Best Illuminating Face Highlighters in 2026

Create a chrome effect with Maybelline's metallic highlighting powder

Features a blend of illuminating pearl pigments and metallic chrome sheen

Bring on a brighter complexion with this illuminating highlighter. Color Palette: Metallic

Velvety-smooth highlighting powder

Enhances skin with a naturally luminous glow

Infused with shimmering pearl pigments

Glow Enhancing Make Up: Instantly hydrate and luminize your skin for an all over, natural glow with Lumi Glotion; This liquid face and body highlighter delivers an illuminating color tint to enhance your skin’s natural glow

Hydrating Makeup Highlighter: Our glow lotion is infused with glycerin and shea butter for all day hydration; Available in 4 shades for all skin tones, the glow drops can be worn alone, under foundation, or on target areas for a more luminous effect

Liquid Highlighter to Glow: Use Lumi Glotion illuminator to get a healthy, sun kissed glow with no sun; Try our complete line of bronzing drops, bronzers, luminizers, glow enhancing lotions

BAKED HIGHLIGHTER: That glow though! Baked on Italian terracotta tiles, Milani’s NEW Baked highlighter takes pigment intensity & illumination seriously next level. Made with multi-tonal, micro-fine luminescent powders, this velvety-soft formula blends and builds seamlessly so you can take your look from au natural glow to high-impact whoa with the swipe of a brush.

CRUELTY-FREE BEAUTY: This product – and every other Milani product – is never tested on animals. We don’t allow others to test on our behalf, either. Our products are 100% cruelty free.This product will become your oil-free obsession – it’s formulated without any oils to help keep breakouts at bay. Nothing to worry about here – no paraben preservatives were used in this product.

TIPS & TRICKS: Using a highlighter brush gently sweep highlighter onto the highpoints of the face: bridge of nose, cheek bones, brow bone, cupids bow – anywhere you want to up your glow game. Try Milani’s highlighting brush for best results.

SIMPLIFY YOUR MAKEUP ROUTINE: Boomstick Glimmer is the ultimate highlighter and illuminator that effortlessly adds a natural, radiant glow to your everyday look; Apply a subtle, pearlescent shine to your eyelids, cheeks, brow bone and more.

CONVENIENT TRAVEL FRIENDLY COSMETICS: Each stick is a generous 7 grams and just a bit thicker than an average lipstick making it the perfect, travel companion; Declutter your purse, travel bag or glove compartment and bring your glow on the go!

ULTRA MOISTURIZING SHEER COSMETIC: Achieving the perfect, subtle shimmer has never been easier; Say goodbye to over-the-top, shiny highlighters and hello to beautiful, luminous skin

HIGH END GLOW - highlighter palette with well sized magnification mirror. The highly recommended highlighter makeup bronzer palette includes 4 highly pigmented shimmer makeup highlighter bronzer powder colors for light to medium dark skin tones with serious staying power and blendability. Suitable for all ages and all skin types.

LONG LASTING AND EASY TO APPLY - makeup highlighter to swipe and blend for the perfect glow on the areas you want to highlight: iluminador makeup paleta para cheekbones, nose, cupid's bow, eyebrow arch, and collar bone. Contour palette to highlight your face to add dimension, open your eyes, or slim your face. Contour and highlight to achieve the flawless look all your favorite celebrities have!

VEGAN & CRUELTY FREE - makeup highlighter for strobing. Apply face highlighter based on the level of glow you want using Lamora beauty sponge or Lamora fan, tapered or stippling brush.

Sun-kissed color for face and body. Formula adapts to multiple skin tones.

Get an instant touch of natural looking sun-kissed color (never orange!) on your face and body without the commitment.

Swirls of brown, tan, and cream-colored liquid pigments are baked for 24 hours on terracotta tiles, then hand-finished into silky domes of powder by Italian artisans.

[SUITABLE FOR ALL SKIN TYPES & TONES] - Blend with foundation for an all-over dewy finish, or tap gently onto the cheekbones, brow bones and/or cupid’s bow for a buildable, dimensional glow. It can also be used as a primer, blush or eyeshadow!

[HYDRATING HIGHLIGHTER CRÈME] - An innovative hydrating highlighter crème in a universally-flattering rose gold shade, spiked with LXMI Nilotica Reserve to deeply moisturize and natural pigments to impart a subtle radiance. By treating dehydrated skin while reflecting light, this gorgeous product gives skin a smooth, soft focus effect.

[MADE WITH WAKAME/RED ALGAE] - Red algae is rich in antioxidants which not only protect your skin, but also help refine skin’s appearance. Red algae has also been shown to help neutralize free radicals from common environmental factors our skin come in contact with on a daily basis. Tested and approved for all skin shades.

Luminous coverage and soft focus

The micro-fine pearl pigments combine to boost skin glow for a targeted multi-colored highlight.

Provides high impact color in long-lasting shades

LUMI Glotion instantly hydrates, highlights and luminzes your skin for an all-over fresh natural glow

Highlighting formula is lightweight and delivers an illuminating color tint for healthy radiant skin

Available in 4 shades - fair - light - medium and deep- LUMI glow lotion achieves a natural glowing complexion while hydrating skin

Liquid Illuminator: Enjoy a luminous, lit from within glow year round with the luxuriously lightweight NYX Professional Makeup Born to Glow Liquid Illuminator; Blend it with your foundation for an extra glow

Versatile Glow: This multifunctional moisturizing formula can be used as a foundation base or as a highlighter over cheekbones, décolletage, and cupid's bow for a natural looking radiance

Face From Foundation To Finish: Complete your makeup look with our full line of face products to aid in color correction and coverage from concealer, blush, bronzer, foundations and contouring to palettes and powders

【Liquid Illuminator】The body highlighter provides the softness of a liquid for a barely-there shimmer, and builds coverage to the brilliant result you expect from a liquid highlighter for a weightless and luminous glow.

【Smooth and Non-sticky】The shimmer body oil is moisturizing, nourishing and the shimmer shows on the skin beautifully. Glides on very smooth, just looks dewy, and glowy, and radiant. It really brings out the beauty in your skin.

【Moisturizing Ingredients】The liquid highlighter cream with illuminating pigments that adds light to the face for a glowing, dewy looking complexion. The hydrating formula is infused with Sunflower Seed Butter and Vitamin E to help smooth out the skin’s texture.

GLOWING - A highly pigmented and luminescent highlighter that gives you the perfect glow

RADIANT - Looks beautiful on all skin tones

EASY TO BLEND - Blends easily so you can get the perfect illumination

[Highlighter Contour Makeup stick] - Countour highlight stick has a silky, lightweight, buttery smooth formula that blends seamlessly onto your skin! The makeup contour and makeup highlighter create the illusion of a sculpted, defined face in (almost) no time.

[Cream Bronzer Stick] - Incredibly creamy and soft texture combines the features of a powder and butter bronzer; that smooth skin texture brightens skin tone and delivers a gorgeous bronze finish.

[Long Lasting & Waterproof] - Smooth and lightweight formula powder does not clog pores, allowing the skin to breathe freely.Highlighters makeup's unique Waterproof formula helps the pigment stay in place, creating a durable shiny look all day long.

A complexion-brightening stick for the face illuminates your favorite features with a lit-from- within glow and a creamy wash of controllable color.

Perfect for strobing, each silky shade goes on seamlessly and makes it easy to brighten your complexion with a luminous glow.

So much more than just another amazing highlighter, this multi-talented brightener also comes in bronzer and blush shades for adding a subtle wash of glowing color

Illuminates and enhances your best features

To highlight, apply in center of forehead, on cheekbones and chin

Makeup stick allows for precise, on-the-go application

Lightweight, Layerable Liquid Highlighter - Create an instantly glowing skin complexion with this lightweight, effortlessly blendable liquid highlighter. Part of our line of hybrid face makeup skincare.

With Pearlescent Pigments for Radiance - This glow makeup highlighter contains pearlescent luminizing pigments, recreating the natural radiance skin longs for. Arctic Spring Water and antioxidant-rich Cloudberry are added to this highlight illuminator for their hydrating properties.

Highlighter that Hydrates - This highlighter provides intense skin hydration with highlight pigment to perfect your skin’s natural radiance for a more even and luminous-looking complexion. You can pair and layer this highlighter with any of our other face glowing products.

【Glow Your Face & Body】This liquid highlighter cream with illuminating ingredients is common to the face and body that adds light to the face for a glowing, leave skin looking sun-kissed and feeling luxuriously soft. looking complexion.

【Natural Ingredients】This body luminizer formulated with moisturizing formula, light texture and will not cake or settle into fine lines or wrinkles.

【Multiple Usages】Use it alone for a light reflective strobing effect even on top of powder, or add them to your favorite liquid foundation or skincare product for an all-over glow.

🌈【SHINY NATURAL MAKEUP】- LSxia Illuminating highlighter makeup palettes are made with Italian baking powder technology, clear and natural, showing a shiny three-dimensional highlight makeup.

🌈【SOFT & LONG LASTING】- This highlighter powder has a super silky soft texture, the light naturally hits your face and achieve that seamless coverage, and structured without overly dramatic or thick. Has a good color rendering, can instantly brighten the skin, cover the defects.

🌈【MULTI-SITE APPLICATION】- This contour palette powder is Ideal for brightening cheekbones, eyelids, brow bones, inner corners and lip, with Light-diffusing pigments to enhance and perfect the skin, look great on any skin tone. Long lasting highlighter factor, smudge proof and solid, gives you a comfortable using experience.

Its unique fluid texture provides the softness of a liquid for a barely-there shimmer, and builds coverage to the brilliant result you expect from a liquid highlighter for a weightless, mistake-proof, luminous glow. It can be used on its own or mixed into foundations, primers and moisturizers. Ideal for all skin types

Lightweight, buildable formula can be applied on bare skin or over foundation for a shimmery glow. Liquid highlighter makeup strobe cream compliments light to medium skin tones to create a sheer and beautiful glow. Use as a spot highlighter over makeup or wear under your complexion faves for subtle luminescence

A liquid highlighter cream with illuminating pigments that adds light to the face for a glowing, dewy looking complexion. The hydrating formula is infused with Sunflower Seed Butter and Vitamin E to help smooth out the skin¡¯s texture. You¡¯ll look radiant¨Ceven after a sleepless night.

Infused with Vitamin E, Jojoba, Sunflower, Apricot and Grape to nourish and hydrate the skin

The long-lasting baked shimmering color can be applied wet for a vibrant effect or dry for sheer pigmentation

Using a powder brush, sweep the baked highlighter onto cheekbones, brow bones, and decollate for an instant glow. Apply wet for a vibrant effect or dry for sheer pigmentation

This all-over Body Luminizer is a head-to-toe, transfer-resistant, high-shine body luminizer that drenches skin with emollients. The luxurious formula glides on effortlessly, without streaking; creating a dewy, shimmering sunlit glow that lasts for hours. Skin feels soft, supple and smooth and feels drenched in a sunny, radiant luminous finish.

That post-vacay glow is now yours year-round with this smooth, gel-based body luminizer that glides on and leaves skin feeling dewy to the touch. Get ready to bathe your skin in a gloriously high-shine finish that does to your body what highlighter does to your cheekbones.

It is gel-based formula with light-reflecting pearl pigments that give the most insanely smooth, glossy finish. The formula blends easily into the skin for a streak-free finish that’s perfect for buffing into any area of the body you want to glow like a goddess.

Sheer Liquid Highlighter: Achieve natural looks with sheer coverage and a natural glow. This liquid highlighter makes it easy to accentuate your best features instantly.

Nourishing + Moisturizing: Made with Illuminating Minerals and a blend of Murumuru Butter, Cupuaçu Butter, and Tucuma Butter from the nutrient-rich Amazon, this skin-loving makeup is packed with essential fatty acids and pro-vitamins that soften, condition, and moisturize the skin.

Versatile Formula: Wear alone, under makeup or over foundation to naturally enhance skin texture, tone, and appearance.

Face Serum Bronzing Drops - These highlighter drops contain superfine, light-reflecting pigments that enhance skin’s natural glow while evening out the appearance of an uneven tone. They feel like a serum, act like a serum, and look like your most radiant skin.

Ingredients - Virtually weightless, each glowy luminizer drop pumps up hydration levels and plumps up elasticity for noticeably smoother skin. They contain vitamin E and peptide polyglutamic acid - hyaluronic acid's more powerful relative that can hold 4000x its weight in moisture - that work alongside antioxidant-rich blackberry extract to strengthen skin’s barrier.

No-Makeup Glow with Skin Benefits - Wear these buildable luminizer drops solo, under makeup, or mixed into face makeup for a skin-smoothing, soft-focus glow. Both shades work well on almost all skin tones and can be mixed together.

FLAWLESS GLOW FOR YOUR FACE; Add a pop of shimmer and color to your face with a creamy highlighter stick that delivers instant; longwear luminescence; Layer on a full coverage glow on your cheeks; or swipe on a single coat for a light; sheer tint;

PEARLY; PRISTINE RADIANCE; Infused with superfine; easy blending pearl particles that capture and reflect the light around you; this dewey highlighter formula melts into skin; blessing your makeup look with an intense yet natural shine;

PERFECTLY PRECISE APPLICATION; Add detailed shimmer and dimension to every area of your face; including the cheeks; brow-bone; or bridge of the nose; Our illuminator wand design allows you to sweep on your desired amount of product with ease;

A Talc-Free + Light-As-Air Highlighting Powder That Delivers An Illuminating Glow For Instant Radiance & Dimension

How It Works: Buttery Soft Textures Blend Easily + Can Create A Subtle Shimmer Or A More Dramatic Highlight - Metallic Finish Adds Depth + Dimension To High Points Of Face

Includes A Built-In Mirror For Easy, On-The-Go Application

💜 KAJA's Glowy Stamp is a liquid cushion highlighter in a bouncy moon-shaped stamp that blends out for an instant, natural-looking glow. Stamp on to instantly glow up. This cushion highlighter's light-catching liquid formula easily builds up and blends out for the ultimate sheen of your dreams.

💜 KUTIE TIP: Stamp once for a subtle highlight and twice for an illuminating glow.

💜 AVAILABLE COLORS: 01 Gleamy - soft gold, 02 Dreamy - warm bronze.

The Allure Best of Beauty winner for best gel highlighter - Kevyn Aucoin Glass Glow Face and Body Gloss in Pixie Dream color (which adds a transparent iridescent glow with a peachy pink reflective pearl): Get gorgeously glowy skin with this highly coveted, universal, multi-purpose gloss highlighter for the face and body. This glow gel creates the look of a youthful, and well-hydrated glassy complexion.

FEATURES: Enriched with Passion Fruit Oil and Marula Oil. Can be used on the face and body. Non-sticky formula. It is available in 6 shades for the perfect range of color (Cosmic Flame, Crystal Clear, Pixie Dream, Prism Rose, Solar Quartz and Spectrum Bronze).

HOW TO: For all skin types. Can be used on the face and body. Dab and press gently onto the skin for a sheer glass glow look. Use it alone on clean skin for a fresh look, or incorporate it into your existing makeup routine for an added glass effect. Apply directly onto moisturized skin or blend with a foundation or primer to transform them into illuminating formulas. Bonus: Apply all over the body for a radiant glow.

【LIQUID BODY LUMINIZER】Provide your skin with a year-round natural glow with this moisturizing body highlighter, that gives your skin an attractive shimmer in the sun. Long-term use will also slowly improve your skin tone, giving you a more natural and healthier complexion.

【LOW IRRITATION FORMULA】This liquid body shimmer is made with a variety of natural ingredients. The ingredients are rich in sunflower seed oil and Vitamin E, which provide good moisturizing properties and help prevent sunburn and protect your skin even more. Leaves your skin as fine and smooth as a baby.

【HOW TO USE】Use our provided makeup brush to apply the body highlighter evenly to bare skin before enjoying a tan to promote the tanning process and give your skin an elastic and attractive glow. And it also prolongs the longevity of your taning.

【Makeup Highlighter】Creamy texture and radiant glow finish, feel beautiful on your skin and they gave off the most radiant most amazing highlight ever. These cream highlighter sticks provide a subtle glow that is perfect for everyday use.

【Clever Design】 The top of the stick is flat and wide enough to highlight your cheekbones with one swipe, and the edge can be used to apply color precisely to the bridge of the nose, cupid's bow, and brow bone with relative ease.

【Long Lasting&Waterproof】Long lasting, water-tight, sweatproof. Let you keep the perfect makeup all day long without worrying about getting caught in the rain or pushed into a pool.