🖍️ To emphasize ⭐ Best part 💡 A light spot 💄 To add shimmer

to highlight

13 5.9

To make parts of the face look brighter using makeup

verb
/ˈhaɪˌlaɪt/

: iluminar

But right now I'm highlighting also with the same palette.

And it's just the perfect little shape to highlight your cheekbones.

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Examples

This is from Melt, and I'm going to highlight the inner corner.
I'm going to highlight my cheekbones with some highlighter for a glowing look.
First, we must highlight your eyes.

The House Bunny (2008)
I'm just going to add a little bit more highlight right there.
I'm just going to highlight under my eye.
I'm going to set this and highlight my under eye area.
Highlight just down the bridge of the nose.

The Dark Web Tapes (2020)
And it's just the perfect little shape to highlight your cheekbones.

sophdoeslife
I'm going to use quartz to highlight the high points of my face.
And I'm going to highlight my brow brow bone.

Synonyms

to set off

vsto highlight

7 3.7

To make something stand out against its background

is a specific face makeup technique rather than a general contrast method

to strobe

vsto highlight

Jargon

7.5

To put highlighter on parts of the face to make them glow

is a cosmetic application to make face areas subtly more luminous

Compounds

highlight reel

6 4.1

A short video showing the best and most exciting moments of an event

the highlight of the trip

1 2.1

The best part of a trip that people remember most

highlight of the party

1 3.0

The most exciting and memorable part of a party

How Noticeable

to accentuate

27 6.0

to define

252 1.0

to highlight

13 5.9

to apply

263 1.3

to dab

11 2.8

Surface Forms

highlight infinitive

highlighted past

highlighted past participle

highlighting present participle

highlights third person singular

Morphology

highlight = highlight (semi-transparent) = high + light

This is a conversion from the noun 'highlight'; the makeup sense is motivated by making selected areas brighter or more prominent, but the cosmetic usage is somewhat specialized.

Etymology

Highlight comes from high and light, which points to a 'high' or bright place, so to highlight your face is to add light to the high points to make them shine.