Slimming Makeup Tips and Tricks
Style Guidelines for Women with a Naturally Round Features and Face
There are plenty of ways for a woman to flatter her curvy face with a few secret makeup application tips. Lose ten pounds in your most looked at area, over night.
Some people are just born with rounder cheeks and a fuller face. There are ways to accentuate your features with cosmetics to make your face appear slimmer, and to draw attention away from areas you may consider less attractive. Before beginning any makeup regiment, start with clear clean skin. There are many at home, do it yourself on a budget, skin treatments that will start you out right.
Big Eyes Make Everything Look Smaller
Draw attention to your eyes by applying a good mascara. Use two coats, and focus heavily on the outside edge of your lashes. Using a dark liner on top, and a white liner on bottom can also open your eyes up. Avoid using a liner in thick marks below your eyes as these can make them appear smaller and closed in. With eye shadow, the color closest to your lashes should be darker or bold, with the color lightening as it goes closer to your brow bone. A celebrity makeup secret that will help brighten and make your eyes appear larger, is to dust a small amount of white shimmery shadow just below your eyebrow. Darken your eyebrows with a good eye pencil to make the entire look complete.
When shaping your eyebrows, focus on a strong arch. The more angular your eyebrows, of course without being distasteful, the slimmer your face will appear. Adding long, dangling earrings in slender shapes and styles will compliment your eyebrows and give an overall appearance of slim features.
Full Lips Detract from Full Cheeks
Even if you're not accustomed to, use a lip liner in a shade just slightly darker than your lipstick or gloss. This will give your lips a full appearance and make them stand out. Use a clear Chapstick product to fill in the unlined areas, and then coat with your usual lip color selection. Another celebrity secret is to dip your finger in the same shimmery white powder you used on your eyes, and dab a bit in the very center of your bottom lip. Pat your lips together, and you're ready to go! The white shimmer added to the bottom lip will add a full effect by giving the appearance of natural light reflecting off the contours of your super full lips.
Colored Powder to Slim Your Cheeks
When using blush, suck your cheeks in as much as possible, and brush a light shade of your favorite hue just over the cheek bone. If you over do it, you can always repair extra blush with a light dusting of concealer powder. After the colored blush is on, select a translucent or barely there shimmery powder. With a large, loose brush, add shimmering powder to the apple of your cheeks, a brush across your chin and forehead. For an extra glam look, use the same powder to brush over your cleavage and chest area. When finished, your face shouldn't look shiny or glittery, but rather glowing with natural highlights when the lighting catches you just right.
Hair Can Make All The Difference
Avoid center parting your hair, and focus on volume. Big hair makes for a smaller face. We're not talking about big poofy bouffant 80's hair her either. When blow drying your hair, dry blowing drying it upside down and brush from the underside. The longer your hair is, the more slimming the effect. If you don't care for long hair, or feel it would take too long to get there, consider layers. Talk to your stylist about what they recommend, slimming hair styles is one of there most often requests. If it's in the budget, consider highlights for darker hair or low lights for lighter hair. Breaking up the texture and color of your mane will detract from chipmunk cheeks or a slight bulge under your chin. Some days, a bad hair day can't be avoided. Beating a hair day is doable, but it requires over compensating with a great attitude and emergency hair accessories.
Of course, the slimming tricks don't stop with your makeup. Investigate ways to accentuate your body with sexy designs to flatter your curves. Most of all, exude self confidence, even when you're without makeup and caught out in your sweat pants. A strong, friendly personality will overshadow whatever flaws you think you have in the eyes of another.
