High, thin cheekbones and graceful features have always been considered a sign of noble birth. Fashion is cyclical, now again at the peak of popularity are not rosy-cheeked beauties who descended from Rembrandt's paintings, but beauties with thin faces. You can visually change facial features without the use of plastic surgery or cosmetic procedures. This will help contouring - a makeup technique that allows you to adjust facial features using dark and light shades of special cosmetics.
Face Correction Tool Kit
Before you start drawing cheekbones, you need to take care of the following products and tools in your cosmetic bag:
- Blush is a basic cosmetic product that helps to quickly highlight the cheekbones with makeup. There are dry (more stable) and creamy (more vibrant).
- Powder darker than the one used for daily makeup.
- Bronzer for the face. What it is? A dry or cream treatment to help reshape and tan the look of the face.
- Highlighter - a tool that gives the face radiance.
- Brushesfor different types of makeup: beveled to emphasize the line of the cheekbones, round for shading. It is better to opt for medium-sized tools with natural bristles.
If you have a makeup base in your makeup bag, using it will help all products lie more evenly. Not every woman has such an abundance of cosmetics. If you correctly figure out what and how, understand the principles and techniques, you can draw cheekbones with shadows, the shades of which resemble a bronzer, blush or highlighter. The latter, by the way, can be replaced with concealer, which is usually used to mask minor skin imperfections.
Applying 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 mother-of-pearl shade of powder or blush is applied. Then a darker tone of the selected cosmetic product is applied below the blush line. It is important to apply makeup with smooth movements according to the following principle: light tones are applied in the direction from the nose to the temples, dark ones - from the chin to the temples.
When using a bronzer, you need to make a "fish" - open your mouth, pronouncing 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. A highlighter should be applied to the border between the protruding part and the hollow, which will illuminate 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 will be contouring, matched to the individual parameters of each face. How to draw cheekbones, given your strengths and weaknesses?
An oval face requires a natural effect, therefore, the applied cosmetics should be shaded as much as possible. A slight darkening of the tip of the chin and the side of the forehead and highlighting the center of the forehead with light products will help to highlight the cheekbones brighter.
Round face needs full adjustment, additional dark products are applied to the wings of the nose, temples and jaw, cheekbones need to be drawn with a more vertical line.
Balance a square face with a smooth, maximally rounded blush line. It is not the cheekbones that should be darkened, but the area under them, and with a wider line. With a light highlighter, you can highlight the center of the forehead and chin.
With a triangular face, on the contrary, the line of the cheekbones should be slightly raised, and with a thin, elongated face, it is necessary to use light blush over the bronzer.
Mistakes in highlighting cheekbones
It is important to understand that before highlighting the cheekbones, it is necessary to prepare the face - apply a tonal foundation, evening out the overall complexion. On an unprepared "naked" face, any highlighting of the cheekbones will look messy. Finished makeup should be set with powder.
Despite the relative interchangeability of cosmetics, makeup artists do not recommend:
- use a dark foundation instead of a bronzer - it has an inappropriate structure, does not blend well and does not work with loose blush or highlighter;
- apply shimmery textures to areas that need darkening;
- abuse bright blush.
Also, when applying makeup, you should understand its purpose. So a bright image prepared for a photo shoot is inappropriate in everyday life, and vice versa, insufficient study of facial lines can erase the effect of bright eye makeup at an important event.
