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
Love this soft golden glow...Some golden highlighters look too gold. Not this one. ...Natural glossy glow...It’s beautiful giving a golden glow. Gives a “glassy” and dewy look and stays put.
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,
$45.00
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.
$92.00
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. ...The highlighter is the kind that naturally subtly glows (not too strong type). Gorgeous pigment. You can also wear as eyeshadow base on a natural makeup day.
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.
$52.00
Gorgeous Golden Glow. I love that this is a matte, sculpting powder and bronzer in one. ...Perfect Golden Glow...If you love a golden bronzer this one is beautiful. Super soft powder that blends so easily.
What it is: A talc-free, finely-milled, and velvety powder bronzer with a rich, smooth finish, and skin-loving ingredients.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, cruelty-free, and gluten-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This silky, soft-matte formula blends seamlessly into the skin, imparting a natural-looking, healthy, sunkissed warmth all year round. Summer Skin Velvet Matte Bronzers come in two shades, complete with a built-in mirror for easy application wherever you are.
Size: 0.91 oz/ 26.8 ml·ITEM: 2511707
Color: Virtual - luminous peach
$49.00
perfect glow...I will be using this all summer to get the perfect natural glow....It has a very lightweight texture. Gives a nice golden glow to the skin. Not overly dramatic - subtle natural glimmer under the light.
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: .14 oz/4.25 g·ITEM: 2545333
Color: Champagne Glow - champagne
$44.00
It’s shiny but not glittery and it gives my skin a beautiful cool-rosy, warm glow. My skin is pretty light and the shimmer doesn’t look too dark on me, even though it’s darker than the other golden shade (which is yellow). ...Love the package. Lots of glow! Shimmery without being sparkly....Gorgeous Warm Glow
What it is: A skin-perfecting pressed highlighter for a lit-from-within-looking glow.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of formaldehydes, phthalates, mineral oil, sulfates SLS & SLES, and triclosan. It is also vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know:
Microfine 3D pearls & pigments reflect pure light to add depth & dimension, while diffusing imperfections, butter-soft formula glides on smooth, buildable glow melts into skin for seamless blending that doesn't look glittery, and 2 universal shades for a warm or cool glow.
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.