Highlight & Countoring the face

Makeup can really highlight & enhance someones beauty.

With the right tools and placements, you can make your face look slimmer or wider... You can change the shape of your eyes or lips... You can make your forehead look shorter... You can make your cheek bones look more defined... You can make your nose look slimmer... It's all about what colors you use, products, and where you apply it.

I'm not an expert by any means, but I have learned a lot over the years from researching, talking with experts at beauty stores, watching tutorials, and my own experiences.

One thing that is really important is adding a "lighting" to your face.

If you ever look at head-on-shots of celebrities, you'll notice certain parts of their faces are dark and some are lite up. Like this picture of Mila Kunis:

Notice the angles of her face because of the highlighted and darkened areas? I'm sure the flash of the camera and the photo shopping helped a lot with this picture.. BUT so did the makeup and the way it was applied.

A lot of girls/women use one concealer or one powder to cover their entire face, and that's all they do. They don't highlight or contour their faces with other products. That's okay if you want to do that, but if you want to learn how to contour and highlight, this is how:

TO CONTOUR THE FACE:

1. Do your normal face routine.
2. Take a creamy concealer that is 4-6 shades darker than your skin tone.
3. Using your finger, apply the cream concealer just below your cheek bone. Starting back at your ear, to about half an inch away from the corner of your lips, making it parallel to the jaw line. Repeat on the other side. *This makes your cheek bones stand out. (As seen in "D")
4. Starting at the bridge of the nose and going straight down, draw a line with your finger using the same creamy concealer. Do this on each side. *This makes your nose look long, thinner, and more defined. (As seen in "E")
5. Add the concealer to the sides of your face, from your temple to your ear. *This slenderizes the face. (As seen in "B" and "C")
6. You can do right below your chin on the bone if you want to make that area look smaller.
7. If you have a large forehead, like me!, put the concealer at the very top of your forehead. It will create a shadow, making your head look like it's curving back, which makes it look shorter. (As seen in "A")
8. Make sure to BLEND. You don't want weird lines everywhere!! Set with face powder so your makeup stays in place.

Contouring

HIGHLIGHTING THE FACE:

1. You can't do contouring without highlighting.
2. Using either a creamy color with white pigments or a high-lighting pencil, apply the high light right on the bone below the outside corners of your eyes. Don't go all the way underneath your eye or you'll look like a raccoon and no one wants that. Blend out towards your cheek bone. *This make your cheekbones stand out. (As seen in "C")
3. Now apply the cream or pencil to the center of your nose. Start at the bridge and go all the way down to the tip of your nose. Make sure you do a very straight line. *This will make your nose look straight and slender along with the contouring. (As seen in "B")
4. Right above the eyebrows, apply the high lighting cream or pencil. Don't do the whole eyebrow, just the ends. *This will make your eyes stand out. (As seen in "A")
5. You can even high light the v-shape in your top lip but adding high light. You can define a more v-shape if you don't have one, by basically drawing a V with a high-lighting pencil. Don't do the whole top lip, just the v-shape. (As seen in "D")
   
   

   

   Highlighting

Some products that can help you achive these steps better:

This is the concealer stick I use to contour my face. It's really great because since it's a stick, all you have to do is draw lines on your face in the areas to contour, then blend with your finger. I use five shades darker than my skin tone.

I use High Brow by benefit for my high-lighting pencil. Even though it's technically made for the eyebrow trick, you can use it for anywhere else on the face. Just draw a line, and blend with your finger.



This is by Benefit called "Cupid's Bow." If you want to look like you have larger, fuller lips, this will do the trick! I love this product a lot. All you have to do is use the light side of the pencil to do that V-shape trick I taught you, and then with the dark side of the pencil, you line the very center of your bottom lip. Using the blending brushes the product comes with, blend everything. And vuala! Big lips!! It's all about SHADOWS.





It's not hard to contour & highlighting.. With a little bit of practice, you can really step up your makeup routine! Once you get it down, it'll only take about 5 extra minutes to do.

You'll defintely see a difference; your face will have sharp beautiful angles and your face will glow!

enhance your beauty!!! ... xoxo brianna <3