Highlighting Powders

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Enhance your natural glow and add a touch of radiance to your complexion with our collection of highlighting powders. Whether you prefer a subtle highlight makeup shimmer or a bold, luminous finish, these versatile powders are designed to accentuate your best features and give you a lit-from-within glow. From soft champagne hues to golden undertones, our range of highlighting powders offers a variety of shades to suit every skin tone. Elevate your makeup look and achieve that coveted luminosity with these must-have beauty essentials.

MAC CosmeticsExtra Dimension Skinfinish Liquid-Powder High-Shine Highlighter

Size: 0.31 oz/ 9 g·ITEM: 2093516

Color: Superb - Patina bronze

44 Reviews

$59.00

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many others i have tried are more powdery and didn't give off the shine i was looking for but this one is everything i could ever want. it's similar to the rare beauty powder highlight but it doesn't beak as easily. my only con may be the price... other than that 10/10...This is also gorgeous for a really bright inner corner highlight

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.

$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

HourglassAmbient® Strobe Lighting Powder

Size: 0.16 oz/ 4.53 g·ITEM: 1779982

Color: Incandescent

370 Reviews

$64.00

These are great for all over highlighting as it's very subtle and finely milled; if you do it dry, all over is very pretty, and with a wet brush you can mimic Becca highlight -- very versatile! ...beautiful powder...This powder is not for all over but for highlighting...a touch on cheekbones, bridge of nose, chin.

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

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.

Fenty Beauty by RihannaKillawatt Foil Freestyle Highlighter

Size: 2 x 0.12 oz/ 3.5 g·ITEM: 2211084

Color: Ruby Richez - metallic brick red

610 Reviews

$54.00

This is the best highlight I have ever used. Extremely pigmented! Face or eyes, this is amazing!...Best Highlight Ever

What it is: A weightless, long-wear, cream-powder hybrid highlighter—in solos and duos—with a hyper-metallic finish, in a range of shades designed for all skin tones.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens and phthalates. This product is also cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Killawatt Foil has the same creamy texture as the original, in a new, mega-reflective, foil-like finish. These buildable, color-rich luminizers come in rule-defying shades that look killer on all skin tones. The cream-powder hybrid melts into skin and blends with almost zero effort.

MAKE UP FOR EVERArtist Face Color Highlight, Sculpt and Blush Powder

Size: 0.17 oz/ 5 g·ITEM: 1972934

Color: B200 - shimmery opal pink highlight

751 Reviews

$30.00

These powders go on smoothly, have great pigmentation and blend easily! ...I put together my own palette and I'm so in love! I chose a matte highlight (H104 eggshell), a matte blush (S214 Rosewood) and a sculpting a powder (S112 Shadow).

What it is:
A unique pressed powder formula in a refillable palette—providing intense color payoff in highlight, sculpt, and blush shades.

What it does:
Reveal your inner artist and create endless looks with Artist Face Color. Choose your palette size, then customize to your needs by mixing and matching your favorite. Artist Face Color’s unique formula features atomized pigments, which provide intense color payoff

SmashboxSmashbox X BECCA Shimmering Skin Perfector™ Pressed Highlighter

Size: 0.24 oz/ 7 g·ITEM: 2504389

Color: Champagne Pop - a soft gold with pinky-peach pearl - recommended for all skintones

162 Reviews

$56.50

I think it’s one of the best powder highlight formulas that I have tried. It will definitely be a staple in my collection....It’s nice using a pressed powder over cream products to help them set without looking matte like a setting powder would.

What it is: A most-loved highlighter from BECCA finds a new home at Smashbox—it's the same ultra-creamy formula you know and love for a natural, luminous glow.

Coverage: Medium

Finish: Radiant

Formulations: Pressed Powder

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Ultra-Fine Multidimensional Pearls: Reflects and refracts light from every angle for a buildable, luminous glow.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, phthalates, mineral oil, coal tar, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, and triclosan. It is also cruelty-free.

Anastasia Beverly HillsIced Out Illuminating Powder Highlighter

Size: 0.39 oz/ 11 g·ITEM: 2411494

Color: Iced Out - icy white gold

571 Reviews

$46.00

This is an interesting highlight. The pattern on the powder is beautiful and fun to look at. ...I would recommend this powder highlight. It lasts all day.

What it is: A universally flattering, illuminating highlighter that has the perfect combination of smooth finish and ultra-beam effects for a lit-from-within radiance.

Coverage: Medium

Finish:
Radiant

Formulation:
Pressed Powder

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens. It is also vegan and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This highlighter delivers a multidimensional wet-effect shine, with the high reflectivity of a liquid and the weightlessness of a powder. It delivers buildable intensity, amplifying beautiful skin and taking you from subtle luminosity to a full, icy strobing effect.

Fenty Beauty by RihannaKillawatt Freestyle Highlighter

Size: 0.28 oz/ 8.0 g·ITEM: 2173698

Color: Wattabrat - 3D baby pink shimmer

3.8K Reviews

$54.00

Love this highlighter so much I use a fan brush when I want to to be mild highlight but when I use Rihanna’s highlighting brush it becomes such an intense highlight!!!...bomb highlight...works great with the fenty highlighting brush!

What it is: A weightless, long-wear, cream-powder hybrid highlighter for the face and eyes in a range of shades, from subtle to supercharged, in solos and expertly-paired duos.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens and phthalates. This product is also cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This long-wearing highlighter was born in a lineup of solos and duos for all skin tones. The cream-powder hybrid melts into skin and blends with almost zero effort. Loaded with superfine shimmer for an ultra-smooth, creamy texture, it’s your go-to for highlighting your face, eyes, and collarbone.

$98.00

Nice powder palette...I loved the highlighting and radiance powders in this palette. However I am fairly light skinned and found the finishing powder to be a bit too dark for me. ...At first I thought they were just highlighting powders but they are actually more of a finishing powder.

What it is:
A palette featuring three shades of Ambient Lighting Powder, the high-tech, soft-focus finishing powder that recreates the most exquisitely flattering types of light. .

What it does:
Ambient Lighting Powder is a groundbreaking collection of finishing powders that capture, diffuse, and soften the way light reflects on your skin. Unlike traditional powders, which merely cloak imperfections, Ambient Lighting Powder utilizes photoluminescent technology to filter out harsh light and refine the appearance of the complexion. The powders deliver a multidimensional luminescence to every skin tone, making it appear softer and lit from within.

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

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