Dior launched brand new colors for their well-loved backstage glow face palettes about a month ago and I bought two out of the three colors they launched. I love the original colors in these palettes - Universal and Glitz - so I was very excited about trying these. These face palettes are essentially highlighter quads - 4 highlighters to each palette that can be used seperately or together. I like a glitzy highlighter and these do not disappoint in their sparkle/glow payoff but they are also not as obvious as a super glittery or metallic highlight may be. The glitter in them is more visible when swatched as opposed to when they are on your face. This formula somehow manages to allow itself to be piled on and on without looking caked or “too much”. To the touch, these powders are silky and swatch beautifully. On the face, they really do impart a “glow from within” which is sometimes hard to achieve with powder highlighters. If you have the original colors, you know what I mean. I usually apply these with a Sigma highlighter brush though I’ve also tried them with a less dense Wayne Goss air-brush and both times, they slid seamlessly on my cheekbones, were not patchy, and did not move my foundation underneath.

So the formula is great. What about these new colors? I bought two of the three new color stories that Dior launched - Pure Gold (003) and Rose Gold (004). I skipped Copper Gold (006) that looks beautiful but may have been too dark for my skintone. Pure Gold is the perfect palette for a gold highlight lover. In fact, if you love a gold highlight and want to just get one palette for life, this is the one I would recommend with my eyes closed. That’s because it has all of the essential shade variations of the color gold that you would probably ever need on your face (perhaps even your eyes!). There is a pale white-gold, a bronze-gold, a yellow-gold, and a slightly warmer champagne-gold and speaking as someone who loves gold highlighters, this is the palette I would lug with me if I was travelling as my only gold highlighter go-to.

The Rose Gold is actually less obviously pink than I thought it would be from the promo photos. This palette includes a pale white-gold shade very similar to the one in the Pure Gold palette, an extremely pale pink (almost white-pink), a warmer pink that swatches more pink but wears more bronze-pink on my cheeks (at least on my skintone), and a peach-pink (more peach than pink on my cheeks). Again, these are beautiful shades on both the cheeks and the cheekbones. While I don’t really like sparkle or glitter in my blushes, I do love this palette as a highlighter though I woud have liked more variations of pink than the gold and peach shade that are included.

Overall, I would recommend trying at least one of these palettes - these new colors or the two original ones. Like me, I think you may find these palettes fast becoming your go-to palettes for all your highlighting needs because of the well-curated color selections. The chic, slim packaging makes them easy to carry, and you get four perfect highlighters to mix and match as you please in a light-as-a-feather compact. A winner!