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Olive Skin Highlighter

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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!

MERITDay Glow Dewy Highlighting Balm

Size: 0.14 oz / 4 g·ITEM: 2426765

Color: Cava - champagne

942 Reviews

$44.00

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I am medium-olive skin tone and all other highlighters seem to be too gold, frosty and powdery, making it look super unnatural. ...My absolute holy grail highlighter! Perfect for my olive skin tone all year long. ...MY HOLY GRAIL HIGHLIGHTER...Best Highlighter!

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.

MAKEUP BY MARIOSoft Glow Highlighter

Size: 0.16 oz/ 4.5 mL·ITEM: 2450880

Color: Opal - luminous opal that flatters fair to light skin tones

137 Reviews

$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.

Fenty Beauty by RihannaLiquid Killawatt Fluid Freestyle Highlighter

Size: 0.5 oz/ 15 mL·ITEM: 2484871

Color: Honey Hawtie - copper gold

82 Reviews

$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.

Benefit CosmeticsCookie and Tickle Shimmer Finish Powder Highlighters

Size: 0.28 oz / 8 g·ITEM: 2520468

Color: Cookie - golden pearl

1.1K Reviews

$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.

Westman AtelierLit Up Glassy Gel Highlighter Stick

Size: 0.17 oz/5 g·ITEM: 2434199

Color: Lit - glassy iridescent

542 Reviews

$65.00

The shade "Nectar" is a warm, golden peachy tone that works surprisingly well for my yellowish, light olive skin. It has a natural glam look without having large chunks of glitter or being too bold. ...Melts into your skin!...It's pigmented by also very natural looking. I have medium to olive skin, so nectar is the PERFECT shade for me.

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.

Too FacedBorn This Way Super Glow Multi-Use Highlighting Skin Enhancer

Size: 1 oz/30 mL·ITEM: 2935518

Color: Vanilla Beam - soft warm champagne with shimmering gold and silver

295 Reviews

$53.00

What it is: A multiuse, highlighting skin enhancer that can be worn alone or with makeup to smooth and illuminate skin’s appearance.

Ingredient Callouts: It is cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Formulated with 80 percent skin caring ingredients, its nourishing complex of 12 emollients smooths and illuminates skin’s appearance. The hydrating and nongreasy formula can be worn alone or with makeup, under foundation, mixed with foundation, or on top of skin as an all-over face and body highlighter.

MAC CosmeticsStrobe Cream Illuminating Tinted Moisturizer and Hydrating Highlighter

Size: 1.7 oz / 50 ml·ITEM: 2099505

Color: Pinklite - pink pearls

198 Reviews

$51.00

Subtle Highlighter effect and glowy skin...I think this is a great product to use as a highlighter and get a glowy, dewy skin on a daily. I like putting some on at work, transition from workday to work drinks. ...Great highlighter for skin care!...Love this if anyone's looking for a highlighter that is built into your skin care routine.

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.

HourglassVanish™ Flash Highlighting Stick

Size: 0.21 oz/ 6.1 g·ITEM: 2027704

Color: Rose Gold Flash

638 Reviews

$62.50

The rose gold is a bit pink but blends so well on my olive skin. In love for a daily shimmer....perfect cream highlighter. i apply with my fingers and blend, super easy application and can control intensity that way. exactly what i was looking for in a cream highlight. color was perfect for my light olive skin tone

What it is:
A highlighter in a smooth, weightless texture designed to give you an instant flash of light for unparalleled glow and the most seamless highlight.

What it does:
This long-wearing, innovative formula adjusts to your body temperature to blend effortlessly into the skin. Soft-focus technology creates a flash of light on the skin for a virtually perfect highlight every time. It’s also formulated with hollow microspheres for a weightless feel on the skin.

The unique, triangular bullet is designed to give you the most precise application. Layer multiple shades to create your own custom shades and looks. Vanish™ Flash Highlighter is designed to work synergistically with the Vanish™ Seamless Finish Foundation Stick.

Armani BeautyLuminous Silk Acqua Highlighter

Size: 0.4 oz / 12 mL·ITEM: 2799583

Color: 4 Sunrise - deep bronze

444 Reviews

$63.00

I’ve only used pressed powder highlighters in the past, but I personally LOVE this highlighter. ...I found that the Sunrise shade is perfect for olive skin tones. The only downside is that it is not very long lasting and I had to reapply once or twice during the day.

What it is: A multipurpose, water-based highlighter that hydrates and illuminates your skin for a lit-from-within, pearly glow.

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Niacinamide 3%: Smooths and visibly brightens the skin over time.

What Else You Need to Know: This multiuse highlighter can be worn over foundation for a glass-skin highlight or as a bronzer for a sunkissed, bronzy glow. Its skincare-based formula has a cooling gel texture that absorbs quickly for a second-skin finish and hyper-reflective micro pearls that deliver up to 24 hours of radiance and hydration.

Fenty Beauty by RihannaKillawatt Foil Freestyle Highlighter

Size: 3 x 0.12 oz/ 3.5 g·ITEM: 2211092

Color: Penny4uthots - metallic burnt copper

612 Reviews

$54.00

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.

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“I found that the Sunrise shade is perfect for olive skin tones. The only downside is that it is not very long lasting and I had to reapply once or twice during the day”
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“I have a hard time finding a bronzer that isn't too warm and this is great for my olive skin. It's pretty big so you can use big brushes”
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“This is my favorite bronzer of all time! Very natural looking and the lighter shade is perfect for my light to medium olive skin tone”
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“I am always on the hunt for a natural looking foundation with a olive undertone for light skin. This seems to tick all the boxes so far”
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“A gorgeous bronze copper liquid highlighter that has an unbelievable texture and finish that melts into the skin”
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“I love the color of the highlighter but I will say it might not be the best shade for my medium dark skin as it did leave me looking slightly white around the cheek bones”
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“I love how long this lasts on my eyelids, but it pulls super orange on me! Im a fair neutral to olive turned girlie. Interested in trying the new shimmer shades but fear the other mattes will pull super warm toned”
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“That, I loved because I’m always pale and bland to the face. One downfall I did not like, it didn’t have the coverage I needed nor the right yellow color I seeked”
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