![]() MAC Pro Longwear Concealer in NC45, $21.Here are my four recommendations for concealers: Stay away from a cream or stick concealer for the most part because they are way too thick and will do nothing but settle into wrinkles. You want something that has good coverage, yet is light in consistency. I also alternate the brightness of my undereye area depending on how dramatic I’ve done my makeup that day–the more dramatic the makeup, the brighter the undereye highlight. ![]() The kind of concealer you’ll want will be about 1-3 shades lighter than your skintone, and that all depends on you and what you’re comfortable with. Feel free to mix your eye cream with the concealers I’ll be mentioning so you can skip and extra step in your routine. This is a huge step in how your undereye highlight can look. Right now I’m loving Clinique’s All About Eyes Rich, $32 –you don’t need anything fancy or that does anything besides provides moisture to the under eye area. If the undereye area is dry in the least bit, your highlight will stick out like a sore thumb because it will emphasize any tiny wrinkle you have. The skin underneath our eyes can be very thin, which can lead to dryness. To get started, I strongly, strongly recommend a good eye cream. Let’s focus on mainly highlighting the undereye area, as the other areas are all pretty easy to do–this gets tricky. Highlighting will emulate the lighter hues that we tend to have under our eyes, on the bridge of our noses, the center of our foreheads, and our chins. Most people of color are not just one shade all over we tend to be darker around the perimeter of our face, and lighter on the inside. What does highlighting do? Well, when you put on foundation, particularly a full coverage one, we tend to lose the natural shade changes in our face. Today, we are strictly talking about the former–I will go into the latter in detail at a further time. One is for brightening, such as your under eye area, and adding dimension to the skin, and the other gives a look of a glow or luminescence to the skin. I’m always taking bits and pieces from my favorite artists and tailoring it to my needs, and I advise you to do the same with this guide.Īnd, with no further ado, let’s get started!įirstly, let me explain that there are two different terms in the makeup world known as highlighting. It’s just a guideline nothing is written in stone in makeup, and that’s what’s so awesome about it! Makeup washes off and you can try again the next day with something you feel is more suited to you. I highly suggest practicing on a day where you have nothing to do and nowhere to go you’ll need to take your time to blend, and also, you want to experiment with different methods that are more tailored to your needs.Īlso, I will say right now that I know that this is a LOT to digest. But I think I’ve found a method that works for me. It was even worse in the pre-YouTube days when there weren’t brown girls telling me what the best products were for me, or the best application. ![]() I’ve been highlighting and contouring for a few years now, and there’s been a lot of trial and error involved along the way. A lot of these tips and tricks are things learned from professional makeup artists who work on big time photo shoots, and even drag queens. In reality, highlighting and contouring are nothing new under the sun. It helps make sense of things that come off as just makeup trends. I think, in makeup, it’s really important to know why we do what we do. For now we’re going to keep the focus on highlighting and contouring. I have a lot of new products that I’ve been loving lately and I’d love to show you. ![]() Recently, I’ve had a lot of my friends ask me about highlighting and contouring, so I thought I’d make a blog post about it since a) it’s easier to explain in a guideline than just talking about it, and b) I haven’t posted on here in a few months. Now Playing: Sade “Love Is Stronger Than Pride”
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