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Expert Makeup Tricks to Make Your Face Look Thinner

Makeup has some incredible benefits that can camouflage imperfections, enhance best features, and can make you look thinner. Whether it is a wedding function, birthday or anniversary celebrations, job interview or vacation time, mastering the art of corrective makeup will let you have a red carpet moment every single day. Here is how you can look perfect with the right products, colours and techniques like contouring and highlighting.

Look like a model with contouring and highlighting

One can create sculpted cheekbones or hide double chin after understanding the high and low points of the face. It is crucial to know where to shade or contour and where to highlight for a balanced effect. For this, one must buy three shades of a foundation or base of the same brand. One shade must be matching to your skin tone, while the other two should be a shade or two lighter and darker than your original colour. The idea behind contouring is to use dark colours to thin down the areas where it is applied, while using the lighter colours to highlight a certain area.

Here are some contouring tricks, you can try:

• If you wish to downplay your double chin, then apply the darker colour foundation on your jawline blending into the neck. The illusion of depth will definitely give your face a lot more definition and make it look slimmer.
• In order to narrow your forehead, use one shade darker foundation to create a shadow effect around the temples along the hairline.
• Slimming down the nose by shading the sides a little darker, while keeping the centre light will make it appear sharper and thinner.

• Get chiselled cheekbones and collar bones

  We all crave to have chiselled cheekbones and here is how you can achieve this.
  • Just suck in your cheekbones to make an ‘O’.
  • Apply the darker shade from the hollow to the corner in a line.
  • Apply lighter colour or highlighting powder on the highest plane of the cheek to enhance it even further.
  • Create a long neck with prominent collar bones by shading the sides and filling the hollows of your collar bone with a darker colour.
  Tip: Make sure that the products you choose for contouring your skin in a darker tone have a matte finish. While, the products you use for highlighting can have a little sheen or glossy effect for achieving a radiant and dewy look.

  Accentuate contouring with blushes

  During contouring, we cannot undermine the need for a perfect blush in order to attain a natural and radiant flush on the skin. A correct blush not only mimics a healthy glow, but also slims down your face since it camouflages the chubby cheeks. Your blush can be either in powder or cream form, matching your skin tone. If your skin gravitates more towards being yellow, then go for peachy blushes. But, if you already have a pink glow on the face, then choose pretty pinks to enhance it further. A correct application of rouge would make your face look thinner instantly.
  

  You can create two kinds of looks

  Here are two different kinds of looks that you can create with the help of contouring and highlighting:
  1. Flushed
  This is one of the most popular looks, sported by Kareena Kapoor, which works well during the day.
  • Here the blush is applied from the nose to the cheekbone forming a ‘C’.
  • The nose is also dabbed very lightly with a blush to make it look thinner.
  This look is achieved best with cream blushes, which can also be applied to the chubby chin to define it further giving it a natural look.
  2. Runway
  
  It is a kind that works best for very chubby girls, especially while going out in the night. One has to fill the cheek areas by creating a sharp angle.
  • It can be attained by sucking in the cheeks and forming an ‘O’ with your lips. 
  • Then, shade the deep area with a brown blush.
  • Apply lighter blush on an angle on your cheekbones, starting from the centre of the cheeks into your hairline.
  This look will look great only if it is completely blended where one cannot see the start or end point of the blush application.
  So, it is time to upgrade your makeup kit with products that help you achieve the desired look. And, use these contouring and highlighting tricks to make your face look thinner and more chiselled instantly!
  
  
  

Dump those beauty products!

You may love all those beautiful vials of make up and maybe can’t stop yourself enough from buying more. But are you aware that each of your beauty products comes with its own expiry that may not necessarily be written on the product? We tell you what to look out for when it comes to beauty essentials. 

Ahmedabad based cosmetologist Rajika Kacheria has seen plenty of people (including men) coming to her complaining for skin allergies, break outs and rashes all caused due to usage of products that have crossed their shelf life. “Sometimes people are just not careful with what they are using or checking up on the expiry details. I get almost four to five such cases every other week. Everything has a shelf life and one needs to check it before purchasing it. It is important to keep track of it incase you have it lying on your bathroom shelf for too long.”

A bad product can cause pigmentation, redness and burning and in severe cases one may even need medication to reverse the effects of an expired product, says Rajika. “Many times the skin takes time to show a reaction. A person may use a bad product for over 10 to 15 days after which the skin starts reacting and the person using it may think it might be due to other factors like food. It is best and safest to throw the stuff out if it has expired as it would do more harm than good if applied,” she adds.

It is very evident when a product has expired. It would either smell bad, it would change in appearance or the consistency will become uneven. Usually products are known to be effective and safe for a set period of time, after which factors like environment, bacteria, water evaporation or simply the degradation of preservatives and binders cause it to change from its original form. Also, improper storage can cause the product to go bad sooner. Certain products need more care as regards how they are stored. Keeping them away from moisture and direct sunlight is important. Products that keep out air like pumps, tubes and spray will last longer as it keeps moisture and bacteria out.    

Your checklist: 
Mascara and eye creams: Maximum six months as eyes tend to be sensitive to dirt and bacteria 
Lipstick and lip liners: Up to two years
Sunscreen: As mentioned on the pack or if it is older than three years
Foundations: Six months to a year
Eye-shadows and blush on: Within two years
Body lotions: As mentioned on the pack or if it changes colour or starts smelling weird

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