Highlighting & Contouring
By contouring and highlighting your face you can change your whole appearance. It is fairly easy to do and can make your facial features pop!
Contouring and highlighting are one of the oldest practices in the makeup industry, they help sculpt your face to enhance your natural shadows and bone structure. Yet contouring is one of the most frequently left-out steps in makeup applications. That’s because a minefield of the make-up world, contouring is something that can go badly wrong- but it is easily doable for anyone with just a few simple tips.
Highlighting works with contouring. For example, when you contour your cheeks, you apply contour in the hallow area and highlight the apples. You also highlight the brow bone to open the eye and give depth to the crease area
Whether you need to emphasize your cheeks or create your facial skin more balanced in images, a professional contouring goes a long way. The image below will guide you how to contour your face with the help of bronzer, blush, and a highlighter as well as tips she applies to contour her face.
"To contour is to use a darker color to push back areas that are naturally receding and to highlight is to use a lighter color to bring forward areas that are naturally prominent"
What you will need:
1. Contour: color that is one to two shades darker than your foundation eg. brown eyeshadow, bronzer or a darker foundation.
2. Highlight: color that is one to two shades lighter than your foundation eg. a shimmery white/beige eyeshadow or a lighter foundation.
3. Tools: Brush, sponge, fingers - whichever you find easier.
Highlighting cheek bones can lengthen and thin your face.
For contoured cheekbones, highlighting in a correct way matters a lot. For contoured effect just collect bronzer, blush and highlighter.
Before collecting keep these important things in mind.
Shade of bronzer should match your skin tone. If you don’t have bronzer you can take foundation of 1-2 shades darker for an emphasizing effect for cheeks. Pick either rose, pinkish or peachy shades that can go well along with your skin colour. It is important that blush blends in overall makeup making your skin look more even.
Now the most important thing to choose about which we are talking is highlighters. You will find highlighters in powder as well as liquid. Choose the one in which you are comfortable. You can also go for bright coloured blush if you don’t find highlighters.
Now start with the first step by applying foundation and concealer evenly on the face to create base for the further makeup.
Step 1
Proceed with the darker foundation or the bronzer. Apply it to the hollows of the cheekbones and place it following an upward diagonal. The main aim is to blend it into the overall look. It should resemble a shadow rather than a defined line.
Step 2
Use the highlighter to emphasize the most prominent lines of your cheekbone. This beauty tool will efficiently reflect the light, emphasizing your cheekbones. The prominent features will start to come to the surface.
Step 3
Protect the sensitive skin of eye by keeping away the blush from eye area. Carefully apply blush on the apples of your cheek, sweeping it in upward direction of the cheekbones.
If your face is heavy and you want a slimmer look concentrate on the higher portion of the cheek. This highlighting technique will create an illusion of high cheekbones and make your features look more fine leaving you prettier than before.
Tips & Tricks:
1. Light colours come forward, and Dark colours go back.
You can bring forward your best featured by highlighting! And hide what you don't like by Contouring
2. Using powder products will give you a more natural matte look.
3. Using creamy products to highlight and contour will give you a more fresh and dewy look.
4. Start by Highlighting FIRST. Sometimes when you do this, you won't need as much contouring. It will stop it from being heavy.
5. Finishing of your make-up with a simple sparkly highlight onto the high planes of the face can add extra glamour!
Highlighting and Contouring according to face shape
By contouring and highlighting your face you can change your whole appearance. It is fairly easy to do and can make your facial features pop!
Highlighting works with contouring. For example, when you contour your cheeks, you apply contour in the hallow area and highlight the apples. You also highlight the brow bone to open the eye and give depth to the crease area
Whether you need to emphasize your cheeks or create your facial skin more balanced in images, a professional contouring goes a long way. The image below will guide you how to contour your face with the help of bronzer, blush, and a highlighter as well as tips she applies to contour her face.
"To contour is to use a darker color to push back areas that are naturally receding and to highlight is to use a lighter color to bring forward areas that are naturally prominent"
What you will need:
1. Contour: color that is one to two shades darker than your foundation eg. brown eyeshadow, bronzer or a darker foundation.
2. Highlight: color that is one to two shades lighter than your foundation eg. a shimmery white/beige eyeshadow or a lighter foundation.
3. Tools: Brush, sponge, fingers - whichever you find easier.
Highlighting cheek bones can lengthen and thin your face.
For contoured cheekbones, highlighting in a correct way matters a lot. For contoured effect just collect bronzer, blush and highlighter.
Before collecting keep these important things in mind.
Shade of bronzer should match your skin tone. If you don’t have bronzer you can take foundation of 1-2 shades darker for an emphasizing effect for cheeks. Pick either rose, pinkish or peachy shades that can go well along with your skin colour. It is important that blush blends in overall makeup making your skin look more even.
Now the most important thing to choose about which we are talking is highlighters. You will find highlighters in powder as well as liquid. Choose the one in which you are comfortable. You can also go for bright coloured blush if you don’t find highlighters.
Now start with the first step by applying foundation and concealer evenly on the face to create base for the further makeup.
Step 1
Proceed with the darker foundation or the bronzer. Apply it to the hollows of the cheekbones and place it following an upward diagonal. The main aim is to blend it into the overall look. It should resemble a shadow rather than a defined line.
Step 2
Use the highlighter to emphasize the most prominent lines of your cheekbone. This beauty tool will efficiently reflect the light, emphasizing your cheekbones. The prominent features will start to come to the surface.
Step 3
Protect the sensitive skin of eye by keeping away the blush from eye area. Carefully apply blush on the apples of your cheek, sweeping it in upward direction of the cheekbones.
If your face is heavy and you want a slimmer look concentrate on the higher portion of the cheek. This highlighting technique will create an illusion of high cheekbones and make your features look more fine leaving you prettier than before.
Tips & Tricks:
1. Light colours come forward, and Dark colours go back.
You can bring forward your best featured by highlighting! And hide what you don't like by Contouring
2. Using powder products will give you a more natural matte look.
3. Using creamy products to highlight and contour will give you a more fresh and dewy look.
4. Start by Highlighting FIRST. Sometimes when you do this, you won't need as much contouring. It will stop it from being heavy.
5. Finishing of your make-up with a simple sparkly highlight onto the high planes of the face can add extra glamour!
Highlighting and Contouring according to face shape
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