Pastey Princess Beauty

25 September 2008 @ 06:34 pm

Contouring via Highlights (lighter shades):
Highlights = a shade or two lighter than your foundation

Using a highlighter high on your cheek bones will give a dewy, youthful, glowing effect to your face and can create fuller, more prominent cheek bones. Dot the highlighter along the highest part of your cheekbones, beginning about the center of your eyes and up and out toward hairline, blending carefully with a patting or stippling motion.

If you have a very long or narrow face and want to widen it, place the cheek bone highlights more horizontal and apply a bit of highlight along a weak or narrow jawline to help widen or define it.

Contour brow bones or eyelids to make them look radiant and stand out. Highlighter placed in a V shape between your brows and blended well can also create a radiant glow to your face and help a small forehead look larger.

Make a small nose look larger or longer by putting a strip of highlight down the bridge of the nose.

Make a small chin appear larger by applying highlighter to the center of the chin, directly under the center of the lip.

Pearly highlighter can be placed in your décolleté as well for luminescence.
You can add a drop of it to your normal foundation to brighten up your makeup or select areas to highlight. For pearl or luminescent highlighters, choose one with gold (for warm skin tones) or pink (for cool skin tones) and it should be lighter than your foundation by only one or two shades. Avoid using white tones to highlight since it can look severe, and on darker skin it will appear ashy.

Tags: cheek, chin, contouring, forehead, highlighter, nose

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25 September 2008 @ 06:30 pm

Contouring Eyes and Nose and Forehead and Chin

Eyes:
Apply bronzer at the outer corner of the eye going upward toward the temple to give the eye a more exotic, cat eye look. Blend carefully with eyeshadow to appear flawless.

Nose:
To slim a wide nose- apply contour shadows on each side of your nose, add a thin line of highlighter down the center of your nose; apply a slight shadow directly over the sides of your nostrils will make them appear smaller as well.
To disguise a prominent bump- place a spot of bronzer to the center of the nose or bridge.
To shorten a long nose- place a little shadow just under the tip of the nose

Forehead:
Wide forehead- apply a light bronzer to each temple and blend well up and into the hairline.
High forehead- place the shadow at the top of forehead near the hairline (and into the hairline) and blend well downward.
Large forehead (wide and high)- place the shadow in a ‘C’ shape starting at the center of the forehead at hairline and sweeping across and downward along hairline into temple area.

If you have sharp angles to your forehead (as with square or diamond shape faces)- soften the angular areas by applying shadows on them into the hairline.
For heart shape faces with large foreheads- dust bronzer all along the hairline, fading as you get to the temples.

Chin:
Long/pointy chin- place bronzer on the tip of chin.
Broad chin- place a touch of shadow to either side of the center point of chin
Double chin- lightly apply bronzer just under the jaw line and blend it down, fading towards your neck.
Little extra fat under your chin- lightly dusting bronzer on the fatty part.

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