Q&A for How to Use a Highlighter Stick

Highlighter creates brightness and draws the eye in; it also counteracts darkness and shadow. It's great for enhancing the cheekbones, emphasizing the brow, softening a pronounced chin, and making the inner eye pop.

An illuminator is a type of highlighter and can be used the same way you use highlighter. Try applying it to your brow bone, the top of your cheekbones, and the tip of your chin.

You can apply highlighter to areas where you want to draw the eye and places where light naturally hits. The tops of the cheeks, in the cupid's bow, and just under the arch of the brow are common choices.

I like to apply blush to the apple of the cheeks, then apply highlight on the cheekbone above the blush.

Maybe you could keep it inside or don't travel with it too often. Apply a fair amount in the morning so you don't have to touch up.

Try applying it lighter and build up the highlight with lighter layers. If this doesn't work, you might need to use a powder or liquid highlighter instead.

If a piece chunked off, pick it up carefully so it doesn't crumble. Take a makeup wipe or cloth wish makeup remover and wipe it up as much as possible.