Glow Candle Lounge

While I can agree that your experience at Glow will definitely add up fast (sitting fee, paying for your candle, any other add-​ons you want that aren’t wax pips, etc.) it is definitely worth it if you’re looking for a fun activity and want a keepsake or need a gift for someone who appreciates a good craft.
I visited for the first time this past weekend with my young niece and she was a little wary of attempting to make a candle, but the staff was extremely helpful and made her excited about the process — Bella and Deniz were outstanding. We tried not to need much help because there were several larger parties beginning and ending around us, but they were still attentive and answered any questions we may have had. I ended up opting for a rush on the items we made because she was leaving town that afternoon (an additional fee, for anyone interested) and they turned out as decent as first-​time candlemaker’s candles could.
Kudos to whoever decorated this place BTW because it really lends itself to a relaxing environment, which is totally the opposite of how I would describe the actual process of making your candle. I get that it’s a necessary evil — unless you choose the precut wax in the jars near the selection of molds — but watching a 7-​year-​old wield a putty knife to cut wax was almost too much for my heart and appendages to take.
This would definitely be a great place to bring your kids if you’re more experienced with children than I am, or for a night out with a group of adults who have maybe pregamed a bit. I can say now, from experience, that you may be able to skip the one-​hour rush process unless you’re truly in a hurry, but everything else you may end up paying for here is still not enough to keep me from coming back and spending another tidy sum on a fun time.

Who woulda thought candle making can be so therapeutic and fun!
I went for my niece’s birthday party and wasn’t sure what to expect.
The process is rather simple — if you are a kid you may need some muscle help– and the outcome is amazing. Beautiful, customizable candles for every occasion!
They allow you to bring in your own food and snacks which makes it even better!
What a great little find!

Fun fun fun. We have been there many times and it always is a good place to go when we want to make candles and kill the time. The glue is not very sticky though, so making patterns on the inside wall is not easy. Maybe we just need to learn the skills. Surrounding is a pleasant place to walk afterwards and there are many restaurants in the heart of Willow Glen.

I been here several times and only now am I writing a review. I love this place. You don’t have to be very creative for your candle to come our looking decent.
I was introduced to Glow by a friend of mine a few years ago and have since taken my son and friends here. The reason I only give it 4 stars and not 5 is because when you add a scent to the candles and light it you really can’t smell it.
Before you come make sure to make a reservation as it’s always full the times I’ve been. I like that you’re able to bring in food and drinks while making the candles.
There are lots of really cool candles that have already been made and on display so you have many ideas and inspirations to go by.
I found that if you chop up your colored wax quite small then your candle comes out looking pretty cool. I’ve chopped them up bigger but smaller is better.
This place is great for birthdays (Kids & adults), ladies night out, bachelorette party or whatever occasion you feel like being creative and having a fun time.

My kids drug me to this place on a Sunday afternoon. After I was glad to spend the time with them and we had fun! It’s a great way to be creative and the final product is awesome. The candles are about $ 25 – 35 each with sitting fee. The experience is worth it. I would like to host a birthday party for my daughter.

I love this place so much! I’ve been back several times. It’s the cutest store ever and the girls who work there are so nice and friendly omg. I recommend to everyone!

Over priced but was a fun experience. I’d go back.

Totally cool, a lot more work than I expected but the girls were great with us. Our reservation was at 10am, that is the time they open on Thursdays. By the time we left at noon is when the place began getting busy. Definitely will be going back.

WOW, this place is neat! Reservation is suggested ahead of time.
A nice outing with my friend while chit chatting and sipping on wine we brought in.
You pick up your candles the next day or within 30 days.

Love, love, love this place!!! My friend and I went here for a girls date and it was such a great experience. Whether you are in grade school, 25, a grandma or a dad, you will enjoy this!
First off, we brought champagne and enjoyed that as we made our candles. We forgot cups and they were so accommodating, they gave us some :)
First, there is a person who goes through each of yeh steps in candle making, she gave a lot of tips, and was super helpful, especially when we asked her to do out lettering as many people often put them on backwards.
Then we got to choose out of a wide variety of wax shapes, we chopped and decorated away, while enjoying a good chat and some champagne, it was very fun!
Last, we chose our sent and topped off our candles with some glitter and glam!
I would definitely do it again! Many families were there, there was a party for children, and a lot of besties!

I went here with my cousins before New Years Eve. I’m going to make this short and simple. Overall this place=Awesome! It’s a fun place to hangout and make candles! And you can bring alcohol in there too! Lol I made reservations to take my mom here for her birthday next month so I’m excited!

Such a fun concept! My co-​worker booked a candle making session for 5 of us after work. We came in, and we had a reserved table. We were able to bring in food and beverages, including alcohol! We were able to bring in champagne from BevMo which is conveniently located across the street! It’s perfect for a Girls Night Out! You get to sit around and hang out with your girlfriends doing arts and crafts, sipping bubbly while you catch up!
It is equally a perfect place for kids birthdays! There were a couple birthday parties for kids going on. It’s such a fun place. Kids and adults get to pick out candle wax colors, decorations, designs, sparkles, scents! You can bring in your own food, too! That’s a plus! I saw some moms set up some cute decorations. They also brought pizza and cupcakes for their kid’s friends. Saturdays seem to be the kid days, and Friday or weeknights may be a better night for the adults.
You pay a sitting fee, plus the cost of the candle you end up purchasing. If you decide to add any fancy decorations it can easily add up. We spent between $ 35 — 45 dollars each on our candles. But there were much smaller sizes than the ones we picked out.
I would like to approach this business and ask if they would be willing to do fundraisers, similar to the Paint Nights! I think it would be something different, and something that folks would be willing to try out. I sit on the Board of Directors for a non-​profit organization for mommies with cancer who have young children. I thought it was cool that they had a pink ribbon decoration to use for your candle! I am hoping they would be open to supporting that idea!

Great customer service, great idea, great location. I bought my boyfriend a gift card and reserved a spot to make candles for our anniversary. My boyfriend loves candles but hates that such limited scents match the theme of his room, so this place, where you can design the candle to look however you want, then choose the scent, is a perfect idea.
The employees here are so helpful, and allow you to eat and drink while others make candles. It took about an hour for my boyfriend to make his, but that’s because he didn’t add anything special. The candle should take about a day to make.
Love love loved this and hope to return to make more!

I came here today to spend some quality time with my 4 year old daughter.
Chelsea and Laura were so great at their jobs. They toomcustomer service to the next level. Super friendly. My daughter would say excuse me, look what I did. They would come look every time. It was so awesome because usually people ignore kids but not Chelsea and Laura. Thank you so much for acknowledging my daughter. They also helped us find everything we needed and helped us with everything with everything we needed.
We loved it here and definitely will be returning.
We can’t wait to see how our candle turned out.

I la la la love this place! How awesome is it that you get to make your own candle with your all your favorite colors and all these cute little designs that can be added. Also, you even get to add your favorite scent to it?! That’s pretty awesome!
How it works:
You pay for a sitting fee, which is $ 10.00 and you could to use their materials and certain accessories to make your candles except for the ones with a price on them, which then requires an extra charge. After, you get to choose the mold for your candle. They have a variety of molds in all sorts of different shapes and sizes, which ranges from about 15 to 40 dollars. How big or small your mold is will determine the price as well as how many pieces of colored wax you can put in it.
Then, you get to pick your wax decoration, which comes in a variety of designs in all sorts of colors and other accessories that you can glue to the mold. This is like your own piece of art here! Anyways, the next part involves cutting up your wax pieces into small squares and filling those pieces to the top of your mold. Then you walk over where the scents are and pick a scent. They have a variety of smell, but I just love their Lavender scent! Finally when you’re all done, just take it to the cashier and they will do the rest of you. They will ask if you want glitter or not on top of your candle.
The staff here were just so wonderful. They were both helpful and friendly especially because they knew it was our first time. They explained how everything works and answered all of our questions and concerns. They continued to check up on us throughout our stay to make sure we know what knew what we were doing.
The only negative thing about the Glow Candle Lounge is that it is pretty expensive for making just candles. We paid a little over $ 60.00 for two sitting fees, and two medium sized candles. That’s about $ 30.00 a person and it would cost more if you wanted to make more candles. So it was a bit pricey considering they are only just candles. Other than that, I had such an amazing experience. I definitely recommend this place and I am definitely coming back!

Love everything about this place. From the vibrant colors, fragrances and embellishments, Glow has everything to make a personalized candle. Great for gifts or to keep for a homey decoration. The experience of making your own candle is so easy and fun to do.
It is a bit pricey if you want to go all out on your candle like I did. I spent about 45 $ on a medium sized candle. I know that they melt down the leftover wax to reuse which is great instead of wasting, but I wish maybe they’d allow some of that recycled wax to be available for customers. I saw a really cool display candle that one of the employees had made and the wax looked sort of tie-​dye or marbleized from recycled colors melted and swirled together. This would be cool for some of the pips.
These candles don’t burn across the surface like most candles do. If you’re like me, I let my candles burn so that the whole surface is melted before I blow it out, that way I get the most time out of the candle and no wax goes to waste. The employees explained to me that the candles are supposed to burn down the center so that as the flame gets lower, your entire candle… GLOWS. Can’t wait to see that! I wonder if when the candle has burnt out at the bottom, could you go back in and get a new wick and refill of wax to re-​burn and use the same exterior designed wax for another glow from the candle you already made and love? That would be awesome.
I will most likely go back since I love candles and this is so much fun to do!

Came with a bunch of gals to make some candles! It’s a really cool and memorable experience. Didn’t expect it to be hard but it’s actually pretty tiring breaking up all those squares especially if you want to make them small. Definitely get your arms and hands ready! You get to pick the size of your candle and the colors you want in it along with any of the cool shapes to add to it. These little cool decos are included in the price of your candle. You also get to pick the candle scent you want. I picked lavender since it went with my purple candle. Candle sizes ranged anywhere from about $ 10+. They have a sitting fee of about $ 10. The one I chose was $ 15. You’re looking at at least $ 23+ a person and probably about $ 27 for a decent sized candle.

The entire process took about 1 – 1.5 hours and you gotta wait or come back in an hour or so to pick up your candles. They don’t actually melt the candle colors, they just pour a hot wax into the container to make everything stick together.
All in all, really cool and fun experience, definitely not cheap, but it’s fun to try it out once!

This place lights up my life (har har har). Despite what some of the other reviewers have said, we had great service despite it being very busy. You might have to step up and ask some questions and hunt down a worker, but they were very helpful with great recommendations when we asked.
We were able to slide in despite not having a reservation, and I found it to be such a great experience of sharing time with my partner. We created a yin yang candle where we each made a half, and the time spent breaking down the wax, choosing the colors, and the scents was such a pleasurable experience.
Take your time here, enjoy the process, and bring a few other tools if you are so artistically inclined. I am excited to come back and create more!
Note: You won’t be leaving with your candle on the day you make it, you will need to come back the next day, so be aware of that!
4 Stars.

I love this place and will be back, but I do agree with Matt B on the experience. They really don’t give you great directions, and the service is a little lacking. It was mostly run by teenagers.
Anyways it is still a great concept, and making candles is a ton of fun. We were here all day and made 8 candles between the two of us. I must say it was addicting. Every time we would finish one another idea would come up for an even better candle. I am so so so proud of my Minecraft TNT Candle. It came out perfect! See my pictures.
I brought some of my own tools with me (what I could find in my car) and did some candles with shaved wax. I was told most of my candle designs would not work out, but boy were they wrong! They came out looking amazing. The trick is to be patient and slowly piece it together with a ton of wax glue.
We have plans to come back in Feb and this time we are totally bringing more tools. I don’t think they will let us bring a small blow torch which is a shame, but I highly suggest bringing sharp knives, or a scalpel set if you got one. I am going to see about a soldering gun. I used to own a battery powered instant hot cold one that I think would work awesome for cutting through wax panels. I’m a going to order it on Amazon just for making more candles!
Now I should say you don’t need to take candle making to such an extreme. They have hundreds of pre-​cut designs, and for most people that will probably be enough. For me if I am spending a couple hundred dollars on candles I want them to be perfect, and a lot more custom. I found that was the only thing missing; the proper tools to cut and shape your own wax pieces.

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Really cool idea! My cousin asked me if I wanted to try this place out with her. It’s basically a customized candle place. They are apparently linked/​connected with Petroglyph a few doors down, which is one of those customized pottery places where you paint objects however you want, and they blaze the object to turn it into a piece of art. Glow Candle Lounge is along those same lines were you decorate/​create your own candle, and then they pour hot wax over it to seal it and you pick it up a day later.
I highly recommend making a reservation ahead of time because sometimes large groups such as birthday parties come in and take up a lot of space. My cousin made a reservation a few hours ahead of time and it was totally fine.
They have a ton of different shapes and sizes of candles. You choose which shape/​size you want, and depending on how big it is, you have a certain amount of pieces of colored wax you can use in it. They also have these things called pips which are premade decorative shapes that you can glue in the inside of your candle mold for a more decorative touch.
The price of your candle depends on which size/​shape you choose, and the pips and colored wax pieces, and the scent are all included. They also have misc. accessories that you can add to your candle as well like charms, stones, toys, etc.
I chose a large rectangle-​like candle which I believe was around $ 22? I was able to choose 10 pieces of colored wax so I decided to do a white to pink ombré. We sat down at our reserved table and went to work. You basically get a sculpting tool which you use to cut your square pieces of colored wax into MUCH smaller pieces (like pieces of a chocolate bar), and put the pieces of wax into the mold. The employee helping us said that the smaller the pieces, the better the color payoff. It really does take a long cutting up each of the pieces of wax. My cousins and I spent about 1.5 hours sitting there doing it. It’s kind of therapeutic in a way because it’s brainless work and basically all you’re doing is cutting up the pieces and arranging them in the mold however you like.
After you’re finished putting the cut up pieces in your mold, you bring it to the counter where they ask if you want a scent. They have a wall with all of the different scents and you can choose one to put in your candle. I chose some sweet praline & cream scent. They also ask if you want glitter on top so I got some white and light pink glitter to go on the top of mine. After that, they pour hot wax on top to melt all of your candle pieces together into one big candle, and then they leave it to cool for a day. You pay, and then pick it up the day afterwards.
I think I paid a little over $ 30 for my candle, but I got a pretty big one and paid much more than my cousins who chose smaller ones.
Now that I’ve received my candle, I really like it! The color is cute although it didn’t turn to be as drastic of an ombré than I was expecting. The pips don’t stick out as much, but it’s probably because the colors were close to each other. I’m a little disappointed in the scent payoff because it really doesn’t smell like the scent I chose at all… It just smells like a plain unscented candle.
Overall, pretty cool idea. I’d definitely like to do it again, perhaps when I can think of a cute idea do do. Highly recommend for anybody who likes arts & crafts and/​or likes candles!