Not all women can boast of an ideal face shape. The world standard is the face of an oval shape, but beauties with a triangular or square face have a hard time.
Massive lower part, wide cheekbones and forehead are the main characteristics of a square face. Girls with such data very often complain about their appearance and try to find ways to correct their far from ideal facial features.
Proper makeup for a square face will help hide the main flaws in appearance. In this case, you should familiarize yourself with some secrets. In this case, the main purpose of makeup is to create the appearance of an oval face shape, but each stage needs to be de alt with in more detail.
Makeup for a square face: basic rules
There are several basic rules for correcting a square face type:
- Foundation must match skin tone.
- Concealer for darkening the temporal zone and lower partfaces on the sides should be darker than the skin tone.
- If you have a square face type, makeup in this case is best done using a highlighter. It is applied to the chin, the back of the nose and the middle of the forehead.
- Sculpting must be fixed with powder, transparent mineral-based powder is perfect for this purpose.
- When doing makeup, you should focus on the lips and eyes. Eyes can be emphasized with arrows or eyeliner, and lips are best visually narrowed so that they do not emphasize prominent cheekbones.
Correction foundation
To get the perfect makeup for a square face, you need to know some secrets of its correction.
When doing makeup, the first step is to clean the face, and then get down to business. First you need to apply a foundation for makeup, which will even out the skin. Thanks to this, the foundation will go on easily and naturally.
Next, you need to visually highlight the oval on your face, and everything outside of it is best masked with matte powder or foundation, which will be a tone darker than the skin color. At the same time, you should be careful, because the transition from darker tones to light ones should be invisible.
If desired or necessary, the nose can be reduced with foundation. To do this, a tool of a darker shade is applied to its side wings. At this stage, in the end, you need to lightly powderthe entire face using a mineral-based translucent loose powder.
Blush
Correcting a square face with makeup requires the use of two shades of blush. Some should be bronze or brown, while others should be pink.
Darker products are applied diagonally to the side of the face, slightly capturing the cheekbones. Cheeks are highlighted with light pink blush. Thanks to this technique, the face becomes fresher, while you can divert attention from too wide cheekbones.
Special attention to the application of blush should be given to women with lowered corners of the lips. They must be applied strictly horizontally, so as not to get a "mournful" facial expression. At the same time, the blush line is brought only to the middle of the pupils.
Eyebrow correction
When working on creating the ideal shape of the eyebrows, you need to consider that the hairs should be of medium density, while not plucking them too thinly.
When doing makeup for a square face, girls should choose a shortened eyebrow shape for themselves, which will not focus on the fact that the face is too wide. But still, long eyebrows are also acceptable, everything should be purely individual.
Also, women with a square face shape have a broken eyebrow shape (in this case, there should be a high bend point). And although such eyebrows give the face a look of a predator, at the same time they divert attention from the heavy chin. However, you need to be careful, because too even or rounded eyebrows can ruin the whole look.image.
Tips
- When doing eyebrow makeup, you should give up a black pencil, it is best to opt for lighter shades, brown or dark blond will do (everything will depend on hair color). Even if the girl's eyebrows are black, you shouldn't shade them with a pencil of the same color.
- Many specialists use one trick. The eyebrow brush is moistened in a special gel and the hairs are combed from the bottom up. In this way, you can open your eyes and give your face a more youthful look.
Eye makeup
Diverting attention from the imperfect shape of the face, it should be remembered that it is the eyes that can play the most important role. Properly and beautifully made-up eyes will become the main focus and easily distract from any flaws in appearance. Here you just need to familiarize yourself with some key points.
When doing makeup for a square face, lovers of arrows should remember that they should always be drawn in an upward direction. Arrows must never be horizontal.
When coloring eyelashes, you also need to use one trick: only the top ones are painted. It is better not to paint the lower ones at all, however, with a strong desire, only the outer corners of the eyes can be distinguished.
If a girl has a small distance between the eyebrows and the moving eyelid, you should give up dark and mother-of-pearl shadows. The feathering should be vertical.
Women with close-set eyes are bestuse light shadows. By applying them to the inner corners of the eyelids, you can visually set your eyes a little wider. In the presence of bags or bruises under the eyes, it is best not to paint the lower eyelid, limited only to the upper one.
Eye makeup for a square face should be limited to just one color. A multi-colored palette will accentuate a forehead that is too high and will emphasize an overly long face.
Perfect makeup lips
The square shape of the face suggests a visual lengthening of the shape of the lips. You need to take a contour pencil, which in color will be as close as possible to the shade of lipstick, and circle the borders of the lips. Next, the pencil outline is shaded with a soft brush. To visually make the lips more plump, in the middle of the lower, as well as the upper, the lips are applied over lipstick with a little gloss. Gloss can be applied to the entire surface only for owners of thin lips.
Following the above recommendations and tips, you can easily create the perfect makeup for a square face. The photos presented in this article will be a good example for you. The task can be solved much faster, knowing all the necessary nuances and having a set of good brushes in your arsenal.
When thinking about performing evening, festive or daytime makeup, you need to take into account the saturation of the shades of the cosmetics used. However, if the girl has a square face, make-up correction should be using mostly soft and muted colors. Creating an evening make-up, you can allowselect one zone for yourself, given the rule of one accent.
