Golden glow makeup is perfect for summer with its distinct warm finish. The look is achieved by using a variety of different colors and shades, including yellows, oranges, reds, and browns. Check out some highlights, powders, and pigments that can be used to achieve the perfect golden glow. Here are some of our favorites.
Size: 0.67 oz/ 20 g·ITEM: 2473445
Color: Topaz - subtle golden undertones with a glass-like glow finish
$38.00
The REFY Gloss Highlighter in Topaz is a gel-based highlighter with subtle golden undertones and a glass-like glow finish. Its lightweight texture makes it perfect for a dewy look without feeling sticky. ...This is a nice product such a pretty golden glow. It’s just hard to use. You have to carefully apply it or else it will separate your makeup
What it is: A nonstick universal formula that can be used on top of makeup or as a primer base, giving you the perfect glass-like glow.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Liquid
Highlighted Ingredients:
- VITAOILS PLUS: Deeply nourishes and visibly smooths the epidermis.
- dl-α-Tocopheryl Acetate: Antioxidant vitamin E.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens. It is also vegan, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.
What Else You Need to Know: REFY's Gloss Highlighter can be used on cheekbones, eyelids, and under brows, or on the cupid's bow, lips, and collarbones.
$44.00
It gives me the perfect golden glow. It is super easy to apply and blends beautifully on my skin....Golden glow!...Absolutely loving the golden glow of the Citrine shade. It’s perfect for summer, soft and creamy and very natural looking.
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.
Size: 0.17 oz/ 5 g·ITEM: 2434181
Color: Nectar - glassy golden peach
$65.00
Glow...What a glow. If you are thinking about getting this it’s a must it gives such a nice glow under makeup or even over. ...This makes your cheekbones look so elegant and brings together your makeup look. Love the natural glow! #beauty #skin #highlighter #westmanatelier #makeup #skincare #beautiful #glow
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: 0.07 oz / 2 g·ITEM: 2590222
Color: Golden Glow - golden glow
$41.00
Pretty glow within unfortunately fades away quickly ....I love this because it’s definitely does make you glow without glitter. The glow lasts all day and when applying it doesn’t ruin my face makeup.
What it is: A multiuse highlighter pen for a next-level glow with zero effort (or glitter).
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Vitamin E: Acts as a natural preservative, a soothing emollient, and an antioxidant.
- Maracuja Oil: Provides visibly firmer, brighter, and smoother skin and hydrates.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, mineral oil, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, and triclosan. It is also gluten-free and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This soft-pearl, dewy formula with a radiant, satin-glow finish visibly brightens, hydrates, and refreshes dull, tired skin and discoloration. The lightweight, creamy texture glides on and is comfy, never sticky. Plus,
$46.00
Lise Watier Havana bronzing powder has a light golden hue. This bronzer gives the skin a radiant sun kissed glow, without the red look. ...It’s very beautiful whether you like to use it to contour face or simply add a little golden glow to your look! Just apply to the forehead, nose, cheeks, and chin !
What it is: An award-winning bronzing powder that provides a healthy glow.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens.
What Else You Need to Know: The light golden hue of this bronzer gives a beautiful sun-kissed glow to the face and décolleté, or simply accentuates a natural tan. It enhances the skin’s radiance and provides an instant healthy glow, without the risks associated to sun exposure.
$93.50
You're paying for a pretty metal container with mediocre product, no better than much less-expensive options on the market. The golden glow actually applied fairly blotchy and didn't blend out well. ...I don’t use the highlighter because it’s golden which doesn’t match my skin color, but I have utilized it as an eyeshadow.
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.
Size: 0.91 oz/ 26.8 ml·ITEM: 2511707
Color: Virtual - luminous peach
$49.00
What it is: A liquid illuminator with skincare benefits that can be worn on your face and body or mixed with moisturizer or foundation for a natural-looking glow.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Liquid
Size: 1 oz/30 mL·ITEM: 2935443
Color: Golden Mocha - warm bronze-brown with radiant golden shimmer
$53.00
What it is: A multiuse, highlighting skin enhancer that can be worn alone or with makeup to smooth and illuminate skin’s appearance.
Ingredient Callouts: It is cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: Formulated with 80 percent skin caring ingredients, its nourishing complex of 12 emollients smooths and illuminates skin’s appearance. The hydrating and nongreasy formula can be worn alone or with makeup, under foundation, mixed with foundation, or on top of skin as an all-over face and body highlighter.
Size: 0.21 oz / 6 g·ITEM: 2473627
Color: 10 Organza Or - golden pink shimmer
$61.00
I always get so many compliments when I wear It. It’s the perfect golden shade with a slight hint of pink...leaves a beautiful sheen on the skin- love the golden/pink shimmer! and gorgeous packaging!!
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.
Size: 0.033 oz / 1 mL·ITEM: 2832327
Color: 61G espresso golden - very deep skin with very warm, golden or olive undertones
$21.00
What it is: A medium coverage, radiant concealer that’s featherlight so it won’t hide your freckles or cake your face— shape tape™ has entered her radiant era.
Coverage: Medium
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Liquid
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Seaberry Seed Oil: Hydrates, refreshes, soothes.
- Seaberry Fruit Oil: Hydrating, plumping, and smoothing.
- Ginseng: Soothes and smooths skin tone.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan. It is also vegan and cruelty-free.
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