How to Make Your Cheeks Look Slimmer
Whether a woman struggles with weight gain or merely has a round face, she'll find advantages in knowing a few ways to slim the appearance of cheekbones. While up-swept hairstyles and eye makeup can draw attention away from problem areas or give a woman a more elegant look, round cheekbones still imply chubbiness, making them an area that requires special emphasis. Learning a few subtle tricks from makeup experts requires only a few minutes of additional preparation time and provides big benefits for those wanting to look thinner. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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Making Cheeks Look Slimmer
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While keeping your lips closed, open your jaw, lifting your top teeth and keeping your tongue down. This should give your face a fish-like appearance, allowing you to find the hollows in your cheeks below your cheekbone. If necessary, slightly suck your cheeks in between your teeth for a more pronounced hollow.
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Use the makeup brush to apply blush in your chosen color in the hollow under cheekbones, rather than on the cheekbones themselves.
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Apply the sculpting powder with a brush to the cheekbone itself and the jaw line. This will give your cheeks an appearance of having shadows; the shadows pull emphasis away from the round cheeks to the hollows below---an instant slimming effect.
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Tips & Warnings
If weight gain causes your round cheeks, makeup fixes it only temporarily. Exercise and diet remain the best way to slim your cheeks, including facial exercises. Various medical and health problems may cause puffy cheeks. FaceFitnessCenter.com and HealthGuidance.org suggest gently massaging cheeks to push out fluids, tone muscles and give the face an overall slimmer look.
Remember to use a light hand when applying blush or sculpting powder. Over-applied makeup will just draw attention back to the cheekbones. You want people to think you have a natural blush.
