I come from a home where there’s an extremely
high appreciation of anything pretty (and also anything miniature, but that’s a
different post!). My mother has spent years accumulating pretty things and she
displays them just about everywhere, from her nightstand (where she keeps a
rhinestone-encrusted stapler – she’s also a fan of anything shiny) to an
asymmetrical curio cabinet in our great room (filled with Swarovski trinkets).
The other day, I went home and a perfume box from a Creed Silver Mountain Water
purchase I made 2 years ago when I was still living in New York had somehow
survived the trek from NYC to Kitchener, and was now plopped on top of a
control panel for the central air in her room. I asked her why this box was
sitting in such an obscure spot, and she simply said, “It’s pretty, so I want
to look at it,” and this pretty much encapsulates how I feel about highlighters
and highlighting as a whole. Highlighting products, powders in particular, tend
to be absolutely stunning in the pan, reflecting every bit of light and coming
to life when swatched on the skin with your own undertones shining through.
Highlighters are a beautiful cosmetic concept; they’re designed to draw attention to what we feel are beautiful features of our faces. Pretty
product for pretty features sounds like good sense to me. Read on for some
highlighters I adore.
Becca Cosmetics is an Australian brand that’s been making headway in the North American market in the last year or so, increasing their distribution through Sephora doors. I first saw the fluid Shimmering Skin Perfectors touted by Lisa Eldridge as a brightener and primer of sorts to be worn under foundation. The pressed powder versions that have recently launched are definitely more traditional powder highlighters best worn as a finishing touch to the face. I had an absolute fit when I saw this version pop up on sephora.ca and ordered it immediately. This is also an incredibly soft powder (a dab’ll do for both cheeks), and the shimmer is a bit more apparent to the naked eye, but who isn’t still in love with all things rose gold? It’s like candlelight that just happens to be lighting up your face all damn day. Get into it.
This champagne cream-to-powder formula is so neat. Literally. It’s tidy. I say this because it’s a fine shimmer formula and it also offers a degree of control since it’s a cream formula, so it really does go precisely where you apply it (this can be a downside to powder highlighters, so consider this in your highlighter hunt). I didn’t try this until this past May, when I, much like many of you, received this as a part of my Sephora Beauty Insider birthday gift. I was initially skeptical of the colour, because I thought it may be ashy on me since it’s a fairly light colour, but it was warm enough to work and it’s excellent for cheeks and highlighting the Cupid’s bow and tear ducts. A great shade for lighter skintones!
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