While standing in line at the grocery store, buying something last minute (per usual) for the Valentine’s Day potluck at work, my eye caught the Go Girl energy drink stand. The nomad display always sends me on a mad hunt every four months or so when I crave an energy drink. But what stood out were the similar blue cans next to the signature pink ones.

They have to be Go Guy energy drinks! Must buy one for Fiance for Valentine’s! Alas, I was next in line and there were several people behind me, antsy to get to their work potlucks, no doubt.

After finally going back today, I discovered that the mystery blue cans weren’t meant for guys (sorry babe! hope you liked the cupcake that I definitely slaved in the kitchen over and definitely didn’t swipe from the potluck!) but it was a new, sister drink called Go Girl Glo, touted to promote healthy skin.

Junk Food Blog says Go Girl Glo is a “light pink-orange, and comes with a light, tropical and bit of raspberry flavor with a starfruit and pomegranate juice blend.” Having never been good at identifying what I taste (I’m much prefer the Say What You See game. Blue can! Computer! Neglected work!) I would have guessed the flavors to be a dash of almost-as-good-as-Go-Girl-1.0 along with faint bubbles, non-pink and sweetness.

Apparently aloe is a for-real ingredient in the Glo. Last time I checked that plant has prickly edges, which makes me wonder, is it edible? Because I don’t want the toxic glow a la the drugged up Mr. Burns. So naturally, I ask my go-to chemist extraordinaire and fellow Go Girl aficionado Christine.

Me: Is aloe edible?
Christine: Sure, it’s a plant.
Me: But all plants aren’t edible, right? Like those ones with the red berries they always told us not to eat when we were little?
Christine: Yeah, but I don’t think it’s toxic, since you put it on your skin.
Me: Okay, cool. (Glug, glug.)

So she has taught me not to show hate to our friend aloe. I shouldn’t have hated, after all aloe unmutated my hand when I burned it on Fiance’s fireplace. Word to the wise: fire + metal = hot. fire + metal + palm of hand = owie^5 billion.

Even though Go Girl Glo boasts skin-enhancing technology, the tech savvy stopped there. The only official mention of the drink that I could online find is on their Go Girl’s MySpace. Well, come to think of it, that’s probably the best place to put it, all things considered. But I shouldn’t complain about them not having a website, because in researching it I re-found The Impuslive Buy, one of my favorite blogs that I forgot about because I read it in my pre-Google Reader days. His reviews are much better than mine, so you may want to skip the rest of mine and read the Go Girl* and Go Girl Glo ones.

To put my review in a highball-shaped teal and silver can, Glo Girl (what it should have been called) is good. I would drink it again, but Go Girl 1.0 is still my number 1 bestie.

*Brilliant review, bad language. Beware.