MAC Step Bright Up/Alche-me Hyper Real Glow Duo Review & Swatches
Step Bright Up/Alche-me
MAC Step Bright Up/Alche-me Hyper Real Glow Duo ($38.00 for 0.28 oz.) is a medium gold with warmer, more orange undertones and a luminous sheen. It had semi-sheer, buildable pigmentation–the brand wasn’t particularly helpful on pigmentation, which they described as “luminous payoff”–that applied evenly and smoothly to bare skin.
The powder was incredibly soft and smooth to the touch without being powdery at all. It lasted well for eight hours before showing signs of fading.
Top Dupes
- Huda Beauty Flora (LE, $55.00) is more shimmery (95% similar).
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Ingredients
Talc, Isostearyl Neopentanoate, Zinc Stearate, Dimethicone, Diisostearyl Malate, Octyldodecyl Stearoyl Stearate, Polybutene, Tocopherol, Lecithin, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Glyceryl Oleate, Tin Oxide, Aluminum Hydroxide, Caprylyl Glycol, Hexylene Glycol, Citric Acid, Isopropyl Isostearate, Glyceryl Stearate, Phenoxyethanol, [+/- Mica, Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891), Iron Oxides (Ci 77491), Iron Oxides (Ci 77492), Iron Oxides (Ci 77499), Aluminum Powder (Ci 77000), Bismuth Oxychloride (Ci 77163), Blue 1 Lake (Ci 42090), Bronze Powder (Ci 77400), Carmine (Ci 75470), Chromium Hydroxide Green (Ci 77289), Chromium Oxide Greens (Ci 77288), Copper Powder (Ci 77400), Ferric Ammonium Ferrocyanide (Ci 77510), Ferric Ferrocyanide (Ci 77510), Manganese Violet (Ci 77742), Red 6 (Ci 15850), Red 7 (Ci 15850), Red 7 Lake (Ci 15850), Ultramarines (Ci 77007), Yellow 5 Lake (Ci 19140), Yellow 6 Lake (Ci 15985)]
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As nice as it looks, I’m going to give it a hard pass due to my loving the other version much better. Plus, I have similar enough highlighters.
As pretty as this is, I think the shade colour is very popular and many would have it. It does look lovely on you Christine.