What’s your favorite way get luminous, glowy skin? Share your favorite products and techniques!
MAC Strobe Cream is a good all-over luminizer that works before your foundation (but after moisturizer). I also like Guerlain Meteorites!
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Hard Candy Moon Glow Lumizing Powder is my favorite way right now. I also adore the Meow Glow powders.
I haven’t tried the Hard Candy products yet. My friend keeps telling me that I should.
I really like that one as well. I also adore my MAC By Candelight MSF.
MAC Hush CCB! I find this gives a WAY more natural, beautiful glow than Pearl CCB for cheeks and all over the face.
I either apply Strobe Liquid before my foundation or mix it with the foundation (depends on the foundation I’m using).
My favorite is definitely Benefit’s High Beam. It works great with my skin tone and makes me look fresh/dewy.
Hi Christine ☺
my favs – despite a good nutrition, cleaning and moisturizing – are 1. chanel blanc, kanebo sensai brightening makeup base and lancome teint miracle base ☻. In winter chanel is my favourite, because it’s the most moisturizing of them all. I use them alone under mineral makeup or powder or to highlight my eyes & cheeks.
Be well! ☺
Nina
Definitley Eyeko cream with extra glow 😀 i love it. could not live without it.
Its (not so) secret weapon :p
I like to add Benefit’s That Gal to my moisturizer.
Dior Skinflash!
I think it’s a great multi-purpose item to have in the beauty bag.
Though I have to say I’m curious to try put YSL Touche Eclat.
I recently caved and bought Touche Eclat in the lightest shade a few weeks ago. Even though it’s outside my usual price range, I think it’s worth the it because I use it nearly every day and keep it in my purse for touch-ups. It’s so natural looking, I often use it when I’m otherwise wearing zero makeup. The effect is subtle though, so if you’re wanting a strong highlight or full coverage concealer, I wouldn’t recommend Touche Eclat. Also, if the product sounds great but you don’t want to shell out the $40ish, I’ve read that Milani’s HD Advanced Concealer is very similar: http://www.xsparkage.com/?p=1804
I use the Milani HD and find it just as good as TE.
with Hush Cream Color Base by MAC! it’s very natural, I love it!
Guerlain Meteorites! I have 7 varieties, love them 🙂
I use Shu Uemura Stage Performer before foundation/after moisturizer or Guerlain Meteorites as a finishing powder.
i like using my msfs 🙂 i have one in porcelian pink and it gives me a great glow!
Diamond cream by MUFE
For me it has to be Soap and Glory’s Hocus Focus Lotion. It’s lovely mixed with foundation, gives me a lovely dewy glow 🙂 And it smells gorgeous!
I like the strobe cream also but I like mixing the Smashbox I think its called photofinish illuminator mixed in w my tinted moisturizer or foundation 🙂
i LOVE prtty peaushun. for both body and face. for my face, i mix it with a little foundation and it makes beautiful glowy skin.
Currently using mac pigment in Vanilla mixed in either moisturizer or foundation.
Benefit’s That Gal makes me luminous, if I’m having a bad skin day I’ll top my make up off with a bit of beauty powder either Benefit’s Dandelion or MAC’s Briar Rose
Superdrug Vitamin E illuminating Moisturiser or No7 Illuminator in Peach noth work wonders 🙂
I mix mac strobe cream with studio sculpt foundation and use shell ccb as a cheek highlighter. Does anybody know anything about the rumours that mac are discontinuing their cream colour bases?
i favor strobe liquid for the dry down factor it has over strobe cream.
My best Avon Solutions tinted moisturizer – mix with foundation
Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector – Pearl
I use you You Rebel light tinted moisturizer mixed with stila illuminating tm.
I love Blanc de Chanel as a base, before my Matte Lumiere Chanel Foundation. Then I preffer highlighting the cheekbones with either Benefit’s High Beam or Body Shop Radiant Highlighther. Occasionally I’m using the Meterorites in pressed powder, but not so often.
Scott Barners Diamond Dust loose powder or the Revlon Age Defying Spa Face Illuminator in Bare Light.
MAC CCB in Pearl or this new one I got for a $1 at Target. It’s by ELF. Not sure what the name is but its a goldy tone one (comes in stick form). I just use it as a highlighter on my cheekbones.
My skin is oily and tends to get shiny during the day, so I’m usually doing all I can to NOT look dewy! The best way for my skin to look “fresh” is to color-correct the purple-blue-brown all around my eyes (hereditary dark circles plus allergies) and the redness around my nose (again, allergies). That and mattifying my skin makes me look healthy, rather than sick and sweaty, haha! I do use some highlighters like Benefit High Beam and Urban Decay’s Urbanglow in Moonshine on my cheekbones and/or browbone, but only a tiny bit since I don’t want to be shiny.
I usually just add a little bit of MAC Lustre Drops into my foundation, or I mix a few drops of HyperReal in. Depends on how glowy I want to be!
As a WOC (woman of color) get glowy is bit more of a challenge, but I love the Smashbox Soft Light powders (my favorites are Tint, Highlighter and Allure) for they do give me that glow-from-within look.
strobe liquid is great by mac. also silver dusk? powder by mac if used lightly.
liquid blush, currently illamasqua. also would love to try guerlain meteorites!
strobe cream and cream color base in Shell to highlight the cheekbones n under the eyes.
fresh twilight, duwop doubleglow, or stila rose gold powder
using BB shimmerwash shadow in rose gold as a blush also gives a nice glow
I covet UD moonshine (after xmas!)
also pangea organics balancing oil under or as moisturizer gives a really pretty healthy glow to the skin and actually cuts oil overproduction
oops also the luminizer end of maybelline’s age rewind concealer gives a nice glow and works better than highbeam for warm skintones