Best Illuminating Face Highlighters in 2026

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.

Get a beautifully bronzed glow and radiant skin, all year long! Bronze-n-Brighten delivers sun-kissed color without any trace of orange for a natural, matte finish

Our award-winning bronzer can be used to contour your face or as an all over bronzer face powder for a sun-kissed, glow

The creamy texture of a cream bronzer with the weightless feel and easy, smooth application of a powder bronzer. This fool-proof bronzer is perfect for all skin types and infused with antioxidants for a healthy-skin boost

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

[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.

【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.

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

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

Neutral taupe sculpt and ivory with pink undertone highlight

The contouring end sculpts and defines your best facial features, while the highlighting end effortlessly mimics how the natural light enhances the contours of the face for a high-definition, illuminating glow

Packed with skin-loving ingredients like vitamin E, coconut oil and aloe Vera, each portable Sculpt & Highlight Face Duo goes on smoothly and adds healthy-looking glow on the go

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 even after a sleepless night.

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.

【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.

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.

Illuminating cream highlighter adds dimension and enhances features

The lightweight, creamy texture and micro-fine pearls combine to boost skin glow for a targeted highlight

Easy application, just swipe and blend

CUSTOM ENHANCER HIGHLIGHTER DROPS: Your skin, Customized. Illuminating Custom Enhancer drops let you control the glow. Just one drop delivers megawatt luminosity to enhance and define.

MIX IN WITH FOUNDATION MOISTURIZER: Give your favorite foundations or moisturizers a luminous boost with our Custom Enhancer Drops. Mix with your go-to formula to impart a naturally-radiant glow or use alone as a high-impact highlighter.

HIGHLY PIGMENTED HIGHLIGHTER: Liquid luminosity custom-made to fit your skin! These illuminating liquid highlighter drops blend with your makeup for an all-over glow.

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.

Glow Your Face&Body:This liquid highlighter cream with illuminating ingredients can highlight your best features with an ultra-shimmering glow,creates a natural and luminous glow,leaves skin sun-kissed and luxuriously soft.

Natural Ingredients:This shimmer body oil is made of natural oils, botanicals and a hydrating marine extract, light moisturizing texture and will not cake or settle into fine lines or wrinkles. It can also enhance the elasticity, texture and vibrancy of skin

Easy to Apply and Clean:Apply the liquid bronzer to your body and push it away, you can spread over wanted areas and it will dry within minutes. It is easy to clean with a little soap and wate

FACE BRONZER: This bronzer stick is designed to instantly illuminate your skin as it brightens and contours your face, while providing a long-lasting sun-kissed glow in a Golden Shimmer shade

NOURISHING INGREDIENTS: Formulated with 100% natural ingredients like moisturizing coconut oil, jojoba oil, cupuacu butter, and daikon radish extract to nourish and hydrate skin for hours

EASY APPLICATION: This cream bronzer stick comes in a lightweight formula that hydrates as it applies and blends smoothly and easily without a heavy or cakey feel

Crystal-glow that lasts all day

Creamy, blendable formula with specially treated pearls for an intense highlight

Large doe-foot applicator dispenses product evenly for easy blending

Glow Your Face or Body --- Wrinkle Filler and skin tightener, makes your skin look like velvet perfection. Apply to creates a shimmer glow, delivers good coverage with a smooth, shimmering finish.Perfect for spray tans to enhance and even out skin

As Self-Tanning Lotion --- Made your skin without sun damage, this Glow Liquid Foundation gives you a gradual sun kissed glow without sunburns or signs of early aging from the sun

Easy to Apply and Clean --- Apply the illuminant to your body and push it away, you can spread over wanted areas and it will dry within minutes. It is easy to clean with a little soap and water

ENHANCES YOUR APPEARANCE: This stick base helps you achieve a gorgeous dewy finish with subtle and transparent pearls, while its key ingredients improve the texture and tone of your skin. This hydrating stick base has a lightweight, easy-to-apply formula that leaves skin smooth and supple. The base can also be used as a cheek, forehead, eye, nose, and lip color

HYDRATING AND DEWY FINISH: The long-wear makeup stick moisturizes the inner skin and creates an effortless glow on the outer skin for a long time. You don't even need brush to apply this highlighter stick to your lips or cheeks! Creating light, breathable finishes. The easy-to-blend formula makes it a great addition to your daily skincare regimen.

PROVIDES POWERFUL PROTECTION AND NOURISHING HYDRATION: The vegan collagen produced by yeast fermentation has structure similar to human type 3 collagen, which helps to improve the elasticity and texture of the skin. With Reallagen 1% Collagen, you can treat aging and wrinkles, repair damaged skin, prevent ultraviolet rays, moisturize, firm your skin, and promote new cell growth.

Glitter Highlighter: Highlighter disc comes with 4 colors of highlighter. The smooth texture is easy to apply and highly pigmented. It brightens the skin tone and creates a defined face.

Suitable for Anyone: Suitable for all skin tones, it can be used to highlight cheekbones, eyelids, brow bones and lips for natural-looking glow.

Waterproof and Long-lasting: This facial highlighter is formulated to be waterproof for a certain period of time, saving you from the embarrassing situation of makeup coming off.

BODY SHIMMER: 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.

HOW TO USE: Apply the highlight drops alone or add a drop into your favorite skincare, foundation, and makeup products to customize your glow complexion

NATURAL INGREDIENTS: Natural oils, botanicals and a hydrating marine extract to enhance the elasticity, texture and vibrancy of skin. Transfer resistant, will not streak or stain the skin. Face - beautiful as a primer or mix with foundation.

AN IRIDESCENT YET NATURAL GLOW. Our Rose Gold Get Lit Liquid Illuminator has a lightweight and super pigmented formula that melts soft into skin after application, adding a brightening highlight and light-catching shine to all your favorite features.

GO FROM CASUAL TO GLAM IN SECONDS. This buildable, versatile formula can be worn underneath a layer of foundation to add a pop of neutral shimmer to your makeup look, or applied straight onto cheeks and nose for an illuminating, eye-catching shine.

GET A LONG LASTING, LUMINOUS LOOK. Lock your sparkle in place all day long, without any product creasing or fading away. This bright and blendable liquid formula adds powerful shimmer and shine to your face that stays glowing on your skin for hours.

Stila Stay All Day 10-in-1 Illuminating Skin Veil - Kitten 1 oz (30 ml)

- Cream Highlighter Stick: The light-reflecting liquid highlighter makeup,features super fine,easy-to-blend high pearl particles that capture and reflect light. Intensely pigmented liquid formula delivers a multi-dimensional shimmer effect and gives your skin a silky soft feel.

- Long Lasting and Buildable Highlighter Makeup: A silky, second-skin liquid highlighter that easily blendable & buildable for glow face highlighter makeup, creates a lasting, soft, and luminous finish.B

- Perfectly illuminate a Radiant Complexion: This soft, buildable cream highlighter stick creates a brighter, more radiant complexion, leaves your skin dewy glow and instant radiance all day.

CHEEK MAKEUP - This blush & highlighter hybrid features a cream-powder matrix system that helps it stay put for eight hours. In addition to the formula's high color payoff and superior glide, refined mica provides a lit-from-within glow.

BENEFITS - Similar to a silk kimono, this featherweight formula floats effortlessly over skin, delivering an instant, illuminating flush or a subtle contour without streaking. Available in ten light-reflecting shades.

KEY INGREDIENTS - Mica lends skin a subtle, luminescent finish. Spherical powders create a rollerball-like glide for streakless application. Esters and silicone oils provide a creamy feel & promote longer wear.