Get excited! Revlon has released a highlighter quad that isn’t varying shades of champagne, but rather (almost) all the colours of the rainbow! Say hello to the Galaxy Dream Holographic Highlighting Palette – potentially Revlon‘s most unique launch yet!
I’ve been raving on about unique highlighters for a few years now. I fell in love with the Kat Von D Alchemist Holographic palette, as well as the Anastasia Beverly Hills Moonchild palette long ago, and while a few drug store brands have launched singles of unique shades, there’s never been a palette (that I can think of). And now Revlon has finally done it! And frankly, while I love Revlon, they were NOT the brand I was expecting to put out a palette like this!
The Galaxy Dream palette is a four-pan pressed-powder compact containing 0.5 oz/14.4 grams of product (which is more than double what comes in the KVD palette by the way). The prices varies wildly – $19.99 CAD at Shoppers Drug Mart or $7.49 USD at ULTA. The conversion rate isn’t great between Canada and the US (come on guys, our dollar isn’t THAT bad – eesh!), but coming in at $20 for four large pans is actually a fairly decent price for the drugstore.
Of course, I must point out that while the Galaxy Dream palette is labelled “Holographic”, it really isn’t. These are fun, colourfully tinted highlighted but none of the shades reflect the entire rainbow spectrum and therefore cannot be called “holographic”.
Swatched out you can see that each shade provides a bit of iridescent sheen – with the silver shade clearly having the most pigment.
Revlon Galaxy Dream Holographic Highlighting Palette – Face Swatches
The pink imbued my cheeks with a pink-leaning-fuchsia hue that I hadn’t expected. I thought it would be a hair more peach given the swatch, so I was pleasantly shocked when I saw just how strong it went on my cheeks. I noticed right away that the texture of the powder is much different than other colourful highlighters I’ve used in the past. It’s more of a satin finish – almost as if I’m buffing a matte colourful highlighter on to my face. I was astonished with just how much I liked this kind of satin/matte but colourful highlighter aspect.
Sadly, I really struggled to photograph the green highlighter. In person the colour of the green is very obvious – I was continuously surprised at just how much I noticed it (in a good way!). But in the shots I got of it it comes across far more silvery-yellow which is sad because I promise you it’s REALLY green IRL.
And another beautiful shade! The purple shade was absolutely another stunner. Such a gorgeous surreal, sort of fairy-esque glow to it. It matched so well with my eyeshadow too!
The silver shade was the one I was the most nervous to wear and yet it turned out to be equally gorgeous! I had been nervous to put this on my cheekbones because the swatch looked like straight up silver eyeshadow and I did not want to be wearing that at all. Come to find out that the bulk of the silver pigment actually gets buffed away as you brush this on to your cheekbones, leaving behind a beautiful ethereal white-silver glow. This shade definitely surprised me the most – it’s freaking gorgeous!
Final Thoughts
I was truly surprised at how well the Revlon Galaxy Dreams palette played out on my cheeks. My only complaint is that the pink and the purple shade are a little too similar and I would’ve preferred a blue over one of those shades… but that’s it, because this palette is freaking fantastic! The colours are beautiful, the pigmentation is *really* good, and, what I found to be the most interesting… it’s a softer kind of highlighter. The other colourful highlighters I’ve used in the past somehow seem to have a bit of a shimmery quality to them, which I hadn’t really noticed until I started using this palette. This one is more of a softer hue. I don’t want to say dull, as the colours are certainly NOT dull, but it’s more of a “lit from within” colour than it is a loud, aggressive one (more specifically – the pink and purple are like this). I initially thought I wouldn’t like that after I applied the pink on day one, but I was so taken with how transformative the more satin-like quality of the powder was in comparison to ones I’d used in the past that it made me fall head over heels for this palette.
Revlon‘s Galaxy Dreams palette is really a winner. I love that it’s something fun and unique from a brand that usually sticks to the safe side of things. I *love* this palette!
The Revlon Galaxy Dreams Holographic Highlighting Palette can be purchased on shoppersdrugmart.com for $19.99 CAD or on ulta.com for $7.49 USD.
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