Hello fellow beauty product lovers! How many of you use highlighters in your makeup routine?

I’d not tried highlighters or illuminators before – I wanted to but I found it all to be a real mine field, and after trying so many different types of liquid foundations over the past few months and still not really being happy with the one I had finally settled on, to be honest I was a bit put off starting my quest to find one!

My sister told me about the Iconic London Illuminators – I’m not too sure where she came across them, my guess is an advert on either Facebook or Instagram.

Anyway, at the time, Cult Beauty had a really good offer where if you spent a certain amount, they would send you a free summer goody bag which contained loads of sample and full sized products which we agreed to split when it arrived, and we each ordered an Illuminator. I ordered the “Original” colour and my sister ordered the “Shine” colour.

I loved the Original colour so much that within a couple of weeks I ordered the other two colours as well!

Original

Shine

 

Glow

This is a product that all the celebrities are currently raving about – celebrity fans include Jourdan Dunn, Perrie Edwards, Michelle Keegan, Binky Felstead, Abbey Clancy and Chrissy Teigen, and after using it just once it was easy to see why!

The illuminator is so easy to use – it can be added to your foundation, primer or moisturiser, or used on its own for an amazing highlighted glow.

To use on its own, simply add drops of the illuminator to your cheekbones, the tip of your nose, collarbones and cupids bow. Use your fingers to tap the product onto your skin and then gently blend it in.

I’ve found that you only need a tiny amount/couple of drops for the most dramatic of effects which means the bottle lasts absolutely ages – good news for those who are slightly put off by the £29.99 RRP the product attracts.

As I said before, I ordered my first one from Cult Beauty (it was slightly more expensive here at £34.99) but the subsequent bottles I ordered directly from Iconic London. I get regular emails from Iconic after now I’ve registered my details with them, but they do have very good regular discount offers on these products so keep your eyes peeled! One of the offers included a free Rose Gold Makeup Brush and on another offer you got a free strobing stick worth £24.99 if you spent £25 in the iconic store – absolute bargain!

If you search for Iconic London Illuminators on Facebook they also have a 10% off offer which is regularly available (try discount code FACEBOOK10).

I know it is difficult to take my word for it when I have literally only tried one make of highlighter but I am so pleased that I did – I’m not going to bother trying any others, this product is absolutely perfect.

One thing which is disconcerting is this product is often labelled as “Limited Edition” – I don’t know why and I am hoping this was just from when they originally released it, because I really don’t know what I’m going to do if they discontinue it! I’ve bought a few bottles to stock up on just in case anyway!