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Halo Glow Liquid Filter.

e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter

About this product

A sheer liquid luminizer designed to add a natural glow and brighten the complexion, available in multiple shades with a doe-foot applicator.

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Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

Full ingredients

Guru Score

78%

Approved

8 experts · Strong agreement
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What the gurus are saying

This liquid filter delivers a soft, natural glow that blends seamlessly into skin without any glitter or metallic finish, making it work well as a complexion booster under or over foundation. Most gurus praise it as a strong dupe for Charlotte Tilbury's Flawless Filter at a fraction of the price, though a couple found the finish slightly less radiant than the original. The formula is hydrating and easy to blend with a brush or sponge, and the glass bottle with wand applicator feels substantial for the cost.
Synthesized from 8 expert reviews · most recent take December 2025
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What the gurus are saying.

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Approved
"This is a beautiful luminizer. Very, very, very, very, very pretty. Just sort of softens everything, you know, very nice and sheer."
All 2 takes from Alexandra Anele
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"This is a beautiful luminizer. Very, very, very, very, very pretty. Just sort of softens everything, you know, very nice and sheer."
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"This is the e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter, which is really beautiful. This is the shade zero, which is supposed to be like the fairest shade or the palest shade, and it's like pretty orange and it's definitely darker than me, but it does like mix into foundation really well if you're looking for something to mix into your foundation or apply before foundation. When you sheer it out, it does have a really beautiful like sheen. Once it's blended out, you don't really see the tone of it."
Approved
"The Halo Glow Liquid Filter, which is seen as a dupe of Charlotte Tilbury's Flawless Filter."
Mixed
"Elf's formula actually has about 70% of the same formulation as the Charlotte Tilbury one. You can tell the difference between this Elf one and the Catrice one, you can tell the difference between them. Whereas the Emco one, you would look at that very briefly, very quickly and think that's Charlotte Tilbury. That's where I'm like, no, you better stop."
Approved
"The ELF Halo Glow Liquid Filter is way way way more affordable, and they're so similar to higher-end dupes that you really don't need to spend money on the Charlotte Tilbury one. They're both nice, but the ELF one is just virtually the same."
Approved
"I always prep my skin with this product after moisturizing for the perfect base to start my face makeup. I love the tint and glow it gives my skin. I've never had it sit badly underneath foundation. It really is such a good one."
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All 4 takes from Allie Glines
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"I always prep my skin with this product after moisturizing for the perfect base to start my face makeup. I love the tint and glow it gives my skin. I've never had it sit badly underneath foundation. It really is such a good one."
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"The elf Halo Glow Liquid Filter, this stuff went viral this year or was it last year I don't know recently. This little number right here won an award which I feel like it's well deserved."
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"I've been talking about this since it came out, the e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter, absolutely love it. I compare it to the Charlotte Tilbury one and in my opinion I feel like this one's better. It's better than high-end, it's one-third of the price, and I like this one more because it still gives you the glow but it's very natural. As I've gotten older I get really dry so I need something that's hydrating, and I like a good liquid highlighter but that doesn't look glittery and this isn't that. It just gives you a very natural glow, not that streak of glitter. It's absolutely gorgeous and so easy to blend. It's not metallic at all, it just blends in and it makes you look healthy. The formula is so good and the packaging is good on this too. I like the little wand and the glass bottle, it feels very substantial for what you get. The packaging is so easy to use like I'll just dab it on or dab it on my hand and just take a sponge and stipple it on. It's so easy to use."
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"I did a video where I tried this side by side with the Charlotte Tilbury one and it is indeed a dupe. I feel like e.l.f. obviously takes the cake for duping viral products really really well. Some of these formulas I feel like do end up being a little bit different and some of them I like better than the original, this being a good example of that."
Approved
"The e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter is a complexion booster. I put a bunch of it onto my hand and apply it with a foundation brush. People thought this was a foundation when it first launched, but it's really not. It gives a serious glow to the skin but it does not give a lot of coverage. What I want is a nice healthy glow, and if you can just blur it a little bit then I'm happy. I put most of the product in the center of my face because that's where I have my redness, but I put it everywhere. The finish is so lovely."
Approved
"The e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter is a really great product. This is awesome, this is a dupe for a much much more expensive highlighter and I love this highlighter. I wear it anytime that I want my cheeks to really pop. It doesn't have any glitter in it. It gives your skin like a glow from within and it's so pretty. If you just put a little bit like on the fronts of your cheeks and up here on your cheekbones it just makes your skin come alive. It just makes your cheeks look really plump and juicy. I wear this in shade two."
All 3 takes from HotandFlashy
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"The elf Halo Glow Liquid Filter, that is a dupe for the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter. This really is like a perfect dupe for this. I wear shade two in the elf, I wear shade four in the Charlotte Tilbury, but they both are so so so very beautiful."
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"The e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter is a really great product. This is awesome, this is a dupe for a much much more expensive highlighter and I love this highlighter. I wear it anytime that I want my cheeks to really pop. It doesn't have any glitter in it. It gives your skin like a glow from within and it's so pretty. If you just put a little bit like on the fronts of your cheeks and up here on your cheekbones it just makes your skin come alive. It just makes your cheeks look really plump and juicy. I wear this in shade two."
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"A dupe for the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter, which she also loves, but for the price and the amount of product you get, she calls the e.l.f. version a no-brainer. Comes with a giant doe foot applicator and a lot of product; she wears it in the shade Light."
Mixed
"I had a hard time believing it was a dupe for the Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Filter because I really like that product. I don't know if I feel like it's easier to use. It feels like it's maybe not as radiant or as luminescent as the Charlotte Tilbury one, but it's a really great product. I find that I'm using it underneath my foundation, on top of my foundation. It's just so easy to use because it's not overly luminescent, and so I love it. I think it looks really great. I actually have tried it without any foundation on and just put that on a little bit of concealer, some blush, maybe, and then I go, and I think it's just really easy to use. It's like 15 dollars, so you might as well give it a try because it's pretty great."
Common questions

Frequently asked.

What is e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter?

A sheer liquid luminizer designed to add a natural glow and brighten the complexion, available in multiple shades with a doe-foot applicator.

Is e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter worth it?

Mostly yes. 6 of the 8 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 78%.

What is e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter's Guru Score?

e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter holds a Guru Score of 78%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 8 independent expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.

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