If you have olive skin, it's important to highlight your best features. Olive skin is beautiful and unique, and it can be the highlight of an outfit. Here are some highlighters that will help you glow!
$44.00
Best Highlighter!...I am medium-olive skin tone and all other highlighters seem to be too gold, frosty and powdery, making it look super unnatural. ...MY HOLY GRAIL HIGHLIGHTER...My absolute holy grail highlighter! Perfect for my olive skin tone all year long.
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: 0.16 oz/ 4.5 mL·ITEM: 2450880
Color: Opal - luminous opal that flatters fair to light skin tones
$46.00
it’s a decent product, smooth application, however, it’s more glitter than highlighter. You can find better highlighters for a cheaper price than the $28 price tag....I typically don’t use highlighters because I have textured skin and anything frosty makes my skin look awful.
What it is: A creamy, weightless highlighter that illuminates and visibly smooths the appearance of skin, for a healthy, effortless, back-from-the beach glow.
What Else You Need to Know: This ultra-silky, soft-focus powder melts onto the skin and blends effortlessly. It is a transparent blend of microspheres and light-refracted pearls that leaves no visible powdery effects.
Size: 0.5 oz/ 15 mL·ITEM: 2484871
Color: Honey Hawtie - copper gold
$43.50
my fav highlighter!...Rihanna did an amazing job with creating these highlighters, it just gives you that beautiful wet/glassy shine without shimmer or sparkle. ...Liquid highlighter that lasts!...This liquid highlighter was beautiful on my light-medium skin but I was.mpst impressed with the staying power. normally I have to set liquid highlighters with a powder highlighter... but this lasted till I washed my face. and it was gorgeous too.
What it is: A super-fine liquid highlighter with an effortlessly buildable, skin-nourishing formula that leaves a fresh, ultra-modern shine.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens and phthalates. It is also cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: Killawatt Freestyle Highlighter is now a liquid formula. Its next-level glow has super-fine shimmer that can build from a sheer veil to a showstopping, visible radiance. And its light-as-air radiance is transfer-resistant and dries down quickly. Plus, it comes in a range of shades for all skin tones.
Size: 0.28 oz / 8 g·ITEM: 2520468
Color: Cookie - golden pearl
$52.00
The color is a gold pearl and it is beautiful on my olive skin....I have an olive skin tone, and the soft golden pearl shimmer complements it beautifully without looking too icy or ashy.
What it is: A silky-soft, superfine powder highlighter.
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: These powder highlighters feel featherlight, sweep on effortlessly, and build easily. Get Cookie for a warm, delicious golden shimmer. Go with Tickle for a perfectly tickled-pink, luminous look.
Size: 0.17 oz / 5 g·ITEM: 2434173
Color: Brûlée - glassy bronze gold
$65.00
It’s the perfect shade for my olive tanned skin! It glides on smoothly and leaves a finished look without over doing the shimmer!...I layer more on the spots I want highlighted when I finish the rest of my makeup. This is the only highlighter I love using on my skin because a lot of popular champagne tones don't pop on my skin tone since it's olive.
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.
ITEM: 2579530
Color: Mirage - golden bronze with copper pearls
$65.00
It's one of the best highlighters I've ever used! I can compare these to some of my Laura Mercier and Becca Cosmetics highlighters. ...SUCH a fantastic highlighter...I bought mine when it launched. I have an olive skintone, and I'm OBSESSED. It is such a smooth highlighter, with a beautiful glow.
What it is: A hybrid powder highlighter with a smooth, high-intensity 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. It is also cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This high-polish pressed highlighter combines skin-loving botanical oils with multitoned micropearls. Molten luminosity blends seamlessly into skin for a smooth, ultra-reflective finish and silken feel. It quickly imbues everything it touches with gilded, glass-like luster and solar-flare shine.
$66.00
It instantly hides my dark circles. I have olive colored skin and use the lightest shade from this Guerlain Illuminator. ...I have tried MANY concealers, highlighters, etc that claims what this actually does.
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.
Size: 0.13 oz / 3.8 mL·ITEM: 2855807
Color: Deep - deep dark skin-tones with all undertones
$64.00
The formula is thin and spreads easily and melts into the skin. The color Fair is a peachy/salmon shade. I'm a light-medium skin, so don't think that this shade would work for fair skins, but for a light skin tone it gives a nice brightening effect with light coverage that is fairly undetectable in person. ...The shade fair has an orangey-pink appearance on fair skin olive skin and it’s actually quite dark for a shade meant to be the lightest in the range.
What it is: An illuminating pen that effortlessly sculpts, lifts, and brightens your face in five key areas.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Liquid
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Caffeine: Energizes skin.
- Rejuvenating Marine Extract: Reduces the look of pigmentation and dullness.
Size: 0.4 oz/ 12 mL·ITEM: 2034742
Color: 40 - pink copper
$39.50
I wish there was a more yellow coloured one for olive/neutral skin tones but overall best highlight I've ever used....I don't know why nobody talks about this highlighter, but it is the BEST highlighter ever for textured skin.
What it is:
A unique, sparkle-free liquid highlighter that works to give your complexion a glowing luminosity as well as soft, subtle sheen.
What does:
Finally, a highlighter that actually looks and feels the way you want it to—never sparkly or sticky, just pure luminescence. Created with mother-of-pearl to exude that ever-coveted, natural, lit-from-within glow, this liquid formula glides onto skin seamlessly for a second skin effect. Complexion looks not only radiant, but perfected as Soft Light blurs and smooths the look of skin texture. Use it directly on skin to enhance features like your cheekbones or Cupid’s bow, or swirl it into foundation for an all-over, alluring glow.
Size: 0.1 oz / 3 g·ITEM: 2520484
Color: Full Size - soft nude-pink
$52.00
This highlight is perfect for everyday use because of how sheer bit buildable it is. I have medium olive skin tone and I think it's very pretty. It has micro glitter but if you tap your brush to get excess product off, they barely show. ...It's more on the cool toned/pink side. don't try pairing it with a warm blush. I have a neutral/olive undertone and it doesn't have enough gold to really compliment my skin.
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.
