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Gold Highlighters
Mostly love from me, though when they get too true yellow, they definitely work best on me when paired with particular colors of blush rather than alone. Some of the lighter golds and peachier golds I can wear alone without blush at all, which makes them more versatile for me. I do wish that brands would diverge a lil’ from their standard golds, since I think we could see some more contrasting shimmer/sheen.
— Christine
Only love 95% of the time. The only ones I’m not crazy about are very yellow-golds as in Fenty Trophy Wife. Those just make me look jaundiced!
I’m softer gold such as ABH Amrezy or MAC Whisper Of Gilt work fantastically on me. So do champagne-golds and peach-golds like MAC La Leyenda.
True gold highlighters don’t work well with my skin tone. Yellow in general doesn’t look good on me, not even yellow gold jewelry. But a hint of gold in a pink or peach highlighter can be ok.
I have to be careful about them since I have cool-tone skin and yellowy colors don’t look good on me — but I love how a good gold highlighter gives a sort of luxurious and otherworldly look. I mostly use the old NARS Albatross, but I have a champagne gold one from Julep that is really nice on me too, since it’s cooler.
I’m not a big fan of gold. I have some select ones, the ud game of thrones highlighter trio, that one is very nice. KKW highlighter stick is nice too. I definitely don’t buy gold on purpose, I’m more into pinks/ peaches. That’s just me .
LIKE: I think golds are really flattering. They’re beautiful with the coral blushes I favor.
DISLIKE: Really yellow golds can make me look jaundiced. There’s not a lot of variety in shades of gold offered. I’d like to see more duo-chromes and cooler-toned golds.
Too yellow. Every. Single. Time.
I love a true gold highlighter, especially one’s with some extra glitz in them! While they’re not the most flattering on my light warm yellow-undertone skin because they tend to be slightly too dark on me, I appreciate them on other people! I have a lighter yellow gold from Bitter Lace Beauty that looks pretty on top of eyeshadow or lip gloss too.
I can’t pull off a true gold highlighter. I am too cool undertoned. I have a couple of mostly white based with gold highlights that work okay on me. In general, I find that when I wear a gold highlighter I end up bringing my blush higher to sort of mask it! I watched a video last night showing the new “fox look” makeup placement. I didn’t even know it was a thing since I haven’t been on social media much. I was reminded of it when I said I bring my blush up higher because it appears that the fox look just means to put everything in a higher placement? I don’t know but to answer the question, not a fan of true gold highlightes.
They work well w/ my coloring, and my warm-toned blushes. Just not too metallic – but that’s true for any highlighter on my aging skin, regardless of color.
I LOVE gold!! All Golds are my friends!! Show Gold.. I have gone through about 3 pans of it! I am a golden tan Mac NC42/PMG #15. Whisper of Gilt, Oh Darling, Becca Champagne POP and Topaz, PMG Highlighter palette, I panned the Gold and Bronze so quick! I prefer a more sheer shimmery fine glitter even…
I do love gold as long as it’s not too yellow. It looks better in the summer when my skin has been kissed by the (fake tan) sun.
Gold is a no unless it is a very pale one, not yellow one, in which case we might as well call it champagne, and then it‘s bring on the bubbly!
I don’t think they suit my pale face, but they are lovely to look at in the pan (ha ha) and are often gorgeous on skintones tan and deeper.
Since I have a more fair to light (at best) skin tone, straight up gold highlighters don’t look the best on me. But like a pinky-gold (Benefit Twinkle, Becca lilac geode, Becca Parisian Lights), look great, or at least I like them. Peachy-gold (Becca Champagne Dream Flashes Bellini, Melt Cosmetics Morningstar, Nabla Privilege) also good. A white / pale gold (Marc Jacobs Worth The Wait, Becca Golden Mint, Persona Cosmetics Laguna) Is my new favorite way to wear a gold-ish highlighter. I prefer something that’s got a little more dimension to it.
I love looking at gold highlighters, because I love anything gold – but I wouldn’t wear the shade on me.
Gold on my face doesn’t work – I have pink undertones and it would look mismatched.
Soft golds can look beautiful when blended in properly on the right skintone.
I don’t have a gold highlighter as it just doesn’t go with my skintone, but I do love golden highlighters on deeper skintones; they look beautiful.
Most are just too yellow for me and simply clash with my skin undertones and look “odd” so really very little love at all but for those who can wear these shades, I envy them the ability to look stunningly magical on warm summer nights when we’re no longer wearing masks!