Highlight Pens

Sephora customers often prefer the following products when searching for Highlight Pens.

Highlighting your face with a spark of color has become a popular trend in recent years. One of the best ways to highlight your face is with a highlighter pen. They are easy to use and can be applied easily and conveniently. Here are some of our favorites.

GUERLAINPrecious Light Illuminator and Concealer

Size: 0.05 oz/ 1.5 mL·ITEM: 1197938

Color: 01

113 Reviews

$66.00

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This pen makes me look dewy without looking like a pearlized wreck. ...I've tried several illuminating pens from other brands. This one was a winner for me; it's my second go-round for this product.

What it is:
A concealer that hides all imperfections and awakens the skin's youthfulness in a single step.

What it does:
Guerlain's new Precious Light Rejuvenating Illuminator hides all imperfections and awakens the skin's youthfulness with a single click of its magic wand brush. This must-have makeup tool employs an exclusive double-sided Gold Radiance Pigment: The opaque side targets imperfections and dull zones, toning down the appearance of wrinkles, dilated pores, and pigment irregularities, while the golden side reflects light.

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

Size: 0.35 oz/ 10 g·ITEM: 2093672

Color: Global Glow - mid-tone brown with gold pearl

29 Reviews

$59.00

Sometimes you don’t want too much highlight and blind your coworkers. I had this highlight for 3 years and still haven’t finished it since you only need a light touch.This product you can build to medium coverage for highlight, it has a nice warm bronzed highlight. ...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: 2362168

Color: Mesmerize - rose bronze (Selena's go-to shade)

3.2K Reviews

$37.00

I love the rare beauty highlights!! The deep bronze I use as contour and highlight. ...One of my favorite highlights of all time. Its not going to be a overly glittery blinding 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.

Benefit CosmeticsDandelion Twinkle Shimmer Finish Powder Highlighter

Size: 0.1 oz / 3 g·ITEM: 2520484

Color: Full Size - soft nude-pink

245 Reviews

$52.00

It is very pretty though for a more natural highlight, but I personally like more bold highlights... ...I bought this and use it everyday even over my becca and Bobbi Brown highlights so I would recommend a million times over!

What it is: A soft nude-pink, superfine powder highlighter with a shimmer finish.

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: This superfine baked powder highlighter gives a light-reflecting, luminous glow, a soft-focus blurring effect, and a shimmer finish. It builds effortlessly, blends seamlessly, and feels weightless.

Westman AtelierSuper Loaded Tinted Cream Highlighter

Size: 0.14 oz/ 4g·ITEM: 2415073

Color: Peau de Soleil - warm bronze gold

205 Reviews

$105.00

Beautiful highlight...I’ve swatched this versus two other popular highlights: the Hourglass glitter strobe, and the four highlights on the Tarte ProGlow Palette (which has fair to more bronze highlight hues that i love).

What it is: A clean, award-winning, multipurpose cream highlighter that gives skin a luminous glow in three universal shades.


Coverage: Medium


Finish: Radiant


Formulation: Cream


Highlighted Ingredients:

- Hyaluronic Acid: Boosts moisture.

- Jojoba Seed Oil: Improves hydration and strengthens skin’s moisture barrier.

- Caper Extract: Helps soothe, calm, and reduce the appearance of redness.


Ingredient Callouts: This product is gluten-free and cruelty-free.

MAC CosmeticsExtra Dimension Skinfinish Liquid-Powder High-Shine Highlighter

Size: 0.31 oz/ 9 g·ITEM: 2093524

Color: Show Gold - peach that breaks pink

44 Reviews

$59.00

What it is:
A liquid-powder highlighter that gives a luminous, well-defined finish.

What does:
Extra Dimension Skinfinish adds the perfect glow to skin. The liquid-powder highlighter with prismatic reflections is designed to sculpt and highlight your face, leaving a luminous, well-defined finish. The creamy powder formula lasts up to ten hours.

What else you need to know:
This product is non-acnegenic, dermatologist tested, ophthalmologist tested, and suitable for all skin types.

GivenchyPrisme Libre Loose Powder Highlighter

Size: 0.21 oz / 6 g·ITEM: 2473627

Color: 10 Organza Or - golden pink shimmer

16 Reviews

$61.00

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.

$39.50

I really like this highlight, it's soft glow that blends very well with your skin, very natural and beautiful, but at the same time, it pops in the light. ...This is a large highlight. It is gorgeous and goes on so smoothly and easily.

What it is: A champagne-toned highlighting powder that brightens up your complexion in an instant for a diffused and gorgeous glow.

Finish: Natural

Formulation:
Pressed Powder

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Jojoba Seed Oil: Facilitates an easy glide and seamless application.
- Pearlescent Pigments: Deposit a refined shimmer for the most luminescent finish.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This baked highlighter does it all. It enhances your skin, giving you an instant highlight for lit-from-within radiance. It also brightens up your eye area and adds sultry shimmer to your Cupid’s bow or to the tip of your nose. Basically, it’s your hero

MAKE UP FOR EVERArtist Matte Powder Highlighter

Size: 0.17 oz/5 g·ITEM: 2690048

Color: H100 Cheerful Beige - matte beige

34 Reviews

$45.00

I do tend to like more blinding highlights, but I'm really glad I have this one for more elegant or everyday looks. ...As someone who used to be really into the beaming highlights to now of more of the subtle highlight this def was something what I was looking for now.

What it is: A velvety, matte powder highlighter that melts into skin to give a naturally brightened, blurred effect.

Finish:
Matte

Formulation:
Pressed Powder

What Else You Need to Know: The smooth, lightweight texture effortlessly enhances skin to deliver a soft-focus highlight without the shimmer. It leaves a naturally brightened, well-rested appearance with a lit-from-within radiance. This highlighter is perfect for use under the eyes, the highpoints of the face, or to add dimension to any contour look.

$27.00

glitter breaks me out so this product is perfect, other colors leave like a cast or ash look on my face so the clear highlight almost like lip gloss is perf for me. maybe not so much for inner corner highlights but yes on the kids...All in all, a great “natural” highlight without the glitter or powder effect of other highlights!

What it is: A clear highlight balm with no shimmer or glitter for that glassy, luminous skin-effect without pore-clogging ingredients and is safe for sensitive skin.


Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily


Skincare Concerns: Dryness, Dullness, and Uneven Texture


Formulation: Lightweight Cream


Highlighted Ingredients: 

- Green Tea Extract: Calms redness and irritation.

- Aloe Vera Extract: Hydrating and soothing for a dewy-skin finish.


 Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, cruelty-free, and gluten-free.

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“amazing, very natural and super easy to apply. would buy it again”
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“I’m super picky with highlighters and I love this one! Usually highlighters are too “glittery” for me and this one has the perfect amount of sheen”
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“I’m super picky with highlighters and I love this one! Usually highlighters are too “glittery” for me and this one has the perfect amount of sheen”
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“The color looks amazing and the finish is subtle for everyday wear. Now that a blinding highlighter is out of trend, I like this more subtle version that still makes me feel sparkly but isn’t out of control”
Intense Highlighters
“This is now my go to highlighter. The formula is way different from the other Fenty highlighters”
Colorful Highlighters
“the base of this highlight is a pale-nude pink, but the shimmer is definitely different from other highlighters-- the shimmer is colorful”
Compact Highlighter
“My skin does not feel dry like other highlighters. Love how light it feels. A small amount goes a long way and stays longer”
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“It’s perfect as daily highlighter to achieve a natural look. I recommend this product to anyone who also loves natural makeup look like me”
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“Finally found that perfect concealer to highlight my under eyes with with a great formula”

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