MAC Hyper Real Glow Palette in Get It Glowin'

Last Thursday, MAC launched their new Hyper Real Glow Palette, a set of three highlighting shades available in two colour waves: "Finally, something worthy of the hype. Fall fast and hard for the highlighting palette perfection of Hyper Real Glow. Each palette packs three hues of highlight for supercharged, ecstatic-in-love-level radiance... With an irresistibly creamy powder formula, shades blend effortlessly to leave an ultra-reflective, yet flawlessly smooth sheen." There are three highlighting shades in square pans in each palette, and they are housed in a slim black mirrored cardboard case. each Hyper Real Glow Palette contains a total of 13.5 grams of product, and retails for $48.
In natural daylight: Get It Glowin', Gold Coasting, and Rosy Cheer
In direct sunlight: Get It Glowin', Gold Coasting, and Rosy Cheer

Get It Glowin' is a light warm champagne gold in a shimmery metallic finish. This is a permanent shade. It has a smooth, creamy texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is darker than Double-Gleam, and lighter than Oh, Darling!.

Gold Coasting is a light warm peachy champagne in a shimmery metallic finish. This is a permanent shade. It has a smooth, creamy texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is more peach than Get It Glowin', and warmer than Soft and Gentle.

Rosy Cheer is a medium warm peachy bronze in a shimmery metallic finish. This is a permanent shade. It has a smooth, creamy texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is slightly lighter and peachier than Global Glow, and lighter and more peach than Gold Deposit.

Finally, MAC has hopped on the highlighter palette train! MAC has never had any sort of highlighting kit in their permanent range, so it really was about time that they added these. For those who like to combine highlighting shades or simply want more variety in a single compact, the Hyper Real Glow Palettes will definitely appeal to you. Since the discontinuation of their Iridescent Powders a little over six years ago, MAC only had Mineralize Skinfinish or Extra Dimension Skinfinish in their permanent range — both of which are gorgeous formulas, but have that weightless, baked texture that is buildable in opacity. What MAC was missing in their highlighter range was that dense, creamy powder formula that is super-smooth, ultra-blendable, and gives off a beaming, metallic sheen — the texture and finish that has made Anastasia Beverly Hills' Glow Kits and Becca's Shimmering Skin Perfectors reign supreme in this category. Get It Glowin' is definitely geared towards medium to dark skintones, but Flash + Awe was designed for fair to medium skintones, so no one misses out.