Looking all glam up and dolled for every day is a challenge for most women with round face. There are some difficulties in finding the matching dress, makeup, and hairstyle to uplift and enhance the round face. Worry not, as we have some of the most wonderful insights on how to contour the face, and make it look as appealing and glamorous as possible.
Contouring the face is to make it appear slim, shaded and sculpted to make a beautiful appeal. The goal of contouring a round face is to make it look a little slimmer and not so round.
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How to Contour and Highlight Face:
Makeup can help in faster and effective contouring thus making it chiseled and perfect for any occasion. Contouring helps in highlighting cheekbones, slimming the nose and chin and also making the face get some angular appeal.
Steps for how to contour and highlight face using makeup
1- Get the right foundation for your skin tone:
Do not add too lighter or too darker shades for contouring. Just the optimal foundation stick or dry powder to make the face get perfect contours. Use as close foundation to your skin tone as possible. Foundation is most critical for contouring as without a base foundation the contouring would not be possible to appear natural and blended into the cheeks.
Your simple answer to the question how to contour my face lies in finding the right makeup essentials and getting the adequate brushes.
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2- Use the same texture for all makeup essentials, don’t go for some cream based, some gel based and rest dry powder based. We don’t want patches of makeup on our face. Either all cream or all powder products. Get the foundation color almost like the skin tone of your neck to make it natural yet elegant.
As neck skin is paler than the face skin. And also after makeup neck and face would look in the perfect melange.
3- Begin facial contouring by selecting the foundation first of lighter shades than your skin tone. This is to highlight the facial appealing points. These would make your face stand apart and shine radiantly. Highlighting must have shades around 2 lighter than your skin tone. Apply on the areas and gently stroke them for finishing out nicely
4- Now we need a few shades darker than the skin tone to draw the attention away from those areas on face These may be the deeper curves which make the face appear too rounded. The darker shades of foundation would make these areas phase out and appear less prominent.
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5- Use a blending brush and gently blend all the dark and light shades to make the face look as natural and smooth as possible. Alternately you may use your fingers for natural blending.
Try to stroke the darker ones to blend into lighter areas and this will make it perfectly contoured with showing off the more appealing areas. Now comes the most important part, begin contouring
6- Contouring the face only after tying the hair behind. As contouring spreads all over the face boundaries. Now keep your face as clean as possible to let the contouring take shape. To begin contouring apply foundation first of the exact skin tone as possible. Cover top of forehead and below the temples and chin areas too. Cover every area on face neck and around ears properly to not leave any line uncovered.
7- Now begin applying concealer to cover up any scars and dark circles. Try to cover all blemishes in a little lighter tone as possible.
8- Now apply light foundation say a few shades lighter than your natural skin tone. Cover those areas well where the sun will hit the most. These areas include the center of the forehead, brow lines, bridge of the nose, apples of your cheeks, the centre of the chin, the T shaped area of your face mainly.
9- Now begins the dark foundation contouring:
Apply dark foundation towards the places where sun’s shadow would fall, or to the places which you wish to conceal. These are the places which will make your face look less rounded and more appealing. These include below the hairline at the forehead, hairlines on the forehead at the extremes, around the sides of the nose, in the hollows of your cheeks, jawline of both sides and ears to tip arc.
10- Blend the makeup now:
Use the wonderful blending brush we picked to perfectly mix the makeup well. Do not take the colors to spread around too much, just as much needed to blend the light and dark shades are perfect.
11- Using highlighter only if you want more angled appeal:
The highlighter will make the lighter skin tone areas to stand our louder and more prominent. Apply it to the exact same place where you applied lighter foundation. Try to blend it as smoothly as possible.
12- Applying blush:
Apply blush only if you are fine with a little rounded appeal to stay on. Though it looks glamorous but may take the angular symmetry away. Just a hint of pink on the apples of your cheek will do the trick.
13- Settle down with setting powder:
Use setting powder to keep makeup intact. Add a light coating of setting powder over entire so that makeup stays intact for long and does not smudge easily. Additionally, you may add shimmer too.
14- Lip and eye makeup are for last:
This is to ensure you border out everything perfectly with fine lip color and matching eyeshade. Contouring gives your face a bold appeal so make the lip color a little less bright to match it perfectly. The heavy makeup of bright lip color either one makes your face wonderful. But having both with make the face look unattractive. And we don’t want that at all.
Tips and precautions on how to contour a round face without making any mistakes:
Map your face well- Use a good brush to blend makeup, as colored patches would not look good on face
- Lighter areas are to highlight and make them more prominent so make this step the critical one
- Use dusting brush to fluff the entire face
- For round face stick to shading right below the cheekbones.
- Remember contouring round face in the day and for night are two different things, highlights are there already for daytime so don’t add much
- Skip overdoing your forehead, chin, and nose.
- Suck your lips to find the darker shadow regions to put dark color.
The above compilation on How to contour around the face with makeup is to help all the stylish women with round faces to get the perfectly unrounded face. To bring out their glamorous and attractive side in as pleasing ways possible.
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