Highlighting Powder
Highlighting Powder
Enhance your facial features beautifully with highlighting powder. Designed to reflect light, makeup highlighter powder is ideal for the areas you want to emphasize, including your brow bones, cheekbones and jawline. Find the best highlighter powder for your makeup routine at CVS.
What Is Highlighting Powder?
Highlighting powder is a pressed powder that emphasizes high points on your face. It often goes along with contouring to create the look you want. When you use contour products, you're using a darker color to create a sculpting illusion and to add dimension.
Highlighting uses a color that's significantly lighter than your skin tone and has a shimmering effect. This causes it to catch the light, which draws attention to the features where you apply the powder.
Highlighter comes in different formats, including powder, cream and liquid. They all have the same effect, but they go on differently. Highlighting powder is ideal for oily skin because it stays in place better. It also gives you a more natural look. If you have dry skin, using liquid or cream highlighter can give you a smoother look.
How to Apply Highlighting Powder
Highlighting powder typically goes on toward the end of your makeup routine after you've applied your base and other face makeup. Decide which areas you want to highlight. Common options are your jawline, chin, under-eye area, brow bone, cheekbones and Cupid's bow, which is the curved part right in the middle of your upper lip.
To apply highlighting powder, grab a fluffy pincel para maquillaje. Then, follow these steps:
Dip the brush into the highlighting powder.
Sweep the brush lightly over the areas you want to highlight.
Start light and build the coverage until you get the highlighting effect you want.
If you decide you want a lighter look, you can remove some powder you've applied with a clean makeup brush. Go over the area lightly with the brush to remove the excess highlighter until you achieve your desired look.
How Long Does Powder Highlighter Last?
Your highlighting powder typically lasts about two years in your makeup bag. Check the expiration date and look for changes in how the highlighter powder looks and smells. If the texture and color are different, it's best to get a replacement powder. Liquid highlighter usually only lasts about a year, so powder gives you a longer-lasting option if you don't use it often.