This Cult £12 Topshop Highlighter Is One of the Best I've Ever Tried

From the best summer dresses to the coolest trending sandals, the Who What Wear editors are finely tuned to spotting the cult fashion items that you need to know about from Topshop. For me, though, Topshop has always been a high-street store that I've recommended for its beauty offering—particularly when it comes to cult makeup products.

First launched in 2010 (I remember it clearly, as I was a student working in the flagship Oxford Circus store at the time), Topshop Beauty was a highly anticipated collection of beauty basics and trend-led products created with the fashion set in mind. Some cult products immediately came to the forefront, and with a relaunch last year, Topshop's affordable beauty products continue to be a firm favourite amongst cool girls and beauty editors.

But for me—and basically everyone else—there continues to be one product that stands out from all others: the Topshop Glow Pot.

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Coming in at £12, the Topshop Glow Pot is around a third of the price of the best-selling highlighter in America (and another of my personal favourite radiance products) but rivals some of the more luxurious highlighters that I've tried over the years. Available in two shades (a pale pearl and a warm bronze), it's a beautiful cream formula that can be applied with your fingers to add a luminous silky effect to the high points of your face.

Unlike the Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector—which adds a pretty intense highlight to the skin—the Topshop Glow Pot is definitely more of a subtle approach to highlighting. It imparts a beautiful, soft radiance to the skin but can be built up if you want more of a high-shine effect.

Honestly, when it launched, you were lucky to find a pot of it on the shelves (such as its popularity), and if you ask pretty much any beauty editor today, chances are they'll still carry a pot of this highlighter in their makeup bags. It's just that good.

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Topshop isn't just a one-trick pony when it comes to beauty products, though. Its beauty offering is one of my most recommended on the high street because basically all of its products that I've tried are not only affordable but also genuinely deliver.

Keep scrolling to shop my top beauty picks from Topshop—along with its cult highlighter.

Shop the Glow Pot

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Mica Ricketts

Mica Ricketts is a freelance beauty editor, copywriter and regular contributor to Who What Wear UK. She also writes for titles including Marie Claire Refinery 29 and Cosmopolitan, and previously worked at Who What Wear UK as Beauty Editor. With experience in both editorial and content management, she also works with beauty brands and small businesses on brand messaging and content strategy. As a busy mum of two, she is passionate about finding efficacious beauty products that can disguise all signs of tiredness with minimal effort.