary intense or ultra-metallic so they aren't hard to blend out and don't emphasize skin texture. They're super smooth and buttery and pigmented, but not overly soft or creamy so you get more control with layering and blending out. There is literally nothing bad I can write about the formula of these. Sun Dipped includes four gorgeous shades that are perfect for summer — Bronzed and Tourmaline look especially stunning on tanned skin — but I really wish that there was more of a difference between Summer and Moonstone because they look virtually identical when applied to the skin. (And if you have the Glow Kit in That Glow, they look almost identical to Sunburst.) That having been said, I've been loving mixing different shades from this palette for more customizable glow as I get more tanned this summer. Plus, at $52 for 29.6 grams of product, the value is downright incredible.