How to Make a Cheek Highlight

Making a Powder Highlight

Scrape out your choice of old eyeshadow, pigment, or highlighter. The more material you scrape, the brighter and more pigmented your final product will be.

Obtain your choice of perfume sample or rubbing alcohol.

Spray 3-4 sprays of the perfume sample into the material. If you're using alcohol, 3-4 sprays is equivalent to 4-5 drops. The more material you scrape, the more perfume/alcohol you will need.

Mix the alcohol and the material until combined. If more alcohol is need add it in small amounts.

Keep mixing until you reach a dry, paste consistency. If you end up with a wet, watery consistency, add more eyeshadow/pigment/highlight.

Transfer the paste consistency using a spoon to an container of your choice.

Flatten the pigment so that it fills up the container.

Press down the dry paste with a dry napkin to absorb excess perfume or alcohol.

Leave the container open overnight to dry.

Swatch the highlighter after it is dry to make sure it came out perfectly.

Apply to the high points of your face: your cheek bones, tip and bridge of nose, and cupid's bow.

Making a Cream Highlighter

Get a new, clean container.

Scrape out your pigment into the container. The brighter and more pigmented you want the highlighter to be, the more product you need to scrape out.

Add 2 pea-sized amounts of a moisturizer of your choice. Add the moisturizer little by little.

Stir together the product and the moisturizer until there are no major clumps. Some small clumps are okay because it is a thicker consistency. You can add more moisturizer in small amounts until you like the consistency of it.

Scrape the combined moisture out of the container using the spoon.

Add the product into a small container of your choice, and clean up the edges. Your cream highlighter is ready to use.