The products: INC.REDIBLE You Glow Girl Iridescent Jelly in Cosmic Blur; Milk Makeup Holographic Stick (Mini) in Stardust

I’m like… really bad at ordering things online. Or, rather, I’m bad at purchasing things full stop. I’m both too indecisive and too much of a perfectionist, with an end result of hours of decision-making followed by a week of returns for anything that didn’t fit the bill perfectly. This Milk Holographic Stick went back with extreme prejudice; the jelly highlighter did not.

(I mean, why keep something that’s not perfect?)

My jelly highlighter love story

Okay. So. I put through a Sephora order during their spring bonus event to stock up on Serge Lutens Chergui ($155 CAD), my current beau’s favourite perfume on me, and Serge Lutens Santal Majescule ($155 CAD), my personal favourite. It’s been three or four years since my last order, so I bolstered the cart with a few other items.

(Pro tip: every guy I have ever met has loved Chergui on me. It triggers an immediate “I have to rip your clothes off right now” response, which occasionally plays out literally. It’s very sex pollen-y.)

I slid a Milk Makeup Holographic Stick Mini into my cart, and as an afterthought, added a jelly highlighter that came up as a similar item. After all, it was $15 – practically a drugstore price.

Swatched L (bottom) to R (top): Inc.redible You Glow Girl in Cosmic Blur, Milk Makeup Holographic Stick in Stardust (indirect sunlight)

And am I ever glad that I did. The Inc.redible You Glow Girl Iridescent Jelly highlighter in Cosmic Blur ($12 USD/$15 CAD) is easily my favourite item from the haul; it may even be my favourite highlighter of them all, for the moment.

You Glow Girl has the texture of bouncy mask. You can press your finger into it and it’ll leave a fingerprint for a minute before settling flat again, and I have. Repeatedly. But unlike most bouncy masks, this silicone-free delight is one that I can actually use.

It has a cooling texture, and what can only be described as an otherwordly glow. My swatches don’t do it justice; the ones on the Sephora site do a little better. It’s very violet, and catches in the light for an almost magical, wet look with a dry finish.

You Glow Girl vs. the Milk Makeup Holographic Stick

I ordered, I guess, the wrong shade of Milk Makeup’s Mini Holographic Stick ($14 USD/$17 CAD). I went for the duo-chrome Stardust, a pink with white reflects, and was instead met with a product that was… mostly just pink.

Cosmic Blur turned out to be perfect because it had a great texture, a great price point, and almost no underlying pigment – just reflects. Stardust was almost the opposite. It had an almost sticky finish, packaging that marred the top of the product as soon as it was opened, and too much pigment for my skintone. Instead of giving me pink reflects, it gave me what looked like a sunburn on the tops of my cheekbones.

Stardust would be lovely, I think, on someone a solid few shades darker than me. But for anyone out there who’s here, who’s queer, and who’s pale as a goddamn corpse: the Inc.redible You Glow Girl Iridescent Jelly highlighter is a cheap find that you’re going to absolutely love. Get it here.

THAT GLOW