When I wrote
this post about the YSL Palette Y-Mail highlighter a few weeks ago, one of my lovely readers,
Renata asked about my favourite highlighters, and what I'd recommend. Well, my first thought, I have to admit was "I don't have many highlighters, I'll never get a full post out of that!". I was wrong. A quick scout around my makeup collections (yes, I have more than one) turned up 13 of the shimmery little suckers. And, since I rounded them up and took pictures of them, I found a few more too. Clearly, I have too much makeup.
I thought instead of one mahoosive post of various shiny strips of skin with barely any differences between them, I'd break up the posts into the different textures. Today, it's liquids and creams:
Nars Copacabana: Much as I love my Nars multiples (and I do!) I have to say that this one doesn't really do much for me. It's a little frosty on my skin, even when blended in really well. A beautiful shade for cooler skintones, perhaps, but I end up looking a little metallic, which is never a good look. I've since swapped this one for something I love far, far more, and I'll show you what that is very soon.
Prescriptives Cream Highlight: Apologies for talking about a discontinued product from a discontinued brand, but this was, for a very long time, my very favourite highlighter! The label has worn off, so I can't even tell you what it was called when it was available. As you can see, it's a little more peach than the NARS, and so melds more with my skin-tone, rather than sits "on" it. It's still, it has to be said, a little too metallic for my tastes these days.
Benefit High Beam: Again, another frosty one, I flip-flop on Benefit products at the best of times (when they're good, they're very, very good, but when they're bad, they're
infuriating!), this is one I like, the packaging is good, it's a nice texture, but the pinkish frostiness isn't one that suits as many people as Benefit always say they will. It's nice to apply, but again, can make you look a little metallic.
No7 Skin Illuminator: This is one I picked up the week before last, and I really, really like the product. Unlike many highlighters, this actually comes in two shades, one pink, and one peach. This one is peach. As you can see, the colour of the highlighter almost disappears into my skin - or when it's not swatched this heavily for photographic purposes, it does, anyway!- I'm not, it must be said, a massive fan of the packaging, it seems purposely designed to make you waste the product (indeed, even the box states you should wipe the "excess" off onto your hand before using the brush to apply it to your cheeks) but the liquid inside is a good one, not metallic, not frosty, and not glittery. It's a very glow-y natural kind of highlighter, and it's one I'll be getting back-ups of at the earliest opportunity. It's also the cheapest highlighter on this page at £11, £6 if you have any Boots vouchers.
If you're unsure about how to use liquid or cream highlighters, then I suggest you watch this Lisa Eldridge video, she's amazingly talented, and gives great advice:
Tomorrow, loose powders. And I'll be guesting over at Zuneta again too!
The Small Print: I buyed dese. I haz munny.
Benefit High Beam: Again, another frosty one, I flip-flop on Benefit products at the best of times (when they're good, they're very, very good, but when they're bad, they're infuriating!), this is one I like, the packaging is good, it's a nice texture, but the pinkish frostiness isn't one that suits as many people as Benefit always say they will. It's nice to apply, but again, can make you look a little metallic.
