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I love the strobing trend and wanted to share how I achieve the look even with my oily skin, below I have listed the different products that I would recommend and then how I have been using them myself, layering the products carefully to keep my natural oils at bay and the highlight exactly where I want it.

Benefit High Beam (£19.50), Topshop All Over Glow (£8), Chanel Le Blanc De Chanel (£33).

The bases, these are all highlights that I use as a base underneath my make up, but all three can also be used alone or over make up too.

Vichy Normaderm (£16), Rimmel BB Cream Matte (£6.99), Chanel Perfection Lumiere Velvet (£33), L'oreal Infallible 24hr Matte (£7.99), Jouer Matte Moisture Tint (£30).

The foundations I use over the glowy base, all of which are matte finish but they all let a little skin shine through so still look healthy and not cakey, they also keep my natural oils under control.

Kevyn Aucoin Creamy Duo #4 (£21), Kevyn Aucoin Celestial Powder in Candlelight (£33), Revlon Highlighting Palette in Rose Glow (£9.99), Sleek Contour Kit (£6.49), Bobbi Brown (£33).

The highlighters, all with a champagne finish, very natural looking and all buildable. The Revlon brick is slightly more on the glittery side but still works, the Bobbi Brown is great with a bit of fake tan and the Kevyn  Aucoin creamy duo is great for using with cream products when I'm not using a lot of powder.

My typical face lately starts off with the Topshop All Over Glow all over my face, then followed by my matte base Vichy Normaderm BB Cream with a damp sponge, then for concealer I have been using one the same skin tone for my blemishes Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer in Vanilla and then one a few shades lighter for my under eye area and between my brows, the Urban Decay Naked Concealer in Light Neautral. I add a light powder contour with the Sleek Contour Kit, bronze all around the outskirts of my face with Nars Laguna and add a natural peachy blush Nars Final Cut. For my highlight I mainly go for the Kevyn Aucoin Candlelight or the Sleek one, I prefer powder because it controls my natural oil at the same time, I apply it above my brow bone, on my brow bone, along the bridge of my nose but not at the tip, on my cheek bones but don't bring it any further in than my pupils and lastly on my cuspids bow. I then set everywhere else with a matte powder, usually the Ben Nye Cameo powder to make sure all the shine I don't want showing stays matte. For eyes I have been reaching for the more metallic shades instead of my typical mattes, I have been loving the Burberry Eye Colour Cream in Mink and add a bit of my highlight in the inner corner to make the eyes pop and lastly for lips I try to keep them natural looking too, a bit of nude liner typically my Mac Subculture with a lip balm over the top for a bit of gloss. Then just a spritz of one of my facial sprays to help all the powders mesh with the skin and look natural.

I hope this was helpful for any oily girls who think they can't get on board with this trend.

1. Simple Cleansing Micellar Water £4.49

2. Maybelline Master Sculpt £6.99

3. Mac Oak Liner £12.50

4. Origins Original Skin Serum £32

5. Muji Skincare Range from £1.99

6. Kevyn Aucoin Celestial Powder in Candlelight £35

7. Illamasqua Skinbase Foundation £32

8. Kiehls Midnight Recovery Concentrate £36

9. Aesop Immediate Moisture Facial Hydrosol £17

*all images were sourced from Google

I have been kind of stalking the Space NK website recently and I came across these little charmers, the Creamy Glow Duo by Kevyn Aucoin, there are 4 colour ways to choose from, 3 are blush colours and the 4th is a sculpting/highlighting duo, I went for number 4.

So it is a 4.5 gram palette and retails for £23, which even though it sounds expensive I actually don't think that's too bad at all considering how much you actually need of the product itself. The compacts are really dinky which again is something I like about them (I know many will disagree) I'm not sure what the idea is behind the tiny size but I like it anyhow.

The majority of the palette is taken up by the highlighter side which is a cream form of the famous Candlelight powder and the smaller palette is a cream form of the even more famous Sculpting Powder in Medium. The consistency of these is gorgeous, so soft, smooth and buttery, the sculpting cream is really pigmented much like the powder form and the highlighter is super reflective so with both sides minimal product is needed.

The sculpting cream is very cool toned and dries in super matte which is exactly what every woman wants when it comes to sculpting and the highlighter is just a perfect sheen without actual glitters or anything boisterous. They both blend perfectly and I find applying them with my fingertips is best because the pans are so tiny, I then blend them out with a small stippling brush.

I think this is a really cute little product, perfect for throwing in your handbag and perfect for summer too since its so light on the skin. Have you tried it? What did you think?