Black-Owned Highlighters For Total Glow-balization

This compilation of black-owned highlighters for deeper skin tones has been in draft for a bit. At first, I wanted to showcase great highlighters that looked beyond on richer skin tones. If you follow any makeup Instagram accounts, then you know highlighters are, well, lit (pun intended).

Inspired, I created this quick list identifying highlighters from black-owned businesses. Every entry featured is on my shopping list. My roundup is quite small, but our fellow entrepreneurs are launching new beauty businesses daily. It’s only a matter of time before I can provide a more impressive list of glow-getters.

Staying faithful to my focus on black celebrity beauty, I have tracked down several black celebs of varying skin tones wearing each of these products. These beauties are modeling glistening cheekbones on social media, various events and everything in between. In time, I hope to have more products for your consideration. I always light up when I see black celebrity women supporting black-owned businesses!

But for now, see how your celebrity skin twin glows up while supporting black. This list is organized by price so you can patronize within your price range/budget:

Updated: 21 May 2019

Black-Owned Highlighters for the Face

Black-Owned Highlighters: Magnolia Makeup Illuminating Powders

Price Range: $15-25 Each; 8 Shades in Total (including the Glo Stick)

Magnolia Makeup Illuminator in Glo, $15

Review: Magnolia Makeup: Soul Glow and Gilded Swatches

Chrisette Michele wore Magnolia Makeup Illuminator in Glo to a press event.

The complete collection of Magnolia Makeup illuminators:

Black-Owned Highlighters: koyVoca Hi-Life Highlighter Powders (now Glow Powder)

Price Range: $12 Each; 5 in Total

Review: Koyvoca Cosmetics Haul + Review

koyVoca Cosmetics has an affordable range of five warm-toned Glow Powders at $12 a compact. Check out swatches (courtesy of the site):

• $Babe – a champagne color
• Goddess Olivia – a bronzy gold
• Heir – a yellow gold with a touch of pink
• Bougie – a rich golden bronze
• Royal – a copper bronze

Black-Owned Highlighters: Damone Roberts’ Brow Highlighters

Price Range: $20 Each; 4 Shades in Total

Damone Roberts’ Gold Digger Brow Highlighter (Gold Shimmer)

As worn by Loren Dixon for a photoshoot

Full selection of Damone Roberts Eyebrow Highlighters:

Black-Owned Highlighters: Danessa Myricks’ Enlight Illuminators

Price Range: $20 Each; 11 Shades in Total

Review: Danessa Myricks’ Enlight Illuminators

Danessa Myricks’ Enlight Illuminator in Attraction, $20 (Warm Bronze Champagne)

Cynthia Bailey wore Danessa Myricks’ Enlight Illuminator in Attraction at the Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 8 reunion.

 Danessa Myricks’ Enlight Illuminator in Confidence, $20 (Warm Yellow Gold)

June Ambrose wore Danessa Myricks’ Enlight Illuminator in Confidence at Naomi Campbell’s book signing event.

Danessa Myricks’ full collection of Enlight Illuminators, including the Halo Powders:

Black-Owned Highlighter: Fifty Two Cosmetics Speechless Highlighter Palette

Price Range: $20

The Speechless Highlighter Palette is Fifty Two Cosmetics’ most popular product and it’s no secret why! Speechless is one of the more budget-conscious options for richer skin tones available on the market. Celebrity makeup artist Akil McCoy used this palette on Megan Thee Stallion for her Fever album cover. McCoy chose “Cinnamon” for the Houston raptress.

Black-Owned Highlighter: Ashunta Sheriff Illuminating Radiant Powder Line

Price Range: $37 Each; 2 Shades in Total

Celebrity makeup artist Ashunta Sheriff relaunched her eponymous makeup line March 25th – we have quite a few new offerings this time around! One of the new products she debuted is the Illuminating Radiant Powder. The Illuminating Radiant Powder is an “ultra-creamy powder” which promises to impart “unparalleled natural radiance and multi-dimensional luminosity.” See Boss Babe and Pop Star on Taraji P. Henson and Serayah McNeil, respectively:

 Black-Owned Highlighter: Kami Cosmetics Hi-Lighter Kits Line

Price Range: $37.50 Each; 2 Collections in Total

Luxury beauty brand Kami Cosmetics entered the highlighter game with two multipurpose highlighting palettes: I’m Soho Glam – Blush & Hi-lighter Kit and Sunset Boulevard Hi-lighter Kit. The shades in both offerings are marketed as “ultra-lightweight” and “velvety” with a light shimmering finish.

Black-Owned Highlighters: Lena Lashes Lemonade Highlighter Palette

Price Range: $45

This highlighter palette from Lena Lashes boasts four shades – Bikini, Lemonade, Pool Party and Sweetie Pie – and is the perfect introduction into the world of strobing. I get excited when I stumble across palettes from black-owned makeup brands – don’t you?

Black-Owned Highlighters: Pat McGrath’s Skin Fetish Highlighter & Balm Duo Line (previously Skin Fetish 003; now permanent)

Price Range: $48 Each; 3 Shades in Total

Pat McGrath’s Skin Fetish Highlighter & Balm Duo in Golden, $48

Review: Skin Fetish 003 Golden Review

Paula Patton wore Pat McGrath’s Skin Fetish Highlighter & Balm Duo in Golden for a press event.

Kenya Moore also adorned her cheekbones with Pat McGrath’s Skin Fetish 003 in Golden for the ‘Gram.

Black-Owned Highlighters for the Body

Black-Owned Highlighters: Kaylux Vacation Body Highlighter, $30

Review: Kaylux Cosmetics Highlighters + Body Highlighter Review

Kaylux Cosmetics’s Vacation Body Highlighter is a dazzling concoction of five natural body oils: sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, rosehip oil, argan oil, and vitamin E oil. For best results, you should shake the bottle before using. Furthermore, you should apply the oil after getting dressed to avoid staining clothing, especially white outfits.

Black-Owned Highlighter: REGEN THE BODY Bl!ng Me Baby! Body Bronzer, $40

Marjorie Harvey wore REGEN THE BODY Bl!ng Me Baby! Body Bronzer as a face highlighter.