How to Shade the Cheeks and Jaw with Makeup

If you want to make your face appear less full or enhance your cheekbones, learning to use makeup skillfully can help. Darker colors recede so apply makeup in deeper hues to the parts of your face you don't want to highlight. Blending is key for maintaining a natural look, so practice until your makeup looks flawless.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Blush in various tones
• Makeup powder
• Foundation in your regular color
• Foundation one to two shades darker than regular color
• Makeup brush
• Mirror

1. Apply your usual foundation to your face as your normally apply it.

2. Use the darker foundation only along your jawline, no more than half an inch in from the edge of your face.

3. Apply a thin line of the darker foundation along both sides of your jawline.

4. Blend the different color foundations well until no telltale lines are visible.

5. Suck in your cheekbones.

6. Apply a blush darker than your usual blush into the sucked in area.

7. Apply a complementary, lighter color blush to the apples of your cheeks, or the area that's plumpest.

8. Blend the blush colors well, using a makeup brush or your fingers.

9. You can also shade your jawline using face powder instead of foundation.

10. Apply powder in a color that's one to two shades darker than your regular face power along both sides of your jawline.

11. Blend well into the rest of your makeup powder.

Tips & Warnings

• Blending is key to creating a natural look, so practice applying contouring makeup until you get it right.
• Use complementary colors in your makeup. If you're wearing peach blush, your contour or darker shade should match the peach blush in tone.
• Look at yourself in a mirror in natural daylight to make sure your look is natural.