The Best Cream Highlighters for Your Glowiest, Dewiest Skin

NYX Professional Makeup Away We Glow Strobing Cream

This cream moisturizes and luminizes your skin all at once. We love to dab a bit on the high points of our face for a pearlized finish or mix in a bit with our foundation for an all-over glow. Either way, this versatile, lightweight and luminescent highlighter is a must-have in your makeup bag. 

Maybelline New York Facestudio Master Strobing Stick

Meet the drugstore strobing stick you’re going to want to stock up on, STAT. It’s small enough to carry with you in your bag for touch-ups throughout the day, and its stick shape ensures your application is super easy and mess-free. Simply apply it wherever you want some illumination and then blend it out with your fingers.

L'Oréal Paris Infallible Longwear Highlighter Shaping Stick

Looking for a formula that’ll hold up throughout the craziness of your day? Meet your match. This L’Oréal Paris drugstore formula can last for up to 24 hours. It keeps your glow intact, and the creamy texture glides on so smoothly.

RMS Beauty Living Luminizer

Perfect for all skin tones, this organic, luminizing cream highlighter will give your skin a dewy shine without glitter. It’s ideal for the skin-care obsessee and the no makeup-makeup enthusiast who wants to embrace a natural-looking glow. This pick gets the gold medal for achieving a lit-from-within glow that catches the light in all the right places.

Glossier Haloscope Highlighter

This Glossier cream highlighter stick is a skin care and makeup duo that looks great and has good-for-you ingredients in its formula. With crystal highlighting ingredients on the outer halo of the stick and a core of vitamin-rich moisturizing properties in the center, Haloscope gives you that dewy, Instagram-worthy effect. It comes in three shades: Quartz (a pearlescent glow), Topaz (a golden shimmer) and Moonstone (an opalescent glaze).

Westman Atelier Lit Up Highlight Stick 

This iridescent cream luminator is a glow-giving force to be reckoned with. The silky formula provides a glassy sheen to the high points of the face and shimmers in the light. The pearly hue looks amazing on all skin tones, and hydrating ingredients make skin look bright and healthy.

Uoma Beauty Double Take Contour Stick

Sculpt and highlight your face with the Uoma Beauty Double Take Contour Stick. Whether you prefer a subtle luminosity or a radiant, shimmery finish, this cream stick is super blendable, buildable and easy to use. The illuminating formula is made with lychee extract, which is known for its hydrating properties, and really amps up your glow.

Danessa Myricks Dew Wet Balm