How to add highlights and shadows to a round face?

Young girls usually don’t know how to put on makeup, and little girls generally don’t need makeup. As they grow older, especially after graduating from college, girls have to start learning makeup. For most women, makeup is a very complicated course that requires learning from the very beginning. If you have a round face, let’s learn how to add highlights and shadows.

How to add highlights and shadows to a round face?

Round Face

Use shadow colors to blend on the cheeks and jaw angles to weaken the width of the face, and use highlight colors to brighten the forehead, brow bones, nose bones, upper edges of the cheekbones and chin to lengthen the face and enhance the three-dimensional effect of the face.

The highlight color extends from the forehead to the tip of the nose. If necessary, nose shadow can be added, extending from the eyebrows to both sides of the nose tip to enhance the three-dimensional effect of the nose.

Highlight technique 1: T zone is the focus

To make a round face longer, use a highlighter pen to apply highlight powder with pearlescent effect on the T-zone of the face. Be careful not to draw the highlight line on the forehead too high. The highest point should be above the middle of the two eyebrows. The length should also be moderate, slightly longer than the distance between the eyebrows!

Highlight technique 2: Blending the T zone

Then use your fingertips to evenly spread the highlight powder on the T-zone to give the skin a natural glow. But be careful not to spread the highlight too far. It should be mainly concentrated on the T-zone area, otherwise it will appear "greasy" from a distance!

Highlight technique three: modify cheekbones

Applying highlights on the cheekbones can make the face fuller and more three-dimensional, and can also cover up wrinkles at the corners of the eyes. First, use a highlighter to draw a heart-shaped area on the cheekbone to outline the approximate range of the highlight, and then use your fingertips to spread it evenly to enhance the roundness of the cheeks.

Contouring techniques for different face shapes: demonstration of highlight and shadow placement

Diamond-Shaped Face

Use shadow colors to modify high cheekbones and pointed chins, weaken the height of the cheekbones and the sharpness of the chin, brighten the temples and both sides of the jaw, and make the face look rounder.

Long face shadow outline

In order to shorten the visual distance between the chin and forehead, the chin needs to have an appropriate shadow. Use highlight color to widen the bridge of the nose, make the area wide and short, and shorten the length of the nose. It is not advisable to add nose shadow.

Square Face

Use highlight color to brighten the middle of the forehead, above the cheekbones, nose bone and chin to highlight the middle part of the face, ignoring the facial features. Dark shadow colors are used on the temples and both sides of the jaw angle to make the face look round and soft.