Makeup tips based off your skin type and face shape.
1. Find Your Makeup Archetype
Visual Weight (High vs. Low): This measures how prominent your facial features are.
- High Visual Weight: You have larger, more defined features (like large eyes, high cheekbones, or a prominent nose) that immediately draw attention.
- Low Visual Weight: Your features are more delicate, smaller, or more spread out, giving your face a softer, more harmonious look.
- Facial Features (Linear vs. Curved): This refers to the actual shapes present on your face.
- Linear: Angled jaws, straight eyebrows, or sharp, almond-shaped eyes.
- Curved: Round cheeks, large round eyes, and soft, fleshy features.
2. Determine Your Face Shape
Instead of just guessing if your face is "round" or "oval," check your facial proportions:
- The 1:1:1 Rule: They often look at the vertical thirds of the face (forehead to brow, brow to nose tip, and nose tip to chin).
- They provide in-depth guides on whether you are looking your best when you emphasize your bone structure and sharp angles or looking best when focusing on soft, clear, and glowy skin
3. Master Placement Techniques
Aegyo Sal (Under-eye contour): How to properly shade and highlight the pocket of fat under the eyes to make them look larger and more youthful.
Nose Contouring: Avoiding harsh, straight lines down the sides of the nose and instead using strategic shading at the bridge and tip to create a natural, 3D effect.
Blush Placement: Showing how blush can literally change your face shape (e.g., placing it higher to lift the face, or in the center to shorten a long mid-face).
4. Flawless Base and Eye Makeup
What I was taught was that if a product has silicone (an ingredient ending in -cone or -siloxane) in the first 3-4 ingredients, then it is silicone based, regardless of whether or not water is also an ingredient. The products with water as a top ingredient and no silicones in the top 3-4 ingredients are thus water based (or occasionally oil based).
- start with your lightest colors starting with a light or nude color depending on how vibrant and natural you want your makeup to look
- do not mix silicone with water based products ! you can always check this by checking the first few ingredients in a product
- if silicone is listed in the ingredients before water that means it is silicone based even if water IS in the ingredients list.
- start with thin layers for foundation, you can cover your imperfections with a concealer.
- use a concealer brush for the most coverage
- silicone and water based rule also applies to primers
if you have oily skin please use a gel based moisturizer for skin prep and a mattifying primer
opposite for dry skin!