This Glow-In-The-Dark Highlighter Will Make You Look Radioactive
Highlighters are the beauty bag equivalent of a pep in your step. And they’re everywhere. Seriously — highlighters are popping up everywhere from earlobes to bikini lines. A little shine, shimmer, and glow can take your look from low-key to lit. For those wanting to up the extra factor even further, may we introduce you to glow-in-the-dark highlighters.
Beauty vlogger Tati, who lives for “trying out weird things” on her channel, got downright wild with a new festival-friendly YouTube tutorial where she tested the effects of glow in the dark highlighter. Tati tested both a liquid formula — Art Cosmetics Electric Daisy ($20)—and a powder formula — Pop Luxe Night Life ($23).
Rather than going for a full-on glow in the dark face, Tati starts slow with a few Electric Daisy drops on her décolletage and shoulders. “Oh my god it’s really pretty!” she exclaims as she brushes it on. She's right. By day, the highlighter has a unicorn-worthy iridescent shimmer, which is admittedly like really pretty. Electric Daisy, formulated with luminescent zinc sulfide — an FDA-approved glow additive, according to the website, is a little oily. Beware if you’re using it on your face, Tati notes.
For her face, she moves on to the powder formula from Pop Luxe, which despite some initial reservations about the vibrant green hue, also goes on with a pretty iridescent sheen. “This is not playing around though — this is intense,” she says of the serious shine.
Now it’s time to turn off the lights. First, Tati tests out the highlighters in your average every day darkness situation — a dimly-lit restaurant. While the pretty sheen from both formulas is still visible, no glow effects. But once Tati turns on a black light… still nothing. Finally she discovers that to get the full glow in the dark effects, you need to activate the formulas by holding a black light to your face first.
Once the lights go out this time, holy smokes. After charging her glow, Tati’s subtle shimmer turns into a full on green glow worthy of a Halloween tutorial or super extra festival look. The lesson? Go slow if you want a subtle black light glow or go full on ghoulish.
See the full tutorial here:
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