How to Apply Make-up to Make a Round Face Look Thinner

Add contouring to slim down a round face

As you age, a round face can be a blessing as it keeps you looking more youthful than your years. However, there may be times when you want to look a little older for glamorous occasions and events. One technique to make a round face appear slimmer is to use make-up to enhance the angles in your face. Stay away from the elaborate contouring professional make-up artists use on celebrities in magazines and on the red carpet--if you are doing your make-up yourself, you want to stick with a method that creates a natural result. With thorough blending, the effects of your efforts should look appropriate even for every day use.

Things You'll Need

• Foundation
• Bronzer
• Mid-sized angled face brush
• Make-up wedge
• Translucent powder
• Blush brush
• Blush
• Sheer highlighter

Instructions

1. Apply your regular shade of foundation onto a clean, moisturized face.

2. Dip a mid-sized angled face brush into a bronzer that is one to one and a half shades darker than your skin tone. Stay away from shimmery formulas as you want the definition to appear as natural as possible. Tap off the excess and run the brush along your jawline. Contour your temples as well, brushing upwards and outwards.

3. Clean up any evident lines in your bronzer with a make-up wedge. If certain spots look too dark and the wedge alone isn't doing the trick, dip the wedge in translucent powder to help fade excess color.

4. 

   Make your face appear more angular by sweeping bronzer in the hollow area under the apples of your cheeks with the angled face brush. You can find the hollows by sucking your cheeks in. For an even more natural look, dust a soft blush on the apples of your cheeks with a fluffy blush brush. Use a peach blush if your skin has warm undertones and pink if you have cool skin undertones. At the highest point of your cheekbones, on top of the apples of your cheeks, pat on a sheer highlighter. Use one with gold hues for warm skin undertones and one with silvery hues for cool skin undertones. With the make-up wedge, buff away any hard lines in your bronzer, blush and highlighter for a seamless application. You should not be able to tell where one product ends and another begins.

5. Set the make-up on your entire face with a light dusting of translucent powder.

Tips & Warnings

• Keep your make-up from looking unfinished by filling in your brows and defining them. The eyebrows frame the face, so cleaning up the strays under and in between your brow line and bringing out their shape creates an overall more polished look.