It's a 4.2 oz. tube of a gel-like bronzer. The color of the product right out of the tube is very bright reddish-orange-copper with a lot of what I consider fairly large pieces of glitter - kind of scary! In my opinion, there is a fairly strong floral scent while applying, but it does seem to dissipate after awhile.
I attempted to apply this product with vinyl gloves because of the color - I just knew it was going to stain my hands! But the gloves kept getting "stuck" in the gel and made it very gummy and difficult to spread. When I removed the gloves, I didn't have any problems applying the product - but you can see what my hands looked like!
One coat of the product didn't really show up, so I decided to apply a second coat. That gave a little more color, but it also made it look more "orange". There was a little more sparkle than I like, too. The gel seemed to dry fairly quickly, although with the humidity, I felt really sticky all day long.
One coat on my hand wasn't enough color, but it was way too sparkly to apply another coat. I ended up applying some MAC Skinsheen to my hands over the Stila gel.
The day I wore this, it was very humid, and the temperature was in the high 80's. However, I was indoors all day, with the central air set at 75. I did a few loads of laundry, vacuumed the carpet, and just did "normal" things around the house. I ended up sweating off most of the bronzer so that I had big splotches of white. Not pretty! And it has absolutely no water-resistance at all - none - nada - nein.
Honestly, I don't see how anyone could ever make this product work! If you can't even keep it on doing normal activities in air-conditioning, then something is wrong. No wonder it's been discontinued (although I believe it was available for 3-4 years).
To summarize:
PROS:
- none
- color
- too much sparkle
- scent
- stains hands during application
- absolutely no water/sweat resistance
Um, do you even have to ask???
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