The highlighter is one of the most important tools in a makeup artist's kit. It can be used to enhance any feature, but is especially useful for creating a "glow" on the skin. The right highlighter can make your eyes look bigger, your cheekbones more pronounced, or your lips more full. Here are some of the best highlighters for olive skin tones.
$28.00
I love how it feels on my skin and that it's not sticky. I find it expensive but if you're into highlighters, this is definitely unique and enjoyable. ...This glow I can stand behind! I tried so many highlighters, but I have to admit this, first ever slime highlighter, is amazing.
What it is: A multidimensional, lightweight, and long-wearing liquid highlighter that blends effortlessly and builds with unique light-shifting ease.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is cruelty-free and comes in recyclable packaging.
What Else You Need to Know: Formulated with a mix of minerals that balance and energize skin, this liquid highlighter blends effortlessly and is loaded with unique HD pearls that shift color at every angle for multidimensional luminosity.
$32.00
Best Highlighter!...I am medium-olive skin tone and all other highlighters seem to be too gold, frosty and powdery, making it look super unnatural. ...MY HOLY GRAIL HIGHLIGHTER...My absolute holy grail highlighter! Perfect for my olive skin tone all year long.
What it is: A sheer, lightweight moisturizing highlighter made for daytime wear that visibly illuminates your skin for a dewy glow with zero sparkle.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Stick
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Plant-Based Squalane: Locks in hydration, conditions skin, and supports elasticity.
- Olive Fruit Oil: Nourishes skin with monounsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E.
- Phytosterol and Amino Acid Blend: Minimizes moisture loss and supports a healthy skin barrier.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.
$39.00
Looks like wet skin, but dries down fully...First liquid highlighter I’ve used which dries down fully yet stays looking like wet, glossy skin. ...I’ve found a lot of liquid highlighters make my skin look textured and this one melts into your skin.
What it is: A highlighter that drenches your skin with an emulsion of liquid pearl pigments to illuminate, hydrate, and add radiant dimension—because everything looks better wet.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Liquid
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens. It is also vegan and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This lightweight liquid formula allows for a smooth application with a transfer-resistant finish. Wear it all over your face and body, mixed with foundation, or alone for a natural-looking glow.
Size: 0.16 oz/ 4.5 mL·ITEM: 2449767
Color: Golden - luminous soft gold that flatters medium skin tones
$30.00
I fell in love with the soft sculpt bronzer, and I’ve fallen in love with the soft glow highlighter. This lays so beautifully on my olive, combination skin. ...I typically don’t use highlighters because I have textured skin and anything frosty makes my skin look awful.
What it is: A creamy, weightless highlighter that illuminates and visibly smooths the appearance of skin, for a healthy, effortless, back-from-the beach glow.
What Else You Need to Know: This ultra-silky, soft-focus powder melts onto the skin and blends effortlessly. It is a transparent blend of microspheres and light-refracted pearls that leaves no visible powdery effects.
Size: 0.4 oz/ 12 mL·ITEM: 2034734
Color: 30 - golden champagne
$29.00
I wish there was a more yellow coloured one for olive/neutral skin tones but overall best highlight I've ever used....I don't know why nobody talks about this highlighter, but it is the BEST highlighter ever for textured skin.
What it is:
A unique, sparkle-free liquid highlighter that works to give your complexion a glowing luminosity as well as soft, subtle sheen.
What does:
Finally, a highlighter that actually looks and feels the way you want it tonever sparkly or sticky, just pure luminescence. Created with mother-of-pearl to exude that ever-coveted, natural, lit-from-within glow, this liquid formula glides onto skin seamlessly for a second skin effect. Complexion looks not only radiant, but perfected as Soft Light blurs and smooths the look of skin texture. Use it directly on skin to enhance features like your cheekbones or Cupid’s bow, or swirl it into foundation for an all-over, alluring glow.
Size: 0.5 oz/ 15 mL·ITEM: 2484822
Color: Sidechick - white gold with gold shimmer
$32.00
my fav highlighter!...Rihanna did an amazing job with creating these highlighters, it just gives you that beautiful wet/glassy shine without shimmer or sparkle. ...Liquid highlighter that lasts!...This liquid highlighter was beautiful on my light-medium skin but I was.mpst impressed with the staying power. normally I have to set liquid highlighters with a powder highlighter... but this lasted till I washed my face. and it was gorgeous too.
What it is: A super-fine liquid highlighter with an effortlessly buildable, skin-nourishing formula that leaves a fresh, ultra-modern shine.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens and phthalates. It is also cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: Killawatt Freestyle Highlighter is now a liquid formula. Its next-level glow has super-fine shimmer that can build from a sheer veil to a showstopping, visible radiance. And its light-as-air radiance is transfer-resistant and dries down quickly. Plus, it comes in a range of shades for all skin tones.
$14.00
I LOVE This Highlighter...Such a dewy, golden hour look! It doesn’t make your skin look rough and your pores big like some other highlighters. ...Inexpensive highlighter that goes a long way. Easily blends and feels very light on my skin.
What it is:
A lightweight liquid highlighter for a diffused light effect.
What it does:
Bring light to your complexion with the newest member of the Golden Hour franchise. Sephora Collection’s lightweight liquid highlighters add luminosity to skin, while multi-layered micro pearls create a beautiful, glowing finish. The silky cream texture blends effortlessly onto skin and looks gorgeous alone, yet layers beautifully with other makeup. Create your own blog-worthy diffused light effect.
What it is formulated WITHOUT:
- Parabens
Size: 0.28 oz / 8.00 g·ITEM: 2228898
Color: Gold Ore - golden sunlight
$39.00
BEST NATURAL HIGHLIGHTER ON THE MARKET - OMG...Perfect perfect tone on my light medium olive tone skin (uoma foundation #HHT1). It’s just the right amount of glow. ...I have so, so many highlighters, highlighters are my obsession. This highlighter is exactly what I was missing in my collection.
What it is: A lustrous, skin-perfecting highlighter with up to 12 hours of wear.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens.
What Else You Need to Know: This unique, revolutionary, hybrid formula enhances and illuminates skinno filters needed. With a second-skin finish, the Digital Dust formula allows you to easily blend and build from a soft, dewy sheen to a striking glow without appearing powdery or intensifying the look of unwanted texture.
ITEM: 2489052
Color: 04 Golden Glow - a gleaming gold
$50.00
Gorgeous Luminizer/Highlighter...I have them in both Nude Glow (pictured) and Golden Glow, and both are GORGEOUS on the skin. They do not accentuate pores and are longer lasting than other highlighters- and I own a lot of them. ...This highlighter is gorgeous! (Pink Glow) I have fair cool olive skin and this provides a subtle, non-sparkly, perfect glow.
What it is: A highlighter powder with a high-impact iridescent glow, giving skin an instant boost of radiance and comfort all day long.
Coverage: Medium
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Pressed Powder
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Wild Pansy Extract: Protects skin’s natural hydration.
What Else You Need to Know: Composed of 95% natural-origin pigments, this highlighter is highly concentrated in shimmering pearlescent pigments, blending seamlessly for a radiant-looking complexion*. The formula is infused with wild pansy extract to hydrate the skin and provide lasting comfort, all housed in a Dior couture compact.
Size: 0.60 oz/ 18 mL·ITEM: 2503787
Color: Genuine - rose gold
$19.00
A little goes a long way with this highlighter, so it’s definitely worth the price. I haven’t had the best of luck with highlighters, so I am pleasantly surprised by this one. ...This looks gorgeous on my olive toned light skin. Super easy to blend. I recommend using a blending sponges or your fingers.
What it is: A multi-purpose liquid highlighter booster than can be used over, underneath or mixed with your foundation to give your skin an undeniable healthy-looking glow
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Myrciaria dubia Fruit Extract: Helps brighten the look of uneven skin tone and dark spots.
- Mangifera indica (Mango) Fruit Extract: Antioxidant benefits that help to soothe and replenish skin.
- Sodium Hyaluronate: Rich in vitamin A to visibly revitalize the look of skin.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, gluten-free, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.