What’s interesting about this line of questions is really that it makes you think about brands that have been consistent over the years/formulas because we all know that a lot of products get discontinued or reformulated eventually! One of my favorite ranges of highlighters is Makeup Geek’s Highlighter Powders–huge selection, great finish, so blendable–but the quality of newer releases leaves me less confident about future formulas/updates. I’d have to opt for MAC because they have a lot of types, and they tend to be fairly solid with their releases for highlighters.
— Christine
I’d go with Becca or MAC. MAC probably bc I’ve used them the most!
Hard to say! Maybe Becca or Charlotte Tilbury because I like what I’ve tried from them, however, I’ve also heard great things about MAC.
I never thought I’d have an answer for this question because I’m not a big highlighter person, but I have to say it would be Diorskin Nude Luminizer (I have Pink Glow). This is hands-down the most beautiful of all the highlighters I’ve ever tried. The only other highlighter that comes close is Laura Mercier Baked Highlighter 01. Out of those two, I’d go with Dior because the LM is so subtle. With Dior, I have more of a choice to go subtle or make my cheekbones really pop, depending on how I apply it.
I am happy with Laura Geller French Vanilla. It is all I that I ask from a highlighter. I love the glow from within look it gives me, without me having to look like I am trying to outdo a lighthouse on a rocky coast.
I LOVE that product. One of the most under rated wonders at Ulta. I used to wear it everyday. I also love and regularly use my Makeup Geek, Becca, and The Balm highlighters. I just recently started trying Colourpop’s Super Shock formula and so far, it really is beautiful. SO many options on the market it is hard to pick just one.
I prefer a more subtle glow to a blinding highlight, so I would have to stick to Hourglass. I love both their cream and powder highlighters.
Same, I love the Hourglass glow and own several. I don’t think I own a single true highlighter–haven’t felt like I needed it.
Oh this is hard. I’ve been using Ofra’s Cloud 9 daily since it launched, but I haven’t tried enough Ofra to commit to it fully if it was the only brand I could use. And when it comes to highlights I want something very bright and metallic. I’m the girl people can’t stand that likes to be highlighted to the point of blinding. I think the one brand that consistently delivers bright highlights for me is ABH. Their glow kits (do they even make those anymore?) are fantastic quality. If I could dip into the Gleam glow kit forever and only use that palette I would.
oooh i want a ofra highlight so bad but i don’t know which one and spending 30 coinz on essentially a lottery ticket scares me to death…
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ohh love that! do they ship to Europe?
Now that I think of it you can subscribe to Allure through Amazon(dot)com!! So every month amazon will ship it to you! What I love about this box is that everyone gets the same thing. Countless times I’ve never received the box with the “Brand new stuff”. Sorry I’m not trying to be a nagitive Nancy lol but also I didn’t retthis untill last month which was my second box and they only charge $10/month I believe it will last for 6 months then it gos back to $15! I hope this helps! Plus AmaOn ships everywhere!!
Becca has a great range of shades and LE releases, but I think I’d have to say Kevyn Aucoin just for Candlelight.
I’d have to say Becca, but I also haven’t used a wide range of brands when it comes to highlighter. I do love Champagne Pop very much, though, and if I could only choose one sole highlighter to use the rest of my life, that would be it.
I have the CoverFX highlighter palette with 6 shades, and I think I could only use that forever. The quality and shade range is great=.
I pretty much only use my favorite Makeup Geek highlighter, to the point where I haven’t even considered buying a new highlighter in 2 years. So as long as they continue making the same product at the same quality, that would be my choice.
If MUG failed me, I’d probably go to Becca, as I like the one of theirs I have, they have good colors for my skintone, and I generally hear good things about them.
I could commit to MAC as a brand for highlighters. They have several different formulas with a wide variety of shades. Ofra would be a very close second. I love their formula but being quite pale a lot of their shades don’t work for me. ColourPop would come in third for the same reasons.
I would go with Becca or Nars. Both formulas are really good about blending into the skin and not just sitting on top of the skin.
Becca IS nice. Haven’t tried Nars highlight, but given how much I love their other face products. it’s probably a winner.
I’m sounding like a broken record: Aromaleigh. If for some reason I couldn’t pick that, it’d be Becca.
I like my ABH highlighter palette and my babe in paradise Bretman palette.. but like eww i would not commit to morphe because of one collab, so ABH.
I’m still learning about highlighters – I didn’t really start using them until a little over a year ago! But so far the formula I have enjoyed the most is Ofra. I also like the Hourglass Ambient lighting powders but I don’t think of those as highlighters so much as overall glow.
Hard one! Haha!
If I look at it from the perspective of what I’ve enjoyed using over the *past* several years, then it’s a fairly even toss-up between ABH and MAC. (cannot go without Whisper Of Gilt or Amrezy!)
If, on the other hand, I look at from the vantage point that I am almost 60, and going forward I probably won’t want “seen from space” highlighters in 10 years, then either Laura Mercier (because HELLO! Matte Radiance Highlight 01) or Fenty (again, Metal Moon).
I bought the trio of MUG highlighters they offered by skin tone early on. Gorgeous colors for pale skin, but horrible finish on aging skin. I’d never had an issue with highlighting—having used the TooFaced Candlelight Rosy Glow successfully for years—until I saw my every fine line and bit of texture on my temples glare using the MUG highlighters. My favorite highlighters these days are the Algenist luminizing drops … much like the Cover FX drops, I think … which work well on my skin and never put my age in boldface, if you know what I mean.
I hear you! I stopped using powder highlighters after finding one highlighting the smile lines next to my eyes like stripes. Becca liquid Pearl is my favorite now and Becca would be my only brand if I had to choose one for their liquid SSPs. I also love Nabla’s Glowy Skin Highlighter in Surreal but it has no staying power. If it lasted longer, I’d hoard it (limited edition). It’s a translucent base with pink and peach when the light hits just right. Great for pale skin, but not for long.
Dior! The Nude Luminizers are amazing.
I fully agree!
Oh dear….this is a tough one indeed. I guess it’s a toss up between Becca (I mean, come ON – they have something for everyone) and MAC (ditto – their MSF highlighters and the Extra Dimension ones….there is something to delight just about everyone here too). I was going to say Dior because I have 2 or 3 Dior highlighters I adore but 2 of them are LE or d/c’d so no longer available and of their new ones, well, much as I love them, there isn’t enough variety of shades or finishes.
Ugh this is hard. I’d say Nars’ gelee highlighters for formula, which I prefer over Becca, but Becca wins shade variety.
PMG
I like the Fenty Killawatt Foil Freestyle formula, but Becca would probably have more shades compatible with my paleness, so I guess I’d hypothetically have to go with Becca.
I would have to go with Becca or ABH. I love all the pressed shimmering highlighters from Becca. I probably have at least 10, from Vanilla Quartz to Smoky Quartz to Champagne Pop. I also love the Amrezy highlighter as well as all the Sundipped and Sugar Glow Kits.
I’m a highlighter queen. My easy answer would be Becca, but upon reflection (pun surely), I would be more likely to gravitate to Dior or even Stila. Both brands have superior formulas; blend perfectly and become one with the skin.. do not sit on top
Looxi Beauty. I use them so much, both on my face and my eyes. I love that so many are funky colors and/or duochromes. They’re great quality. Plus, if you get the pans only, they’re really inexpensive ($7.50 USD).
Other contenders: Anastasia, Apocalyptic Beauty, and Notoriously Morbid.
MAC. My favorite formula is the Extra Dimension…Double Gleam in particular, but I have a half-dozen or so that I really like.
You know I don’t really use a lot of highlighters , the three I use a lot are Tom Ford “Orchid Soleil “ Nightbloom powder ,NARS highlighter in “Free Soul “, both give a glow without emphasize the texture of the skin .
The third one I use mainly in Summer WetnWild “Under my Canopy” ( great with a tan ).
I am not a highlighter fan, but judging by good results it would either be Becca or Hourglass.
#1 Laura Mercier Highlight #1
#2 Becca Colorpop Champagne Pop.
Huda, nothing else to say.
Very tough question. I think overall it will have to be Laura Mericier. I love her “matte” highlight for days when I need to be more conservative and then her other highlighters for a little more glow. A close second would be Charlotte Tilbury followed by MAC.
I think Maybelline’s Master Chrome are my faves, so I’m going with Maybelline. My #1 fave was LE and no longer available, but it too was from Maybelline. That pink highlight in the Maybelline x Gigi Hadid Jetsetter palette. As awful as the concealer and lip products were in that palette, that’s how good the highlight was.
Close second is Huda Beauty’s Summer Solstice palette. I’d be up for trying Huda’s other highlight palettes.
I like subtle ones having cool toned skin. Hourglass trio I love it is very subtle. So subtle that I mostly think of it as an overall glow (I don’t like overall glow only a bit on my cheeks) but if applied more heavily it does show as highlighter. I like also a lot the small roses design highliters from Milani those give you a soft satiny shine very pretty & WetnWild the collection which has Precious Petals those are great and I have them all. I haven’t tried Becca but am tempted they look gorgeous. Colour pop is great too!
Right now I’ve been loving the Nars highlights, but I have a many Becca and Bobbi brown highlighters so this is a huge toss up.