Common questions

Where do you apply highlighter and bronzer?

Where do you apply highlighter and bronzer?

If you are using bronzer, blush, and highlighter, just make sure you apply them in the right order. Bronzer goes on first, then blush, then highlighter. Bronzer will be just below your cheekbone, blush on your apples, and highlighter at the top on the upper cheekbone.

Where should you apply bronzer?

Where to Apply Bronzer. A bronzer looks best when applied lightly to all of the spots where the sun naturally shines, including the temples, cheeks, nose, and chin. Some makeup artists also like to brush a bit onto the eyelids if the eye makeup is going to be light.

Where does highlighter go on your face?

A highlighter is a makeup product that reflects light. “Typically, it’s used on the highest points of the face and areas that you want to pop or stand out more,” says Shojaie. You can apply highlighter on your cheekbones, temples, brow bone, and even on your cupid’s bow and along the bridge of your nose.

Do you put highlighter under your eyes?

Under your eyes: “Highlighter helps banish dark circles, since it diffuses any darkness underneath your eyes and creates a soft-focus effect,” says makeup artist Laura Geller. She says placing highlighter on the upper and lower areas of your brows helps define the shape, giving it an ultra-precise arch.

Where do I put highlighter on my face?

Where To Apply Highlighter

  1. Your Cheekbones. Starting with the most common place to highlight your skin: the cheekbones.
  2. The Bridge Of Your Nose.
  3. Your Cupid’s Bow.
  4. Your Brow Bone.
  5. The Inner Corners Of Your Eyes.
  6. The Center Of Your Eyelids.
  7. The Center Of Your Chin.

Do you put bronzer on before foundation?

Step One: Bronzer goes on after face makeup (foundation, concealer, and powder) but before blush. You can use any type of brush you like. My personal preference is a brush with soft, short bristles so I can control my placement.

Where do you put highlighter on your face?

Apply highlighter to the high points of your face, or anywhere off of which light naturally reflects: the tops of your cheekbones, the brow bone, the center of your chin, the cupid’s bow, the center of your forehead, the tip of your nose, and sometimes even on the bridge of the nose.

What’s the best way to apply bronzer and highlighter?

A dual-ended brush is great for this look, but if you already have a separate angled brush for contouring and a fluffier one for powder, you’re all set. Looking a little puffy and trying to sculpt your face? Pay close attention to the hollows of your cheeks when you apply bronzer and then the high points for highlighter.

What kind of blush to use with bronzer?

If you’re warm (yellow-leaning), choose warm-leaning products like peachy blushes, golden highlighters, and gold-copper bronzers. For cool undertones (pink, blue, or red-leaning), pink or berry blushes, champagne highlighters, and taupe contour shades work best.

What happens when you put highlighter on your face?

Pay close attention to the hollows of your cheeks when you apply bronzer and then the high points for highlighter. Within just a few sweeps of each, you’ll notice that your face takes on a more lifted look and who wouldn’t want that?

Where to put L’Oreal Paris true match bronzer?

Your complexion needs color, too! Place bronzer, like the L’Oréal Paris True Match™ Lumi Bronze It Bronzer, in a “3” shape around the edges of your face, then brush a peachy pink blush, like the L’Oréal Paris True Match™ Blush in Barely Blushing, onto the apples of your cheeks for a natural-looking flush. No flat faces here.

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Ruth Doyle