Make Up Tip for Corrective Foundation

Whatever your face shape, use this foundation make up tip to correct it. Skillful shading and highlighting can help to enhance your good points while minimizing your less desirable ones.

By using a lighter shade of foundation than your base foundation, highlighting makes desirable features more prominent. Shading using a darker shade foundation will help shadow of conceal imperfections by making features recede into the background.

Accentuate good features by highlighting good features such as high cheekbones, but shadow negative features such as plump cheeks or a heavy jawline to diminish them.

Shading and

highlighting

techniques are

used by models

everyday.

Learn to use

them to create

your own

glamorous look!

Make Up Tip to Correct Face Shape

Step One – Keep hair off the face by tying it back or by using a head band.

Examine your own face from the front and in profile view. Touch the brow bones, nose bone, eye sockets, cheekbones, and chin bones with your fingertips to understand how they are structured.

Step Two – After deciding which features you want to conceal and which one you want to accentuate, choose a foundation color that blends as perfectly with your skin tone that you can find.

Apply a slightly darker shade of foundation to the areas you want to conceal or to emphasize shadows, such as a heavy or square jawline.

Use a slightly lighter shade of foundation on the areas that you want to highlight, such as strong or high cheekbones.

Round cheeks can be disguised by using a slightly darker shade foundation under highlighted cheekbones.

Step Three - Apply a base foundation to the entire face and neck, blending into the border lines of the light and dark shades. Check to make sure that your makeup application looks natural and balanced. Go back over the light and shadowed areas if necessary. Don't forget to lightly cover your neck, underneath and slightly behind the ears, and the lids of the eyes.

Step Four - Apply a light dusting of a translucent loose powder. I've used CoverGirl Translucent Loose Powder for many years however Luminous Loose Powder gives more of a youthful, glowing look! That's the power of luminous!

The finished look is a soft, subtle foundation with good features hight lighted and emphasized and less desirable one shaded and minimized.

For further instructions on highlighting and shading techniques using foundation and blush, please see the next page. (link below)



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