Beauty tips: the joy of highlighters
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- 25 Jun 2021
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Rihanna has basically reinvented the highlighter, lifting it (with Fenty Beauty’s high-impact Killawatt Duos) from gentle glow to the final, crucial step in one’s big, bold beauty routine. On the catwalk make-up artist James Kaliardos strobed the cheeks, temples and inner corners of models’ eyes, layering and blending to look sexy, rather than robotic. Not that the two are mutually exclusive, jeez.
Get the look
1. Revlon PhotoReady Highlighting Palette £10.99, superdrug.com
2. Lime Crime Hi-Lite Palette £35, selfridges.com
3. Bourjois Little Round Pot Strober £6.49, boots.com
4. Chantecaille Liquid Lumière Anti-Aging Illuminator £36, net-a-porter.com
5. Kevyn Aucoin The Celestial Powder in Candle Light £36, spacenk.com
6. Glow For It Drops £7.99, modelsownit.com
7. Rimmel Insta Strobing Pink Glow £5.99, asos.com
8. Guerlain Terracotta Summer Glow £37, johnlewis.com
9. BareMinerals Crystalline Glow Highlighter Stick £20, debenhams.com
Magic wand
Chanel are launching a 3D-printed mascara brush, Le Volume Revolution. Micro-cavities in the brush allow the mascara to be built up without having to re-dip between applications – and each bristle has been printed in millimetre-scale. This is the future.
Line drawing
Asos.com have launched Crayola beauty, for those of us with a need to colour over the lines. There are 95 shades of Face Crayon and 58 different products, each one vegan, for eyes, cheeks and lips. Prices start at £9.
Nineties gloss
This summer, the 90s are back, and visible all over your (Glossier) lip-glossed, (MAC) glitter-eyed face. Balenciaga hailed the return of the scrunchie. And for those who want to take it further, Sun Of A Beach Ombré Spray by Ouai is a nourishing version of our old favourite, Sun In.
