Chanel Beauty Baume Essentiel Multi-Use Glow Stick Review

The Baume Essentiel Multi-Use Glow Stick by the House of Chanel represents the worst possible tendencies of luxury beauty products: huge price tags, huge promises and… barely-there effects—especially for what you’re paying. This product touts itself as sort-of a multi-use balm highlighter, which in itself isn’t a problem. To be fair, the product does feel nice on the skin, and it can boast an ultra-light glowy finish when used on specific skin types, mostly drier skin. The real shocker of this product is its general ineffectuality. $45.00 for this kind of product wouldn’t be a shocker if it actually elevated makeup looks, but as it stands, it doesn’t really end up doing very much. First of all, if applied without a brush (which is sold separately) it drags makeup, and some base product even gets picked up on the balm stick. As mentioned, this product really does have a slight sheen when applied to certain skin types, but for most people, there’s just nothing discernible there. There may be a slight brightening, but it’s just not enough to justify the very existence of this product. All-in-all, based on what it can do, this product just isn’t worth what it costs because there are a lot of fantastic highlighters out there (both powders and creamier stick-type formulas) that can get the job done (and more) for less.