This highlighter honestly took me on a rollercoaster ride of emotions! I remember when I had just started loving makeup years ago my friend had this highlighter, and I remember lusting over it but never being able to bring myself to spend so much money on a highlighter. Well a few months ago I finally did. At first I didn't like it at all, and it took me a while to realize that I didn't since I had this highlighter so built up in my head from being so in love with it years ago. I realized that it really was such a dry, hard, dull highlight, but I kept using it in hopes that it would somehow grow on me. But as I kept using it, the formula improved and got more pigmented, less dry and much softer. I think that since this is a baked product that the first layer isn't as good as the other layers so you have to get rid of that one to actually get to the good product. I don't know if that's actually true, but that's totally what I feel like given the experience I had with mine. It can get kind of dry sometimes though, so I do recommend spraying your brush with Fix+, or any other setting/priming spray you have, before applying it, which gives it a lot more of a blinding, yet natural-looking, glow. Beautiful champagne-y finish, which is my favorite type of finish for highlights. Its an okay match for my (NC20, for reference) skin, but I think this would be too dark for any colors lighter than that, but I think that this would look even more beautiful on darker skin tones.