Properly applied makeup allows you to hide imperfections and age-related skin changes, emphasize facial features or correct them. Often, women are faced with the question of how to visually reduce the nose with makeup, is it possible to change its shape without resorting to plastic surgery? If this is not associated with any injuries or pathologies, the contouring of the problem area can be performed using decorative cosmetics.
Tips Before Correction
Visually changing the shape of the nose at home is easier than it seems at first glance. This type of makeup is based on two main principles:
- First of all, this is the creation of true color strokes and their skillful distribution for visual perception. In other words, makeup is applied in such a way that some zones stand out, attracting attention, while others, on the contrary, are hidden and faded into the background.
- Secondly, it is necessary to place emphasis on the most attractive parts of the face: eyes, lips, cheekbones.
It is equally important in the contouring of the nose to choose the right cosmetics. The powder, tonal base and concealer are mainly involved in the work, so when buying, you need to make sure that they have a matte texture without extraneous luster. Glare attracts attention and can spoil even professional makeup.
If you are more informative about the choice of cosmetics, it should be noted that the correction will be successful only if there is a foundation in several shades. It is advisable to purchase a base in a couple of tones that are lighter and darker than your natural skin color. Thus, the play of chiaroscuro on the skin of the face will be most accurately reflected.
How to prepare the skin?
Preparing the skin before applying makeup and contouring the nose is an important step that is responsible for the quality of subsequent work.
You must complete the following steps:
- First, remove all the cosmetics on the skin. Despite the fact that only the nose will be corrected, it is important to take care of the cleanliness of the entire face. For example, during the application of a tonal foundation, makeup on the eyes can imprint on the skin around and ruin the work done.
- After removing makeup, you need to wash yourself with a cleanser. It is important to note that water should be at room temperature. This is due to the effect of fluid temperature on the pores. After washing with contrasting water, the pores narrow or, on the contrary, secrete an excessive amount of sebaceous glands, which will inevitably affect the quality of makeup.
- Then apply the usual moisturizer or base for makeup. The final stage of preparation is matting with a tonal base close in color to the natural skin tone.
How to choose a corrector?
To make the contouring of the nose as natural as possible, you need to choose the right cosmetic.
Here are a few nuances:
- Cream-based corrector is much easier to apply lines and bends, it is easy to shade, which allows you to make a smooth transition. Use such a tool is recommended for daytime makeup.
- Dry corrector allows you to make makeup quickly and efficiently. However, you need to be careful with it, because the lines drawn may be too saturated.
- For the absence of any of the listed types of correctors, you can use matte bronzer, powder or shades of brown.
What kind of brushes will be needed for contouring the face?
Brushes for contouring the nose and the whole face are:
- beveled;
- flat;
- fan;
- direct cut kabuki.
A beveled brush is commonly used to apply blush. In this case, it is useful for blending the bronzer powder under the cheekbones line. The beveled cut facilitates more accurate application and distribution of the product.
A flat brush makes it easy to apply the highlighter strictly to the desired area of the nose. A little money is collected on the brush and applied to the corner above the upper lip, the back of the nose, chin, over the tip of the eyebrow and other areas that need to be highlighted. With the same brush, dark accents are applied to certain parts of the face. Due to its shape and small size, the brush makes every movement accurate.
The fan brush allows you to apply dry cosmetics without excess due to its shape and volume. In addition, it is often used to remove loose cosmetic residues from the face.
Kabuki with a direct cut - an indispensable brush for thorough shading, both dry and cream proofreaders.
Potato nose
From the earliest times, such a shape of the nose was considered rustic, no matter how tricks the secular ladies were ready to bring closer to the aristocratic chiseled nose. Today, cosmetic means of contrasting shades are sufficient for correcting the wide shape of the nose.
The nose is contoured with potatoes like this:
- A foundation or a dry bright tone corrector is applied to the back of the nose, nose bridge and central part of the forehead. The same shade highlights the chin, the area of skin under the eyes. A dark base is applied to the wings of the nose, cheekbones and nostrils.
- Using a slanting brush or with the help of a sponge, make shading with a brush, moving from the central part to the right and left side. The transition should be smooth and invisible. Then the face is lightly dusted with powder with reflective particles.
Aquiline nose
This form of the nose is often called eagle or Caucasian, if for men this is one of the signs of masculinity, then for women it is a big problem. The more pronounced the hump on the nose, the harder and harder the facial features look. Visually correcting this shape of the nose is much more difficult than all the others, but for a good makeup artist there is nothing impossible.
The contour of the nose with a hump is performed as follows:
- First of all, it is necessary to apply a light foundation on the area of the skin between the eyebrows. Then a contrasting dark color on the hump. They do not highlight anything else so as not to inadvertently emphasize the bulge.
- Carefully blend the dimming borders. Here it is necessary to clarify that excessive shading will hide traces of correction, and not enough smooth transition will create the impression that the nose is dirty with dirt.
A long nose
Most women find their nose long, even if this is not always the case. In such cases, visual contouring of the nose is exactly what is needed. It runs like this:
- The back of the nose from the nose to the tip is highlighted. Then the resulting light area is outlined with a dark corrector, while the line should not be very thick. The tip of the nose, the jumper between the nostrils and the cavity over the lip are darkened.
- Then the borders are carefully shaded, providing a smooth transition.
- After that, with the help of a light highlighter, the back of the nose can be further highlighted.
Reduction of the wings and tip of the nose
To visually narrow the wide wings of this part of the face with makeup, you must adhere to the following recommendations.
The technique will help reduce the girl’s big nose:
- On the back of the nose you need to apply a thin line of light foundation. On the wings - a dark tinting agent.
- The transition between colors should be subtle. Excess is better to remove than to make the corrector layer thick.
- Visually balance the proportions of the nose with arrows on the eyes.
Often, girls are unhappy not so much with their nose, but with its overly long or pointed tip. You can hide this drawback if you apply a dark foundation on both sides of the tip. Another trick is to apply bright shadows on the lower eyelids. Narrow eyebrows also visually balance the proportions of the face. A distracting accent will be the saturated color lipstick.
If the nose is pushed to the side
This is the rarest form of part of the face found among women, but it is quite popular among men. However, such a defect can also be corrected by contouring the nose without resorting to radical measures.
In this embodiment, the nose is shifted to the left:
- To visually shift it to the right side, only one part of it will be darkened, namely, the left.
- A lighter tone is applied to the right side and back of the nose and smoothly blend the transition from one shade to another.
If you have one of these flaws, you should not be upset, but, on the contrary, armed with decorative cosmetics and a set of brushes, try experimenting with the appearance and choosing makeup for yourself. It is important to remember that bright accents also help to divert attention from problem areas. If you can’t solve the problem yourself, then you should seek help from a makeup artist.