The girl needs to look perfect always wherever she is, be it everyday life or a special celebration. Those who are not happy with something in their appearance do not have to go to extreme measures and resort to the services of a plastic surgeon. It is enough just to learn how to use cosmetics correctly and to hide problem areas with its help. Many owners of a round face strive to visually make it better. In this they can easily be helped by such a technique as contouring.
What it is?
This special kind of makeup: it helps to remove imperfections and make any girl attractive. Contouring usually conceals a large nose, forehead, or full cheeks. But at the same time they emphasize all the advantages of the appearance, make the face more beautiful and expressive. They “draw” contouring with different cosmetics, both dry and liquid.
Of course, you should not get involved too much, because if you put a lot of money, it will look ridiculous and ugly. The whole contouring scheme is to visually reduce the size of the face. Using the game with light and dark shades, you can achieve a good result. Properly done contouring will make the effect of a thin face.
Sculpting Tools
Modern manufacturers of cosmetics of the most common brands consider it their duty to produce complete sets of palettes for sculpting. Previously, shades of different tones were selected that perfectly combine with each other.
However, with a huge selection of finished sets, not every girl is able to choose the right makeup for herself.This or that color, of course, will become ineffective. Therefore, you need to independently choose colors for your skin for contouring. That is, to choose three basic shades with which you can make beautiful facial contours.
There are different types of cosmetics for contouring. May be dry or cream products. Dry ones include: powder, highlighter, eye shadow or blush. Liquid are foundation, makeup base or BB cream, as well as various cosmetic oils. They can also be applied as a base for makeup. All these products are very necessary when creating makeup. You can make blush blush, and highlighter - to give shine to the face.
Powder is needed in order to mate and remove the shine after foundation. And the foundation for makeup well moisturizes and protects the skin from all applied products.
What tools will be needed?
To distribute all cosmetics on the face, you will need brushes. They will help to apply evenly makeup. If the brushes are good, then they will do all the work for you, thereby blending all the contouring.
The brushes should be of good quality, soft and fluffy so that the villi do not fall out of the base, and when in contact with the skin, they should not bring discomfort.
You can use a beauty blender. They come in different manufacturers and qualities, so you need to carefully select them when buying. Beauty blender copes with shading and can also be used when applying a foundation on the face.
Application Techniques
Sculpting and contouring is a complex process, but you can learn everything, including these techniques. Exercising every day and performing the necessary steps step by step, you can master these techniques to perfection. There is one standard algorithm that needs to be learned.
- Using contouring, you can mask certain parts of the face or completely change the face of a girl.
- The areas on which dark shades are applied will be less visible and will make beautiful indentations on the face.
- The darkest tone needs to be a natural color, it should perfectly match your skin color.
- A slightly lighter product is also needed. You can use the highlighter, bronzer or shimmer. Such products are needed to highlight certain areas of the face.
- A bronzer is applied to the cheekbones, it makes them more tanned and embossed. Highlighter is applied just above the cheekbones and applied to the corners of the eyes.
- When contouring, pay attention to the area of the temples and cheekbones. Most often, these places are always obscured; this process is suitable for all types of people.
- At the very end, apply blush on top of the contour lines. Blush will give a healthy complexion.
Step-by-step instruction
Each girl is individual in her own way, each has a different face shape. Someone in their person likes everything, and they only support the natural beauty, while someone has to hide the flaws. If you are the owner of a round face and you do not like something about him - it does not matter. You can correct everything and make it as if you did not apply any cosmetics.
- First of all, prepare your face by applying makeup base.
- Using a foundation or BB cream, even out the skin tone (you can use brushes or gently distribute the foundation with your fingers during product application).
- The shape of the nose is made by the corrector, it is enough to draw two even dark lines on the sides of the nose (after application, form a small beautiful nose).
- To make the cheekbones, you need to put the brush so that you can draw a line from the ear and almost to the lips (be sure to retract the cheeks and draw on one and the other side).
- The cheekbones are highlighted by the corrector, it darkens the area under the pits (do not forget that the part near the cheekbone should be pigmented, and near the ear - darker).
- To reduce the forehead, you need to darken the strip located near the hair, but be sure to step back about a centimeter from them.Fill the place near the temples and work them out well (this process is important for those who consider their forehead wide).
- Next, it is worth highlighting the eyes, thereby darkening the eyelids.
- Using a highlighter, it is necessary to brighten the nose, the center of the forehead, the corners of the eyes, the area above the cheekbone and the area of the upper lip.
After that, you need to shade all the lines drawn, namely dark and light. Performing this process, you need to carefully make smooth transitions between the shades so that no clear and bright lines are visible.
It is best to start with the light areas and smoothly switch to dark. Face contouring is done with brushes, and you can shade it with your fingers.
Summing up, we can say that for a rounded shape, visual thinness should be created. The areas to be darkened occupy a larger part than the areas of clarification. This is the area near the temples, the lines under the cheekbones and the lower part of the chin. It is definitely worth highlighting the forehead, nose and tip, chin with a highlighter.
Observing the simple recommendations given above, any owner of such a type of appearance can always look attractive.
For more information on contouring a round face, see the video below.