Cosmetic Surgery and Beauty Magazine #65

feature
Makeup
marvels
Meet the star products changing faces and reinventing
beauty rituals. AimÉe Surtenich reports.
Makeup has the power to transform faces –
highlighting your best features and disguising
your worst. It can even give the illusion of more
prominent cheekbones, a narrower nose and more
defined jawline. It’s all about creating optical illusions so
that it looks like you are constantly under the best lighting
ever – and, to do this, light and shade will be your BFFs,
highlighting and contouring to create a glamour-girl look.
First, we need the right base, and where would we
all be without a good primer? It minimises the look of
pores, evens out skin colour and just feels so ridiculously
smooth on your skin. A good BB cream has also become
a staple in my daily beauty ritual; it mimics the texture of
perfect skin and creates a great base for your foundation
to glide right on.
Now for the magic: contouring your face. Generally,
the idea is to use an illuminator or lighter shade of
foundation to highlight the areas of your face where light
naturally hits – cheekbones, bridge of your nose, temple,
brow bone and along your jaw line. Conversely, to add
definition use a darker colour under your cheekbones (to
really make your cheekbones pop) and under your jawline
to add more definition to this oft-neglected area.
Finish with a dusting of powder, some extra concealer
under your eyes, a little shimmer or bronzer on your
cheekbones and a dab of blush on the apples of your
cheeks. csbm
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