Blinded By The Highlight: Your Guide To Strobe Skincare

This spin-off of the highlights and contours craze will help you show off your best features by simulating the effect of light. Think of it like a spotlight shining straight on—and constantly—at you! Our favorite way to strobe? Of course, with skin care, and thanks to The Body Shop's new Instaglow CC Cream, we can do it!

What is strobing?

Considered the lazy girl's answer to contouring, strobing is the internet's newest approach to highlighting, enhancing, sculpting and accentuating eyes, cheeks, nose and lips, giving your face a vibrant, natural glow. The best part about this trend? It's a piece of cake! When strobing, you typically use a luminous compact and a brush or strobing stick to apply the highlighter to the bridge of your nose, your cheekbones, the corners of your eyes, your upper and lower brow ridges, and the area around your eyes. Cupid's Bow. However, with the release of The Body Shop's Instaglow CC Cream, you can now accentuate those features with a product that does so much more than highlights.

The Body Shop Instaglow CC Cream

Instaglow CC Cream is designed to prep, smooth, color correct, hydrate and of course add radiance. It's the make-up and skin care product you'll want to carry in your makeup bag all year round. Formulated with skin care ingredients such as kaolin, marula oil, aloe vera, citric acid, etc. minimize the appearance of large pores, reduces excess shine, and can also leave your skin hydrated for up to 24 hours. Ideal for all skin types and tones, the CC Cream comes in three different shades: Bright Glow, Peachy Glow and Warm Glow for a stroboscopic effect that matches your unique complexion. We share the details about each shade below.

Bright glow: Created for lighter skin tones, Bright Glow can neutralize the surface effect and brighten the complexion through a combination of white pigments and purple pearls. 

peach glow: If your skin tone is on the middle end of the spectrum, Peachy Glow is for you. With a combination of coral pink and reflective pearls, Peachy Glow can reduce dull skin for a natural glow.  

Warm glow: Created for darker skin tones, Warm Glow contains rich brown undertones and warm golden pearls that work together to bring together darker complexions without the shine.

Editor's Tip: For a custom effect, mix two shades of Glow together to get the color you want!

CC cream The Body Shop Instagram, $22 Want to try a stroboscope? Follow our visual instructions for applying Instaglow CC Cream below.