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Do you bear in mind the nice highlighter resurgence of 2017? Group Attract can’t ever overlook. That 12 months, we examined 310 new highlighter submissions for Better of Magnificence (a staggering quantity in comparison with the earlier 12 months’s 44). As one of many testers within the rising class, I shortly discovered that I want a highlighter with finely-milled shimmer (versus chunky glitter) that offers me a natural-looking, not-at-all-greasy glow.
Through the years, I’ve added fairly just a few to my common rotation, however one actually outshines all of them: the Uncommon Magnificence Optimistic Mild Silky Contact Highlighter. Housed in a pink compact with an enclosure that snaps shut, this powder highlighter sweeps on as light-as-air powder earlier than shortly melting onto pores and skin. Its velvety-soft texture? That’s the boron nitride within the system, explains beauty chemist Ginger King.
The model claims it’s transfer-proof, smudge-proof, and water resistant — lofty guarantees that King says are doable due to its hefty use of silicone and polymers. It additionally incorporates tapioca starch. “Sure, the tapioca like that of a boba drink,” King says. “It absorbs oil for longer put on.”
My go-to shade is Exhilarate, a champagne that appears cool in opposition to my medium-tan pores and skin. I’d usually apply the Uncommon Magnificence highlighter with the Sigma Magnificence F03 Excessive Cheekbone brush or any small fluffy brush I may get my palms on. I’d calmly swirl the comb throughout the domed pressed powder and sweep it alongside my cheekbones and browbones with quick, fast strokes. Make-up artist Joseph Carrillo, nevertheless, launched me to a unique strategy: “I take advantage of the stomach of a barely-damp Beautyblender,” he says, explaining that he likes to dab the highlighter-dipped sponge onto the internal corners of his purchasers’ eyes, in addition to the information of their noses. “You may press within the glow making it look extra skin-like and fewer powdery.”
He goes on to elucidate that it blends the highlighter extra evenly, so the end is “much less like a highlighter was positioned there,” and I could not agree extra.
The above selfies present what the highlighter appears to be like like when utilized with a brush in addition to a moist sponge. When utilizing a brush, I discovered that the end was a lot a more-intense, mirror-like glow. (Take a look at how the sunshine simply bounces off of the world with the powder swept onto it.) With the damp-sponge technique, the radiance is subtle. My pores and skin appears to be like extra like pores and skin, and fewer like pores and skin with highlighter on it. To not say both technique is best, however I want the latter finish outcome.
I put this system to the take a look at in lots of situations: to the workplace on busy work days (it appeared simply nearly as good because it did after I first put it on), Solidcore exercise lessons the place I inevitably overlook to take away my make-up beforehand (it appeared much more subtle and skin-like), and date nights with my fiancé (the place I, *wink*, confirmed with confidence that the system is transfer-proof). It is a dreamy highlighter, made much more otherworldly with its worth level. Highlighters with an analogous impact vary from $9 to $42, and this one with its distinctive texture and system falls proper within the center.
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