Spectacular specular

This assignment was to photograph specular highlights.  Well first things first, what the hell is a specular highlight?  From what I gathered, it is a reflection of the light on something in a photograph that actually adds to the image.  My Bath and Body Works photos have quite a few of these, but I played around with for these. 

For the last two, I tried to be a little more creative. On something like tinsel, nearly everything that hits it because a specular highlight, so I used multiple lights, some with colored gels in order to show the different specular highlights.