Bring Dull Skin to Life With Your Secret Weapon: Highlighter

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Honestly, we've never met a Fenty product we didn't love. Rihanna's beauty brand has killed it again with the Killawatt Freestyle Highlighters. We love the Metal Moon shade for highlighting high points on light skin, or just a touch of Trophy Wife to make deeper skin tones glow.

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This super affordable highlighting powder from wet n wild provides some serious shimmer for the price. Available in a gorgeous range of metallic shades, this is the perfect highlighter to pop onto cheekbones, brow bones, and your Cupid’s bow — especially if you're on a budget!

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Mint is assumed to be an unconventional choice of a highlighting color, but for Jeffree Star cosmetics, it follows suit with the big personality brand. Don't expect a pinch of blue-green tint to go on subtly; this illuminating powder brings "glow" to a new level.

Stila's highlighter has us starry-eyed. We're impressed by the pigments' physicality — there's so much bounce in a solo pan! Available in a gorgeous range of shades from opalescent pink to a sunny bronze, this one is a must-have for the highlighter fanatic.

Benefit's highlighter will brighten up your face! Swipe the cream-to-powder formula over your cheekbones, brow bone, cupid's bow, and chin to illuminate the contours of your face. The dual-sided stick features a soft-glow blender, too.

This radiant highlighting powder from Too Faced provides some serious illumination. The Diamond Fire shade breathes life and light into the skin, offering the perfect balance of shimmer and sheen to up your highlight game.

Designed with an innovative Photoluminescent Technology and correcting particles, this formula absorbs into your skin like magic to capture light for a lit-from-within glow. It comes in six illuminating shades, too, so you can experiment to find your perfect match or mix and match for different looks.

BECCA's Rose Gold highlighter is super trendy right now, and for good reason (hello, we all have to match our highlighter, phone case, and hair color). We suggest applying the first layer wet for incredible shine, and then adding dry powder over the surface for depth.

Cream highlighter can be worn a number of ways, and users love the versatility NARS brings to the table with its signature The Multiple stick. Use it with your foundation for an all-over glow, or apply it over makeup as a highlighter along the cheekbones and nose. Unlike other stick formulas, these shades won't cake on — a huge perk if you're not one for heavy makeup application.

Sephora's multidimensional palette has us seeing stars and galaxies. It's great for people who love to experiment with different effects for various looks.