If you're looking for a glow that's more casual and less Kardashian, consider this sunshine in a compact. The buildable, talc-free powder is made with moisturizing meadowfoam oil and shea butter, and feels incredibly soft. The shimmery powder goes on light for a diffused finish that doesn't require the kind of blending that a more matte and concentrated pigment might. In the end, it doesn't look like you're wearing bronzer, but are radiating health, which Apanasewicz says is exactly the point. "Creating a glow with bronzer should be about enhancing your own beauty and feeling great, not advertising the product you're wearing," she says.
Looking for a bronzer, brush and mirror all housed in a single, chic AF kit? With this multi-layered compact, The Lip Bar has you covered and then some (there's blush inside, too). What's more, it comes in five shades to compliment light to deep skin tones and is made with natural ingredients like kaolin clay and cornstarch, which is used instead of talc.
To achieve the most natural glow with a powder bronzer, Apanasewicz suggests applying it to high points of the face in a circular motion with the fluffiest brush you can find.
Like any bronzer, this one (which comes in two shades) was made to be used on cheeks, forehead, nose and chin. But we've actually been using it on eyelids for the easiest-to-apply shadow — it delivers a sheer wash color that makes blue eyes pop. No matter where you put it, the burnished shades (made with moisturizing mango butter) make skin look as if we've spent the day in a sunshine daze, not a makeup studio.
Technically, this vegan, prebiotic liquid-gel is billed as a skin serum, made with bio-fermented kombucha black tea and marine enzymes to reinforce the skin's barrier and hydrate. But thanks to the inclusion of caramel extract, the serum imparts a beautiful amber tint to the skin, effectively warming all-over skin tone and erasing the need for a separate bronzer.
The bummer about using powder bronzers directly over liquid or cream foundations and tinted moisturizers? They tend to grab onto base makeup and look patchy instead rather than glide across the skin for optimum blending (unless you've set your base makeup with translucent powder first, Apanasewicz says).
Cream bronzers glide over makeup and moisturizers, no setting powder step required. This vegan cream bronzer is made in an easy-to-swipe stick form for speedy application and packs hydrating mango seed butter, anti-inflammatory chaga mushroom and a shimmery gold tone that made our complexion look supremely healthier with a single swipe.
