What’s your favorite highlighter? What do you reach for most often?
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The Dior Skin Shimmers! I reach for Amber Diamond the most 🙂
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The same for me, Christine. I use amber diamond everyday…
MAC Soft & Gentle !
mac shroom as an eyebrow highlight
mac motif, benefit high beam, mac pink opal pigment or lightscapade msf for cheek highlight 🙂
I change all the time, depends on my mood. Benefit High Beam, MAC Pink Opal, Soft & Gentle MSF. But today, I used the first two shades of Amber Diamond as highlight (under eyes, high cheeks, on top of nose, etc) and it looks FAB.
my fave is Dior Amber Diamond shimmer powder..
for liquid highlighter, i love Red Earth secret potion in Magician.
MAC Pearl CCB is perfect for me.
I use it on the apples of my cheeks, the inner corners of my eyes and on my brow bone -as a base to a highlighting shadow. Its form lets me apply it easily with my fingertips aswell as brushes.
Its color suits my NC20 skin wonderfully -not too light, not too dark.
My fave is Benefit’s Miss Popularity, then Benefit’s It Was The Perfect Alibi (duo highlighter), then Dior Rose Diamond
I use Vanilla pigment for cheekbone & browbone highlight. It works with any look and isn’t glittery or fake-looking.
Albatross by Nars
benefit high beam and vanilla pigment
MAC Vanilla eyeshadow!
NARS Albatross
shroom and ricepaper 🙂
I don’t really have a fave, I usually use whichever I can pull first out of the drawer. Such as MAC Soft & Gentle, MAC Refined, or Revlon skinlights powder. For eye’s, Femme Fi and Soft Force.
I have many highlighters that I really like, including Pleasureflush Shimpagne, Soft and Gentle MSFs, the highlighter side of Medium MSFN duo, Dior Skin Shimmers, New ID Cosmetics I-Glow powder in Sirocco, Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick in Pink, etc. Too many to mention really. I use most of them for highlighting eyes too.
NARS Multiple in South Beach
Wet n Wild Bronzzer in Acapulco Glow. It’s a highlighter that doesn’t wash me out!
For my eyes absolut MAC Shroom
Cheeks, NARS Albatross or MAC MSF Perfect Topping from sugar sweet.
Depends on what I am doing, lately it is Benefit’s Moon Beam or MAC Dark Nectar Honey Highlight.
For the face or eyes?? For the face I use Smashbox Baked Fusion Soft Lights and for my eyes I use the two light shades from the Smashbox Eye Shadow Trio in Shutter Speed mixed together.
Depending on my mood, for the face:
Catrice Mineral Illuminating Powder
Clinique Fresh Bloom allover colour in Peony
BB or TBS Pink shimmerbrick
Pure Luxe Cosmetics Aprils Mix
for the eyes:
MAC Shroom e/s
MAC Femme-Fi e/s
Mac vanilla pigment!
i like nylon mixed with my studio fix powder on my brow bone, or shroom
and albatras by nars on cheekbones..but i want vanilla pigment
soft & gentle and honey light 🙂
My fave would have to be MAC woodwinked or shroom.
For a cheek highlighter, I use Cargo Plantlove blush in Peony… mostly because it’s the only one I have lol. For an all-over soft-focus glow I love MAC’s Tahitian Sand beauty powder. For my browbone highlight I use KvD’s Tequila from the Ludwig and Beethoven palettes.
it would be my mac miniralized compacts… they have the perfect sheen…
FACE: Nars Albatross or e.l.f. luminance
EYES: L’Oreal HiP Restless or Milani Sheer Sand.
Greedy girl can’t pick just 1. LOL
hi. im almost out of my elf luminance and i am planning to get a higher end version from either mac or sephora. what do you think is a good dupe for it – that’s not glittery but gives off a nice sheen? thanks! 🙂
Albatross by Nars and
Dior Amber Diamond shimmer powder
For eyes, MAC Brule, no question. For cheeks, Refined MSF.
Pearl CCB or sometimes EU’s Fresh Morning CCB!
Face – MAC Soft & Gentle
Eyes – MAC dazzlelight or jest
Amber Diamond and Pop Diamond !
MAC Soft & Gentle and Shimpagne (to bad the last one is LE)
MAC Perfect Topping MSF 🙂
MAC strobe on my face, although I like high beam and nars multiple in copacabana as well
MAC MSF Lightscapade-which i really,really wish MAC would bring out again or make it a perm item.
Everyone i know that uses it thinks it’s the HG of highlighters. It’s buildable and gives a beautiful sheen.Love it but starting to run low on my one 🙁
either MAC By Candlelight, Benefit High Beam, or NARS Mulitple in Copacobana