The Best Drugstore Highlighters for an Instant Glow
Budget isn't an issue when it comes to shopping for a highlighter that will instantly add a healthy radiance to your skin. That's because some of the best glow-boosting, illuminating highlighers can be found at the drugstore.
Along with very attractive (read: affordable) price tags, these liquid, cream, and powder products can be used on clean, bare skin alone to add a dose of illumination, or can be doubled up with foundation, concealer, and bronzer to contour or create a more formal look.
Ahead, the best drugstore highlighters to shop right now.
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Milani Stellar Lights Highlighter Palette
This 3-in-1 highlighting palette is made with micro-milled pigments, which means they're easier to blend and won't cake up as the day goes on. It also means that the shimmer provides more of a glisten, and less of a glitter disco-ball vibe.
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Physicians Formula Butter Highlighter in Pearl
Not only does this creamy powder provide a soft glow to the skin, but it actually provides nourishing, moisturizing skincare benefits, thanks to blend of murumuru butter, capacu butter and tucuma butter in the formula. Bonus: It smells like vacation.
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Soap & Glory Love At First Blush Highlight & Sculpt Cheek Stick
No brush? No problem. Swipe or dab this rosy highlighter on the apples of your cheeks for a subtle, illuminated flush.
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L'Oréal Paris Infallible Longwear Shaping Highlighter Makeup Sticks
This creamy, slightly shimmery formula gives skin a dose of dew. Layer over a radiant-finish foundation to up your glow factor.
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Catrice 3D Glow Highlighter
Available in three different shades, this heavily pigmented highlighting formula is free of white pigments, so it won't leave behind a white or gray cast on the skin, making it ideal for darker skin tones.
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Maybelline Face Studio Master Strobing Liquid
Mix this liquid highlighting formula in with your foundation, or wear it alone on your cheekbones, down the bridge of your nose, and on your cupid's bow.
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Covergirl Vitalist Healthy Glow Highlighter
This cream is the perfect mix between dewy and shimmery, and gives you a healthy-looking glow even when allergies have the best of you.