Popular Highlighter Makeup

What it is: A supercharged liquid highlighter with long-term benefits and an instant, ethereal glow, available in flexible shades.

Coverage: Light

Finish: Radiant

Formulation: Liquid

Highlighted Ingredients: 

- Vitamin C: Visibly evens tone, brightens, protects from free radicals.

- Tsubaki Oil: Firms, hydrates, and retexturizes.

- Avocado Oil: Soothes, calms, and nourishes.

What it is: A clean vitamin-infused skin enhancer that instantly activates a lit-up glow. Use this pearly liquid layered under foundation, as a targeted highlighter, mixed with foundation or skincare.

Coverage: Light

Finish: Radiant

Formulation: Liquid

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Vitaglow-D: Botanical complex that visibly enhances luminosity and hydration.
- Glutathione: Wellness nutrient and antioxidant that defends against visible signs of aging.
- Algae Extracts: Nourish skin with polysaccharides, peptides, and amino acids.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, gluten-free, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: This pear

What it is:

A complexion booster that blurs, smooths, and illuminates for a real-life filter effect. Customize your glow with four ways to apply.

Coverage: Light

Finish: Radiant

Formulation: Liquid

Best for Skin Type: Normal, Oily, Dry, and Combination

Highlighted Ingredients:

- Finely Milled Powders: Blurs lines and pores for a smoother, soft-focus look.

- Porcelain Flower Extract: Thai flower derivative that visibly brightens and moisturizes skin.

What it is: A multi-purpose, water-based luminizer that hydrates and brightens face or body for a fresh dewy look.

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Plant-derived Glycerin: A powerful humectant that increases skin’s moisture level.
- Vitamin C: Brightens and refines the appearance of skin.
- Rosehip Seed Oil: Ultra-rich in antioxidants that visibly brighten and moisturize skin.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.

What Else You Need to Know: Made of 75 percent water and skincare-packed ingredients, Glowy Super Gel’s lit-from-within glow gives the ultimate no-makeup makeup look. Its universal shades can be used as a dewy primer under makeup, a

What it is: An oil-serum illuminator that delivers a skin-first, targeted dewy glow that lasts.

Ingredient Callouts: It is cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: The Future Dew Solid Illuminator is packaged into a creamy, solid stick formulated with hydrating powerhouses to deliver a skin-first, targeted dewy glow that lasts. It gives cheekbones, bridge of nose, and brow bones a targeted glow up for up to 12 hours.

What it is: A tinted moisturizer that boosts the look of dull skin with iridescent particles—the ultimate quick fix for luminous skin.

Finish: Radiant

Formulation: Cream

What Else You Need to Know: Strobe Cream boosts the look of dull, flat, or tired skin with nutritious vitamins and a mega-dose of green tea. The brightening formula provides radiance while hydrating and adds the softest, highlighter-like glow to 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.

What it is:
An oil-free cream highlighting stick.

What it does:
Accentuate your best features with this highlighting stick, formulated with light-reflecting optics to illuminate the face. Long-wearing and oil-free, it’s ideal for wearing over bare skin or foundation, and to spotlight the top of cheekbones, the bridge of the nose, and other areas.

What it is formulated WITHOUT:
- Parabens

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.

What it is: An illuminating powder highlighter that instantly lights up the complexion and boosts its natural glow.

Coverage: Light

Finish: Radiant

Formulation: Powder

What Else You Need to Know: Meet the with luminizer with a gel-powder texture that boosts skin’s radiance. Its secret? Micro-pearls incorporated into a transparent gel-powder formula that lets their light shine through. Upon application, its hybrid texture combines the strength of a liquid highlighter with the lightness of a powder highlighter and leaves a sparkling film on the skin with a weightless finish. Want to achieve pearlescent, golden, rosy, or bronze highlights? This highlighter comes in six radiant shades that instantly enhance