Review: Benefit High Beam

I've had this bottle of High Beam for a while now - maybe a year or so? I was first drawn to it due to the HG status it seemed to have around the blogosphere, so I stole this unused bottle from my mum. It is pearly pink in colour and is a relatively liquid facial highlighter. It comes in a little nail polish style bottle which I think is quite cute. It retails for around $45 in Australia for the 13ml. A little goes a long way and you only need a tiny bit each time.

It is described as:
"... supermodel in a bottle! ... this pearlised pink highlighter is the make-up artists secret for a natural dewy glow on all skin tones. Use it as a spot highlighter or blend all over your complexion...the soft-focus sheen is enticing and sexy."

I use this in two ways - I'll either dab it onto my hand and apply it with my fingers or I'll mix it a drop of the highlighter with a drop of whatever base product I'm using and apply it like that. Applying it by itself gives a more full on radiant effect, while mixing it with something else gives it more of a lit-from-within glow.

From Left to Right: Benefit High Beam, blended out, bb cream, high beam mixed with bb cream

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 It's a very natural, glowy effect which is great for people who want a more luminous dewy-looking base but maybe don't like the feel of dewy bases. That includes ones such as myself since I have oily skin. I'll usually apply it to my cupid's bow, my cheekbones, the inner corners of my eyes and above the arch of the eyebrow. I haven't used this product for a while now, but I guess this review will remind me how much I loved the effect that the highlighter gave. Overall, a very nice highlighter that can work on a variety of skin tones and can be used with minimal to full intesity to give different types of looks.

Do you guys have any other favourite highlighters? If so feel free to tell us below :)

Ingredients:
Water, Propylane Glycol, Sesame (Sesamum Indicum) Oil, Mica, Isopropyl Palmitate, Isopropyl Lanolate, Stearic Acid, Safflower (Carthamus Tinctorius) Oil, Glyceryl Stearate, Titanium Dioxide, Polysorbate 60, Cetyl Alcohol, Jojoba (Buxus Chinensis) Oil, Magnesium Aluminum Silicate, Corn (Zea Mays) Starch, Triethanolamine, Talc, Oleth-20, Iron Oxides, Lanolin Wax, Simethicone, Sorbitan Stearate, Cellulose Gum, Methylparaben Diazolidinyl Urea, Propylparaben, BHA.



Rachel