To highlight your face effectively, apply highlighter to areas that naturally catch the light, enhancing your features. This creates a radiant, sculpted look.
Key Highlighting Areas:
- Cheekbones: Apply highlighter to the tops of your cheekbones, blending upwards towards your temples.
- Temples: A touch of highlighter on your temples adds dimension and softens harsh lines.
- Bridge of the Nose: A subtle line of highlighter down the bridge of your nose creates a more defined and refined look.
- Under Brows: Highlighting the area just below your eyebrows subtly lifts and brightens your eyes.
- Inner Corners of Eyes: A small amount of highlighter in the inner corners of your eyes brightens and makes your eyes appear larger.
- Above the Cupid's Bow: A touch of highlighter above your cupid's bow (the dip in your upper lip) enhances your lip shape.
Tips for a Natural Look:
- Use a matte foundation, blush, and bronzer: Avoid shimmery products in your base makeup to prevent an overly glittery look.
- Blend thoroughly: Blend your highlighter seamlessly into your skin to avoid harsh lines and a noticeable “makeup” effect.
- Start with a small amount: You can always add more, but it's difficult to remove excess highlighter without disturbing your other makeup.
- Choose the right formula: Experiment with different highlighter formulas (powder, cream, liquid) to find what works best for your skin type and desired finish.
Several YouTube tutorials offer visual guidance, such as "How To Contour & Highlight For Beginners | Roxette Arisa" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMbX26CPHwM and "HOW TO CONTOUR & HIGHLIGHT YOUR FACE - Beginner Friendly Tutorial ⎸ Over 50" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVA8Ace5P8I. Remember that highlighting techniques can also vary depending on your face shape, as noted on sites like Glo Skin Beauty's blog. https://www.gloskinbeauty.com/blog/how-to-contour-highlight-for-every-face-shape
