What highlighter matches your skin tone the best?
Want to know which highlighter will look the most flawless on your skin tone? Read this guide to find out!
What is the point of highlighter?
Highlighter attracts light and enhances the skin, lifting it up and giving a glowy look. Any part of your face you want to draw attention to, add highlighter.
Places to apply highlighter
You can apply highlighter to your cheekbones, cupid’s bow, brow bone, inner corner of your eyes, center of your eyelids, center of your chin, tip of the nose, and anywhere else you want to brighten according to your face shape.
Types of highlighter
There are many types of highlighter, but the most commonly used is powder highlight. There is also strobing cream, gel, liquid, brick, and stick highlighter.
Fair skin
Fair skin has the lightest colors in the makeup spectrum. If your skin tends to burn easily in sunlight, that is most likely your match. Fair skin has undertones of pink, beige or taupe.
Pearlescent/Silver
Ofra X Nikkietutorials Highlighter in Glazed Donut is a blessing to the highlighting world. It is the perfect frosty white metallic that gives you the glow you need while still blending into the skin. You can wear it as an everyday highlighter if you are extra like me, or when you are going out and want an extra pop. This highlighter is a must have for your collection, and will be a color you will be drawn to again and again. It is priced at $35.
A drugstore option is Wet n Wild MegaGlo Highlighting Powder in Blossom Glow, which is a more warm-toned pearl color. It is cruelty free and easy to blend. It is very pigmented and gives your face an angel-like glow. The packaging is almost completely filled with product, so you are not paying for plastic. It is priced at $3.89, which is amazing for all the benefits you are getting.
Champagne
Colourpop Super Shock Highlighter in Wisp is a golden champagne with gold pearls. It will give you that shine you want at an affordable price. It is long-wearing and buildable. You can use your fingertips into the product and pat gently for a blinding highlight. It is cruelty free and pigmented. This color adds a touch of pinkish gold color to your cheeks that gives that natural sun-kissed glow. It is priced at $8.
Medium/Olive skin
Medium/Olive skin tends to tan easily in the sun. It has undertones of yellow, beige, or olive.
Golden Bronze
Bareminerals Endless Glow Highlighter in Fierce is a bronze gold color. It is vegan, cruelty free, and talc free highlighter. It blurs imperfections and pores. It has 8 hour long wear and is a creamy formula. It is luminous and has pearls that give a glitter free finish. It also helps plump the skin. This color is something you will reach for everyday and will love to stare at in the sunlight. It is priced at $31.
A drugstore option is Elf Baked Highlighter in Apricot Glow which is a peachy golden color. It gives radiance with a subtle glow. You can also spray your brush with setting spray to get an even more in your face effect. It has ingredients such as jojoba, rose hip, apricot, and sunflower which nourish your skin. It is easy to carry with you in your bag on the go or fit into your collection. It is priced at $4.
Copper
Fenty Beauty Killawatt Freestyle Highlighter in Penny4uthots is the ideal copper highlighter. It has clean ingredients and is cruelty free. It is a cream-powder hybrid that ranges from more subtle glam to a more intense shine. It is a smooth texture that is easy to apply and blend into the skin. It is also long-wearing. Copper gives that color that stands out on the skin, but still looks natural. It is priced at $38.
A drugstore option is Essence Highlighter in Pure Nude Sunlighter, which is a golden copper shade. It is cruelty free and has reflecting pigments that luminate the skin. There is no parabens or fragrance. This is great for everyday use to give a healthy glow that everyone will be begging you to know how you did it. It blends smoothly into the skin. It is priced at $4.99, which is definitely worth it.
Deep skin
Deep skin does not usually burn in the sunlight. It has brown to blue-black undertones.
Rose gold
Jaclyn Cosmetics Beaming Light Loose Highlighter in High Volt is a rose gold everyone needs in their collection. It has a soft texture with still that glow you want in a highlighter. It is buildable and ultra-fine with pearls. It being a loose highlighter it gives even more of that Instagram beaming highlight we all crave. It also lasts a long time in your collection, because a little bit goes a long way. It is priced at $24.
Bronze
UOMA Beauty Black Magic Carnival Face & Body Bronzing Highlighter in Barbados is needed for the bronze glow that looks like you just spent the week on vacation. It is buildable and pigmented. This is also a highlight that can be used all over the body, which is perfect for an event you want that extra glow, you can put it in places like your collar bones or your legs. It has a soft and creamy formula. It is priced at $35.
A drugstore option is NYX High Glass Illuminating Powder in Golden Hour, it gives a bronzy golden look that looks like you just stepped outside during the sunset. It has a glass-like glow that smoothes the skin and has you looking just like you are on the runway. It is also a vegan product and gives healthy hydrated skin. It is extremely reflective and bounces off sunlight. It is priced at $12.
What type of highlight do you think goes with your skin the best? Is it more of a pearly white color or more of a bronze gold? Comment down below!
