How to Contour Face with Makeup

How to Contour Face with Makeup

In case you’ve been wishing you had perfect cheekbones and a slimmer nose, fret no more. Makeup is a girl’s best friend! Teach yourself how to contour face with makeup; contour muscles and bones for a perfect sculpted look. Hide an unwanted double chin and make your face look slimmer and more balanced.

How to Contour Face with Makeup

Steps:

1. Prep your face by cleansing and applying your usual foundation (exact colour of your skin) and concealer.
2. What you need for the contouring is — a bronzer (or a foundation 1-2 shades darker than your skin tone), blush, highlight powder (or a foundation 1-2 shades lighter than your skin tone), and eye shadow, eyeliner and makeup brushes.
3. Stand under an overhead light which brightly illuminates your face. Use this as a guideline to see where your shadows naturally fall and contour your face accordingly.
4. Alternatively, you may start by sucking your cheeks in and locating your cheek bones and the hollows under it. The hollow is where you need to apply bronzer (or the darker foundation) in a sweeping movement from the top of your forehead’s hairline. Extend the brush movement to the area directly underneath the apples of your cheeks. Blend well.
5. If your face is small, you can just shade the hollows of the cheeks starting from the temples. Shading on the forehead along your hairline will make your face appear even smaller.
At the same time, those with a broad forehead can benefit from using bronzer to shade around the hairline to minimize its apparent width. It is very important to know what your face shape is and work with it accordingly.
6. If you have a wide face, use bronzer to shade the outer edges of your jaw line to make it appear smaller. People with narrow thin faces may skip this part.
Those with a double chin can sweep the brush under the jaw line to create a shadow there.
7. The apples of your cheeks may be highlighted with highlight powder and a blush in a colour of your choice.
8. Pick up a smaller brush. Apply your strokes from where your eyebrow begins down along the sides of the bridge of the nose. Leave the bridge untouched. Repeat on the other side, blending really well to avoid harsh lines.

When you get to the tip of your nose, examine its shape carefully.
If your nose has a wide tip, blend your bronzer inwards underneath the tip, to create a v-shaped shadow facing inwards. Use highlight powder to make the tip of the nose more prominent, and extend the highlight along the bridge.

If your nose has a naturally narrow tip, then flare outwards from the tip forming an upside-down ‘v’. Soften the tip with a neutral shade of foundation. This will balance a very sharp nosed face. Use highlighter or a neutral foundation powder along the bridge to give it the desired shape.
Some noses may be shaped perfectly and will not need to be over defined. With trial and error, you will know what looks most aesthetic.

9. Use highlighter to lighten your brow bone just underneath your brows to lift the eye. Add a hint of highlight along the inner corner of the eye for a more wide-awake look. Shade the crease with a dark brown or any deeper shade of eye shadow. Apply the eye shadow as usual. Line your eyes and apply mascara.
10. You may want to apply a slight touch of highlighter on the Cupid’s bow to give definition to your lips. Line lips with a deeper shade than your lipstick colour and fill inside the outline with lipstick.

facecontouring2

Viola! You’re looking at a transformed version of yourself in the mirror!
Here are some videos to help you along:

Also Read:
E.l.f. Studio Contouring Blush & Bronzing Powder
Bourjois Khol & Contour Eyeliner Pencil
Lotus Hypnotica Eye Contour Definer Photos, Swatches
How to Highlight Your Face – Photo Tutorial
How to Make Your Face Thinner
How to Choose Sunglasses According to Face Shape
Bourjois Khol & Contour Eyeliner Pencil
Lotus Hypnotica Eye Contour Definer
Bourjois Contour Clubbing Waterproof Eyeliner Pencil
Lotus Herbals Hypnotica Eye Contour Definer- New Shades
Makeup For Sensitive Skin
Makeup for Dry Skin
Makeup for Indian Skin Tone
Mineral Makeup For Mature Skin
Eyes: Different Makeup Styles
Eyes: Makeup for Older Women

IMBB RECOMMENDS

21 thoughts on “How to Contour Face with Makeup

  1. Super excellent article bhumycka. You have covered everything in detail.. For every person contouring would be different. It’s not about only sucking your cheeks and applying bronzer in the hollows… Very good article. :yes:

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *