Highlighting Powders

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Enhance your natural glow and add a touch of radiance to your complexion with our collection of highlighting powders. Whether you prefer a subtle highlight makeup shimmer or a bold, luminous finish, these versatile powders are designed to accentuate your best features and give you a lit-from-within glow. From soft champagne hues to golden undertones, our range of highlighting powders offers a variety of shades to suit every skin tone. Elevate your makeup look and achieve that coveted luminosity with these must-have beauty essentials.

MAC CosmeticsExtra Dimension Skinfinish Highlighter

Size: 0.31 oz/ 9 g·ITEM: 2093516

Color: Superb - Patina bronze

42 Reviews

$59.00

I can barely see the highlight on my cheek. And pores look more obvious with this highlight on my skin. ...Come through glosssssy highlight!!!...cannot see highlight

What it is:
A liquid-powder highlighter that gives a luminous, well-defined finish.

What does:
Extra Dimension Skinfinish adds the perfect glow to skin. The liquid-powder highlighter with prismatic reflections is designed to sculpt and highlight your face, leaving a luminous, well-defined finish. The creamy powder formula lasts up to ten hours.

What else you need to know:
This product is non-acnegenic, dermatologist tested, ophthalmologist tested, and suitable for all skin types.

$39.50

I really like this highlight, it's soft glow that blends very well with your skin, very natural and beautiful, but at the same time, it pops in the light. ...This is a large highlight. It is gorgeous and goes on so smoothly and easily.

What it is: A champagne-toned highlighting powder that brightens up your complexion in an instant for a diffused and gorgeous glow.

Finish: Natural

Formulation:
Pressed Powder

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Jojoba Seed Oil: Facilitates an easy glide and seamless application.
- Pearlescent Pigments: Deposit a refined shimmer for the most luminescent finish.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This baked highlighter does it all. It enhances your skin, giving you an instant highlight for lit-from-within radiance. It also brightens up your eye area and adds sultry shimmer to your Cupid’s bow or to the tip of your nose. Basically, it’s your hero

Too FacedMoon Crush Highlighter

Size: 0.24 oz / 6.8 g·ITEM: 2693109

Color: Summer Moon - bronzed rose gold

31 Reviews

$52.00

I love using it for my nose highlight and cheek bones. It’s a beautiful colour that is both buildable but can be worn natural as well...This highlight is stunning. Clean girls be warned, this highlight is FAR from natural.

What it is: A next generation, second-skin, glossy-glow highlighter that gives a wet look finish.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens and mineral oil. It is also gluten-free and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This easy-to-use powder formula leaves a radiant and luminous shimmer for a moonlit luminescence that’s out of this world. Plus, it smells like fresh crisp apples.

HourglassAmbient® Strobe Lighting Powder

Size: 0.16 oz/ 4.53 g·ITEM: 1779982

Color: Incandescent

371 Reviews

$62.00

These are great for all over highlighting as it's very subtle and finely milled; if you do it dry, all over is very pretty, and with a wet brush you can mimic Becca highlight -- very versatile! ...beautiful powder...This powder is not for all over but for highlighting...a touch on cheekbones, bridge of nose, chin.

What it is:
A collection of illuminating strobing powders designed to sculpt the face with light, creating depth and dimension for a refined, natural-looking highlight.

What it does:
Ambient® Strobe Lighting Powders are formulated in a sheer base that’s infused with concentrated, ultra-fine mico-pearl particles in a number of sizes and refraction levels for natural-looking luminescence—without leaving a heavy metallic finish. Developed with Photoluminescent Technology it captures, diffuses, and softens surrounding light to refine the appearance of the skin.

What else you need to know:
Hourglass products are 100 percent cruelty-free.

MAC CosmeticsMineralize Skinfinish Face Powder

Size: 0.35 oz/ 10 g·ITEM: 2093672

Color: Global Glow - mid-tone brown with gold pearl

26 Reviews

$59.00

Must have highlight under rated...The most beautiful highlight I’ve ever worn it basically wears itself...Sometimes you don’t want too much highlight and blind your coworkers. I had this highlight for 3 years and still haven’t finished it since you only need a light touch.This product you can build to medium coverage for highlight, it has a nice warm bronzed highlight.

What it is:
A luxurious powder with M·A·C Multi-Mineral Complex that adds highlights to the face and body.

What it does:
This luxurious, slow-baked, velvety-soft, domed face powder offers a radiant finish. Strategically buff on to add highlights to the high points of the face, or blend all over for a sheer luminous polish to the skin. It features the M·A·C Multi-Mineral Complex and vitamin E.

What else you need to know:
This product is dermatologist and ophthalmologist tested and non-acnegenic. After adding product on your brush, mist brush with Prep + Prime Fix + and apply to high planes of face for a more intense, metallic highlight.

Fenty Beauty by RihannaKillawatt Foil Freestyle Highlighter

Size: 2 x 0.12 oz/ 3.5 g·ITEM: 2211084

Color: Ruby Richez - metallic brick red

610 Reviews

$54.00

I loved it as eyeshadow and highlight....Great for Multi-purposes. Use as highlight, blush and eyeshadow.

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.

Bobbi BrownHighlighting Powder

Size: 0.23 oz/ 8 g·ITEM: 1786680

Color: Bronze Glow - a shimmering warm gold

802 Reviews

$77.00

Perfect shimmering glow highlighting powder!...I highly recommend the Bobbi Brown Highlighting Powder, Afternoon Glow for that perfect natural shimmery glow!...I received this product complimentary from Bobbi Brown. Bobbi Brown Highlighting Powder in Pink Glow is really pretty and subtle, but can be built up for more highlight.

What it is: This cult-favorite highlighter powder creates a light-reflecting, shimmering pearl radiance for perfectly luminous cheeks and eyes. 


Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, and sulfates SLS & SLES.


What Else You Need to Know: A silky gel-powder hybrid highlighter that glides onto skin with a cushiony bounce to smooth, brighten, and deliver a sheer, lit-from-within glow. Formulated with a clear base and highly reflective pearl pigments to impart a naturally translucent radiance.

$72.00

I can't wait for Pat's highlighting brush to launch as it seems to be made with the exact same bristles as my old fan brush. ...Great highlight, worth to buy with discount...This is not certainly a glitter highlight but if you want that gloss effect then this is not ur highlight, its more like a Becca hightlight powder but extra shining, very fine glitter.

What it is:
A trio of pearl-infused, gel-powder highlighters that create a resplendent range of multidimensional effects.

What it does:
This triptych of highlighters brightens with ravishingly revolutionary results to fuel your most incandescent fantasies. Three surreal shades radiate pure light, lay down a smooth veil of pure and even color, and accentuate bone structure. Combining the best features of powder, cream, and fluid textures, each shade is individually iconic, creating a tantalizing triple threat of gorgeous gleam when layered together. A futuristic trio of pigments flows across the skin, mimicking the reflection of light with glittering shine, ethereal luminosity, and metallic brilliance.

Anastasia Beverly HillsSun Dipped Glow Kit® Powder Highlighters

Size: 4 x 0.26 oz/ 7.37 g·ITEM: 1790633

Color: Sun Dipped - Bronzed, Summer, Tourmaline, Moonstone

2.2K Reviews

$54.00

Beautiful Highlight...These powders are perfect, everyone needs this kit. I have mine in That Glow...I love the glow, pigmentation, consistency; everything. This is a perfect highlight. I've used all four colors for various highlighting and bronzing and it makes my skin look phenomenal!

What it is:
A glow kit with four metallic powder highlighters for intense luminosity.

What it does:
Bring instant luminosity to the complexion with these four metallic powder highlighters. Just layer the highly blendable shades together or wear them separately on the eyes and body for a radiant look.

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