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 Highlighter

Size: 0.31 oz/ 9 g·ITEM: 2093516

Color: Superb - Patina bronze

42 Reviews

$59.00

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It is great with Fix+ or any setting spray for that ultimate highlight. It is very long wearing and I love it! A MUST HAVE IN YOUR MAKE UP COLLECTION FOR SUREEEEEE!!!

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

Too FacedMoon Crush Highlighter

Size: 0.24 oz / 6.8 g·ITEM: 2693109

Color: Summer Moon - bronzed rose gold

32 Reviews

$52.00

I love using it for my nose highlight and cheek bones. It’s a beautiful colour that is both buildable but can be worn natural as well...This highlight is stunning. Clean girls be warned, this highlight is FAR from natural.

What it is: A next generation, second-skin, glossy-glow highlighter that gives a wet look finish.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens and mineral oil. It is also gluten-free and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This easy-to-use powder formula leaves a radiant and luminous shimmer for a moonlit luminescence that’s out of this world. Plus, it smells like fresh crisp apples.

MAC CosmeticsMineralize Skinfinish Face Powder

Size: 0.35 oz/ 10 g·ITEM: 2093664

Color: Soft & Gentle - gilded peach bronze

26 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.

Bobbi BrownHighlighting Powder

Size: 0.28 oz/ 8 g·ITEM: 2028074

Color: Sunset Glow - a pink with gold shimmer

803 Reviews

$77.00

Cool tone highlight...I love this highlighting powder. It gives is a foil finish, no glitter, lasts all day. ...Beautiful highlighting powder...I highly recommend this if you’re looking for a great highlighting powder!

What it is: This cult-favorite highlighter powder creates a light-reflecting, shimmering pearl radiance for perfectly luminous cheeks and eyes. 


Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, and sulfates SLS & SLES.


What Else You Need to Know: A silky gel-powder hybrid highlighter that glides onto skin with a cushiony bounce to smooth, brighten, and deliver a sheer, lit-from-within glow. Formulated with a clear base and highly reflective pearl pigments to impart a naturally translucent radiance.

HourglassAmbient® Strobe Lighting Powder

Size: 0.16 oz/ 4.53 g·ITEM: 1779990

Color: Iridescent

372 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.

Anastasia Beverly HillsIced Out Illuminating Powder Highlighter

Size: 0.39 oz/ 11 g·ITEM: 2411494

Color: Iced Out - icy white gold

569 Reviews

$46.00

This is an interesting highlight. The pattern on the powder is beautiful and fun to look at. ...Buildable highlight...I also really liked the compact & the powder is pressed in a cool design. Makes it fun to use.

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: 2 x 0.12 oz/ 3.5 g·ITEM: 1925890

Color: Lightning Dust/Fire Crystal - soft pearlescent sheen / supercharged pearlescent 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.

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“This is my holy grail for contouring and sculpting my face. It’s blendable and creates great shadows”
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“I would recommend it for the girlies who like glittery makeup which is trendy right now. I wouldn’t recommend it if you dont like glitter on your face”
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“I've used it as eye shadow and body shimmer in addition to the normal use. You can pick out separate colors or sweep your brush over the whole thing and get a really nice look”
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“this pink powder is amazing. it brightens like no other and i found it doors not leave my underrated cakes at all. this is one of the best pink powders i have used and i was super excited to finally get my hands on it”
Universal Highlighter Makeup
“So beautiful and highly pigmented! It is quite a universal shade and it makes the skin look so dewy and healthy”
Highlighting Balm
“Merit highlighting balms are so creamy & easy to apply! You can blend them out with a brush or your fingers”
Pigmented Highlighter Makeup
“This is a very pigmented highlighter. A little goes a long way. I have medium-tan skin tone and this highlighter just blends perfectly”
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“The darker shades are gorgeous along with her powder highlighters however the liquid highlighters left a white cast and barley any highlight”
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“Love this palette for a summer glowy look. My only dislike is that their color palettes are always the same”

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