Face Luminizer Recipe to Highlight Cheeks, Eyes & Lips for Glowing Skin (2024)

Get beautiful skin with this natural face luminizer recipe! Highlighters are a fun and easy way to make your face glow with a youthful appearance. This homemade makeup highlighter recipe is an easy beauty hack for adding shimmer anywhere your heart desires. Plus it’s perfect for summer festivals and holiday makeup looks. So don’t be afraid to use this DIY face luminizer year round no matter the occasion!

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Save Money With This DIY Face Luminizer

Since signing up for Birch Box’s sampling program I’ve discovered a lot of really great bath and beauty products. The rms beauty™ Living LuminizerFace Luminizer Recipe to Highlight Cheeks, Eyes & Lips for Glowing Skin (2) is just one of many products I’ve had a chance to try. This natural face luminizer DIY is made using organic ingredients and gives skin a sheer glow – without adding too much shine or sparkle. (I get the whole dewy look, but at my age if I overdo it I look more like a clown than someone who’s successfully adulting.)

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This DIY face luminizer is formulate with primarily organic ingredients. They are pretty basic ingredients that you’d expect to use when crafting your own natural skin care products. So even if this is your first beauty product DIY, you’ll find that you can use these ingredients over and over again in other homemade beauty recipes. My DIY face luminizer consists of beeswax, coconut oil, castor oil, vitamin E oil, rosemary extract and mica. The mica is what gives this natural beauty product its pop. Otherwise, it’s just a beauty balm.

Because the Living Luminizer by rms beauty™ is $38 a pop for a .2 oz. container, I decided to craft my own version of this natural face luminizer at a fraction of the cost. In addition I also “dressed up” this natural face luminizer recipe by molding it into pretty little flowers that fit perfectly inside 1/3 oz. lip balm pots. The results of my version of this natural beauty product are pretty spot on. So my DIY face luminizer is pretty perfect for highlighting cheekbones, eyelids and even lips! You can also use it as a base for your eyeshadow to both brighten it up and give it extra staying power.

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NaturalFace Luminizer Recipe

© Rebecca D. Dillon

Ingredients:

7 grams beeswax
14 grams 76° melt point coconut oil
4 grams grapeseed oil or castor oil
5 drops (non-GMO) vitamin E oil
5 drops rosemary extract
4 grams Diamond Dust mica powder

Directions:

To complete this project you’ll need one silicone chocolate flower mold, a digital kitchen scale, plastic transfer pipettesFace Luminizer Recipe to Highlight Cheeks, Eyes & Lips for Glowing Skin (5), a butter knife, a teaspoon and/or tablespoon, a microwave and a glass pyrex measuring cup.

Start by weighing out the beeswax in a glass measuring cup.

Melt the beeswax in either a double boiler on in the microwave at reduced power. (I recommend slowly heating at 30% power.) Watch carefully to ensure the beeswax does not smoke.

Remove from microwave, if using, then weigh out the coconut oil (around a Tablespoon) and stir into the beeswax using a butter knife.

Next, weigh out the grape seed oil and add to the mixture. (I chose to use grape seed oil in place of castor oil as it absorbs easily, is non-greasy and is naturally non-allergenic. However, you can use any carrier oil of your choice.)

Using a plastic pipette for each oil, you will then add five drops each of vitamin E oil and rosemary extract to your DIY face luminizer base.

Finally, use a teaspoon to weigh out the mica of your choice – about three teaspoons – and to the beeswax and oils.

Mix thoroughly with a butter knife, then pour evenly into four of the flower shaped molds and allow to harden. (For larger .3 oz. sized flowers of luminizer, fill three flower shaped molds completely. This will leave a little leftover for a fourth mold to use as a tester.) You can place the mold into the freezer to expedite this process.

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Once your natural face luminizer has cooled and hardened completely, remove from molds and place into 1/3 oz. (10 grams) lip balm pots of your choice. To use, simply rub your fingertips across luminizer and apply to skin where desired.

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For different makeup looks, simply swap out the color of mica with one of your choice. This natural face luminizer recipe also works great with gold, bronze, brass, pearl and even copper micas! You can easily create your own line of makeup face luminizers for any occasion or look. (And you can also gift the extras as a makeup gift set!)

Yield: 6 Face Luminizer Cream Makeup Pots

Mineral Makeup Face Luminizer Recipe

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Learn how to make your own clean beauty products at home and save money by making dupes of your favorite eco-luxe makeup - starting with this easy DIY mineral makeup highlighting face luminizer recipe!

Prep Time5 minutes

Active Time10 minutes

Additional Time15 minutes

Total Time30 minutes

DifficultyEasy

Materials

  • 7 grams beeswax
  • 14 grams 76° melt point coconut oil
  • 4 grams grapeseed oil or castor oil
  • 5 drops (non-GMO) vitamin E oil
  • 5 drops rosemary extract
  • 4 grams Diamond Dust mica powder

Tools

  • silicone chocolate flower mold
  • digital kitchen scale
  • plastic transfer pipettes
  • butter knife
  • teaspoon and/or tablespoon
  • microwave or double boiler
  • glass pyrex measuring cup
  • 6 10-gram lip balm pots

Instructions

    Weight out the beeswax.

    Melt the beeswax in either a double boiler on in the microwave at 30% power.

    Once melted, remove from heat.

    Weigh out the coconut oil and stir into the beeswax using a butter knife or other utensil.

    Weigh out the grapeseed (or castor oil) stir into the melted wax and coconut oil.

    Add five drops each of vitamin E oil and rosemary extract using a fresh plastic transfer pipette for each. Stir.

    Weigh out the mica of your choice and mix into the face luminizer base.

    Mix thoroughly with a butter knife, then pour evenly into four of the flower shaped molds and allow to harden.

    Remove from molds then package in lip balm pots.

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More Natural Beauty & Makeup Recipes

If you like my recipe for making a DIY face luminizer for youthful, glowing skin, then you may also love my other natural beauty and makeup recipes.

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  • Natural Lip Balm Recipes with Essential Oils
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  • DIY Pink Shimmer Finishing Powder

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Face Luminizer Recipe to Highlight Cheeks, Eyes & Lips for Glowing Skin (2024)

FAQs

How do you make natural highlighter for your face? ›

Place beeswax, shea butter and almond oil into double boiler and stir until melted. Once melted add your mica powder to the mixture, making whatever hue you desire. Once you get the desired hue, pour into chapstick or small deodorant container and let cool. Use on eyelids, cheekbones, lips, etc.!

How do you make highlighter balm? ›

Combine aloe butter, coffee bean butter, and beeswax in double boiler and heat until fully melted. Remove mixture from heat, allow to sit until slightly cooled (about 2-3 minutes). Combine cranberry seed oil with biron mtu and mica powders to form slurry.

How do you make liquid highlighter at home? ›

Liquid Highlighter
  1. Mica powder (whatever shade you prefer and use as much pigment that you'd like)
  2. 1 part grape seed oil.
  3. 1 Vegtable Glycerin.
  4. Container.

What can be used as a natural highlighter? ›

Moisturizer: Mixing a small amount of moisturizer with your foundation can create a natural-looking glow. Cream eyeshadow: A shimmery cream eyeshadow can be applied to the high points of the face for a subtle highlight. Coconut oil: A small amoun.

What is the main ingredient of highlighter? ›

Next, the highlighter inks contain chemicals like Fluorescein, pyrene, triphenylmethane, xanthene, coumarin and rhodamine. (Mertes) Lastly, cardboard is used in the packaging which comes from trees.

Can I use Vaseline instead of highlighter? ›

Use it as highlighter.

When Kim Kardashian's makeup artist, Mario Dedivanovic, wants to create what he calls "expensive skin," ironically, he uses this very affordable petroleum jelly. "I pat it right along the cheekbones, which gives you the most alluring, gorgeous glow," he told Page Six.

What is the difference between a highlighter and an illuminator? ›

For instance, a highlighter is used on the high points including cheekbones, temples, bridge of your nose and inner corner of your eyes, to draw light and accentuate the areas where the sun would hit. On the other hand, illuminators add an overall luminous glow to your face that is more subtle and natural.

Can you put illuminator all over your face? ›

It is best applied to the so-called “high points” of your face, including the cheek and brow bones, as well as the nose and cupid's bow.

How do you apply illuminator to mature skin? ›

Focus on areas where light naturally hits your face, such as the tops of your cheekbones, brow bone, and the bridge of your nose. A touch of highlighter on your cupid's bow can also create the illusion of fuller lips. Blending is key to a natural-looking highlight.

How do you make highlighter glow? ›

Making Water Glow with Highlighters

Fill a clear jar or container with fresh water. Remove the ink-soaked felt strip and the ink tube from the marker with pliers. Drop the felt strip and ink tube into the water and mix to distribute the ink. Place the jar under a blacklight and admire its glow!

Which liquid highlighter is best? ›

Best Liquid Highlighter Overall: Rare Beauty Positive Light Liquid Luminizer. Why we love it: This liquid highlighter from Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty is dewy, lightweight, long-lasting, and designed to work for all skin tones and skin types.

How do you make easy highlighter? ›

How to prepare:
  1. Add one teaspoon of eyeshadow, preferably pink to a bowl.
  2. Add some gold dust powder.
  3. Now mix the two ingredients with 2-3 drops of coconut oil.
  4. Mix all the ingredients thoroughly till you have gotten rid of all the lumps.
  5. Next, add moisturizer of your choice to make it creamy.
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How do you make organic highlighter? ›

Combine the shea butter, jojoba oil, and beeswax in a small bowl and microwave in 30-second intervals until melted. Add the cornstarch and stir again. Stir in the mica powder. Feel free to add more, ¼ teaspoon at a time, until reaching your desired shade.

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