City Color Glowing Complexion Illuminating Cream Review and Swatches

City Color Glowing Complexion Illuminating Cream ($6.99 at Citycolorcosmetics.com) is a beautiful cream highlighter I picked up at Five Below recently and I'm already obsessed...I can't believe there aren't more reviews on this out there! You could say I have a little problem when it comes to highlighters- I buy them every chance I get and have a ton of them, both drugstore and high-end in powder, cream, and liquid formulas. This one could be the least expensive of them all, and is quickly becoming one of my absolute favorites.  Let's take a look... 

Glowing Complexion Illuminating Cream comes in one shade, a beautiful champagne that would probably work for a variety of skin tones. It's packaged in a slim tube that's just over 1oz. so you get a ton of product for $5! I can see this lasting for more than a year, considering a little goes a long way.

It has a narrow tip for dispensing which is great...it helps to keep things neat and gives you more control than a pump.  You can use as little or as much as you want without wasting product.
This can be used under foundation as a base to give your skin an all-over glow, or on top of foundation as a highlighter. I use my fingers to apply it to my cheekbones, forehead, bridge of my nose, and cupid's bow, but you can use a brush or beauty blender as well.  I just find it quickest to use my fingers.

Here's what it looks like when you first swipe it...it has amazing pigmentation. It has a super lightweight, silky feel to it that's so soft and easy to blend.

Blended out a little, you can see that it's not glittery at all, yet it picks up so much light! I really like when highlighters are pigmented enough that they make your cheekbones really pop...sometimes they're barely noticeable.  You don't have to worry about that with this one...it's absolutely stunning on the skin.

I was hoping that this might be a dupe for a more expensive highlighter, but I couldn't get the color to match any of the ones I own.  It's somewhere in between Becca's Pearl and Opal Shimmering Skin Perfectors...it's a little warmer than Pearl, but not as pink as Opal. It's also in-between The Balm's Mary LouManizer and Cindy LouManizer powder highlighters...it's not as pink as Cindy Lou but not as gold as Mary Lou. So it's a very unique shade that I'm so happy to add to my ever-growing highlighter collection! 

If you're thinking about trying Glowing Complexion Illuminating Cream, you can use my City Color Cosmetics coupon code on their website to get 15% off your order! It's BBBSAVE15 and it's good until 6/20/15. 

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