2. Map out your face structure
Learning how to highlight your face with concealer starts with mapping out your face structure. Start by analysing your unique features of your face to tailor your contouring strategy accordingly. Start by analysing these three vital points:
Face Shape: Start with identifying your face shape. Whether it’s oval, round, square, heart, or diamond. This as this will determine the key areas for highlighting and contouring.
High Points: These points reflect maximum light off from your face. Determine the high points for illumination and shadow areas you want to contour to add depth and definition.
Contours: Contours refer to the depths in your face shape created by your bone structure, like the hollows of your cheek or the sides of your nose. Understanding these is vital when learning how to highlight face with concealer.
3. Define your face with the right shades
Sculpting, highlighting, and lifting all require different techniques and concealer shades to pull off. Once you have your face structure mapped out, it’s time to lay in the concealer.
- Sculpting: Sharpen your facial contours
Choose a concealer shade that is one shade darker than your skin tone. Apply it to the hollows of your cheeks, along the jawline, the sides of your nose and the perimeter of your forehead. This will help you enunciate the shadows and bring out the bone structure of your face.
- Lifting: Lighten dark areas
Lifting helps you elevate your face and make it look more youthful. Pick a concealer that is one shade lighter than your skin tone and brighten the under-eye area, along the bridge of the nose, and on the chin. Always blend upwards while learning how to lift your face with concealer.
- Highlighting: Bringing light to high points
Learning how to highlight face with concealer helps you have a natural glow and radiance to your look. The trick is to slightly lighten the high points of your face, where the light hits you naturally. Use a highlighter that’s two shades lighter than your normal skin tone and run it along the top of your cheek bones, brow bone, nose bridge, and cupid’s arch.
Tip for perfectionists: When you’re looking for high coverage, go for the L'Oréal Paris Infallible Concealer that gives you an instant airbrushed look without any fine lines.
