Wanna up your makeup game? Taking the skin undertones and proper application procedure into account, a highlighter can give your skin an amazing glow. Let us take a sneak peak at what the Koreans have to offer when it comes to glitters and pearls of highlighting and contouring.

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What is a Highlighter?

Highlighters give you the look of a healthy skin via giving the skin a delicate gleam. You see, healthy skin has a natural glow to it. However, all that radiance gets buried under all the foundations, serums, essences, sun blocks and other items in your makeup routine.

The sheer objective of a highlighter is to enhance the skin by giving it some extra glow. As the same implies, it is not meant to be applied on the entire face. Rather, it is designed to draw the attention to the angles of the face. It'g great for chiseling the cheekbones, shaping the nose and highlighting the brows.

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Types of Highlighters

Highlighter comes in powder, cream and, liquid form and the application technique varies with the form and texture of the product. Depending on your skin type, undertones, and facial features, you can tailor each highlighter to achieve your desired look.

Powder Highlighter

Whether loose or pressed, powder highlighters are the best to leave your skin glowing and shimmery. Powder highlighters are great for beginners. They are particularly popular for use on the cheekbones. Some powder highlighters come with a heavy pigmentation of glitter.

Liquid Highlighter

Liquid highlighter is by far the easiest form to blend on the skin. One of the key aspects of liquid highlighter is that it can be mixed with moisturizers, bb creams, cc creams, or foundations to create a subtle dewy finish. It can also a greater surface area as compared to other highlighter forms. For the most part, liquid highlighters are used over foundation, rather than on bare skin.

Cream Highlighters

High pigmentation, shimmer, and a long-lasting effect – these are features that define cream highlighters. Cream highlighters come with concentrated formulas and are pretty easy to apply and mix with other makeup products. However, because of the concentrated pigmentation, users should be careful with the application process. Even though it is easy to apply cream highlighters, it is also pretty easy to overdo it and make the skin way too shiny! For cream highlighters, less is always more!

How to use Highlighters

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Potential Highlighting Areas

The common areas on the face to highlight are the central forehead, eyes, cheekbones, and the Cupid ’s Bow. However, for a more contoured look, you can always add highlights on the nose bridge, under the cheekbones, under the eyebrows or blended with the center of the eyelids, and chin.

The Application Process

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Build a Solid Foundation

Before the application of the highlighter, start with the solid foundation of legendary 10-Step Korean skincare routine.

Area Outlining

Decide on the targeted highlighting areas. You can go with ‘Strobing’ to find out your favored areas. In case you are planning to use blush, you have to divide your facial areas into three major segments: Highlighting, Contouring, and Blushing.

For instance, you can use highlighter on the central forehead to bring out a refined dimension to that area. At the same time, you can apply highlighter to the nasal bridge to make it appear straighter. When it comes to eyes, you can swipe highlighter under the eyebrow bones and on the inner corner of the eyes. Apply highlighter right on the cheekbone area in order to bring out the edging of those bones. You can use a blusher adjacent to the cheekbone and on top of the contouring cheek area.

For a pouty look, you can add your preferred highlighter to the Cupid’s Bow area. It can also give the lips a sophisticated definition. Finally, you can use highlighter on the chin to give it definition and make the lips look bigger.

You can use a concealer to map out the preferred highlighting areas with dots

The Application

A makeup brush or a makeup sponge will make your life much easier when when applying highlighters. Using the brush or makeup sponge, you can spread the highlighter along your mapped out lines made via your concealer. You have to leave enough space for  your contours and blushers. Please remember that highlighters are not supposed to be used for coverage. The ultimate objective of a highlighter is to draw attention with subtle iridescent tones rather than covering areas with pigmentation or redness.

To start you can apply the highlighter with a shadow brush. For sensitive parts like inner corner of the eyes, under the brow bone, or the eyelids, you have to use your fingertips to spread the highlighter evenly. For the Cupid’s Bow, you can use a concealer brush to give the lips a complete look.

By and large, it’s a learning process based on regular experimentation. You have to find out which highlighter can make your skin tone pop in combination with your contours and blushers.