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Darlings, highlighter makeup looks fabulous on everyone! But we mustn’t forget, it’s important to choose the right shade of highlighter for your skin tone. Wearing a shade that doesn’t flatter your complexion can leave a noticeable cast on the tops of your cheekbones and interrupt the seamless makeup base you have created with foundation, bronzer and blush.

You always want your highlighter to make you look like you’re glowing from within or being basked in beauty light, rather than a shade that looks grey, powdery and doesn’t harmonise with your skin's overtone and undertone. So darlings, how do you make sure the highlighter you’re reaching for is suitable for your skin tone? All you need to do is identify your skin tone – fair, medium, tan or deep – then choose a highlighter from my Glow Guide that’s a perfect match for your complexion.

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The Glow Guide: Charlotte’s Best Highlighter Shades for Every Skin Tone

What are the best highlighter shades for tan/deep skin tones?

Tan, deep and dark skin favours highlighter shades with more depth and saturation like gold, copper and bronze. Because deeper skin tones are more richly pigmented, highlighters can fade out or look dull on the skin – this is especially true for light, icy shades that can appear ashy and unflattering on melanated skin.

Charlotte’s Choice: Beauty Light Wand in Goldgasm

What are the best highlighter shades for fair/medium skin tones?

The best highlighter shades for fair and medium skin are lighter shades that will deliver a soft glow that doesn’t look stark on pale skin. Shades like champagne gold, light pink and icy white look ethereal on fair and medium skin, highlighting features while blending effortlessly into base makeup. Reaching for bolder colours like yellow gold or deeper pinks can leave a visible cast on fair skin because of their deeper level of pigment. Instead, choose lighter shades that leave a natural-looking spotlight effect.

Charlotte’s Choice: Beauty Light Wand in Spotlight

What are the best highlighter shades for cool undertones?

Cool-toned skin favours cool-toned makeup shades that won’t fight against the natural pink tones in skin. If your undertone is on the cool side, try reaching for highlighter shades like silver, icy white and bubble pink for fairer skin tones and rose gold, beige or cool bronze for deeper skin tones.

Charlotte’s Choice: Beauty Light Wand in Pillow Talk

What are the best highlighter shades for warm undertones?

Warm highlighter shades like champagnes, coppers and rosy pinks look the most flattering on warm-toned skin. If your complexion has prominent yellow or gold tones, a golden highlighter shade like yellow-gold or champagne gold will look beautiful on your skin because it matches the warm glow naturally present in your skin. Shades of pink, beige and bronze with a warmer temperature can also look beautiful on warm-toned skin; try rosy pinks over silvery pinks, copper bronze over iced bronze and olive beige over taupe to make your cheekbones pop.

Charlotte’s Choice: Filmstar Bronze & Glow Palettes

Can a highlighter be universal and work for all skin tones?

Yes - Some highlighters can flex between skin tones to create a universally flattering glow, but it’s no easy feat. The difficulties with creating a highlighter for all skin tones lie in the pigmentation; too much pigment will overwhelm a fair complexion but take away that pigment and your highlighter will disappear on deep skin. The trick is to focus less on colour and more on glow. Sheer highlighters are super subtle and won’t look out of place on any skin tone. To get the highlighter glow we all know and love, they need to be packed with pearlescent pigments that reflect and bounce light around your face – this is the type of glow that looks flattering on every skin tone.

Charlotte’s Choice: Unreal Highlighter Fresh, Healthy Glow Stick

Universal Highlighter for All Skin Tones

Darlings, I created my Unreal Highlighter Fresh, Healthy Glow Stick to give every complexion an unreal glow! The formula is sheer and stretchable with 92% skincare ingredients – it’s like a summer glaze for your skin that delivers the most magical glow! It’s that spa-fresh, summertime skin look and feeling in an easy, speedy stick! Fair, medium, tan or deep – your skin will look UNREAL glazed with my highlighter stick.

Glazed Goddess is a sheer champagne shade with Glow-Light Mapping Mesh Tech™. It’s a single, universal shade to give every skin tone an Ibizan goddess glow – one glaze fits all! The formula has a second-skin finish and glows like skincare, creating pools of beauty light that make your skin appear fresh from a facial, just-landed from a summer vacation and bathed in constant golden hour rays!

Why Glazed Goddess Works On All Skin Tones

With 92% Skincare Ingredients, it glows like skincare! Darlings, my Unreal Highlighter Fresh, Healthy Glow Stick is like the glow that you get when you apply your moisturiser with the addition of UNREAL Glow-Light Mapping Mesh Tech™ to create a universal your skin glow. No unflattering pigments. No powdery texture. Just 100% unreal glow that looks gorgeous on everyone! It melts into your skin to create a super-fresh, seamless, healthy-looking glow that looks as if you’re glowing from within, and the best part… It nourishes as it glows with hydrating skincare like hyaluronic acid and vitamin E! You can even wear it without makeup to give your bare skin a high-gloss finish… Imagine it catching the light as you step off the plane!

So darlings, if you’re looking for a super-flattering, super-flexible highlighter that you don’t have to worry about not suiting your skin tone, Unreal Highlighter Fresh, Healthy Glow Stick will look unreal on you!

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Discover more highlighter shades for your skin tone

These highlighters will make your skin glow, darlings… But which type of glow are you looking for? Do you prefer the superstar skin Hollywood glow of Hollywood Flawless Filter, the silky beauty light glow of Beauty Light Wands, the silver screen siren glow of Filmstar Bronze & Glow, or the unreal, fresh, summer glow of Unreal Highlighter Fresh, Healthy Glow Stick? Choose your glow then shop your perfect shades:

What's the best Beauty Light Wand highlighter for my skin tone?

Darlings, Beauty Light Wands are simply magic. Whether you love blushing shades like Pinkgasm or Pillow Talk or the golden glow of Goldgasm or Spotlight, you will be obsessed with the way these beauty wands light up your cheeks and give you cheekbones that glow forever!

Highlighter Looks To Try:

Deep Skin: Highlight with Pillow Talk Medium and blush with Pinkgasm Sunset

Tan Skin: Highlight with Goldgasm and blush with Peachgasm

Medium Skin: Highlight with Spotlight and blush with Pillow Talk Medium

Fair Skin: Highlight with Spotlight and blush with Pinkgasm

See them on your skin tone, darling...

Darlings, everybody can get the Tilbury glow! Choose a shade that’s perfect for your skin tone and your complexion will look so blurred, so lifted, so radiant… It’s like you’re being bathed in beauty light wherever you go!

Learn more highlighter tips and tricks in my Glow Glide Guide darlings and discover how to apply highlighter like a makeup artist!

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