How to Contour and Highlight Your Face for Beginners(Makeup)

How to Contour and Highlight Your Face for Beginners Guide(Makeup)

When it comes to highlighting and contouring, there's a fine (bronzer-caked) line between enhancing your best features and painting on an entirely new face. Here's how to bring out your cheekbones, slim your nose, and sculpt your face subtly with contouring makeup.

We've all seen celebrities in magazines, with high cheek bones, small nose, without a turkey neck, and glowing face. Sometimes, we think its natural, but other times, its just makeup. Yes, you heard right, makeup. To achieve that look that you want, read this article below, and also click the link given so you will learn everything about contouring and highlighting.Click Link to learn how to do it step by step. 

Link to Video: https://youtu.be/g17btfhELgo

  

                               How to Contour your Face

Re-Think Contouring:

Old-school contouring—the technique of using shading to enhance and define facial features—used to mean layers upon layers (upon layers) of dark, dramatic makeup, harsh angles, and pretty much everything worn by the cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Erase those images from your mind (if you can). The twenty-first century version is all about enhancing cheekbones, slimming your face, and tricking the eye in a believable way. Simply put: "It's no longer about carving a line into your cheek.

I like to contour with a cream because you can pat it on with your fingers and it has a natural finish that doesn't look like makeup, Or if you're more comfortable with powder, choose a sheer formula, like Makeup Revolution Blush,Bronzer & Brighten Palette in Powder, which "gives a softer contour,". While the formula you use is up to you, make sure you're consistent. That means using all cream or all powder products—from your foundation to your blush. Layering different textures can cause a caked-on effect, and it won't blend as seamlessly.

Consider Your Skin Tone:

Anything that stands out too much against skin is going to look obvious. "If you're fair, use a contouring cream or powder that's one shade darker than your skin tone. In keeping with the idea of shadows, look for formulas with a grayiscast. and stay away

from anything too red or orange, like most bronzers.

Where to Contour:

Want instant cheekbones? Suck in your cheeks ("make fish like face).Then, working from the tops of the hollows inward, shade along—and just beneath—the sunken area, stopping about an inch from the corner of your mouth,then blend well with your finger or a sponge. To slim your nose, blend two lines of the shading cream or powder from the start of your brows down the sides of the bridge of your nose with a small shadow brush.

Easy Explaination For Contouring:

For contouring you firstly have to make face like a fish and than the line that is formed from your ears to mouth is the place when you need to co tour.So after doing a line take a blending brush or Beauty Blender and blend it properly taking your time for blending.You also need to set your cream contour with powder to make sure that it stays in place.And for easy steps you can just make 3 from your forehead to jawline to get flawless looking face.For further you can just check out my video.

                           How to Highlight

Choose the Glitter:

Highlighter should be "almost the color of your skin, with just a hint of shine.Avoid anything with noticeable sparkles, which can look chalky or just plain unnatural. 
I like working with creamy Highlighters with little powdery formulas,like Faces Ultime Pro Illuminating Powder. These formulas mimic your skin's texture so it just looks more 
believable.If you have fair skin, a pearly shade works well, but those with medium and dark 
complexions need a warmer golden highlighter for a glow that looks natural, not pasty..

Pick the Right Tools:

Using creams? Use your fingers. They warm the makeup so it melts and blends more seamlessly into your skin.If you're working with powder take brush which has natural bristles. Because there are so few bristles and they're so soft, you're less likely to overdo it. The shape of the brush also lets you really control the placement

Where to Highlight:

Highlighting is especially important when you're contouring because it brings the light back into your face. But once again, you don't want to overdo it. "Most people slap on too much highlighter and look like the Tin Man. Her technique: "I lightly coat my pointer, middle, and ring fingers with highlighter, and then rub them against the same fingers on the other hand.Tap your fingers up and down your cheekbones, and then dab whatever's left over on your brow bones, the center of your chin, and just one tap on the tip of your nose.You can also use Fan Brush for Highlighting.

Know Your Face Shape:

Not all of the rules of highlighting and contouring are universal; it's also important to keep your face 

shape in mind. If you have a round face, contouring under your cheekbones can make it appear smaller.But if you have a narrow face, it could make it look even longer. Instead, "shade along the top of the forehead and a bit on the chin.This technique softens angular features and creates a more 

rounded effect.

Easy Explaination for Highlighting:

For highlighting you just take a fan brush or fluffy brush to apply it and you have to apply it on the highest points of your cheeks going in upwards direction to get a glowing skin.Highlighting makes a ton of difference in your makeup.