Sometimes you avoid buying a product… only to regret it later on. The Cover FX Glitter Drops are one of those products. I wish I had picked these up when they first launched!

I think it was last summer that Cover FX launched their Glitter Drops in three ethereal shades – Aurora (multi-tonal pink glitter), Lunar (multi-colored pastel glitter) and Mirage (golden champagne glitter). The three liquid highlighters promise to impart “a multidimensional glitter highlighter [with] a high impact, light-reflective finish”. And good grief… do they EVER!

Within each bottle lives a multitude of glitter and sparkle – enough to take your breath away. Lunar is pictured above, and while Cover FX refers to this as a pastel glitter, clearly it’s more blue than anything else. Within that blue base, you can see teal, purple, lavender and silver particles. The dimension of the glitter is absolutely breathtaking.

The Glitter Drops come in a glass bottle with a dropper style applicator. While you can pump the dropper full of product, you really don’t need that much product to highlight your face. I opt to dab the dropper on the high points of my cheek bones and then blend it out with my finger. However, if you were trying to cover your whole body in glitter then the dropper would be pretty handy for dumping a lot of product on an area (let’s say your arm) and then spreading it out with the palm of your hand. While the dropper style isn’t helpful to me for application, it’s not detrimental either. Probably the best part of it is the fact that it doesn’t get gunked up because it’s not a fuzzy doe foot.

I think the swatches above showcase the  multidimensional shimmer imbued in each bottle the best. Mirage (gold) has the least amount of colourful sparkle, while Aurora and Lunar carry a lot more fragments of other colours. These are heavy swatches of course – I dabbed a little on my arm and then smushed it out with my finger. When I’m wearing it on my face, I dab a little bit on my cheekbone and then pat it out with my finger.

The saddest thing about all of these photos is the fact that the glitter looks like almost nothing in a photo! In photos the effect is subtle and simple – a highlighter you probably wouldn’t think much about.

However, in person, the glitter particles are astonishingly pretty. Aurora (pink) ended up  being my favourite because it had the most colour on my cheeks and it had a luminous, brilliant glittery finish that wowed me every time I looked in the mirror.

Lunar is my second favourite (although they’re really all beautiful so you can’t go wrong with any of them!). While blue in the bottle, it comes across more as a pale silvery blue with a lot of sparkle.

It’s utterly sad to me how subtle these show up in far away photos, so I wanted to show you what this looks like up close. And even then… damn is it ever hard to capture the visual appeal of glitter in a photograph. This a phenomenal product that looks like fairy dust on the skin! The particles also don’t move, nor do they feel sticky on the face. Once the product dries down, that glitter won’t be going anywhere!

Final Thoughts

While my face photos don’t capture the incredible glitter and sparkle of these Glitter Drops, I hope you accept my words at face value. The Cover FX Glitter Drops are incredible. They’re *everything* I could possibly want in a liquid glitter highlighter. My only complaint is now that I’ve tried all three shades… I want even more. I want a green one. An orange one. A purple one! Give me the whole rainbow spectrum in this formula and I will happily snap them all up! Of course, it needs to be said that this is not for people who a) don’t like glitter and b) are looking for something subtle. These are loud, sparkly, and utterly gorgeous!

The Cover FX Glitter Drops can be purchased on sephora.ca for $54 CAD each or sephora.com for $44 USD each.

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