A natural urge for many women with rotund faces is to make their faces appear thinner. Thanks to makeup, nothing is impossible. Here are a few tips and tricks you should use to make your face appear thinner than what it really is.
1. Highlight your eyes
Your eyes can become your most critical assets when it comes to making your face look thinner. Use generous amounts of mascara on your lashes to draw attention towards them. Define the shape of your eyes by using an eye liner along with eye makeup according to the time of the day and occasion. Lengthening your lash line with an eye pencil to give yourself cat eyes can also be used as a technique to make your face look slimmer. Placing a focus on your large eyes will create a visual illusion that your face is thinner than usual.
2. Contour your cheekbones
Contouring is a makeup technique which you can use on your cheekbones to make them look angular. Use a blush or a face powder which is one shade darker than your skin tone. Swipe your brush diagonally from your cheeks to your ear in an upward motion. This will make your cheekbones appear much higher than they are and it will give your round face a basic structure. Your face will appear slimmer as your contouring makeup will create an illusion that you are sucking your cheeks in.
3. Avoid a double chin
Sporting a double chin is a killer for women who have round faces and baby fat around the areas of their necks. Negate your double chin by using a bronzer to define your jaw line and make it appear more prominent. Blend the bronzer with the makeup that you have used on your neck so that your jaw line doesn’t stand out like a sore thumb. Once you lift your jaw line, you will notice that half the weight on the bottom of your face has disappeared.
4. Use light lip color
Dark lip colors can make the face look much weightier that what it is. If you want to make your round face appear slim, use shades in the family of pink, orange, red or light brown. Avoid magentas, burgundy browns and crimson shades. You can match a variety of nude lip colors to make your face look lighter and slimmer.
5. Use makeup on your nose
Just like your eyes, the way you use makeup on and around your nose will determine how fat or thin your face looks. Use a thin brush to run pressed powder, highlighter of contour powder on the bridge of your nose. Highlight the areas under the bridge of your nose to give it definition and make it appear slimmer. Make sure you use matte shades on your nose otherwise the shimmer will create an unnecessary distraction.
6. Define your eyebrows
Apart from tweezing your eyebrows on a daily basis, you should use an eyebrow pencil to give your brows the shape you want. Highlight that part of your brow which arches towards your forehead. This will draw focus towards the upper part of your face and make the rest of your face look slimmer. As a general rule of them, don’t keep your eyebrows too thin as it will make your face appear fatter.
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