BEAUTY BAR: Light Up Your Life

Shield your eyes because this season’s latest beauty trend is causing quite a glare. You guessed it, highlighter! Highlighting has been captivating beauty and makeup gurus for months. A great highlighter can perk up your complexion while accentuating the features you love, and it can even work towards camouflaging those that you don’t. Amazing, right?

Even if you’re still new to the highlighter craze, there’s no need to worry! You still have time to learn. For starters, highlighter is a product that can completely change your beauty look. If applied correctly, it gives you a desired glowing look. Available in powder, liquid or cream forms, with or without shimmer, the amount of highlighters available are endless.

With the endless number of shimmery options out there, how do you know which one is right for you? Well lucky for you, it’s no longer one-size-fits-all in the highlighter department—there’s guaranteed to be a match made for your specific skin tone! When you’re choosing a highlighter it all comes down to your skin tone. If you have pasty skin, pink toned highlighters are going to stick out, but if you have a more golden skin tone, then a highlighter with gold undertones would make your skin pop. Still unsure how to delve into this trend? The following tips from this super rad Fashionista should ensure that you are ready to rock the glow.

As the season’s change, just like allergies, so do our skin’s responses to the weather. One result, oily skin:the enemy of all girls around the world. With the help of this Fashionista’s daily routine, limiting oiliness and adding a pleasant highlight is easier than one may think. Not only does she have the highlighter technique mastered to a tee, she also uses a variety of other products to amp up her overall glow. To start she primed her face with No.7 Beautifully Matte Primer and used a Neutrogena Shine Control Foundation in an effort to limit her skin’s tendency to get oily.

The overall look of the glow her face radiates was achieved by using a Beauty For Real eye shadow stick that gives off a nice golden shimmer. She then used Physicians Formula Butter Bronzer to brighten up her face. As for her high profile highlight, she utilized the Anastasia Beverly Hills Glow Kit, and to complete her look and cut down on the chances of her skin getting oily, she topped her look off with Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray.

Achieving a look similar to this Fashionista is simple. Even though some of the products utilized were high end, doesn’t mean one can’t achieve a similar look using drug store products. Swap this high end highlighter kit out for a less expensive one at the drug store, such as the Revlon Highlighter Palette for only $10. Adopt one or all of these tips from this Fashionista, and you should be good to glow.

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