Woman with highlighters on cheeks — Don’t be afraid to shine: accentuate the positive with highlighters. Photograph: Jason Lloyd Evans

Add some shimmer with highlighters

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A light touch with a soft brush and you will look even more beautifully like you

Take your mirror to a window and study where the sun hits your face. Under your brow bone? On your cheekbones? Along the bridge of your nose? Here’s where you brush or blend your highlighter, with a soft and subtle touch. The idea is to add shimmer (not sparkle) to look even more like you, you see. Your cheekbones even more pronounced, your nose even more equine. Just add light.

Get the look

Buxom Divine Goddess Luminizer £21 debenhams.com
Urban Decay Shapeshifter Contour Palette £39.50 urbandecay.co.uk
Beauty Pie Pro-Glow Highlighter £30 (or £5.46 for members) beautypie.com
YSL Beauty Touche Eclat £22.50 yslbeauty.co.uk
Cassie Lomas for B Sheer Liquid Illuminator £9.99 superdrug.com
Benefit Dandelion Twinkle £24.50 johnlewis.com
Prism Halo Graphic Highlighter £4 primark.com
Skin Babyface Petit Highlighter £7 thisisbeautymart.com
Bobbi Brown Glowstick £26 bobbibrown.co.uk
Ciaté Glow-To Highlighter £26 lookfantastic.com

Now’s the time to

Try the colour flash. A saucy little slash of colour, which can be hidden for meetings or flashed for fun. Go crazy at home in the shower or, for the fancy experience (£95), try John Frieda salons nationwide.

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