Highlighter is a real find for your cosmetic bag if you want to give your skin a fresh and rested appearance, make your skin radiant and achieve perfect contouring and distract attention from problem areas and make wrinkles less noticeable.
What is a Highlighter?
Highlighter is a decorative cosmetics used for sculpting the face – lightening and highlighting certain areas, hiding small wrinkles and defects. As a result, the skin visually acquires a fresh well-groomed appearance.
Why is it Needed In Makeup?
This modern cosmetology tool is indispensable in the arsenal of any makeup artist. With its help, the specialist will emphasize the natural beauty of the contours of the face, give the skin a fresh and rested look. A similar effect is possible thanks to the reflective particles contained in the highlighter. This product is not corrective cosmetics that hide imperfections, but is used in conjunction with it. The highlighter will emphasize the natural contours of the face, highlight cheekbones, the back of the nose, the central part of the forehead, and chin.
In the case when you want to hide the eye-catching dark circles under the eyes, the highlighter does an excellent job. A corrective highlighter with a dry, uniform texture evens out the tone, hides redness, giving the skin a noble healthy tone.
Kinds Of Highlighter
The following types of highlighter have been developed:
Liquid – in texture resembles a light moisturizer, spreads well on top of the foundation, mixes with powder and light friable powder.
Creamy – characterized by a dense composition and creamy texture.
Loose – in consistency resembles compact powder.
Hard stick – designed to work on hard-to-reach areas of the skin.
Compact – a universal solution for beginner makeup artists and professionals, in perfect harmony with the tonal foundation and friable powder, suitable for creating day and night make-ups.
How To Choose A Product According To Your Skin Type And Color?
Often, in the variety of highlighters for the face, in abundance standing on store shelves, it is difficult to choose a product that is ideally suited for skin tone.
For girls with a pale complexion, a highlighter of neutral, flesh shades with a silver sheen is suitable. At the same time, the clarifier should be one or two shades lighter than the natural tone.
Dark-skinned women and girls with an olive skin tone are ideal for bronze or golden tones.
Owners of a yellowish complexion suit a highlighter peach or pale apricot tone.
In the presence of redness on the face, the optimal solution would be the choice of bluish, lilac, pinkish shades. A similar tone will hide all the flaws.
The highlighter of a liquid texture is suitable for representatives of a normal skin prone to dryness. For a dermal age, caring highlighter creamy texture. Loose texture is suitable for oily skin.
How To Use Highlighter: Step-By-Step Instructions
Highlighter works on the following areas of the face:
- Upper lip – gives volume and masking of the smallest wrinkles.
- The corners of the eyes closer to the nose – adds an expression to the image.
- Brow zone – masks dark circles, gives freshness.
- The middle of the nose – corrects it.
- Chin protrusions – artificial shine visually stretches the face.
- The middle of the forehead – to give relief to the face.
Liquid
Liquid highlighter is applied with a special brush. Downhill pass along the line of the nose, the superciliary area, and above the lip, worked out in the area of the center of the chin and frontal lobe. Blend a little bleach under your eyes. To give the highlighter a more noticeable radiance, experts recommend mixing a liquid product with a drier consistency.
Dry
A similar product inconsistency resembles dry powder. This highlighter has found its application for processing large areas of the face and shoulders, body. Often it is carried for an evening make-up. The product is shaded on a foundation or loose powder spread over the face. The use of dry corrective means requires certain skills from the girl, so it is advisable to take a lesson from an experienced makeup artist.
Cream
A cream product with a delicate creamy texture designed to adjust large areas of the face. It is convenient for them to walk along the cheekbones, nose line and protruding part of the chin. It has excellent absorbent qualities, remains for a long time on the skin.
Distribute the product over the face with your fingers or a soft sponge, it is applied immediately after the foundation.
Application Procedure
Professionals advise using a highlighter to create a unique make-up. The classic algorithm for applying corrective means is as follows:
- Initially hide face defects.
- The next moment is tone equalization.
- If a liquid or cream product is used to create a make-up, then loose powder spreads over it.
- If a dry product is used, then it goes to the final stage on top of light friable powder.
1 – Skin preparation
Particular attention should be paid to preparing for applying makeup. At the same time, the skin should be smooth, without signs of peeling and excess fat. Eliminate these errors will help selected moisturizer or pore-tightening tonic. Each caregiver needs to be given time to soak.
2 – Application of the basic tone
It is advisable to preserve the persistence of makeup, apply a base under the tonic or care cream. In addition to a properly selected foundation, use a concealer. We use special soft sponges, brushes for applying makeup to spread the product.
3 – Contouring
Contouring is the technology of giving the face the desired shape and winning emphasis on the natural means of the face with the help of corrective products. This method of creating a make-up is based on the natural game of chiaroscuro, making a certain area on the face darker or lighter, they make a visual correction.
4 – Highlight the protruding zones
Face contouring is carried out as follows:
- To visually hide the cavity above the cheekbone, this area is also treated, carried out by a stroke in the direction from the line of the beginning of the ear to the edge of the lips;
- To darken the nose – a bronzer is spreading, moving towards the sides, working out the oval of the face;
- The area above the upper eyelid is best darkened a little;
- The nose bridge area is highlighted – this straight light line should lie between the drawn dark stripes;
- Using brushes, the transitions between the light and dark areas of the face treated with bronzer are blurred.
5 – Fixing with powder
In conclusion, to give the image completeness, treat the face with powder, this product will give the skin a special velvety look and removes greasy shine.
How To Apply?
Bronzer is applied with professional brushes, soft sponge or just clean hands. Each girl can choose exactly the makeup tool, with the help of which it will be convenient for her to apply bronzer.
Following things cam be used for applying highlighter:
- Brush
- Fan Brush (suitable for perfect shading of a flickering product over a large area).
- Flat Brush (helps to apply thin lines along the nose, under the eyebrow, above the lip)
- Duofibre
- Powder brush
Tell us which highlighter best suits your skin?
