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Subtle Highlight Makeup

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If you're looking for a way to add a little highlight to your day, but don't want to look like you're wearing makeup, subtle highlight is the way to go. This type of highlight is best applied with a brush and gives the skin a healthy glow. It's also easy to apply and remove, so you can change up your look as often as you like.

HourglassAmbient® Strobe Lighting Powder

Size: 0.16 oz/ 4.53 g·ITEM: 1780014

Color: Brilliant

370 Reviews

$64.00

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A nice, subtle highlight but too glittery :/ But if you don’t mind the glitter then go for it....It gives the perfect subtle highlight and is long wearing. Definitely recommend if you have fair skin!

What it is:
A collection of illuminating strobing powders designed to sculpt the face with light, creating depth and dimension for a refined, natural-looking highlight.

What it does:
Ambient® Strobe Lighting Powders are formulated in a sheer base that’s infused with concentrated, ultra-fine mico-pearl particles in a number of sizes and refraction levels for natural-looking luminescence—without leaving a heavy metallic finish. Developed with Photoluminescent Technology it captures, diffuses, and softens surrounding light to refine the appearance of the skin.

What else you need to know:
Hourglass products are 100 percent cruelty-free.

MAC CosmeticsMineralize Skinfinish Sheer Coverage Luminous Highlighting Powder for Face and Body

Size: 0.35 oz/ 10 g·ITEM: 2093664

Color: Soft & Gentle - gilded peach bronze

30 Reviews

$56.00

This is truly honest to its name. Such a subtle highlight, but can be beaming if brush is sprayed with setting spray beforehand. ...Must have highlight under rated...The most beautiful highlight I’ve ever worn it basically wears itself

What it is:
A luxurious powder with M·A·C Multi-Mineral Complex that adds highlights to the face and body.

What it does:
This luxurious, slow-baked, velvety-soft, domed face powder offers a radiant finish. Strategically buff on to add highlights to the high points of the face, or blend all over for a sheer luminous polish to the skin. It features the M·A·C Multi-Mineral Complex and vitamin E.

What else you need to know:
This product is dermatologist and ophthalmologist tested and non-acnegenic. After adding product on your brush, mist brush with Prep + Prime Fix + and apply to high planes of face for a more intense, metallic highlight.

Rare Beauty by Selena GomezPositive Light Liquid Luminizer Highlight

Size: 0.5 oz/ 15 mL·ITEM: 2362192

Color: Flaunt - bronze gold

3.2K Reviews

$39.00

Such a cute subtle highlight that I wear everyday whether it's out and about or to work it stays on all day! ...Add the perfect touch of a subtle highlight

What it is: A silky, second-skin liquid highlighter that creates a lasting, soft, and luminous finish.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban, and contains less than one percent of synthetic fragrances. This product is also vegan and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Packed with light-reflecting pearl particles and a botanical blend of lotus, gardenia, and white waterlily, this multidimensional formula lends skin a dewy glow in seconds. Mix this weightless liquid highlighter with foundation or layer it across the high points of the face for instant radiance.

MILK MAKEUPColor Chalk Multi-Use Powder Pigment

Size: 0.09 oz / 2.5 g·ITEM: 2427987

Color: Skateboard - black

95 Reviews

$25.00

It’s all steps in the right direction, which I can get behind for sure! Great makeup with a good conscience- nothing not to love here!...Peut être utiliser en highlight!

What it is: A clean, extruded-powder pigment that glides on smoothly for buildable payoff on eyes, cheeks, and lips. It comes in a peel-off wrapper and a portable, reusable tube.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is gluten-free, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: Build bolder color with silky, shimmering shades. Designed to be used wet or dry, this formula has a subtle scent made with a blend of essential oils. It comes in a peel-off wrapper and a protective, portable, reusable flip-top tube, so there’s no unnecessary packaging, pan, or palette waste. Since these pigments are handmade, no two are alike.

HourglassMini Ambient Lighting Bronzer

Size: 0.04 oz/ 1.3 g·ITEM: 1963636

Color: Radiant Bronze Light - a warm bronze shade fused with Radiant Light to mimic a summer glow. (Ideal for medium/deep complexions)

280 Reviews

$45.00

They don't look chalky and are subtle -- like a natural glow. This is a great bronzer....I love the subtle color this bronzer gives. It looks like you just got back from vacation.

What it is:

A travel-size bronzer that fuses the illuminating effects of Ambient® Lighting Powder with bronze pigments to add depth and dimension for a sunkissed glow.


What it does:

Perfectly sized for travel, each mini compact fuses the illuminating effects of Ambient Lighting Powder with bronze pigments for sheer, airy, buildable color with a radiant finish. While traditional bronzer tends to be flat, Ambient Lighting Bronzer uses Photoluminescent Technology for seamless blending and color transitions. The hand-made powders are formulated using an advanced miscelare technique—which means "to mix" in Italian—creating the perfect balance of pigment and powder, and no two look alike. 

GivenchyPrisme Libre Loose Powder Highlighter

Size: 0.21 oz / 6 g·ITEM: 2473627

Color: 10 Organza Or - golden pink shimmer

16 Reviews

$61.00

For my everyday makeup or a nice romantic date night look, this is a great option. ...Such a beautiful glowy highlight. You can make it subtle or blinding. I wish there were some more shades to choose from but it’s a good buy!

What it is: A shimmering loose powder highlighter that combines a harmony of pink and golden tones for an immediate radiant result.

Coverage:
Buildable

Finish:
Radiant

Formulation:
Loose Powder

What Else You Need to Know:This soft ultrafine texture offers iridescent light that instantly illuminates the complexion to highlight, sculpt and lift. The lightweight formula is endlessly buildable to create either a subtle natural look or a showstopping glow for all skintones.

GucciGlow Dewy Powder Blush

Size: 0.19 oz/5.5 g·ITEM: 2982155

Color: 03 - Warm Peach - orange

697 Reviews

$67.00

What it is: A longwearing blush with a thin, silky-smooth texture that delivers a buildable color payoff for either a subtle wash of color or a bold look.


Coverage: Medium


Finish: 
Radiant


Formulation: 
Pressed Powder


Highlighted Ingredients: 
- Hyaluronic Acid: Hydrates.

- Black Rose Oil: Soothes and comforts skin.


Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, and sulfates SLS & SLES.


What Else You Need to Know: Available in four long-lasting, dewy shades, Gucci Glow Blush delivers a pearlescent glow with a healthy-looking, radiant finish.

$88.00

It’s not as pigmented so the bronzing effect is a nice subtle one that you can build on giving such a nice glow. ...Perfect shade for a subtle bronze. Its not too dark for me an it does just enough to add color back to my face with a slight contour.

What it is: A silky-soft bronzer with subtle shimmer—in an exclusive couture clutch—that leaves your skin with a natural, healthy-looking, sunkissed glow for up to 24 hours.


Formulation: Pressed Powder


Highlighted Ingredients:
- Hyaluronic Acid: Keeps skin feeling comfortable and smooth.

- Niacinamide: Visibly enhances skin.

- Limetta: Has non-drying properties.

Charlotte TilburyFilmstar Bronze & Glow Contour Duo

Size: 22.5 g·ITEM: 2115947

Color: Medium/Dark

278 Reviews

$93.50

It melts into the skin and looks so natural. The highlight is beautiful. I am not a fan of looking like a disco ball so most highlights are too intense for me. ...I am very pale and had been searching high and low for a light sculpting shade that wouldn’t make me look orange and a subtle highlight that wouldn’t she every one of my pores and this is all that and more!

What it is:
An all-in-one pressed powder, bronzer, and highlighter to create killer cheekbones and candlelit skin.

What it does:
Celebrity makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury is a firm believer that shading and highlighting can re-sculpt and re-define your face. This iconic bronzer and highlighter duo has the perfect blend of pearl and golden pigments to sculpt and highlight your features. These universal shades are created from a refined golden base that flatters all skin tones. The sculpt bronzer adds buildable definition along the lower cheek, jawline, and sides of the nose while highlight illuminates the top of cheekbones, bridge of the nose, eye orbital area, and cupid’s bow.

Yves Saint LaurentYSL Candy Glaze Lip Gloss Stick

Size: 0.11 oz/3.2 g·ITEM: 2935203

Color: 18 Bubble Gum - sheer soft neutral pink

3.7K Reviews

$57.00

It gives a glossy, plumping effect that’s subtle but noticeable....It’s kinda like a really good gloss but has the feel of a super moisturizing lip mask. Does have a subtle sweet tart taste.

What it is: This jelly lip gloss stick provides the glassy shine of a gloss with the care of a balm. This non-sticky formula melts on lips for more moisturized, juicy looking lips.


Formulation Type: Lipstick, Lip Gloss, and Lip Balm & Treatment


Benefits: Hydrating, Long-wearing


Highlighted Ingredients: 

- Hyaluronic Acid

- Vitamin E

- Mango Oils

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“i do want to emphasize how powerful this highlighter is. you don't need to dip in much for even a strong or bold highlighter look. i would say the actual quality of the highlighter definitely isn't bad, but you could find plenty of other highlighters (drugstore even) that are just as good quality if not better. the packaging is definitely high quality though, definitely the only thing that would set it aside from most other highlighters. nothing special, but also nothing bad”
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“Every time I wear this blush I get compliments on my skin and cheek color! It is the perfect everyday blush and with the subtle shimmer it makes my skin look luminous”
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“And then to realize it is all recyclable - wow! This dewy highlighter has a slight honey smell to me. It is a little slick if you are used to wearing powder highlighters but I would say this is a good liquid one to start with”
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“I will definitely continue to use this in my makeup routine! It has a subtle sparkle that looks quite natural compared to other stick and powder highlighters I’ve used, it’s much more creamy”
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“I’m not huge on my face being glowy but used half a drop as a highlighter and it’s cute”
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