Hyper Real Glow – Should You Be Breaking The Bank?

When Middle Eastern makeup artist, Hindash, showcased and swatched MAC’s Hyper Real Glow palettes on his Instagram stories, I KNEW I had to get them. But the sad thing was, I wasn’t in Middle East at the time, and MAC India hadn’t launched it yet. So I did what I do best, I’d wake up every day and check Nykaa’s app to see if they had brought it into their line. And one fine day, as per routine, I woke up and was scanning Nykaa, and I saw that the Hyper Real Glow Palettes were available, and I went berserk.

I picked up the MAC Hyper Real Glow Palette in Get It Glowin’ for a WHOPPING INR 3900, but I didn’t regret it for even a second. I mean, as long as I didn’t check my bank account, nobody was getting hurt. (I did eventually face the hurt after a while, but I made my peace with it)

CLAIM: Fall fast and hard for the highlighting palette perfection of Hyper Real Glow. MAC’s Hyper Real Glow Highlighter palette packs three hues of highlight for supercharged, ecstatic-in-love-level radiance. Bring on a rush of warmth in this trio of burning gold shades. With an irresistibly creamy powder formula, shades blend effortlessly to leave an ultra-reflective, yet flawlessly smooth sheen. Get lost in the hyper real.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: I am always excited to receive new makeup, but for this palette, I was anxious. What if it wasn’t as great as I thought it was? There was only one way to find out.

The Get It Glowin’ palette comes in a black rectangular heavy cardboard packaging enclosed in a hard transparent plastic cover. On opening the box you see a stunning mirror, a protective cover over the shades with the names on it.

The palette is a limited edition gold and copper-hued highlighting trio that had semi-opaque to opaque pigmentation and the texture was soft and easy to blend. The shades are as follows-

1. Gold Coasting: Champagne gold with gold shimmer
2. Get It Glowin’: Fleshy peach with fine gold shimmer
3. Rosy Cheer: Rich golden bronze with fine gold shimmer

All three shades work fantastically with medium to deep skin tones. They last for about 8 hours or more, don’t cause pores or texture to be enhanced and blend flawlessly with the skin. The highlighters don’t apply patchy, and don’t look like you’ve just packed on a blob of shimmer and glitter. The only sad thing is that it’s limited edition.

If you’re a fan of MAC’s Extra Dimension powders, you will fall hopelessly in love with these trios. They’re a bang for your buck!

PROS:

1. Soft, velvety texture
2. Works well with medium to deep skin tones
3. Doesn’t fade quickly
4. Easy to manoeuver
5. Blends seamlessly
6. Doesn’t look patchy
7. Doesn’t enhance texture

CONS:

1. Expensive
2. Limited edition

RANKING: 4.9/5