Supernova Glitz Shadow

Great pigment. Lovely color shift.

Astro Glam is pretty! The base so far seems to be sheerer than I was expecting, so it mainly goes on like a swipe of glitter/sparkle. It has a noticeable pink overall glow, and as with the other Supernova Glitz Shadows, it seems to have a finer glitter fleck than Moira's other sparkly shadow products, and the glitters have a hotter pinpoint of more saturated color and are multicolored.

I got both this one and Moira's Lucent Cream Shadow in Milky Way because I wanted to compare them and see if they were too similar, and they actually are different despite being a similar color. Milky Way is a softer-looking shimmer and more milky of a light warm pink, while Astro Glam seems to have a sheerer base, more glitzy, saturated glitter flecks, and an overall slightly stronger, cooler pink sheen.

The color for both Astro Glam and Milky Way is actually pretty similar to the payoff I'm also getting from the Lucent Cream Shadow in Pluto, as well. You can see my review for Pluto for more info on that one.

How it looks in the pan is pretty accurate to how it looks on the eyes. This shade has a golden olive hue in direct lighting/angles, and in side/other angles, you can see a more grassy green color. But I would say the primary overall color feels like a sparkly, subtly multicolored, olive hue. This color is so wearable because it mingles with the naturally warm tones in many skin tones (especially, of course, warmer skin tones), and it isn't as cool of a green as you might expect it to be, especially once you blend it out. That is a good thing in my case because I was primarily attracted to this shade for the olive tones. I also found Stellar Haze easier to work with than the shade Galaxsea, even without eyeshadow primer (I don't usually use primer and haven't tried one yet). The base color seems maybe less dark than Galaxsea's base color, as well. It's really a lovely eyeshadow overall. On a different note, I will also say that in my experience so far (2 orders, many products), Moira has packed all my items really safely, nothing was damaged, and the customer service person who helped me was really helpful!

Galaxsea has a dark, translucent smoky base that is kind of a black or dark navy color, with truly duochrome fine sparkles that are teal and magenta-violet. I found it a bit challenging to attempt to build up opacity or to blend edges out - it feels a bit slippery, even a bit oily, noticeably different than the texture and behavior of the Chroma Light Shadows and Lucent Cream Shadows by Moira. I find Chroma and Lucent easy to spread and blend with my finger; by contrast, if I attempt to blend this formula, especially since the Galaxsea shade has a dark + sheer base, it can look slightly smudgy or concentrated in the spot I first applied it. It's not super obvious from the photos I uploaded here, but I could definitely see it on myself up close. So next time, I'm planning to try it with primer + a brush. (So far I just tried it on my bare lid, no primer, and with my finger), The glitters are noticeably finer than Chroma and Lucent - not a bad or better thing, just creates more of a microfine sort of sparkle that can look like a sheen in indirect lighting, but still sparkly close up or in direct lighting. If you're interested in this shade because of the teal color, bear in mind that it's the glitter color and not the base color, so it's less of a teal eyeshadow than it is a teal shine on the lids (that shifts to a magenta sheen in different angles). Overall, I think it's an interesting shade. It reminds me of an oil slick or a very smoky version of a peacock's iridescence, and the strong duochrome makes this different from other blue-green shadows I have. I'll update this review if I get better results with different application techniques. ___ UPDATE 4/4/26: It did not look or behave differently with primer (used Ulta) imo. Somehow this particular shade, "Galaxsea," is tricky to spread/blend out (whereas the green "Stellar Haze" shade for the same product was fine to blend for me, even without primer or a brush). Brush seemed to help a bit for blending the edges, after I initially placed most of it by finger. I still like the idea of the shade, but it seems like the only way to wear it is as a kind of smoky look - because, you can't sheer it out a lot and still try to get the pretty duochrome to show; you have to put on enough product to actually show off the duochrome.

Beautiful