e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter: a Guru Score of 86%

What the experts use it for.

The concerns the experts tie this product to, in their own words. Paid and founder takes don't count.

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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Alexandra Anele

1.45M subs

✓Yay

"This is a beautiful [...] luminizer. [...] Very, very, very, very, very pretty. Just sort of softens everything, you know, very nice and sheer."

All 3 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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"To set my under eyes, I've been recently mixing the elf Halo Glow with this Huda Beauty powder. I'm experimenting a little bit so I'll keep you posted on that, but I thought it looked pretty decent, maybe a little bit dry. These do really, really, really set. If you have more mature skin, you might want to just use the elf Halo Glow. I've heard from a lot of you that you love it, so keep it up."

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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."

The Style and Beauty Doctor

222k subs

✓Yay

"Everything else I really liked."

James Welsh

1.58M subs

✓Yay

"The Halo Glow Liquid Filter, which is seen as a dupe of Charlotte Tilbury's Flawless Filter."

No BS Beauty

89k subs

✓Yay

"I was going to buy the milk makeup hydrogrip, but you guys mentioned these and I have both of these and I really didn't need that one. [...] I'm going with the [...] e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter. [...] They're dupes, except the elf one is way way way more affordable, so that's what I'm going to go with."

Allie Glines

829k subs

✓Yay

"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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"This one overall won an award which I feel like it's well deserved, the elf Halo Glow Liquid Filter. This stuff went viral this year or was it last year, I don't know, recently. I'm just gonna put that on the outside of the face and blend it out with my brush."

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"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."

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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."

Robert Welsh

1.11M subs

✓Yay

"The e.l.f one is beautiful, Halo Glow"

All 3 takes from Robert Welsh

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"It's fine, grab the e.l.f one."

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"The e.l.f one is beautiful, Halo Glow"

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"Whereas this Emco one, you would look at that very briefly, very quickly and I think that's Charlotte Tilbury. That's where I'm like, no, you better stop."

Caroline Hirons

250k subs

✓Yay

"I have been trying the elf 30 tint face tint that just came out it's good lightweight liking wear it as like a foundation and liking it so far"

Abbey Yung

886k subs

✓Yay

"When I mix it in with foundation I love the way it looks, giving me that glowy, slightly sunburned beach look. [...] The two shades I have are [...] fair and light medium, and I don't think either is a great fit for my skin tone, [...] the undertones aren't my favorite, [...] but if you can find a shade that's a good match for you, or one that still gives you a nice shade mixed with a complexion product, it's a really beautiful product."

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All 2 takes from Abbey Yung

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"When I mix it in with foundation I love the way it looks, giving me that glowy, slightly sunburned beach look. [...] The two shades I have are [...] fair and light medium, and I don't think either is a great fit for my skin tone, [...] the undertones aren't my favorite, [...] but if you can find a shade that's a good match for you, or one that still gives you a nice shade mixed with a complexion product, it's a really beautiful product."

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"Worn alone there's no wet or dewy effect, just an intensely pearlescent, [...] true highlighter finish, and it also isn't loved mixed with foundation until set with powder, after which it looks really beautiful; [...] without powder it wouldn't be reached for again. There are no complaints about wear, it wears really well. While not loved by itself, it's loved in the exact way [...] these products are worn and looks so pretty that way, earning second place."

Skin Obsessed Mary

33k subs

✓Yay

"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."

HotandFlashy

1.23M subs

✓Yay

"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 4 takes from HotandFlashy

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"The elf Halo Glow Liquid Filter 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 and I wear shade four in the Charlotte Tilbury, but they both are so so so very beautiful."

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"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."

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"I almost like the e.l.f. a little bit better because I feel like it's not quite so icy of a sheen as the Charlotte Tilbury. If you're the kind of person who likes a highlight but you don't like a real obvious, real blingy highlight, you might actually prefer the e.l.f. to the Charlotte Tilbury. The e.l.f. is one third of the price. This [...] gives you the same amount if not more, about 31 and a half mil versus 30 mil, so just about one ounce for both."

Mixed Makeup

1.46M subs

✓Mixed

"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."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Sunscreen filters

Sun protection is the best evidenced way to slow visible ageing, and the filters are what does the work. Mineral and chemical filters both protect when a product is applied thickly enough and often enough, which is where most people fall short rather than on the choice of filter.

Source: DermNet

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

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

A liquid complexion filter from e.l.f. Cosmetics, designed to be worn under or over foundation, or on its own, for a sheer, glowy, softened finish and to double as a liquid highlighter.

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

Mostly yes. 10 of the 11 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 86%.

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

e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter holds a Guru Score of 86%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 11 expert reviewers we have collected. It is also Guru Certified, our mark for products that hold broad approval across many expert reviewers.