Highlighting & Contouring.

Highlighting and Contouring is one of the easiest ways you can fake having cheek bones, and have a more slimming face. For highlighting, you use a highlighting powder or blush on the highest point of your cheek bones. As well as for contouring, you can use a powder. I typically see most people using a bronzer for their contour, and they use both high end and drugstore products. The most frequent bronzers I see are Hoola Bronzer by Benefit costing $28, which is a matte bronzer which means you won't look like a grease ball throughout the day. Another bronzer I know is very popular is Laguna Bronzer by NARS costing $38, and this one has golden flecks and shimmer in it, so it will really make your face glow, but again, not make you look too greasy.A drugstore bronzer that is a dupe for the Hoola Bronzer is by NYC in the shade Sunny, costing only $2.79. Since it's a dupe, this means that there also isn't any shimmer in this product.

You apply bronzer in the hollows of your cheeks. The easiest way you can find the hollows is by taking a makeup brush and lining it along your cheeks, and wherever you brush starts to somewhat cave into your face, that is where the hollow of your cheeks are. You apply bronzer on your jaw line, hollows of your cheeks, and on your forehead/temples. If you found that you have applied too much powder, you can go in with a little amount of your face powder and blend the lines. Blending the lines and the color is the most important step in makeup. You don't want to look like you got hit in the face and have a bruise. For highlighting, I've seen the NARS Albatross highlighting blush, costing $30. Another highlighter that is actually a liquid is High Beam from Benefit, costing $26. They both reflect light, which means you will look even more glowy and youthful when you go out into the sun and nice lighting. You apply highlighter on your cheek bones, bridge of your nose, in the middle of your forehead towards the middle of your brows, your cupids bow, and below your lower lip. It is very very important that you don't over apply this, because this could cause you to look way too greasy.