PR: Maybelline NY Mineral Power Illuminator

This product is a so-so highlighter. It provides okay highlighting, but I have several other products that provide just as good or better (none that provide worse, so I guess this is at the bottom of my totem pole). It isn't like a bad color that you would put on and be like "Yuck!" or "That doesn't look right," but it isn't as strong as I like my highlight to be.

Also, it is very fine. I know that on the packaging it says "With Micro-Minerals" but it is kind of bad in this case. The package says that Micro-Minerals are good because they provide awesome blending ability. Well... okay. But the powder is so fine that when you dip your brush in to get powder, some whirls up in dust clouds and you can never get it back. And if you feel you have too much on your brush and you tap some away, it flies away as a cloud of pixie dust. I like to be able to use that extra later. Needless to say, I've used this product up fast. And I've only used it a couple times! It seems like it's disappeared even when I haven't used it in so long; like it's so fine that it slipped out under the closed lid. I will not be wasting my money on this product again.

I'm sorry Maybelline New York, I'm not trying to bash your product because the color is not bad at all, and the blending is really nice. But it goes really fast and it seems like a good way to waste money. So if you could find a way to get the same quality but not all the loss of product every time you dip your brush in, I would buy it again. But until then, I'm going to be on a search for another highlighter.

Bottom line: If you have the product use it. If you don't but you were thinking of buying it, don't unless you're looking for a way to waste money (and in this economy, who is?).

~Stacie

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**Highlighter tip: When looking for a highlighter, look for the kind in the form of a baked/pressed powder. I wouldn't really look for the kind that comes as a loose powder. I've had several loose powder highlighters and none work as nicely as my one pressed powder highlighter.