If you're looking for a way to add some sparkle to your day, try highlighters. It's a subtlety that can make all the difference in your look. Whether you're going for a natural glow or want to add some shine to your face, a highlighter is an easy way to get it done. Here are some of the best facial highlighters available today.
Size: 0.17 oz / 5 g·ITEM: 2648038
Color: Pärla - glassy oyster pearl
$65.00
I love ILIA highlighter sticks as well, but this is more translucent and glowy. ...I used it as a lipstick rather than a highlighter. As a highlighter itself, it's not as bright as it looks it does give a dewy look under makeup which is nice.
What it is: A clean, multitasking gel highlighter that delivers a facial-fresh, glow to instantly perk up dull skin. Translucent, glassy sheen.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Stick
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Vitus Vita Fruit Extract: Visibly firms skin and boosts moisture.
- Emollient oil blend: Helps with smooth application + softens skin.
- Special Effect Pigments: Boosts radiance.
Size: 0.5 oz/15 mL·ITEM: 2884401
Color: Cherry Chrome - orange copper
$54.00
Must have highlighter...I would always recommend liquid highlighters over powder ones....This highlighter is pure magic in a compact! The texture feels buttery soft, gliding over the skin like silk.
What it is: A liquid highlighter with 24-hour hydration and long-lasting, lustrous color for a refined gleam.
Formulation: Liquid
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, and phthalates.
What Else You Need to Know: Amplify your most striking features with MAC Cosmetics’ NEW liquid highlighter that reflects light and refines the look of skin from every angle. This good-for-skin formula features an innovative blend of 85 percent hydrating skincare ingredients—including a moisturizing and plumping blend of glycerin and squalane, along with skin-conditioning coffee seed extract.
Size: 0.27 oz / 7.8 g·ITEM: 2794931
Color: Daze - warm copper
$52.00
Love this cream highlighter...This Ilia cream highlighter goes on the skin beautifully! It melts into the skin immediately without leaving a strip behind like some highlighters do! ...I love this product! Excellent daytime highlighter! This will be on my go to for highlighters.
What it is: A luminous, ultra-blendable highlighter that shifts from silky cream to weightless powder, delivering natural radiance with up to 12-hour wear.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Green Tea and Microalgae: Powerful skin superfoods that help shield skin from pollution.
- Plant-Based Squalane: Seals in moisture and boosts the look of elasticity without clogging pores.
- Skin Shift Technology: Emollient-powder blend that shifts from a cream to a weightless veil.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, gluten-free, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.
What Else You Need to Know: This featherweight formula melts in
Size: 0.45 oz/ 13.5 mL·ITEM: 2380426
Color: Original - champagne-toned shimmer to add a golden shine
$54.00
I’ve used other liquid highlighters but they end up looking patchy on top or under my foundation. ...I added to my tinted facial sunscreen and then topped with a little concealer.
What it is: A concentrated liquid shimmer that can be added to your foundation, primer, moisturizer, or simply used alone for a super-highlighted glow.
Highlighted Ingredients:
-Oleogel & Adhesive Film Former: Ultra-blendable texture that delivers a buildable, soft metallic glow.
-Ultra Refined Pearlescent Pigments: Impart a sheer, multi-dimensional candle-lit glow to your complexion.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, and mineral oil. This product is also vegan, cruelty-free, and gluten-free.
$73.00
I highly recommend also purchasing the trio pallet of matching highlighters to these highlighter sticks. They play well together and separately. ...Got this as soon as I could get my hands on it and I absolutely LOVE it! The highlighter end is very similar to the Hourglass Vanish Highlighter and the balm end is less tacky and sticky than Glossier’s halo stick (which makes it the perfect balm highlighter —so many other balm based highlighters stick to my hair and drive me crazy... this one definitely doesn’t).
What it is:
A cult-covetable backstage secret that delivers the ultimate in runway radiance for a scintillating glow that is truly otherworldly.
What it does:
This transformative highlighting duo glides on effortlessly, imparting a veil of sinfully sublime luminosity. The creamy highlighter reflects and refracts light, creating iconic illumination, while the transparent balm delivers dewy divinity. Formulated with aloe and argan oils, combined with hyaluronic acid, the balm delivers smooth control and softens the skin. Whether used solo or in combination, these two luxurious finishes can satisfy every highlighting desire. Take your glow to the fourth dimension and prepare for a legendary, lit-from-within gleam that is truly aliengelic.
$64.00
I use it as a highlighter and sometimes use it as a slight eye shadow. ...Greatly improved performance in my experience with makeup and facial features
What it is: A lightweight, multiuse complexion enhancer for a dewy glow—use as a highlighter or mix with skincare or foundation for a radiant boost.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Liquid
What Else You Need to Know: Experience weightless perfection with this liquid formula, which melts into skin for a seamless finish, under or over makeup. Sheer, buildable coverage ensures mistake-proof application, allowing you to customize your glow. Available in versatile shades, it can be used as a highlighter, blush, or bronzer. You can also mix it with foundation for a radiance boost.
Size: 0.85 oz / 25 mL·ITEM: 2773133
Color: Lumi - tan deep
$52.00
I absolutely love this highlighter. This highlighters so versatile as you can use it underneath your makeup or above your make up or even on your body for a nice glow. ...I picked a bronzy highlighter for bronzy looks but i love the shine it gives.
What it is: A lightweight liquid highlighter that gives a dewy glow and plays well with all your favorite complexion products for natural-looking radiance.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Sunflower Seed Oil: Rich in fatty acid omega-6, it moisturizes and makes skin feel soft.
- Hyaluronic Acid and Glycerin: Retains skin’s moisture.
- Niacinamide: Helps skin tone look brighter and more even.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance.
Size: 0.28 oz / 8 g·ITEM: 2520476
Color: Tickle - golden pink
$52.00
When applied skillfully, face highlighter can achieve a stunning, dewy finish that reflects light beautifully and adds depth to the facial structure. ...Beautiful Highlighter...One of my favourite highlighters! Very natural and not patchy at all!
What it is: A silky-soft, superfine powder highlighter.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance.
What Else You Need to Know: These powder highlighters feel featherlight, sweep on effortlessly, and build easily. Get Cookie for a warm, delicious golden shimmer. Go with Tickle for a perfectly tickled-pink, luminous look.
Size: 0.4 oz / 12 mL·ITEM: 2799591
Color: 5 Sunset - warm copper
$63.00
I’ve only used pressed powder highlighters in the past, but I personally LOVE this highlighter. ...The Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Acqua Highlighter stands out among luxury highlighters for its refined elegance and skin-friendly formula.
What it is: A multipurpose, water-based highlighter that hydrates and illuminates your skin for a lit-from-within, pearly glow.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Niacinamide 3%: Smooths and visibly brightens the skin over time.
What Else You Need to Know: This multiuse highlighter can be worn over foundation for a glass-skin highlight or as a bronzer for a sunkissed, bronzy glow. Its skincare-based formula has a cooling gel texture that absorbs quickly for a second-skin finish and hyper-reflective micro pearls that deliver up to 24 hours of radiance and hydration.
$70.00
Best highlighter ever...I have tried different highlighters looking for something affordable, but the Dior nude glow has always been completely unique. ...One of the best highlighters...I’m a makeup connoisseur and this is one of my favorite highlighters.
What it is: Dior Forever Glow Luminizer Highlighter powder is reinvented with 2 new light-reflecting finishes*. Infused with hyaluronic acid for added hydration.
Formulation: Powder
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: The unique, gel-base formula is highly concentrated in shimmering pearlescent micro-pigments that blend evenly & diffuse light.
