Face contouring: how to do it correctly - step-by-step instructions for beginners with photos from 1mmtt.ru

All girls strive for beauty. They are constantly in search of the perfect cosmetics that can highlight their strengths and hide their flaws. Blush is designed to give a fresher and more youthful appearance. Lipstick - to bring your lips closer to ideal. The toner is designed to leave your skin looking even and healthy. But proper facial contouring will help completely change its shape without surgical intervention. We will tell you more about it in this article. You will learn the history of the origin of this technique and the subtleties of its application.

Why do you need such a make-up?

Makeup “face contouring” can relieve many girls and women from their complexes. With its help you can:

Reduce or increase the length of the nose, make it thinner or thicker.
Get rid of the massiveness of the forehead, make it less “overweight” and “heavy”.
Draw cheekbones, completely or partially remove chubby cheeks.
Make a sharp chin less noticeable.
Add sharpness to the features or, conversely, softness.

These are the most common options. In fact, sculpting can visually remove many imperfections.

What types of correctors are there?

Manufacturers produce a very large number of concealers, differing not only in color, but also in texture.

Liquid. The light texture of this product allows you to bring the color of the concealer as close as possible to the fusion of the main tone of the face. The advantage of the concealer is that it is easy to apply and can be combined with any skin type. One of the disadvantages is transparency, which does not make it possible to disguise serious problem areas.
Creamy. Such correctors are produced in tubes, and they are applied to the face using a special brush or your own fingers. Creamy concealers are ideal when you need to disguise “tired” blue circles under the eyes and other similar imperfections.
Based on mineral powder. More effective correctors that have a very dense structure (and therefore are difficult to shade), capable of hiding those imperfections that others have failed to cope with, while, in addition, providing a therapeutic effect.

As for choosing a concealer based on your skin type, everything is individual - for dry skin a moisturizer is selected, for oily skin - with a drying effect.

What is needed for this

Facial contouring lessons will be effective only if you have special cosmetics. So, to start doing makeup, you will need:

The basis

This could be foundation or BB cream. Without this, it is impossible to start any make-up. It is important that the tone matches your skin color. Too yellow, too white or too dark a shade can ruin the whole composition. Choose the foundation that you are most comfortable using. It should match not only the color scheme, but also the type of dermis. Recommended foundations:

Palette

Since contouring is a play of light and shadow, you will need bronzers, highlighters and correctors. For convenience, they are collected in special sets. They can be dry or creamy. We will tell you how to choose them in the next paragraph.

Brushes

You can apply the product either with brushes or with a beauty blender. There should be several types of brushes in your arsenal. We will also talk about them below.

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Skin imperfection corrector

Concealer can be found in every modern woman's makeup bag. Concealing freckles, circles and dark circles under the eyes, and pimples is as easy as shelling pears with its help.

There are special pencils for spot application with an antibacterial effect. They will not only help hide an unexpected pimple, but also dry it out. There are sticks that are most suitable for problem skin. Pencils and sticks are dense in structure, adhere well to the skin, but require careful shading.

There are liquid concealers that are especially good for the skin around the eyes. They usually come with a soft applicator, but it’s good to apply the product with your fingertips, lightly tapping it into the skin.

Universal creams cover up anything. They have a dense texture, so shading also requires more careful than when using a liquid corrector.

In cosmetics stores you can also find palettes with several colors of concealer. Perhaps this is the most profitable purchase. Using the palette, you can sculpt your face, highlighting or darkening certain areas if necessary. In addition, skin tone can change from season to season, but in the palette you can always choose the desired shade.

Interestingly, professional makeup artists often use multi-colored concealers, such as purple or pink. With their help you can perfectly hide all skin imperfections. For example, a pink concealer will mask dark circles under the eyes, and a purple concealer will mask age spots.

Of course, to use concealer in different colors, you need to have excellent makeup technique and be a professional. Not every woman can cope with this at home, so our task is to take the easy way and learn how to use a skin tone corrector. You just have to carefully study how to correctly apply concealer to your face step by step, follow the technique in photos and videos, and your skin will be the envy of the beauties from glossy magazines.

How to contour your face: choosing cosmetics

Palette

What to look for when choosing a sculpting kit:

Naturalness. All shades in the palette should be close to natural. The presence of red, orange, black or blue pigments is not allowed, as they will not blend organically with the flesh color.
Blush. They shouldn't be too bright. Choose what will look good on you. It can be peach or soft pink pigment.
Structure. If you choose a creamy product, it should be very soft and smooth. Dry cosmetics should consist of very small particles. It is important that the contents of the palette fit perfectly on the skin and shade well.
No glitter. Matte tones will allow you to achieve the most natural effect. Mother of pearl is only allowed as part of a highlighter.
Corrector. The main shade with which you will darken individual areas should be no more than two shades darker than the skin.

We offer the following options for contouring kits:

Tools

You may need the following brushes:

Big, flat and fluffy. It is good for applying and blending highlighter.
Beveled. Best suited for drawing the cheekbone line. She creates a clear, smooth and at the same time natural line. This brush is convenient for blending cosmetics.
Flat. Ideal for applying blush and contouring the nose.
Kabuki. This is a voluminous brush that is convenient to use when applying creamy products.

Also, some girls note the convenience of beauty blenders. They are good if you have liquid or cream cosmetics in your palette. We offer you to purchase the tools necessary for contouring in our store:

Contouring kits and palettes

In order to do proper contouring, a sculpting product of one shade is usually not enough. In addition, over the course of the year, the skin changes its shade, and the sculptor, who perfectly emphasized the cheekbones back in August, already looks too dark on the skin in September.

To simplify the task, beauty brands produce special contouring palettes with several shades at once, which are designed to solve different problems. In this case, the product can be either powdery or creamy.

The basic palette contains at least two shades: a dark sculptor, which helps create natural shadows on the skin and “sharpen” facial features, and a light highlighter, which can be used to highlight certain areas.

More “advanced” versions of the palettes (for example, Highlight & Contour Pro Palette, NYX Professional Makeup) contain eight different shades that can be mixed together to get the perfect color.

If we are talking about a cream sculptor, then it can also be used instead of a corrector or concealer: there will probably be a suitable shade in the palette. Some palettes also include color blocks, which are useful for color correction of imperfections.

Face contouring scheme

Each form has its own subtleties and features of the correction technique. But there are certain rules that you need to know in order to understand contouring.

Apply an even layer of foundation. The base should be a product that suits you perfectly in color and texture. This will make the tone more even and also increase the durability of your makeup.
It all starts with the nose. To do this, you need to take a dark color corrector. Draw two lines along the entire length of the nose from the sides. You should also separately darken the area between the nostrils.
The cheekbones are darkened from the ends of the lips along the cheekbone. If you can't see it, pull your cheeks in like a fish.
Slightly darken the corners of the forehead, add a little color along the hairline. The end of the chin also needs to be “touched up” with a dark pigment.
As a rule, the following parts need highlighting: the bridge of the nose, the “apples”, the area under the eyebrow and above the lip.
Next, all lines are carefully shaded. Make sure everything looks as natural as possible.

Why do facial corrections occur in makeup?

Facial correction is performed with one goal - to make your appearance as attractive and beautiful as possible from your own point of view. Visual effects are used for sculpting, which are created by applying shades of cosmetics that are darker and lighter than the skin tone. The black and white technique works as follows: dark colors visually reduce the surface on which they are applied, as if deepening them, while light colors, on the contrary, make them more voluminous, emphasizing and enlarging them.

So, usually women begin the process by adjusting the shape of their face (for example, those with a round shape make it more elongated, hiding the part on the sides). Next, individual elements of the face are worked out: the shape of the nose, eyes, lips. The resulting result can change your appearance beyond recognition, favorably emphasizing all its strengths.

Face contouring: step-by-step instructions and photos

Despite the general rules, each skull shape requires a special approach. Below we will describe the main features.

Round type

In this case, the game is played more with shadows than with light. You will need a bronzer that is one or two shades darker than your natural skin color. Pay attention to the cheekbone area. You need to darken the sides of your cheeks well to make your face look slimmer. This technique also makes the silhouette clearer and sharper. Add a little dark pigment along the outline to draw out the shape. Also don't forget to draw lines along the nose and add shadows to the chin.

Use highlighter to draw a straight line from the bridge of your nose to the tip of your nose. This will help shift the emphasis from the “heavy” bottom and cheeks to the center. It is also worth highlighting the triangle of the chin and the area under the eyes. Don't forget the blush: apply a little pink tint to your cheeks between a dark streak of bronzer and a light highlighter highlight. Carefully blend the entire composition, starting with light tones and ending with dark ones.

Oval type

The oval is considered ideal. This is what all makeup artists strive for. Essentially, the goal of sculpting is to achieve exactly this form. Therefore, it is enough for owners of an elongated skull to simply emphasize the main advantages of their appearance. You can make your nose a little shorter: to do this, draw a dark line only on half of the bridge of the nose. Do not overuse darkening of your cheekbones: this will only make your face appear longer. Draw a thin line from your earlobe to the dimple on your cheek. Also add some shadow to the corners of the forehead.

Place a little highlighter in the inner corner of your eye. This will open up the look and completely refresh the entire look. Outline the chin with a white line to balance out the entire outline. Add light pigment to the forehead area. There is no need to waste time on trifles here: “paint over” the entire area from the bridge of the nose to the middle of the forehead. Add some shine to the tip of your nose. From the wings to the beginning of the cheekbones, draw a line of blush.

Square type

The main goal of such sculpting is to make all the lines softer. That is why you need to start from the place under the cheekbone. Darken the sharp corners along the jawline. Smoothly draw a line of bronzer towards the temples and hairline to bring the square closer to the oval. Also draw dark stripes along your cheekbones. They must be very thin. You should never add shadows to your chin.

Use highlighter to highlight your forehead. Draw white lines from the corners of the eyes to the tip of the nose. Highlight the area under the lip with light and draw the stripe into the “triangles under the eye.” It is also worth adding a light pearlescent pigment to the chin. Fill the space between bronzer and highlighter with blush. Avoid horizontal lines: they will only emphasize the square shape. Make sure that each stroke is vertical.

Triangular type

Deeply darken your hairline. Draw dark strokes under the cheekbones to align the jawline with the rest of the face. Add a small black dot to the chin itself to visually make it a little smaller. Avoid accents on the nose and eyes: they are already quite noticeable. Highlight the area under the eyes, and then add pearl under the nose. Add light strokes to the forehead, under and above the eyebrow. Apply blush in clear and even strokes directly towards the wings of the nose.

Don’t try to bring the shape to a perfect oval: after all, this is much more difficult to do with a triangle than with a circle or square. Turn the features of your appearance into pleasant and memorable advantages. Just try to soften the lines as much as possible, make them smoother and clearer. There is no need to destroy all the specificity of the triangle. It will be enough to simply smooth out all the unevenness.

Contouring problem areas

It is not at all necessary to do “full” contouring if you need to solve some local problem: for example, narrow or widen your nose, enlarge your lips, emphasize your cheekbones.

Nose contouring

To visually shorten your nose, apply a dark corrector to the very tip.
A dark corrector will help to narrow your nose a little: apply it to the sides and blend well.

The following trick will help you “lower” the upturned tip: draw a line across it as shown in the diagram below.

To make the “potato nose” more sophisticated, lighten the back of the nose with a highlighter, and apply a dark sculptor on the sides and wings of the nose.

If you have a hump on your nose, apply some dark sculptor directly onto it to make it less noticeable.

For other techniques that will help you visually reduce your nose, watch our video:

Lip contouring

To quickly plump up your lips, apply highlighter to the swoosh above your upper lip and centered under your chin.
Outline your lips with a pencil in the color of the shadow - brownish: before the lipstick or directly on top of the lipstick. There they will look more voluminous.

To get lips like Angelina Jolie, draw a line with a dark pencil in the middle of the lower lip under it (try to create the effect that the lower lip is so voluminous that it even casts a shadow). Also, in the center of the lower lip, draw a perpendicular line with the same pencil - as if there is a small “hollow” on the lip. Apply lipstick or gloss on top.

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Cheek contouring

Thanks to contouring, you can easily make your cheekbones more expressive. Draw a line in a dark tone from the top of the ear to the area just below the cheek. Remember that the color should fade.

Face contouring for beginners step by step: photos and videos

In this video, a girl with a triangle shape shows the basics of contouring. Her face has many sharp angles: she tells how to soften them. Using specific products as examples, the blogger demonstrates the technique of applying makeup from scratch. She explains which cosmetics are best to choose and which brushes should be used.

Elena Krygina is one of the most popular beauty experts in the entire Internet space. Thousands of makeup artists and ordinary girls around the world listen to her advice. Because she competently and clearly explains all the intricacies of makeup. In this video, the girl tells how to do sculpting correctly. She shows, quote: “the average makeup of a star on the red carpet.” The video has already collected three million views, which means that it can be useful to you too!

Now you know how to properly contour your face. Don't be discouraged if something doesn't work out the first time. Makeup is a special type of painting. And in order to become a master, you need to make a lot of mistakes and get better at it.

Stages of creating an even complexion

You can achieve a perfectly even complexion if you act consistently. So:

First stage. Cleanse your face with foam or gel wash.

Second phase. We apply the usual cream that we use daily and wait until it is absorbed.

Third stage. We use a concealer: it is lighter in texture than concealer and brightens the skin tone.

The final stage. Apply foundation and only after that concealer. You can also use powder to consolidate the effect.

Lip correction

In this matter, you may have several goals, and for each of them there is a special method.

Visual increase. To visually enlarge your lips, you need to take a little concealer or light corrector without a shimmering substance in the composition. A thin white pencil is ideal for this task; otherwise, you can use a thin brush. Use a light or nude cosmetic product to outline the outline. Next, you can apply lipstick or gloss on top of this, slightly going beyond the edges and creating the desired shape. You can also take a darker color and use it to paint perfect lips.
Adding sensuality and relief. Many videos on how to contour your face include lessons on how to highlight your lips. To give them a plump and sultry look, you need to put a little emphasis on the top “bow” using a highlighter. This is done with a brush, sponge or (in the absence of these) with a fingertip. Finally, you can give your lips some color, but you can also leave them natural.

After designing this area, the contour can be outlined with light powder: this way it will appear more even.

What products are needed for facial contouring?

It’s easy to get confused in the variety of products, so we’ve collected all the products in one place.

Find must-haves for contouring:

Highlighter.
Sculptor
Blush
Brushes for shading products
Sponge for distributing contouring products

If you want to quickly master the contouring technique and learn how to create the perfect look for any occasion, sign up for a makeup course.

The courses will not only teach you how to create an impeccable tone and work with different color types, but will also tell you about makeup trends. The teacher will help you understand the variety of cosmetics and put together a set of the best products.

The cost of courses starts from 2,000 rubles and goes up to 28,500 rubles . The price depends on the program and duration of training. Makeup courses last from 1 to 10 lessons.

How to choose a teacher?

Experience. Pay attention to how long the artist has been doing makeup. It is better if the teacher not only teaches, but also works with clients. This way you will be sure that you will receive up-to-date knowledge.
Style of work. Look at an example of the teacher's work and decide whether you want to learn exactly this kind of makeup.
Methodology. Not sure that the presentation of information will be clear and interesting? Take a free trial lesson to see if the teacher is right for you.

The course program depends on what you want to learn. Do you dream of doing your own makeup and not spending a lot of time getting ready? Quick daily makeup courses will suit you.

Already familiar with the basics of makeup and your goal is to improve your skills and enter the profession? Choose a course that will teach you makeup for photo shoots or weddings.

What to look for when choosing a course?

Practice. Choose a course where all theoretical knowledge is reinforced on models. This way you will be sure that you will gain real skills and abilities.
Program. If you are new to makeup, take a look at short courses that teach the basics. For those more advanced in makeup, extended intensive courses with immersion in the profession are suitable.
Models. Choose courses where the school provides live models to practice techniques. This way you will get the hang of it and be able to confidently repeat makeup on yourself and others.
Student reviews.

Contouring is a great tool for those who want to improve their makeup skills and add variety to their everyday look. Try contouring techniques and give your face a new look. Don't worry if you don't get everything perfect the first time, because everything comes with practice!

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Mistakes when applying concealer

When sculpting with concealers, it is important to use brushes. Using your fingers, the product will simply rub into the skin and the desired effect will not be achieved. Therefore, it is better to stock up on a special set, for example, Mermaid Multipurpose. If you have absolutely nothing at hand, then it is best to work on the areas with sponges.

Mermaid Multipurpose

The most frequently asked question is whether concealer is applied before or after foundation. Professional makeup artists insist that only after. If you use a corrective product on dry skin, it simply won’t blend out and unsightly spots will remain on your face.

Blending concealer

Applying corrector to your face along with concealer is a grave mistake. These two products have a similar area of effect, but if they are applied to the same area together, they will create a multi-layered stain. An exception is allowed only in the case of working with complex problem skin: post-acne marks, comedones, wen.

Mistakes when applying concealer

Different brands of concealers have different thicknesses, and it also depends on the type of product used. It is much more convenient to work with liquid products. If you only have a thick product, you can revive it with a small amount of moisturizer.

Concealer density

To properly cover a pimple, you don't need to blend it over it. You need to first apply the concealer, then use a thin flat brush to smear a small amount of the product around it. In any other sequence of work, the pimple will not go anywhere.

Sculpting Tools

They are selected depending on the purpose of makeup and the structure of the means with which it is performed.

Beveled brush

It's perfect for using dry or loose bronzer. It is usually used for blush, but it is also suitable for darkening the cheekbone area. It is convenient to distribute the cream over the skin and naturally shade it.

Sponge

The porous “egg” appeared on the cosmetic market not so long ago, but quickly managed to win the hearts of all girls. It helps distribute the tone evenly. You can also create amazing sculpting using a sponge and gel or liquid correctors. The contents of the jars can be either “driven in” with patting movements, or simply smeared.

Kabuki

This is a very thick and dense brush. It doesn’t take a lot of intelligence to understand how to properly apply facial contouring liquid when applying it. Kabuki takes on both dry and creamy textures well. A straight cut allows you to draw sharp lines and at the same time shade them so that they are not visible from the side. It is most convenient to apply the pigment, taken on a brush, by driving it in.

Fan brush

The fibers of this instrument form a fairly wide area. This allows you to paint as accurately and naturally as possible. The “fan” is convenient for contouring the forehead, cheekbones, areas under the eyebrows, as well as the collarbones and chest (if necessary).

Silicone sponge

In its shape it resembles a petal. This beauty product does not absorb the cosmetic product and allows you to fully use it. The sponge can be twisted or bent in order to draw contours of a certain width.

Small flat brush

Step-by-step photo instructions for facial contouring for beginners will tell you how to correctly apply cream from the palette with this tool. We advise you to focus on small details: the corners of the eyes, the tip of the nose and the bow of the upper lip. The most convenient way to do this is with small brushes. They are also suitable for using shadows.