MAC Gleamscape Extra Dimension Skinfinish Review & Swatches
Gleamscape
MAC Gleamscape Extra Dimension Skinfinish ($42.00 for 0.31 oz.) is a pale, yellowed peach base with pink-to-gold shifting sparkle throughout. The base seemed more translucent than most of the brand’s Extra Dimension Skinfinishes.
- Medium, buildable coverage
- Smooth, lightly emollient without being powdery
- Applied evenly and blended out well
- Long-wearing (8 hours but some sparkle migrated over time)
FURTHER READING: Formula Overview for details on general performance and characteristics (like scent).
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Formula Overview
$42.00/0.31 oz. - $135.48 Per Ounce
The Extra Dimension Skinfinish formula is supposed to give “the perfect glow to the skin” with a “creamy powder formula” that wears for “10 hours.” It’s a powder highlighter that I’d describe as a moderate to intense highlighter, and they come in varying hues with some that might work as highlighting blushes/bronzers are on some skin tones and true highlighters on other skin tones. In general, the formula is very pigmented, blendable, and wears around eight to nine hours on me.
Browse all of our MAC Extra Dimension Skinfinish swatches.
Ingredients
A bit ho-hum to me. I have a couple of the snowflake embossed highlighters that MAC has put out. I don’t really love highlighters that pull gold as opposed to icy just because they look a bit bruise-like on my super pale skin. I also don’t love glitter/shimmer and would prefer the more “wet” look or slick looking formula’s.
Dear MAC,
You really do NOT make 42 dollar highlighters. Please reconsider. I want to love you again.
All my love.
Oh, wow, all of this caught my eye.. the swatch, the case, the snowflake! Just beautiful! But is it really worth $42?
Very pretty glass-like effect! Totally reminds me of MAC’s own Show Gold, though. I do have Snow Flush from a few years ago, which was perfect for summer as an actual highlighter, and as a blush topper during winter. Especially since I don’t get out in the sun the way I did previously. This summer was just too hot and harsh for that.
As a non highlighter wearer I would have to say the embossing looks beautiful and the rating is reasonably good.
This color and finish is beautiful and exactly what I’ve been searching for. Just a bit of color and glow.
This reminds me of Dior’s Holo Pink 001 but I’m not sure.
I wondered the same and got my Dior Holo Pink out and it looks to me like MAC is more pink and this is maybe a bit more peachy. I doubt it would read a lot different on the cheek though. I have a couple of Dior highlighter/blush toppers and they perform so well. Rosy Glow Blush 02 is probably my favorite of all time. They make nice face products, even if they messed up their e/s formula. I really like a couple of the new quints but am hesitant to purchase in the new formula. I finger swatched a couple while in Seattle and they felt a lot stiffer in the pan to me. I just hope they don’t mess with their complexion products and powders!
I love Dior face powders too, but I have a lot of products to finish.
I love this and I buy every highlighter that MAC releases during the holidays.
Looks super pretty – that snowflake motif is always so tempting – but way too warm for me. And the price is kinda steep.
What Mariella said!
What Helene and Mariella said! Too warm and deep for me. I could use as an eyeshadow but I already have a lot of highlighter’s that I have to use as eyeshadows because they are too dark to be highlighters on me, or I swirl them with a matte blush to make a more luminous blush!