Makeup Geek x Kathleen Lights Highlighter Palette

Earlier this year, Makeup Geek collaborated with popular beauty vlogger and YouTuber, Kathleen Lights, to create a limited edition highlighter palette, and it was finally released on Makeup Geek's website last month. It includes "three exclusive shades created lovingly by Kathleen," who "wanted to create three wearable shades that suit every single skin tone in one place — a shade for fair skin, medium skin and deeper skin tones! So, no matter who you are, you can rock these highlights and be glowy and beautiful!" The highlighters are housed in a cardboard palette with a magnetic closure featuring a black and rose gold chevron pattern with Makeup Geek's logo on the lid. The powders are also engraved with the same chevron pattern. Each highlighter palette contains a total of 21 grams of product (7 grams of each shade), and retails for $39 USD.
Nightlight, Starlight, and Sunlight Nightlight, Starlight, and Sunlight

Nightlight is a light-medium warm champagne gold in a reflective luminous finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft, creamy texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It is darker than Becca Prosecco Pop, darker and more gold than Becca Champagne Pop, similar to Anastasia Beverly Hills Dripping in Gold, and brighter and more gold than MAC Global Glow.

Starlight is a medium warm rose gold in a reflective luminous finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft, creamy texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It is cooler and more pink than Anastasia Beverly Hills Hard Candy, darker and more pink than Anastasia Beverly Hills Crushed Pearl, darker than Becca Rose Quartz, and darker and warmer than Urban Decay Aura.

Sunlight is a medium-dark warm copper gold in a reflective luminous finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft, creamy texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It is lighter and more gold than Anastasia Beverly Hills Bronzed, darker and more copper than Becca Topaz, lighter and more gold than MAC Cheeky Bronze, and lighter and more copper than MAC Gold Deposit.

It comes as no surprise that when Makeup Geek finally launched highlighting powders, they would be incredibly smooth, finely-milled, silky, and ultra-pigmented with rich colour pay-off. To me, they fall somewhere between Becca's Shimmering Skin Perfectors and Anastasia Beverly Hills' Glow Kits; they have the intense pigmentation and smooth, ultra-metallic finish of the former, but have the texture, consistency, and blendability of the latter. That having been said, the shades in this palette are geared towards medium to deep dark skintones — those who are very fair will find that these shades end up working better as blush toppers/finishers rather than true highlighters. However, I like that the three shades here are very different from each other, an issue I have with the ABH Glow Kits where at least two of the four shades included in each palette look too similar to be housed in the same kit. As it is, this is one of the most impressive highlighter formulas that I've come across recently, and that's really saying something as we live in a world where every single brand is coming out with multiple highlighting options. This palette acts sort of like a test-run for Makeup Geek's highlighters, as rumour has it that they will be coming out with single highlighters later on this year in the same formula. Whether or not you will make use of all three shades in this palette or you want to wait for the single shades to come out, if you like your highlighters bright, luminous, super-smooth, silky, and incredibly blendable, Makeup Geek's offerings are totally worth looking at.