Makeup School Week 2 by Trisha S.

Hey Girls!

            Week 2 of makeup school was crazy!! We knew that we would not be in the classroom all day and everyone was super excited about our field trip! We only spent about 3 hours in the classroom but we learned some very important techniques!

 

Contouring & Highlighting

 

            When you think of contouring and highlighting what is the first thing that comes to mind? For me it’s cheekbones! I have often wondered how women with full, rounded faces make it look like they have perfectly chiseled cheekbones! Now, I know. I have often experimented with this concept but with no success. Now that I know the tricks though… WOW!

           

            First, there are some basic rules

 

1. Always do your contours first. Your foundation will then cover the places you have added darkness and lightness to and blend it all together.
2. Use a powder or foundation that is 3 shades darker for contours and 3 shades lighter for highlights.
3. Contours can be corrected with highlights but highlights cannot be corrected with contours.
4. Always blend, blend, blend!! And then, blend the two together!
5. You want to try to trick the eye with the shading. Kind of a “You see it but you don’t” kind of thing.

 

Ok. Now let’s talk about the areas that you are going to work with for the shadow.

1.      The nose – Here you want to use a dark shade to make the nose slimmer. You do this by drawing a line from just above the nostrils up to the bridge of the nose. Then blend the lines down towards the face. If you have a longer nose you can also add some darkness to the tip of your nose to make it appear shorter.

2.      Cheekbones – Here you want to start at the tragus of the ear and go under the cheekbone. Blend upwards.

3.      The eyes – Here you want to put the darker shade in the crease of your eye. This will make your eye POP! Start at the outer corner and work inward. Go all the way across to the inner corner.

4.      Jaw line – Here you want to shade underneath the jaw line. This will make your jaw line seem more prominent. Blend downward into the neck.

 

Next we are going to highlight. We are going to work in the same four areas but do the opposite of the last time.

 

1.      The nose – This time we are going to add a lighter shade to the ridge, or top, of the nose. Blend this outwards and down into the shadow you made earlier.

2.      Cheekbones – Add a lighter color on the tops of your cheekbones and blend downward into the shadow.

3.      The eyes – Here you are going to add a light shade to the brow bone, or frontal bone. This is the area right underneath your lashes. Start from the inside next to the bridge of your nose and go outwards toward the end of your lashes.

4.      Jaw line – This time we are going to apply the lighter shade right on the front of the jaw line. Blend this highlight downward into the shadow.

 

Once you get the hang of this you can take your features to a whole new level. You can make your features either very subtle or very prominent. You can also do corrective contouring which we will talk about next week.

 

 

After a very short class, we went to the Georgia World Congress Center for the Hair and Beauty Expo, which I can't wait to write about in a few days! Well I hope you are enjoying this series about makeup school, and don't forget that you can e-mail me at trisha.reanamation@gmail.com with any questions. Have a great week girls!

 

Love, 

Trisha