There are some makeup items in this world that inspire rabid obsessiveness in me… and the Stila Glitter & Glow Liquid Eyeshadows are one of those.

It all started rather innocently with this single Glitter & Glow in Kitten Karma that I was sent  by PR many moons ago (see that full review from 2017 here). I loved it upon initial application. I was astounded by how easily the applicator applied the product (so precisely and so opaquely!), impressed by how solid the glitter intensity was, and ultimately floored that no one, until now, had created a product as miraculous as this one.

Of course, then I had a real damn problem.

I. Wanted. All. Of. Them.

These beautiful little packages of glitter heaven are $31 CAD/$24 USD apiece and I started buying them at every opportunity. I bought them at IMATS (I think I got a few of them at $10 each then!), I bought them at Sephora (at full price and during their sales) and even picking a few up at BeautyBoutique.ca. They are not cheap, but they are worth every single penny of the price tag as I have never found an easier to apply glitter product before.

So here we are – it’s a year later and I now own 11 of these beauties and I love them dearly. I used to have 12, but I ended up giving away one shade because it turned out to be so unlike all the others I had. The shade in question is Molten Midnight (black with silver sparkle) – beautiful to be sure, but it creased on me like nothing else. This was a shock as none of the other shades had done this to me! So I gave it away because I knew I would never use it. The rest of the shades though? They’re flawless!

It’s absolutely wild to be me that this simple flat doe foot applicator works so well to apply the product! I can use this little guy to apply the product opaquely to my eye and then turn it on its side and use the narrow side to feather/blend it out into my eyeshadow.

One thing not to be confused about with these is that Stila makes a Glitter & Glow product (which is what’s featured in this review), but they also make one called a Shimmer & Glow and it’s in identical packaging. Even more curious is that I feel like the consistency is not equal across all the Glitter & Glows. While some of them pack a TON of glitter, there are others in here that I would quantify as more of a shimmer (more specifically, I feel like Enchantress, Sea Siren and Into The Blue have very little glitter and far more shimmer). This can make for a bit of a confusing product – I personally love the glitter aspect and therefore expect glitter in these products, but that isn’t always exactly what you’re getting. Let’s take a look at some swatches so I can show you what I mean.

The three pictured above are the ones that definitely have the most glitter in them, which makes them hella hard to photograph (for me anyway).

• Perlina is more of a translucent base with white glitter particles that shimmer cool colours (teal, purple, pink). Oddly, Perlina fits under their “Metallic finish” under their Glitter & Glow range, and yet it’s definitely more glitter than metallic.
• Diamond Dust is a beautiful silver with probably the MOST glitter in it in out of all of the ones I own. It also reflects a rainbow of colours when looked at indirectly/out of focus.
• Gold Goddess is a soft pale gold that is pure gold glitter.

To see the colouring a bit better, I took these photos from an angle instead of straight on. You can see the glitter particles in more detail and the difference in the colours is a bit more identifiable this way.

Some of the newer releases tend to have more shimmer in them (despite being classified as Glitter & Glow), so I’m not really sure what’s going on with the formula difference, but these are still incredibly pretty!

• Gypsy is a beautiful lilac with pink pearl. This one has more shimmer than glitter in my opinion.
• Sea Siren fits in their metallic category of Glitter & Glow and it’s definitely more of a metallic duochrome that shifts purple or teal depending on the angle the shade is viewed at.
• Into The Blue is another metallic and it looks super blue in some lighting and very purple in others.

Change the angle of the shot and you can see just how much Gypsy transforms! Isn’t that colour wild?? Sea Siren and Into The Blue also show their shade range when you bend the colour around my arm such as in these swatches, which would be similar to the bend in your eye (granted, your eye is a smaller surface).

If you’re looking for some glitter without going for straight up colour, Stila does make a TON of nude and neutral shades for you to choose from. For the most part it’s a nude base with silver glitter thrown in.

• Smoky Storm is a light pewter with silver glitter.
• Kitten Karma is a champagne with silver glitter.
• Enchantress is listed as a peach with bright gold pearl on Sephora’s site, but to me it’s a pink with silver glitter.
• Rose Gold Retro is a copper with silver glitter.
• Smoldering Satin is a medium brown with silver glitter.

When you change the angle on these the colour shift isn’t really there as these aren’t duochromatic shades like the first ones I swatched. What’s neat about these is that you basically choose what colour base you like most, and then go with that shade.

To see these products in action, I do have two videos you can check out if you want to see how I use them.

The video above uses Into The Blue.

The video above uses Smoky Storm.

Final Thoughts

Although I’ve reviewed one shade before, I had to update you on just how much I love this range. Every time I get an opportunity I pick up yet another Glitter & Glow, and I think that speaks volumes. This formula is truly groundbreaking for the beauty industry! I hope that Stila continues to put out more and more of them – I’d particularly like to see them put out more colourful shades in the Glitter range (they’ve added a few colourful shades to the Shimmer line, but I’m not interested in those – I want glitter!). If you’re looking for an easy way to apply glitter, then don’t look any further than this. You won’t have to deal with loose glitter and you don’t need a specific glitter primer either – my regular ole eyeshadow primer works just fine for these!

The Stila Glitter and Glow Liquid Eyeshadows can be purchased at sephora.ca for $31 CAD each or on sephora.com for $24 USD each.

I believe I was gifted Kitten Karma, Enchantress and Smoky Storm, the rest I purchased myself. Post contains affiliate links.