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, contouring of the problem area can be done using decorative cosmetics.
Advice 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 correct color strokes and their skillful distribution for visual perception. In other words, makeup is applied in such a way that some areas stand out, attracting attention, while others, on the contrary, are hidden and fade into the background.
- Secondly, it is necessaryplace accents on the most attractive parts of the face: eyes, lips, cheekbones.
It is equally important in nose contouring to choose the right cosmetics. Mostly powder, foundation and concealer are involved in the work, so when buying, you need to make sure that they have a matte texture without extraneous shine. Glare attracts attention and can ruin even professional makeup.
If you approach the choice of cosmetics more informatively, it should be noted that the correction will be successful only if there are several shades of foundation. It is advisable to purchase a foundation a couple of tones lighter and darker than your natural skin color. Thus, the play of chiaroscuro on the skin of the face will be reflected as accurately as possible.
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.
Steps to be taken:
- First, remove all 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, while applying foundation, makeup on the eyes can be imprinted on the skin around and ruin the work done.
- After removing make-up, wash your face with a cleanser. It is important to note that the water should be at room temperature. This is due to the effect of the temperature of the liquid on the pores. After washing with contrast waterthe pores narrow or, conversely, secrete an excess amount of sebaceous glands, which will inevitably affect the quality of makeup.
- Then apply your usual moisturizer or make-up base. The final stage of preparation is matting with a tonal foundation that is close in color to the natural skin tone.
How to choose a concealer?
To make nose contouring as natural as possible, you need to choose the right cosmetic product.
Here are a few things:
- Cream-based concealer is much easier to apply lines and curves, it is easy to blend, which allows you to make a smooth transition. It is recommended to use this tool for daytime makeup.
- Dry corrector allows you to do makeup quickly and efficiently. However, you need to be careful with it, as the applied lines may be too saturated.
- For lack of any of the listed types of correctors, you can use a matte bronzer, powder or brown eye shadow.
What brushes do you need for face contouring?
Brushes for contouring the nose and the entire face are:
- bevelled;
- flat;
- fan;
- straight cut kabuki.
The angled brush is usually used to apply blush. In this case, it is useful for shading bronzer powder under the cheekbone line. Beveled cut for more precise application and distribution.
The flat brush makes it easy to apply the highlighter exactly on the desired area of the nose. On the brush, they collect a little money and apply it to the corner above the upper lip, the back of the nose, the 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. Thanks to its shape and small size, the brush makes every movement precise.
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 crumbled cosmetic residues from the face.
Straight Cut Kabuki is an indispensable brush for thorough blending of both dry and cream concealers.
Potato nose
Such a shape of the nose has long been considered rustic, for which only secular ladies were not ready to tricks to bring the shape closer to the aristocratic chiseled nose. Today, cosmetics in contrasting shades are enough to correct the wide shape of the nose.
The nose is contoured with potatoes as follows:
- Foundation cream or dry light tone corrector is applied to the back of the nose, the bridge of the nose and the central part of the forehead. The same shade highlights the chin, the skin area under the eyes. A dark base is applied to the wings of the nose, cheekbones and nostrils.
- With a brush with an oblique cut or with the help of a sponge, shading is done, moving from the central part to the right and left side. The transition should be smooth and invisible. Then the face is lightly powdered with powder with reflectiveparticles.
Hump nose
This shape of the nose is often called aquiline 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 heavier the facial features look. Visually correcting this nose shape is much more difficult than all the others, but nothing is impossible for a good makeup artist.
Hump nose contouring is done like this:
- First of all, it is necessary to apply a light foundation on the skin area between the eyebrows. Then a contrasting dark color on the hump. Nothing else is highlighted, so as not to inadvertently emphasize the bulge.
- Gently shade the borders of blackout. It should be clarified here that excessive shading will hide the traces of correction, and insufficiently smooth transition will give the impression that the nose is stained with dirt.
Long nose
Most women consider their nose to be long, even if this is not always the case. In such cases, visual contouring of the nose is exactly what is needed. It is performed like this:
- The back of the nose from the bridge of 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 bridge between the nostrils and the hollow above 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 additionally highlighted.
Reducing 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 big nose of a girl:
- Apply a thin line of light foundation on the back of the nose. On the wings - a dark tinting agent.
- The transition between colors should be subtle. It is better to remove the excess than to make the corrector layer thick.
- Visually balance the proportions of the arrow nose on the eyes.
Often, girls are dissatisfied not so much with their nose as with its overly elongated or pointed tip. You can hide this flaw by applying 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 rich color lipstick will become a distracting accent.
If the nose is shifted to the side
This is the rarest form of facial part found among women, but it is quite popular among men. However, even such a defect can be completely corrected by contouring the nose, without resorting to drastic measures.
In this variant, the nose shifted to the left is considered:
- To visually shift it to the right side, only one part of it will be darkened, namely the left one.
- A lighter tone is applied to the right side and back of the nose and smoothly shadedtransition from one shade to another.
If you have one of the listed flaws, you should not be upset, but, on the contrary, armed with decorative cosmetics and a set of brushes, try to experiment with your appearance and choose makeup for yourself. It is important to remember that bright accents also help divert attention from problem areas. If you can’t solve the problem yourself, then you should seek help from a makeup artist.
