Oval Face Make Up
Considered the most harmonious, the oval face only needs to highlight its natural lines. If, like Halle Berry, Sienna Miller, or Jessica Alba you have an oval face, then you can say that you have the face preferred by makeup artists and hairdressers. The oval face is the most proportionate of all. However, if you make a mistake in the way you apply makeup, you risk giving the impression of having a round or elongated face. Don’t lose sight of the fact that successful makeup must be adapted to the shape of your face. Let’s round up all you need to know about the oval face make up.
How to make up the complexion of an oval face?
To highlight your features and enhance your pretty oval face, you will bring light to the strategic points of your face. Since you already have a harmonious and balanced face, you almost don’t need to work on the shadows on your face. To best illuminate your pretty face, take inspiration from the contouring technique.
The basics of contouring
To start your contouring, you must apply foundation to your entire face, including your lips. If it matches your natural skin color, your regular foundation can do the trick. Contouring is the art of modifying facial features with light and shadow effects. You will therefore need two additional foundations. The first should be one tone lighter than your usual skin tone, and the second should be two tones darker. If you already have a highlighter, you can use it to replace light foundation.
Also, if you want natural makeup, you can replace foundations with powder. To avoid leaving a harsh line between the different shades, you can mix them with a very clean flat brush, or with your finger. For a perfect result, it is the dark color that must always mix with the light color. Finally, the contouring needs to be set using a loose powder to be able to last as long as possible.
How to achieve successful contouring?
This makeup technique uses light and dark shades to sculpt the contours of the face to make it more harmonious. How to achieve a convincing result?
Using a contouring palette, all women can modify the perception of their facial features. Refine your nose or even narrow your forehead, this combination of dark and light shades is able to highlight the strengths of the face.
–Choosing the right contouring palette
Today, there are many contouring kits. But be careful, it is essential to choose a palette whose shades are close to those of your face. Otherwise, it is impossible to achieve a natural effect.
Typically, contouring palettes have between 4 and 6 shades, so it’s quite easy to find two colors that perfectly match your skin.
Once this is done, you will be able to create a shadow like effect in certain areas of the face using the dark shade and draw light onto others using the light shade, the goal being to obtain a harmonious effect.
Please note that it is best to avoid shades that are too dark and dull. Instead, favor warm tones which are more advantageous.
–Favor powder and use a specific brush
For beginners, it is better to opt for powders rather than creams because they are easier to apply and tame. The brush suitable for contouring makeup has a rounded head, if possible of a width close to that of your cheekbones. Using light, circular movements, this tool is able to blend the material onto the skin to achieve a natural effect.
–Start with the cheekbones
Whatever the shape of the face, the goal of contouring makeup is always to sculpt the contours for real enhancement. And this technique involves drawing the cheekbones. This step involves following an imaginary line from the top of the ear to the outer corner of the mouth. To sculpt the cheekbones, keep in mind that the color must be intense on the upper part of the face and gradually fade as it reaches the lower part of the face.
–Achieve a harmonious effect
When contouring the cheekbones no longer holds any secrets for you, you can extend the application of the powder to the temples and around the hairline. Always keeping in mind that the shade should be more intense on the upper part of the face.
At chin level, the idea is to draw a shadow by sweeping the powder under the jawline. This way, your face will catch the light to create a harmonious and natural effect.
–The delicate area of the nose
The success of contouring mainly depends on this area of the face. Indeed, it is truly able to modify the perception of facial features. This is why actions must be scrupulous. The chosen shade should allow you to draw a shadow parallel to the nose on each side of it. For this sensitive area, the dose of product should be minimal.
To be sure not to be excessive, ditch your rounded brush for a tapered brush. Then apply the material starting from the base of the eyebrow to the bottom of the nose and under its tip. Then repeat this sweep on the other side of the nose.
The perfect contouring of oval faces
For oval faces, there is practically no need to work on the shadows. You have to concentrate mainly on the points of light. Apply the light foundation or concealer to strategic points on your face:
- The center of the chin
- Cupid’s bow
- The top of the upper lip
- The eyebrow arch
- The bridge of the nose
Then do it like this:
- Shade the hollows of the cheeks starting from the ear towards the nose (almost horizontally)
- Highlight just above the shadow you just traced
- Unify the two tones using a blush that you apply right between the two foundations
For even more effect, pluck your eyebrows a bit so that they are arched.
How to do eye makeup on an oval face?
Oval faces should widen and open up their eyes with make up. For total harmony with the shape of your face, you must be careful not to elongate your eyes. The perfect makeup for oval face eyes is a smokey eye. So treat yourself!
Take out the eyeliner, pencil, and dark eye shadow, and create the most beautiful smoky makeup look. The goal is to emphasize the eye look, so don’t hesitate to darken the eye contour, especially on the lower eyelid. Apply two good coats of mascara, without forgetting to put some on the lower lashes to fully open your eyes.
If you prefer discreet makeup, opt for a dark shadow that matches the color of your eyes perfectly.
- Warm tones for blue eyes
- cool tones for green eyes with light skin
- warm tones for green eyes with dark skin
- brown eyes are spoiled for choice
Apply your eyeshadow to the outer part of the eyelid, then blend inwards. Don’t forget the pencil line at the base of the eyelashes to intensify the look.
How to do make up on the lips of an oval face?
If we had to find an imperfection with oval faces, it would perhaps be their chins which are a little too narrow. So to draw the eye away from your chin, you need to draw attention to your lips.
Redraw the outline of your lips with a lip liner. If you have thin lips, go over a millimeter to thicken your mouth. All you have to do is put on your lipstick. To give an even more plump effect to your mouth, make it shine with a gloss. A dark lipstick will also have its little effect, and will help break up the verticality of the chin.
There you have it, you now know all about oval face make up! If your face shape is other than oval, take a look at the make up section, there is a blog post for each face shape!
I hope you enjoyed these tips on oval face make up and found them useful. Comment down below how you do your make up if you have an oval face, or share with us tips you know of to highlight its natural lines.
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