Golden glow makeup is perfect for summer with its distinct warm finish. The look is achieved by using a variety of different colors and shades, including yellows, oranges, reds, and browns. Check out some highlights, powders, and pigments that can be used to achieve the perfect golden glow. Here are some of our favorites.
Size: 0.67 oz/ 20 g·ITEM: 2473445
Color: Topaz - subtle golden undertones with a glass-like glow finish
$38.00
The REFY Gloss Highlighter in Topaz is a gel-based highlighter with subtle golden undertones and a glass-like glow finish. Its lightweight texture makes it perfect for a dewy look without feeling sticky. ...This is a nice product such a pretty golden glow. It’s just hard to use. You have to carefully apply it or else it will separate your makeup
What it is: A nonstick universal formula that can be used on top of makeup or as a primer base, giving you the perfect glass-like glow.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Liquid
Highlighted Ingredients:
- VITAOILS PLUS: Deeply nourishes and visibly smooths the epidermis.
- dl-α-Tocopheryl Acetate: Antioxidant vitamin E.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens. It is also vegan, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.
What Else You Need to Know: REFY's Gloss Highlighter can be used on cheekbones, eyelids, and under brows, or on the cupid's bow, lips, and collarbones.
$44.00
It gives me the perfect golden glow. It is super easy to apply and blends beautifully on my skin....Golden glow!...Absolutely loving the golden glow of the Citrine shade. It’s perfect for summer, soft and creamy and very natural looking.
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: 0.17 oz/ 5 g·ITEM: 2434181
Color: Nectar - glassy golden peach
$65.00
Glow...What a glow. If you are thinking about getting this it’s a must it gives such a nice glow under makeup or even over. ...This makes your cheekbones look so elegant and brings together your makeup look. Love the natural glow! #beauty #skin #highlighter #westmanatelier #makeup #skincare #beautiful #glow
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.
Size: 0.07 oz / 2 g·ITEM: 2590222
Color: Golden Glow - golden glow
$41.00
Gives the most prefect glow. U need this...I love this product it! It gave me the best glow possible and it’s perfect for summer!!
What it is: A multiuse highlighter pen for a next-level glow with zero effort (or glitter).
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Vitamin E: Acts as a natural preservative, a soothing emollient, and an antioxidant.
- Maracuja Oil: Provides visibly firmer, brighter, and smoother skin and hydrates.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, mineral oil, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, and triclosan. It is also gluten-free and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This soft-pearl, dewy formula with a radiant, satin-glow finish visibly brightens, hydrates, and refreshes dull, tired skin and discoloration. The lightweight, creamy texture glides on and is comfy, never sticky. Plus,
$46.00
Lise Watier Havana bronzing powder has a light golden hue. This bronzer gives the skin a radiant sun kissed glow, without the red look. ...It’s very beautiful whether you like to use it to contour face or simply add a little golden glow to your look! Just apply to the forehead, nose, cheeks, and chin !
What it is: An award-winning bronzing powder that provides a healthy glow.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens.
What Else You Need to Know: The light golden hue of this bronzer gives a beautiful sun-kissed glow to the face and décolleté, or simply accentuates a natural tan. It enhances the skin’s radiance and provides an instant healthy glow, without the risks associated to sun exposure.
$93.50
You're paying for a pretty metal container with mediocre product, no better than much less-expensive options on the market. The golden glow actually applied fairly blotchy and didn't blend out well. ...I don’t use the highlighter because it’s golden which doesn’t match my skin color, but I have utilized it as an eyeshadow.
What it is:
An all-in-one pressed powder, bronzer, and highlighter to create killer cheekbones and candlelit skin.
What it does:
Celebrity makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury is a firm believer that shading and highlighting can re-sculpt and re-define your face. This iconic bronzer and highlighter duo has the perfect blend of pearl and golden pigments to sculpt and highlight your features. These universal shades are created from a refined golden base that flatters all skin tones. The sculpt bronzer adds buildable definition along the lower cheek, jawline, and sides of the nose while highlight illuminates the top of cheekbones, bridge of the nose, eye orbital area, and cupid’s bow.
Size: 0.91 oz/ 26.8 ml·ITEM: 2511707
Color: Virtual - luminous peach
$49.00
What it is: A liquid illuminator with skincare benefits that can be worn on your face and body or mixed with moisturizer or foundation for a natural-looking glow.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Liquid
Size: wf / wf·ITEM: 2851244
Color: Golden Hour - Golden with balancing peach
$23.00
It layers well over both matte and dewy bases without pilling or disrupting other makeup. Highly recommend if you're after a soft, radiant glow that feels like skin and looks like golden hour magic! ...It gives your skin the cutest sun-kissed glow without feeling heavy. Super smooth, blends like a dream, and makes your face look all soft and warm—like golden hour in a compact.
What it is: A sheer, weightless, multitone powder that sweeps on to softly set and finish your look with natural radiance.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Natural
Formulation: Pressed Powder
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Squalane: Softens and smooths skin.
- Shea Butter: Conditions and soothes skin.
- Hyaluronic Acid: Boosts hydration and the look of elasticity.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: Set skin in its most flattering light, as if illuminated by a softly blurred, cloud-diffused glow. This sheer, weightless, multitone powder—featuring light-reflecting technology and infused with squalane, shea butter, and hyaluronic acid—s
Size: 0.26 oz / 7.5 g·ITEM: 2675593
Color: Deep Golden - golden brown with copper pearl
$45.00
But the finish itself is very nice and radiant, glow from within type of finish....I'm a medium olive and the shade deep golden is the bronzer I've been looking for. Every other bronzer looked like orange or like mud.
What it is: A dimensional, radiant bronzing powder that adds warmth and glow, available in Artist-crafted, colour-true shades.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, triclosan.
What Else You Need to Know: This radiant bronzer is formulated with MAC Cosmetics’ Marshmallow Cushion Blend for a silky texture that always looks smooth and refined. The long-wearing formula lasts up to 24 hours and features waterproof and sweat- and humidity-resistant coverage.
ITEM: 2670735
Color: Mahogany - bronze mahogany neutral rich bronze
$57.00
It’s the perfect shade for my light-medium skin with golden undertone. It has a blurring effect that makes skin look flawless and blends like a dream. ...It's very light and golden, and I love how lightweight it feels! Light coverage but super buildable!
What it is: A blendable, lightweight bronzer that is designed to create sun-sculpted definition that leaves skin perfected and blurred with a naturally radiant glow.
Coverage: Medium
Finish: Matte
Formulation: Pressed Powder
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, and sulfates SLS & SLES. It is also cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This luxuriously soft powder bronzer will leave you radiant from sunrise to sunset. This is Pat McGrath’s first-ever bronzing range that is infused with refined golden pearls to balance red, golden, and neutral tones while adding dimensional warmth to all complexions. The result: smooth, silky, and seductive skin.
