In an attempt to KonMari [1] my beauty stash, I found that the most difficult products for me to part with were my highlighters [2]. The hyperreflective powders, creams, and sticks had taken up so much space on my vanity because I loved each and every one of them for what I thought were different reasons. It wasn't until my friend said, "They look exactly the same," that I admitted to myself that he was right: I was looking at a sea of similar golds and champagnes. So when I came across the Sleek Makeup Highlighting Elixir [3] ($8) in Champagne, I thought, "There's no way I need this in my life."

I still swatched it (that's my job, after all). I'd seen Redditors' glowing comments about the brand, and I had to know if this particular highlighter [4] lived up to the hype. I dispensed half a drop onto the back of my hand and swiped my finger across it to find that it was extremely pigmented. I tapped another half drop onto my cheekbones and let it set into its powdery finish. The result was an intense glow — the kind of glow people only really get from having a ring light in front of them — that would not move.

Sleek's rendition of champagne made me reassess the highlighters on my vanity. Somehow it made parting with them that much easier.

Sleek Makeup Highlighting Elixir Illuminating Drops

Sleek Makeup Highlighting Elixir Illuminating Drops [5] ($8)

Sleek Makeup Highlighting Elixir Illuminating Drops

Sleek Makeup Highlighting Elixir Illuminating Drops [6] ($8)