How to Highlight and Contour the Face With Makeup

Use makeup to highlight and contour your face and disguise flaws. Use bronzer, blush and highlighting powders to achieve the desired results. Practice highlight and contouring techniques until you have perfected your look. Consult a professional makeup designer to get specific tips for your face shape and flaws.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• Bronzing powder
• Powder blush
• Highlighting powder
• Foundation
• Translucent powder
• Makeup brushes

1. Apply a foundation that matches your skin tone. Blend foundation well at the jaw and hairline. Make the foundation "disappear" so that there are no visible lines.
2. Dust your face with translucent powder.
3. Suck in your cheeks to locate your cheek bones. Brush a small amount of matte bronzing powder under the cheek bones. Add bronzer to the bridge of your nose and at the temples. Blend all areas of bronzer well.
4. Brush blush onto the apples of your cheeks. Pull the blush back towards your temples, making the line of brush narrower as you get closer to the hairline. Blend the blush into the hairline and the bronzer using clean fingertips or a clean powder brush.
5. Use a lighter shade of powder to highlight your face. Brush highlighting powder on the bridge of your nose and around the outer corners of your eyes. Add a touch of highlighter to cheek bones, your chin and the temples.
6. Blend all of the cosmetics well so there are no harsh lines. Smooth your makeup so that you can not tell where one color starts and another ends. Use a clean brush for the best blending results.