Highlighting shades

[priss]

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Originally Posted by MACaholic76

Do you find Nylon to be too frosty and light on darker skintone? I've never used it on myself or anyone else.

every friend i have swears by nylon. i have tried to use it 50 times and it is indeed too much for my browbone. i think its the yellow in it because i can wear shroom. the best i can give nylon is my lids and on my face for undereye highlighting if i use a light hand and a 188 brush.

for a matte- blanc type e/slooks great because my concealer keeps it from being too white looking.

for highlighting in colors outside of the neutral/brown family i use:
gorgeous gold, all of the MES's, pen-n-pink, yougurt, paradisco, expensive pink, vex, tilt, fade, beautiful iris, velum to name a few.

also consider multi-purposing. bamboon and architecture paint look great. indian wood and soft ochre paint pots are really pretty as brow highlights. for a soft shimmer i sometimes use sunsparked pearl and pearl blossom beauty powders as a brow highlight applied w/ a #252 brush

hth!

[damsel]

naked lunch = love. subtle pigment & metal-x cream shadow in cyber (applied lightly) are also nice.

[MacArtistFauryn]

I will use almost any and everything....

Trace Gold is one of my all time favs, Fawntastic CCB, Nanogold e/s, Mineralize Skinfinish in Med.Dark, Studio finish NC42 or NW40, I've also been known to use studio fix in various shades as a highlight...

of course my old faithfuls:
Arena
Retrospeck
Vanilla (pigment)
Motif
Provence (pigment)

[RaynelleM]

I use Ricepaper, Brule, Naked Lunch and Nylon most of the time but have also used Chill, Goldmine, Da Bling, Expensive Pink, Amber Lights, Electra and CCB Luna depending on the look I'm trying to achieve.
I've tried using Retrospeck and Honey Lust but their textures seem a little too chunky/sparkly for the brow area to me.

[Purplegloss9]

Hi I'm an NC50..i was just introduce to Era (satin) at the MAC counter.....and cant put it down...it looks so natural with still the hightlighting umph yu need...and my all time fav is Soba....

Im scared of the shimmery "frosty white" look so i tend to go toward the muted but still gives highlight shades.

[iliang25]

I love shroom, vanilla pigment, UD sellout and BE whitegold.

[captodometer]

Claire de Lune. I see Shroom getting a lot of love, but it didn't work for me: too obvious and white.

[neonbright]

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Originally Posted by Purplegloss9

Hi I'm an NC50..i was just introduce to Era (satin) at the MAC counter.....and cant put it down...it looks so natural with still the hightlighting umph yu need...and my all time fav is Soba....

Im scared of the shimmery "frosty white" look so i tend to go toward the muted but still gives highlight shades.

Girl I am going to order now, I have a haul saved on Mac online now. I have been using to different paint pots for my highlight and now I know I found two shadows.

[Cinci]

Naked Lunch & Grand Entrance!!

[christineeee_]

i love using naked pigment as a highlight and grand entrance from starflash

[imperfectbeauty]

Claire de Lune, Shroom, Nylon, Solar White are the ones i use a lot. Sometimes i'll use the mono side of polar opposites mes if i want a tiny bit more glitter and pop of color. just depends on the look though.

[honeebee]

Most of the time I use a lighter concealer as a high light. I love love love Vanilla pigment. Some others are the old standbys, Ricepaper, Shroom etc. I also like Pink Freeze, Pink Bronze, Pink Opal, Naked pigment etc. Lately I've been using the shimmer in the Natural MSF duo as a highlight. I'm really loving it.

I heard Drizzlegold Beauty powder is really nice too. I'll try that tomorrow.

[makeba]

i use Arena as a highlighter and its very nice. its gives a natural highlight not over the top or white. i am thinking of getting vanilla pigment since its the big HG divas speak on.

[neonbright]

I just received Era & Soba and they are hits. I do believe I will have to get a second Soba, I just love it.

[shedevil185]

I like Sin (HG), Chopper and Baked (all UD) -- I don't have any MAC highlighting colors lol

[animacani]

Im a nc45 and I always use solar white (from the cool heat collection)

[NewlyMACd]

Right now I use the Next to Nothing from my Smoking quad and ever so often, Naked Lunch. Plan to get vanilla on Friday

[TwistedFaith]

Solar White, Warming Trend, Next to Nothing & Blonde's Gold.

[LAMB4LIFE]

vanilla pigment!

[Lapis]

Another Naked Lunch vote here

[lucyh]

Blonde's Gold pigment is my new favorite

I also love Shroom, Naked Lunch, & Retrospeck

[MizzHotTahiti]

Nylon (Cool)and Ricepaper(Warm)

[neonbright]

Ok, yesterday I got two new colors due to this thread. Texture and Arena, I love, love, love them. Today I did a real natural look for me, Glamour Check! all over the lid and up to the brow bone and I used Texture for the highlight.

[FierceMrsButler]

For a more natural highlight, I use Shroom and other than that I use Ricepaper...

[M.A.C. head.]

Arena with a pinch of Rice Paper right up against the brow bone is what works best for me.

I used to use Vanilla pig as well. I'm thinking of trying a touch of Blonde's Gold as a highlight.