Contouring the face can make a huge difference to your appearance, with each high and low light you are adding a whole new dimension to the face and have the ability to accentuate your best features. Contouring involves three main stages, highlighting, contouring and blush. However, in an attempt to keep the information overload to a minimum I thought I would blog about these stages separately.
This post is all about highlighting!
Highlighting can help to bring attention to a particular area on the face and can help to achieve more pronounced features, such as your cheekbones. You should aim to target areas that the light naturally hits. There are five main places that people tend to highlight on the face:
1. Below the eyes - this makes them 'pop' and works beautifully with a dramatic or smokey look. This can also help to eliminate dark circles underneath the eyes. If this is something that you particularly struggle with then I recommend using a salmon colour highlighter because that is particularly effective at cancelling out bags.
2. Below the brow line and centre of the forehead.
3. Above the Cupid's bow - This accentuates the lips and enhances their shape. This effect can also be enhanced further by adding gloss to the centre of the lips to make them appear significantly fuller.
4. The highest point of your cheekbones - applying three dabs of high beam to the highest part of the outer cheek, just below the eye and using a contour brush sweep the highlighter in towards your nose creates an appearance of incredibly define and high cheekbones.
5. The nose - this is a really useful method when trying to create the illusion of having a slimmer nose.
Highlighters come in both powder and liquid form. I tend to use both, depending on the look I am aiming to achieve. However, I would recommend using a liquid highlighter for a night out because they last for a longer period of time in comparison to the powder which seems to sink in to the skin more. When applying your liquid highlighter pat the product in to the skin rather than rubbing it in as this can remove the foundation from the skin.
Melanie
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Highlighters come in both powder and liquid form. I tend to use both, depending on the look I am aiming to achieve. However, I would recommend using a liquid highlighter for a night out because they last for a longer period of time in comparison to the powder which seems to sink in to the skin more. When applying your liquid highlighter pat the product in to the skin rather than rubbing it in as this can remove the foundation from the skin.
The high beam highlighter by Benefit is my go to product for highlighting (£19.50)
Melanie
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