If you're looking for a way to highlight your cheekbones, nose, or Cupid's bow, a highlighter is the way to go. It's the perfect tool for adding a little glow to your face. Here are some great options for solid highlighters available today.
Size: 0.3 oz/ 8.7 g·ITEM: 2219582
Color: 02 Terra
$95.00
What it is: A silky, comfortable, buildable bronzer featuring a mix of plant-derived butters to nourish and soften skin, giving a luminous lit-from-within glow.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban.
What Else You Need to Know: With specialized pigments, this luxe formula adheres with second-skin-like radiance. Cocoa seed butter softens and comforts, mango seed butter moisturizes with anti-aging properties, and cupuaçu butter from the Amazon is a nourishing emollient that provides skin with a protective, hydrating layer.
Size: 0.28 oz / 8 g·ITEM: 2520468
Color: Cookie - golden pearl
$52.00
I would say this is for people who prefer a solid reflective highlighter. 4 stars because I feel like this may not be entirely office appropriate if you are looking for something on a subtle glow from within finish. ...Beautiful Highlighter...One of my favourite highlighters! Very natural and not patchy at all!
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: 0.14 oz/ 4g·ITEM: 2415073
Color: Peau de Soleil - warm bronze gold
$105.00
Overall I think it’s a solid product but I’m not sure it justifies the price point for a highlighter. ...Super Loaded Cream Highlighter is like a lux clean version to Color Pop's Super Shock highlighters.
What it is: A clean, award-winning, multipurpose cream highlighter that gives skin a luminous glow in three universal shades.
Coverage: Medium
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Cream
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Hyaluronic Acid: Boosts moisture.
- Jojoba Seed Oil: Improves hydration and strengthens skin’s moisture barrier.
- Caper Extract: Helps soothe, calm, and reduce the appearance of redness.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is gluten-free and cruelty-free.
Size: 0.24 oz / 7 g·ITEM: 2643336
Color: Rose Gold - true rose gold
$67.50
It is an average highlighter that is too expensive for what it is. It gives you a pretty glow but that is achievable with many other highlighters for a fraction of the price from many other highlighters available....Solid but nothing crazy...I do enjoy this highlighter but truthfully it isn't much different that other CT highlighters I've used.
What it is: A powder highlighter that glides on like a liquid to give skin an instant, skin-perfecting filter to highlight, sculpt, and lift.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Silky Squalane: Glides onto the skin for an even glow; never patchy, dry, or cakey.
- Smoothing Emollients: Perfect and hydrate the skin for a satin-smooth texture.
Size: 0.39 oz/ 11 g·ITEM: 2411494
Color: Iced Out - icy white gold
$46.00
Wish more highlighters were like this one!...Most powder highlighters are powdery shimmers (when swatched you get a solid stripe of shimmery color. ...The packaging was very elegant! It's a nice heavy, solid compact with a good sizes mirror. The color is gorgeous, however I was disappointed and I felt like I had to use alot to achieve the right amount of highlight compared to my favorite highlighter.
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.
Size: 1.0 oz·ITEM: 2414035
Color: Sunglow - warm golden bronze
$43.00
I am not a highlighter or illuminator person but I love this and bought after trying a sample. ...This gel highlighter is light on your skin and dries fairly quick. ...solid glow
What it is: This lightweight, non-comedogenic illuminator is your forever first step under makeup for a hydrated, glowy radiance.
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Liquid
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Plant-Derived Glycerin: Powerful humectant known to increase skin’s natural moisture level.
- Olive-Derived Squalane: Locks in moisture and leaves skin quenched and visibly glowing.
Size: 0.19 oz / 5.5 g·ITEM: 2649416
Color: Topaz - warm golden bronze shimmer
$30.00
What it is: A dewy highlighting stick with a balm texture and sheer crystal shimmer (from actual crystals) that glides over skin for a glowy, dewy sheen.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Rose Quartz and Golden Topaz: Provide natural-looking shimmer.
- Coconut and Castor Seed Oil: Give skin a dewy sheen and easy glide.
- Sweet Almond Oil: Rich in fatty acids, helps moisturize and condition skin.
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 synthet
Size: 0.39 oz / 11 g·ITEM: 2799658
Color: Enchanted - bronze gold
$54.00
A Solid Option!...It wasn’t anything from unique from my other highlighters that I love, so I probably won’t repurchase, but if you’re looking for a solid highlighter, I’d recommend....I used it for a solid week before I got distracted by pink highlighters.
What it is: An illuminating powder for a lit-from-within radiance.
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Pressed Powder
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This multi-dimensional illuminating powder achieves the perfect glow and has an ultra-smooth formula for seamless blending and buildable intensity. The universal shade delivers single-sweep luminosity, while the ultra-reflective powder formula gives the effect of a liquid for lit from within radiance.
Size: 1 oz/30 mL·ITEM: 2935484
Color: Sunlit Cinnamon - deep amber bronze with glowing gold and copper shimmer
$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.
Size: 0.4 oz / 12 mL·ITEM: 2799591
Color: 5 Sunset - warm copper
$63.00
The Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Acqua Highlighter stands out among luxury highlighters for its refined elegance and skin-friendly formula. ...I’ve only used pressed powder highlighters in the past, but I personally LOVE this highlighter.
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.
