How to make cheekbones

Modern makeup is not only about painted eyes and lips. Modern makeup also means a carefully worked out complexion tone, the presence of a healthy glow of the skin created with the help of a highlighter, and beautifully crafted eyebrows. And also the presence of sculpting or contouring. Initially, contouring was an element of stage and film makeup: so that the camera would not “eat up” too much the texture of the actors’ facial features. Today, contouring products exist not only in the cases of professional makeup artists, but also in the cosmetic bags of ordinary girls. Naturally, it’s definitely not worth doing “cheekbones” in the style of Kim Kardashian, but we will be happy to tell you in this material how to beautifully emphasize your facial features.

Square

For girls with a square face, the sculpting product should be applied to the side areas of the forehead. This trick will help make your face narrower. Don’t forget to properly highlight your cheekbones with makeup; blend them thoroughly, moving from your earlobes to the middle of your cheeks. For girls with a square face, highlighter is applied to the area under the eyes (a little closer to the nose) and to the middle of the chin.

Important tips for girls

We bring to your attention all the most basic nuances that will help you create the ideal complexion tone, lighten and darken it in the places where it is needed.

1. Remember to use matte textures for sculpting. This is especially true for highlighting the cheekbones. Everything that requires darkening is done with matte products. For those areas that need to be brightened, various shining products are usually used. Simply put, your highlighter should shine.
2. A regular cosmetic sponge will help you achieve perfect blending of the product. Shading with a sponge is done with soft circular movements. For an amazing effect, try moistening the sponge a little with plain water or using a moisturizer: this will give you a more even coverage.
3. Everything in makeup should be set with regular powder. Choose the best one for yourself. After finishing your makeup, be sure to set the tone and cosmetics on your face with powder. This will make your makeup last longer and help get rid of all the excess contouring.
4. To find out which shade of contouring product is right for you, lightly press on your cheek with your finger. In the resulting hole you will see the color of your face's natural shadow. This is exactly what a contouring product should be in your everyday makeup bag.

Before applying decorative cosmetics

You should know that before any makeup you need to thoroughly prepare, cleanse and moisturize your skin. This will not only enhance the durability of makeup and prepare the skin for the use of all decorative cosmetics, but will also make the surface and tone more uniform.

You can wipe your face, for example, with an alcohol-free toner. After waiting a little, apply a moisturizer to the skin: it will help achieve a more even coverage and get rid of flaking and unpleasant dryness. Without these preliminary manipulations, your face will be covered with a layer of plaster. This looks pretty ridiculous.

Nowadays, there are many different facial primers with different textures and purposes. Basically, they serve as a kind of base for makeup, play the role of a barrier between the skin and cosmetics, and enhance the durability of all makeup as a whole. There are mattifying primers that rid the face of unwanted shine throughout the day, and products that illuminate the skin from the inside. We advise you to pay attention to the choice of makeup base, because such products have a number of advantages.

Also, do not forget that you need to apply make-up and decorative cosmetics to your face in the right lighting. Your makeup may look different in daylight than in artificial light. Ideally, it is best to place a mirror on the windowsill and paint in that light. This way you can fully understand how your daytime makeup will look on the street.

Cosmetics for highlighting cheekbones

There are an impressive number of means with which you can highlight your cheekbones. Usually they are emphasized with the help of dark correctors of various textures: there are dry correctors and creamy, softer ones. A natural shadow around the cheekbones works especially well when using bronzer; it gives the face a slight glowing tan. Girls often use blush, eye shadow and other cosmetics for this purpose.

How to highlight cheekbones correctly

To choose the right way to highlight your cheekbones, you need to determine what type of face you consider yourself to be. For those with cheekbones:

• are clearly expressed or the face is round in shape, they need to be visually drawn out,
• are not visible - you will have to round up,
• on an oval face - simply highlight with skillful makeup.

Among all the possible options, you can work on your appearance and highlight your cheekbones using:

• hairstyle changes,
• applying the right makeup,
• exercises for cheekbones

For those who are most picky about their appearance, plastic surgery can be used. However, this method is quite radical; it is better to use it only when indicated. It is better to learn to emphasize your individuality without outside interference.

Specialized proofreaders

This is the most popular way to highlight cheekbones not only among experienced makeup artists, but also among girls who do their own makeup. Concealers come in different textures and colors. To choose the color that suits you best, press your finger onto your cheek. A natural shadow will appear in the dimple: approximately this color should be your contouring product.

How to properly highlight cheekbones using such a corrector? It's actually not difficult. First, you should know something important: concealers come in cream and dry types. The first ones should be applied over foundation, but under no circumstances over powder. Dry products need to be handled differently. Professional makeup artists advise applying them to already powdered facial skin. Here is the sequence in which we highlight the cheekbones with a corrector:

1. The cream corrector is applied over the foundation. This is best done with a round brush, making soft, driving movements. If you want to do full facial contouring, apply it to areas that require natural darkening: the temples, hairline, under the cheekbones, and the wings of the nose. By the way, girls nowadays like to highlight their nose with the help of makeup and various correctors to make it more pronounced.
2. All the boundaries of the corrector need to be carefully shaded, then examine your face from all sides and make sure that everything is done efficiently, there are no boundaries anywhere.

Highlighting your cheekbones with a concealer is quite easy. It is not such an obvious type of correction, but it noticeably highlights the cheekbones, making the face thinner and more expressive.

What cosmetics are needed to beautifully highlight cheekbones?

1. Bronzer. Initially, it was the basic product for highlighting cheekbones. The trace of bronzer becomes a shadow that visually reduces the volume of the cheeks and gives them a sophisticated beauty. Moreover, bronzer greatly refreshes the face and gives it a rested look. At the same time, the bronzing agent provides a light tanning effect - thanks to this, sunken cheekbones do not look painful. Keep in mind that only those who have a warm color type can contour and highlight their cheekbones with bronzer. Otherwise, the bronzer will look too foreign on your face. But if you are a “warm” girl, then you can also use light shimmer bronzers as blush. By the way, bronzers with a slight shine look more organic on the skin than matte options.
2. Sculptor. After contouring firmly established itself on the list of the most current beauty trends, specialized products began to appear - in particular, sculpting powder of a taupe shade, invented in order to create a believable play of light and shadow on the skin after application. It is very important to choose a sculptor in accordance with the color type. If you have a warm color type, then we advise you not to choose gray sculptors, otherwise it will look like a rather foreign gray spot. By the way, the effect of the sculptor is more obvious; the sculpting powder strongly contrasts with the skin tone, so the resulting effect is more noticeable than after bronzer. Contouring products differ from bronzers, as a rule, in a cooler shade and the absence of any shimmer or light reflection.
3. Highlighter or luminizer. You don't have to use dark shades to make your cheekbones more sculpted. Especially now, when the fashion for active contouring has definitely sunk into oblivion. Makeup artists have invented a way to achieve the desired effect using only highlighter. This technique is called strobing. The secret is to apply it only to areas of the skin that naturally receive sunlight during the day. In particular, apply highlighter to the top of your cheekbones and you will see how your face will already become more textured.
4. Blush. Highlighting your cheekbones with blush is a very good idea. Just apply blush not under the cheekbones, but on the “apples” of the cheeks and blend the product towards the temples. This is the method of using blush that was actively used in the eighties: and now this technique has returned.

Using concealer for sculpting

Another way to highlight your cheekbones? It turns out that this can be done with concealer. Sometimes girls confuse it with a corrector. Remember that there is a huge difference between these two similar products.

You know that concealer is needed mainly to disguise various defects. But a concealer with a dark shade can also be used to highlight cheekbones. Just apply it the same way you would apply a special concealer: just below your cheekbones. And don’t forget about the main point in makeup - correct and competent shading! It's best to do this with your fingers or a sponge.

Try mixing concealer with moisturizer for a more natural look once applied to your face.

We highlight the cheekbones with concealer just below the cheekbones with a wide brush. We draw a line from the earlobe to the corners of the lips, not reaching them a little. After applying all the decorative cosmetics to your face, do not forget to blend it thoroughly.

How to beautifully highlight cheekbones with makeup?

As you know, a good makeup artist is worth his weight in gold. However, you can become your own magician if you understand some of the intricacies of makeup. Remember some rules for highlighting your cheekbones:

• look at yourself in the mirror in good lighting,
• draw in your cheeks as if pronouncing the letter “O”,
• draw a line (inconspicuous) in the hollow under the cheekbone and draw it to the chin,
• this area must be darkened (with bronze, for example, or dark blush).
• Apply peach or pink to the apples of your cheeks, it depends on your type,
• blend to hide the edges and add highlighter.

The main thing in this approach is not to overdo it and blend the applied products well.

How to highlight cheekbones with blush

Blush is an ideal product for those who want to make their face not only more expressive and thin, but also fresh and youthful. To create cheekbones, you need to take blush in two shades: light and dark. For such purposes, the following color scheme is good: not very bright red and fresh pink. How to apply blush on your cheekbones to highlight them without going overboard? Firstly, to correct cheekbones with blush, it is best to take a brush with beveled edges.

1. To apply blush, you need to choose it a little darker than your natural skin color, so you will get the most natural result.
2. To understand where to apply blush and how brightly, stand in front of the mirror and smile broadly. If with this action your cheekbones are clearly and clearly visible, remember that you should not highlight them with blush too brightly.
3. The most convex area of ​​the cheek should be covered with pearlescent blush or highlighter.
4. The light color of blush should be applied to the apples of the cheeks and carefully blended towards the temples.
5. A dark shade should be applied below the cheekbones and shaded towards the extreme corners of the lips.
6. After this, thoroughly blend the border between the two colors. Remember that almost everything in your makeup depends on shading.
7. Loose blush is applied with an angled brush.

The undoubted advantage of this method: the face looks thinner, the cheekbones are quite noticeably emphasized, the appearance is fresher and more youthful. Of course, there is no shadow effect created here, as when using dark shades of correctors. This must be taken into account in advance.

What makes cheekbones stand out?

To highlight cheekbones with makeup and create the ideal facial contour, it is important to choose the right cosmetics that lighten or darken certain areas of the skin. It is important to determine the type of face; the technique of applying cosmetics depends on its shape. The most common cosmetic products for highlighting cheekbones include:

• Blush

Using blush you can create a natural look, without rough lines or transitions. Two tones are used for this - dark and light. Light-colored blush should be applied in a straight line on the cheekbone, dark blush should be applied in the hollow under the cheekbones, thereby creating the effect of a falling shadow.

• Highlighter

Using a highlighter, you can make the oval of your face more expressive. You can use a product of one tone, distributing it on the convex parts of the skin where the light usually falls. This creates a shadow effect under the cheekbones.

• Bronzer

Bronzer is applied into the hollows under the cheekbones, making the cheeks appear smaller and the face appear more refined.

• Concealer

With this product you can not only hide skin imperfections, but also create emphasized cheekbones. To do this, dark concealer is mixed with moisturizer and applied to the hollows under the cheekbones. The product must be thoroughly shaded to avoid creating a bright spot.

To create perfect cheekbones, you will also need brushes and a sponge for high-quality shading. Each cosmetic product requires a special brush.

Bronzer to create a tan effect

How to highlight your cheekbones in order to achieve not only a thin face, but also get rid of signs of fatigue on it? In this case, you will need bronzer.

When using this cosmetic product, you get a more natural and natural shadow effect on the cheekbones, highlight your face, make it more rested and sculpted. For best results, we advise you to use a soft brush made of natural material. We offer some tips from professional makeup artists:

1. The bronzer should be one or two shades darker than your natural skin color to avoid a mask effect on your face.
2. Bronzer is applied from the area under the cheekbones, closer to the earlobes, and gradually moves to the corners of the mouth. Don't apply the bronzer directly to them; stop a short distance from your lips.
3. Blend thoroughly, making sure that there are no clear boundaries left on your face.
4. Bronzer is also applied to parts of the face that are most quickly exposed to ultraviolet rays. Where a natural tan should appear, add a little of this product. Usually this is the forehead along the hairline, temples and nose, which can also be slightly adjusted with makeup.
5. If you are using a creamy bronzer, feel free to apply it with your fingertips. Make tapping movements, soft and driving.

Bronzer

Bronzer is a concealer that comes in the form of a stick or dry texture that helps give the skin a rested and slightly tanned tone.

It is recommended to apply bronzer starting from the bottom line of the cheekbones towards the corners of the lips. But the most important thing is that you don’t need to draw a line straight to the lips, you need to stop when there are 4-5 cm left to the lips. Useful advice: in order for the bronzer to lay as naturally as possible and for the face not to look drawn on, in addition to the cheekbones, you need to add it to those areas , where a natural tan develops most quickly. Typically this includes the hairline, the perimeter of the face, the wings and middle of the nose, and the chin. Bronzer is applied with a wide and voluminous natural brush - it will help to evenly distribute the product over the face in a very thin layer and will do this only in those areas where it is needed.