12 serums for glowing golden hour skin all day, every day

Packed with natural hydrators, this powerfully potent and lightweight formula features an array of fruit and plant extracts (ranging from aloe vera to acai and so much more) to help achieve the appearance of bouncy and glowing skin. What a winner!

$68 at Tribe

Featuring sea cucumber collagen, orange stem cell complex, and almighty hyaluronic acid, this is a complexion-brightening cocktail we advise you get your hands on ASAP. A great way to press refresh on your face, it'll have you glowy, radiant and rejuvenated in no time.

$119 at Bescher

If there's one thing we've learned in our years of serum testing, it's that major hydration equals major glow. We suggest you allow this luminosity-enhancing lactic and hyaluronic acid wonderkid to prove it to you; it'll leave your face practically dripping with dew.

$89 at Tatcha

A glow serum specifically designed to maintain healthy balanced skin sounds too good to be true, but this skin-relaxing blend will add radiance while also replenishing the skin's protective barrier with a moisture surge. Pretty damn good, right?

$29.99 at Body Blendz

This guy will get you gleaming from the inside out while also making sure your skin's surface is blindingly bright as soon as you apply. Basically, it offers immediate and eventual glow gratification thanks to its pearlescent-finish formula and genius pairing of vitamin C and niacinamide.

$51 at Charlotte Tilbury

There's 'bright skin' and then there's 'so bright skin' and this serum is determined to help you meet the latter. Housing a hydrating, nourishing and illuminating combo of Jojoba milk and powerful non-dairy yoghurt, it's definitely set up for radiance-reviving and skin barrier resistance success. 

$45.95 at The Jojoba Company 

If we could give you one word for how your face will look after slapping this serum on, it'd be juicy. It's no surprise, either, considering it's jam-packed with an olive, jojoba and almond oil trio, plus Kakadu plum (a vitamin C super source) and Aussie emu apple (which aids vit-C absorption like you wouldn't believe).

$64 at Adore Beauty

Firstly, it's important you know that this 'milk serum' feels as heavenly on the skin as it sounds like it would. Secondly, it's also worth noting that it utilises illuminating extracts from the edelweiss flower to diminish dark spots and dial your glow levels up tenfold.

$214 at Sephora

We've never seen Miranda Kerr look anything but positively radiant, and so we'd trust her beloved brightening serum (and its hero ingredient, the noni fruit) to brighten and refine our dull, pigmentation-prone faces any day. And hey, the impressive vitamin C concentration doesn't hurt either.

$93 at Adore Beauty

This brightening solid serum is a friend to both the dull-skinned and the spill-prone, and for that we are forever grateful. The watermelon works to hydrate and soothe, leaving the brightening load up to Swiss sprout extracts (yes, they're a thing, and your glow levels should be thrilled to hear it).

$62 at Sephora

If we're honest, this serum had us at the mention of 'Moroccan marshmallow' (a superstar soother, FYI), but the fact that it also delivers the perfect dose of vitamin C you need for daily dewiness (plus long-term luminosity) definitely sealed the deal.

$135 at The Iconic

If you're after the ultimate mess-free, fresh-faced glow then adding this vitamin C-rich stick into your routine is a must. Packed with antioxidants the nourishing formula works to give your skin an enviable lit-from-within glow. 

$29.99 at Chemist Warehouse