High, thin cheekbones and graceful features have always been considered a sign of noble origin. Fashion is cyclical, now again at the peak of popularity it’s not the rosy-cheeked beauties who descended from Rembrandt’s paintings, but the beauties with slender faces. Visually change facial features without using plastic surgery or cosmetic procedures. Contouring, a make-up technique that helps to correct facial features using dark and light shades of special cosmetics, will help with this.
Facial Correction Toolkit
Before you begin to draw cheekbones, you need to take care of the presence of the following products and tools in your cosmetic bag:
- Blush - the basic cosmetic product that helps to quickly highlight cheekbones with makeup. There are dry (more stable) and creamy (brighter).
- Powder is a darker shade than that used for daily makeup.
- Bronzer for the face. What it is? A dry or cream product that helps to adjust the shape of the face and give it a tan effect.
- Highlighter - a tool that gives the face a radiance.
- Different types of makeup brushes: beveled to emphasize the cheekbones, round for shading. It is better to opt for medium-sized instruments with natural pile.
If the makeup bag has a base for makeup, its use will help all means to lie more evenly. Not every woman has such an abundance of cosmetics. If you correctly understand what and how, understand the principles and technique, you can draw cheekbones with shades, the shades of which resemble a bronzer, blush or highlighter. The latter, by the way, can be replaced with a concealer, which is usually used to mask minor skin imperfections.
Application technique, or how to draw cheekbones
The basic way to correct the shape of the cheekbones is to use blush and powder. This method is suitable for ladies who do not want to understand, highlighter and bronzer for the face - what is it. On the part of the cheek that should stand out as much as possible, a pearlescent shade of powder or blush is applied. Then a darker tone of the selected cosmetic is applied below the blush line. It is important to apply makeup in smooth movements according to the following principle: light tones are applied in the direction from the nose to the temples, dark - from the chin to the temples.
When using the bronzer, you need to make a "fish" - open your mouth, uttering the sound "o", and draw an oblique line under the cheekbone from the temple to the chin. The line needs to be slightly darkened and shaded well. On the border between the protruding part and the cavity, you need to apply a highlighter, which will highlight the face and make the cheekbones more prominent.
For the appearance of a cold color type of appearance, makeup artists recommend using shades of pink, for warm - nude shades and peach tones.
Tips for every face type
Ideal would be contouring, selected for the individual parameters of each person. How to draw cheekbones, considering their advantages and disadvantages?
An oval face requires a natural effect, therefore, applied cosmetics need to be shaded as much as possible. A slight darkening of the tip of the chin and side of the forehead and the highlighting of the center of the forehead with light products will help to highlight the cheekbones.
A round face needs to be completely corrected, additional dark products are applied to the wings of the nose, temples and jaw, cheekbones need to be drawn with a more vertical line.
The square face will be balanced by a smooth, rounded line of blush. Do not darken the cheekbones, but the area under them, with a wider line. With a bright highlighter you can highlight the center of the forehead and chin.
With a triangular face, the line of the cheekbones should be slightly overestimated on the contrary, and with a thin, elongated face, it is necessary to use light blush on top of the bronzer.
Errors in highlighting cheekbones
It is important to understand that before highlighting the cheekbones, it is necessary to prepare the face - apply a tonal foundation, aligning the overall complexion. On an unprepared "naked" face, any highlighting of the cheekbones will look messy. Ready makeup should be fixed with powder.
Despite the relative interchangeability of cosmetics, makeup artists do not recommend:
- use a dark foundation instead of a bronzer - it has an unsuitable structure, does not shade well and does not work together with loose blush or highlighter;
- apply shimmer textures to areas that need to be darkened;
- abuse bright blush.
Also, when applying makeup, one should understand its purpose. So a vivid image prepared for a photo shoot is inappropriate in everyday life, and vice versa, insufficient study of the lines of the face can erase the effect of bright eye makeup at an important event.