My Top Three Highlighters

I've found that certain highlighters work best on certain foundations, which I'm sure is common knowledge. So I thought I'd do a short post on my favourite highlighter for three different foundation bases, liquid, Cream and airbrush! Highlighters are used to draw attention to and enhance certain areas of the face, such as the tops of your cheek bones, brow bone, temples and cupids bow.

So here they are...

1. Liquid foundation: My absolute go to highlighter for using with a liquid base has to be Smashbox's 'Artificial Light Luminizing Liquid', it comes in three shades; Luminous pearl, peach & bronze... one for every look and skin tone! It can be mixed with your foundation for an overall but subtle glow and dewy finish or simply dabbed and blended onto the desired area.

£20.50 from www.smashbox.co.uk, each order comes with a free primer/mascara sample, which are also amazing!!

2. Cream/stick foundations: This has to be without a doubt Illamasquas 'Gleam in Aurora', incase you don't already know, I'm absolutely obsessed with this highlighter! it has an absolutely flawless finish, I find it works best with this type of foundation, but also works well with liquid foundations. It has champagne tones and complements any skin tone! For more on this fabulous little highlighter take a look at my blog post on it here.

£18.00 from www.illamasqua.com

3. Airbrush foundation: My airbrush is my best friend, it creates a flawless matte finish, and once set STAYS PUT. The only trouble I had with it was finding a good highlighter which would work well with this type of foundation, cream and liquid highlighters are no good so a powder highlighter is best for this! I started using the MAC 'Mineralize Skinfinish' highlighter, it's perfect! It comes in three shades; Soft and gentle - a peach bronze (this is my fave!), Lightscapade - a soft beige with a multidimensional shimmer and Gold Deposit - a golden-bronze. It can be brushed on lightly to your foundation and built up slowly, so as not to disturb the base! The only thing to be aware of is that when it's initially brushed onto the skin there quite a bit of sparkle fall out which can play up to the camera, not ideal. But with a good amount of buffing it blends to a flawless finish and creates a soft glow, which works very well with the camera!

£21.50 from www.maccosmetics.co.uk

Hope this is helpful... didn't turn out quite as short as I was planning!

Anna x