Today you can easily make any face look thin with makeup. Special techniques allow you to remove the cheeks, reduce the size of the nose, and make the oval of the face clear and toned. Thanks to the efforts of beauty bloggers and the revelations of celebrity makeup artists, the techniques of sculpting, strobing and shading have become famous. With their help, cosmetics are applied in such a way as to obtain a visually thinner oval face with expressive features.
What you need to create the image
To make your face smaller with makeup, you will need products with a creamy or powdery (dry) texture and special tools.
These include:
- brush or sponge;
- highlighter;
- sculpting (dark) powder or corrective pencil;
- foundation;
- matting powder;
- blush.
Please note that to create a beautiful makeup look, it is important to properly prepare your face. To do this, you will need a cleansing foam, toner and moisturizer.
Play of light and shadows on the face
Before applying corrective products, take a close look at the appearance of the stars. What a clear oval face, sunken cheeks, voluminous cheekbones in many of them, what beautifully defined lips and expressive eyes. Has nature really so generously rewarded everyone with ideal external data?
It's not so much a matter of visiting a plastic surgeon or a beauty salon, but rather the skillful work of makeup artists. By correctly applying highlights and shadows, they make the appearance thinner, younger and more attractive. And they use it important rule.
Darken everything that needs to be hidden or visually reduced. Whiten and highlight everything that needs to be enlarged and made more voluminous
Secret tricks of makeup artists
To ensure that makeup lasts throughout the day, professionals use several rules:
- for oily or mixed skin types, use dry, mattifying products - organic loose or compact pigmented powder, blush and luminators;
- for normal skin use a combination of cream and dry textures;
- for dry skin it is better to choose liquid and cream products - Foundation, corrector in a stick, liquid highlighter and cream blush;
- darkening correctors are selected just a few shades darker natural color, otherwise the face will acquire artificial appearance as if you didn’t use makeup, but makeup;
- The same rule applies to reflective highlight products: they should not be more than two shades lighter.
It is best to choose a highlighter that has a uniform glow, without individual sparkles or obvious sparkling particles.
How to apply darkening agents
In order to start working with darkening products, you need to prepare your face for makeup:
- firstly, the skin is cleansed with gel or foam;
- secondly, a moisturizing or cleansing tonic is applied to it (it is selected individually depending on the skin type);
- then moisturize with cream;
- When the cream is absorbed, apply the foundation with a brush.
To visually narrow your face and make your cheeks smaller, you need to darken some areas of it.
To begin, apply sculptor (dark powder) to the brush, shake off excess product and apply it from cheeks to temples. When using a cream product, a line is drawn under the cheek and extended towards the temples.
Important! The lines should not remain too clear, as if under a ruler. They must be extinguished with a brush. The movements should tend upward (so the oval will be narrower and tighter).
Beauty bloggers use a simple technique to create sunken cheeks. They pull them into themselves, and draw dark lines in place of the depressions. To visually make the nose smaller, its wings and the depressions between the eyes and nose are darkened. To make the oval of the face softer, darken the line of the forehead and chin.
Highlighter areas
Highlighters are used to highlight protruding parts. They vary depending on the shade (white, pink, lilac, beige) and texture (liquid, dry, cream). They are applied with a brush or finger to the following areas:
- bridge of the nose;
- cheekbones;
- above the lip.
To create a festive makeup, the product is also applied to the inner corners of the eyes, in the center of the forehead, on the collarbones and under the eyebrow.
Blush for a fresh and youthful look
Blush is added to the apples of the cheeks and pulled with a brush towards the temple. They also make the face look narrow due to the contrast between the sunken cheeks and the prominent pink parts of the cheekbones. To correctly determine the area to apply blush, you need to smile and highlight the protruding part with the product.
Don't neglect blush. It is a beautiful natural blush that helps complete the makeup.
Finishing touch
To complete the makeup, tint the eyes and lips. evening make-up the eye is a separate issue. And for everyday use, it will be enough to draw an arrow along the eyelash edge of the moving eyelid, apply matte shadows of a natural color and tint the eyelashes. Thin lips are visually enlarged with the help of a highlighter above upper lip and a sculptor under the bottom.
All makeup is fixed with a spray
In conclusion, we note that you need to use cosmetics for the entire face, and not apply products selectively only to the eyes or lips. If you only tint the eyes, they will remain noticeable dark circles under the eyes and all skin imperfections. If you use only foundation, your face will be flat. It is sculpting that will make it voluminous, thin and attractive. And the last piece of advice: all lines must be shaded and the transitions made smooth. Then the makeup will make imperfections less noticeable and emphasize natural beauty.
Expressive cheekbones, sunken cheeks and a neat chin - these beauty standards have been confidently occupying the first positions for several years now. But what to do if, while nature was giving out the perfect oval face, you were standing in line for slender legs? An alternative is to run to the surgeon and beg him to remove a couple of teeth or Bish’s lumps. For those who are not ready for such radical measures, Grazia will tell you how to outwit everyone. To do this, you need to know just a few beauty tricks that will make your face visually thinner without surgical intervention.
Haircuts
To draw attention away from chubby cheeks, ask your hairdresser for a graduated cut. Simply put, the familiar “Ladder”, which starts from the chin. It will visually narrow and elongate your face. Straight, short bangs not your story either. Give preference to a braided or pointed one, as worn by Natalia Oreiro in the series “Wild Angel”.
Coloring
Visually pull out round face Dark shades of hair will help. It is not at all necessary to paint in one color: you can add highlights or colored strands. All options for shatush and balayage would be appropriate here.
Styling
Cross off high smooth ponytails at the back of the head, tight buns and straight strands near the face from the list of hairstyles. Although in some cases the latter can play into your hands: they cover your cheeks. But, alas, this is only until the first breath of wind. The ideal styling is considered to be loose curls that cover part of the face.
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Face
Every self-respecting cosmetic brand has a whole collection or at least a couple of contouring products in its arsenal. Thanks to this army of assistants, you can “lose weight” on your face in just a couple of minutes. For example, powder of a soft peach or golden hue will disguise the cheeks: walk it along the hairline. And to highlight the cheekbones, draw a line from the temples towards the lips. Or draw in your cheeks, and apply powder in the shape of a comma to the resulting hollows: move from the center of the hollow to the hairline. Carefully blend all lines so that the makeup looks natural.
To elongate a round face, apply highlighter to the center of the forehead, the bridge of the nose, the hollow between the nose and lip (“Cupid’s bow”) and the center of the chin. To “lift” your cheekbones, apply highlighter under your brow bone and on your temples.
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Brows
Although thick, wide eyebrows visually narrow the face, do not forget that they require special care. That is, it is necessary to periodically adjust the shape, paint over the gaps between the hairs (pencil, shadows), smooth it with gel. If you don’t have time to do this yourself or simply don’t want to, put yourself in the hands of professional brow masters from salons such as Benefit, Hollywood Brows, Brow Up! and many others.
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Eye makeup
Eye makeup using the cat eye technique will help shift attention from the lower part of the face to the upper part. All you need to do is draw a small arrow and shade it at the outer corner of the eye with shadows or a pencil.
Girls are often dissatisfied with their appearance; they may not be satisfied with the shape of their face or the size of their nose, but most often chubby cheeks cause annoying troubles. However, if you apply makeup correctly, you can make your face look thinner and create perfect image. The products used to apply makeup can have a dry or creamy texture.
It is very important to choose the right shade of a cosmetic product and apply it in strict accordance with the recommendations of makeup artists. By following all the rules, you can visually reduce even a rounded face, lengthen it, bring it as close as possible to oval shape. It’s good to complement your makeup with a hairstyle that matches your face type.
Makeup rules for a full face
Any horizontal line only widens the face. That is why, in order to make it visually smaller, it is necessary to eliminate long horizontal lines as much as possible. Eyebrows play an important role in correcting facial parameters. When modeling their shape, you should start from the natural outline, but straight eyebrows are not recommended.
It is better to make them raised, slightly shortened and thin at the edges. To make the face look thinner, the thickness of the eyebrows should be medium, and the hairs should point upward. You can get this result using a modeling gel.
Eyebrows can make your eyes look more expressive and your cheeks look thinner. This element of makeup should be given special attention. Also, to give expressiveness to the look, it is necessary to emphasize the eyes. To make them visually larger, it is necessary to apply shadows in natural shades.
One more horizontal line on the face are the lips. They also need to be highlighted correctly with makeup to visually make the face smaller. Small lips only further emphasize fullness, which means they need to be made voluminous.
It is better to focus on the central part of the lips, and not paint over the corners. Very good in in this case Apply lipsticks and glosses in natural shades, light or transparent. Makeup with their help can visually narrow a face of any shape.
Applying blush will help visually reduce cheekbones warm shades. They are applied at the top of the cheekbones and then shaded with a brush.
Choosing a cosmetic product
All cosmetics that are used to narrow the face are divided into two categories: oily and dry. Makeup will be flawless only if the type of cosmetic product is chosen correctly, taking into account all individual characteristics skin.
The following recommendations will help you make your choice in favor of one or another product:
- Cosmetics for fat based will be an ideal tool for reshaping the face for those with dry skin. Also, similar tools are recommended for performing age makeup. They can visually hide small wrinkles, in addition, they can nourish and moisturize the skin. Foundation applies better and stays on the surface much longer than powder.
- With the help of dry powder it is easy to change the proportions of the face of girls with oily and combination skin. This is an excellent option for everyday corrective makeup, and use foundation Recommended for evening and holiday make-up.
When choosing a foundation for correction, you should prefer a product that is several tones darker than your skin. At the same time, for correction with powder it is necessary to prepare two different shades - dark and light. A dark tone is used on areas of the face that need to be reduced, darkened, or distanced. Often the areas where dark colors are applied are the cheeks or the double chin. Illuminating light powder is applied to highlight, emphasize, enlarge or bring certain parts of the face closer. The main application areas are cheekbones and nose.
Makeup for a full face
Makeup according to face type
Except general rules which help make the face thinner, there are also separate recommendations for application decorative cosmetics for different face types. Chubby cheeks bother owners more often than others round shape faces. To lengthen the shape and visually reduce the cheeks, they should:
- Make the eyebrows elongated.
- Apply shadows so that they do not extend to the border of the eyelids. The optimal eye shape to achieve is elongated.
- Avoid rounded lips.
- Darken the contour of the face, starting from the top of the cheekbones.
An oval face shape requires the least amount of effort. In this case, it will be enough to blend the blush on the cheekbones with circular movements and apply shadows to the eyelids natural shade to visually lengthen them.
Square faces are quite difficult to correct. As a rule, it is necessary to darken all problem areas with powder or bronzer: a wide forehead and chin, protruding cheekbones. Using a highlighter to highlight the center of the forehead, chin, and bridge of the nose will help add elegance. Complete the corrective makeup by applying blush in a natural shade.
Girls with a triangular face shape need to make their thick chin thinner. To do this, it is darkened using a dark shade of powder or creamy bronzer, and the top should be made more voluminous by applying a highlighter.
A diamond-shaped or heart-shaped face requires applying a dark shade of powder along the contour of the face and on the cheekbones. It is important to remember the rule that dark color always applied to protruding parts and those areas that need to be hidden or reduced. A light shade has the opposite effect.
Although not everyone has an ideal appearance, any imperfections can be corrected with the help of makeup. Corrective make-up can change the shape of the face, make it thinner, narrow or widen. Nothing is impossible. The main thing is to understand that every detail matters. Everything from the shape of your eyebrows to the color of your lipstick can be used to shape your face. If you apply makeup correctly, even the plumpest cheeks or thick chin can appear thin.
There are stereotypes that a person with pointed, thin facial features has an evil, unpleasant character. Indeed, often a thin face does not have an attractive appearance: protruding skull bones, dark circles under the eyes, an elongated nose, and not a completely healthy skin color - all this visually adds several years to a woman and makes her look like a predator.
Where does such thinness come from?!
The reason for such thinness can be severe nervous stress, overwork, poor nutrition, and unhealthy environmental conditions. Maybe it's worth paying attention more attention proper rest, take soothing drops based on herbal ingredients, treat stressful situations more calm and simple? All this, of course, is a scientifically proven fact, but no one has yet canceled the simple and natural, as well as unspoken rules of makeup, including for people with excessive underweight.
Makeup tasks for a thin face
The main task of makeup for underweight people is to try to widen the face as much as possible, remove protruding cheekbones, disguise hollow cheeks and dark color under the eyes.
At the same time, you can slightly shorten your nose or an overly prominent chin. In other words, using the language of professional makeup artists, darken all noticeable areas of the body on the face and vice versa - lighten those that need to be highlighted. For this we will use light and dark tones.
Light tone (highlighter) – optically brings it closer and makes shapes appear larger. Dark tone (accent or filler) - lengthens, makes objects seem remote and in-depth. In this case, the exception may be the eyes and the area around them. Here are two examples of makeup for thin face
Example 1. Thin face and narrow forehead. In such cases, the lightener is applied: - 1 to the recesses of the sunken temples to visually enlarge them and the superciliary area to emphasize the shape and color of the eyebrows, 2 - to the bridge of the nose, 3 - all nasolabial pits and corners of the mouth. For a very thin face, highlighter is applied over the entire oval.
Example 2. Thin face and wide forehead. In these cases, the filler, or in the language of the pros - dirt, is simply irreplaceable and is applied: - 1 to the side parts of the temples and the sides of the forehead, in order to narrow and visually reduce it as much as possible, 2 - to the side parts of the bridge of the nose, for the same purpose and 3 – on the zygomatic fossa.
We mask all other parts of a thin face that are not affected by the lightener and filler in the usual way, according to the same scheme as a face with an ideal oval shape.
- Too wide and dark eyebrows make a thin girl’s face even thinner. It is best to choose a medium eyebrow thickness, approximately 4 mm at the beginning and 2 mm at the end.
- You can ideally correct a narrow forehead and widen it a little with the right hairstyle. So, for a girl with underweight, long parted hair or a short haircut are not acceptable.
- Replace long earrings with round or oval ones.
- Try to reach your ideal weight.
Step-by-step makeup for a thin face
Let's now move on to the practical part of how to hide your thinness cosmetics. Our main goal is to achieve visual fullness of the face.
Skin tone
For this procedure, you will need 2 shades of foundation, one of which should perfectly match your skin tone. The other, on the contrary, should be one and a half shades darker. Using a foundation brush, spread dark shade on the root zone of hair on the forehead. We also distribute it over the cheekbones and chin. Apply a light shade of foundation to all remaining areas. The layer should be soft and even. Only perfect application will allow you to achieve the desired effect. So, your face has become a little fuller.
Eye makeup
The first thing you need to pay attention to in eye makeup for a thin face is the shades of the palette used. You should avoid using dark colors, they will emphasize your thin face and make you look sunken and tired. Pay attention to shades such as coral, pink, bronze, peach, gold and lilac. These shades will help you achieve soft eye makeup for a thin face. Such soft shades can be safely applied to the entire upper eyelid, including the line under the eyebrows. The only time you can use dark shadows in makeup for a thin face is if you want to emphasize the lash line by highlighting soft arrows with shadows.
But if you are not a fan of shadows in makeup, then you can make elegant winged eyeliner. can be drawn using liquid eyeliner or regular eyeliner. In your case, you don’t even need to neglect textures with pearl particles. Shimmering particles can be called allies in makeup for a thin face. When choosing mascara, focus on the one that has the effect of adding volume. As for color, black or gray mascara will look better on you.
Eyebrow shape correction
Girls with a skinny face are not recommended to have dark and wide eyebrows. The thing is that they visually make you look even thinner and make your face even rougher and less feminine. Also, you should not experiment with plucking your eyebrows into a thin thread, they will not give you beauty. The ideal eyebrow shape for a thin face is light, not coarse, in natural tones.
Correction of cheekbones
Girls with thin face better in lilac, soft brown or pale pink tones. These colors will make your look softer. How to distribute blush on prominent cheekbones? It's quite simple: run the brush over the blush, grabbing a little product, and then move it from the lips towards the ear, that is, from the bottom up. And so on until you have the shade you want.
Make-up lips
Women with a thin face can wear absolutely any shade of lipstick and gloss. There are no restrictions at all. There remains only one rule that every female on the planet knows. This is the Rule of one accent in makeup. If you have calm, not particularly expressive eyes, then you can safely paint your lips with bright, juicy lipstick. If the eyes are the accent in makeup for a thin face, then the tone of the lipstick should be calm and barely noticeable on the lips.
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Do you want to know how to use makeup to make your face thin and its features expressive? Looking beautiful and sexy is easy! We will share with you the top makeup tips to appear thin. Here's what beauty experts had to say.
This year, one of the main trends in makeup is naturalness and naturalness. In the spring, the championship will shift to more than bright makeup with emphasized eyes. Along with these trends, we will use techniques that will never go out of style. Each of us has flaws that we want to hide. Makeup can be a great help in this matter. We love to wear stylish makeup that enhances our natural beauty and hides imperfections. Here are the main rules of makeup that will make your face thin.
First of all, you must understand that each face needs its own approach, because we are all different: skin type, face shape, eye shape, eyebrow shape. All this greatly influences the type of makeup chosen. Besides that correct makeup emphasizes the beauty of your facial features, but can also make your face look thinner.
1. The right tone
In order to make the skin bright and glowing, you need to use a light tone, and to disguise imperfections, use a dark one. Therefore, remember that trying to disguise a flaw with a light corrector or tone is a thankless task, because the effect will be zero.
2. Corrector
To achieve the desired effect, you need to use three simple product: You can highlight your facial features if you use 2 correctors, one to match your skin tone or a little lighter, the other darker. The third product that you need to use to make your face thinner is a regular foundation.
3. Using a corrector
Where should the concealer be applied? Makeup artists recommend using the corrector in this way: apply a light corrector above the cheekbones, under the arch of the eyebrows and above the upper lip; under the cheekbones, along the jawline, on the forehead and temples - a dark corrector.
4. Applying concealer
5. Foundation
Use your daily foundation. This is one of the final steps in applying makeup that will make your face look thinner. Use a sponge to apply the cream so as not to destroy the previous lines of the concealer.
6. Chin
To slim down your chin and overall face, use a foundation that is a shade darker than your base foundation. Apply the cream horizontally to the lower part of your chin. This will visually make the face smaller and make the chin prominent. Don't forget to apply makeup to the neck area and shade it well so that there is no big contrast between the color of your face and neck. In addition, remember that you should only use quality cosmetics, which does not harm the skin.
7. Cheekbones
It is the highlighted cheekbones that make your face prominent and thin. In addition to the traditional contouring that we already mentioned, you should use regular blush or a dark illuminator. They need to be applied in a straight line to the deepest part of your cheekbones and lead this line straight to your ears. The secret is to apply blush from bottom to top, not the other way around.
8. Thin nose
Apply dark foundation to both sides of the nose, in straight lines downwards from the septum. Blend them out. If you use a dark tone on the tip of your nose, it will become visually shorter and wider.
9. Eyes
10. Cheeks
You probably think that blush on your cheeks a priori makes your face look voluminous and even plump. If you take our advice, you will see that the situation is quite the opposite. You need to take a foundation two shades darker than your skin, apply it diagonally, from your ears to your cheekbones, right above the line you used to highlight the depth of your cheekbones. After this, use regular powder and only then apply blush (vertically on the cheeks). Note that only after you have applied makeup to your eyes and lips can you use blush. Check to see if you have gone beyond the contour of your lips or eyes. If there are any stains or extra lines left, remove them using the sponge that you used to apply the foundation.
Some of the most important factors ideal image- freshness and brightness of the skin, as well as a successful hairstyle. Contouring is applied almost from the roots of the hair, reaching the neck and ears.
If you follow our advice, the results will come immediately! The main thing is to identify the areas of the face that need to be emphasized and applied. good cosmetics together with correct technique application!
