We know how much you love wearing makeup, especially the trendy ones. Let’s agree that finding the trendy makeup that suits your face is tough. But don’t worry you’ve got us. We can help you with the right makeup for different face shapes.

You don’t need to know everything about makeup, a few steps will help you. It’s a simple science that goes behind the art of accentuating your look. Having a clear understanding of your face shape can lighten the burden for you to begin with. So many times it’s usually the contour, highlight, and bush technique that we fail to understand.

You can learn to do makeup for different face shapes by reading the blog further.

Different Face Shapes And Their Makeup

We will now discuss different shapes of faces and the makeup we can use to enhance the look. You can easily find the makeup guide suitable for your face in this part. To know your face shape tighten your hair back and click a selfie. Now examine your forehead width, face length, cheekbone width, and jawline width. Now you can find out your face and the makeup you can opt for by reading the blog further.

Also, make sure to check if your face is angular or not. You’ll know why we’re asking you to do so once you scroll below to learn.

1. Round Face Makeup

A round face is easy to detect. Its obvious signs are no sharp edges and a rounded jawline with equal width and length of the face. You have equal face length and width measurements.
You can use a darker shade to contour the cheekbones and jawline. The idea is to highlight the features and sculpt the round structure of your face. Evenly apply foundations to the areas you want to achieve spotlight. Get your eyes concealed with a shade two-number lighter than your skin.

Pro Tips: Apply the concealer on the hairline to the forehead, towards the nose, and on the chin. Now blush in an angular motion to the apple of your cheek till the temple. To add definition to your eyes, use darker eye shadow and contour the eyelid with a bronzer.

2. Square Face Makeup

For a Square face, the width of the cheekbones, jawline, and forehead are the same. They have strong and angular features. The goal is to soften the angular look to more of a round or oval structure
For a natural look contour the jawline and temple in an upward direction. Use a warm-tone bronzer for this part. Highlight the brow bone, forehead, and chin in a ‘C’ shape giving it a more prominent look. A peachy or pink blush works in this case. Start with linear motion a few inches away from the nose to the corners of the eye. Fill the hollows of the cheek with blush and bronzer. Contour the jawline to soften the appearance in a rounded way to reduce its wide-angle look. A dark eye shadow can give the eye a heavy look to deflect attention from cheekbones.

Pro Tips: Use a rose-toned blush to give it a natural finish. Use lip liner to widen your lip and nude shade as lipstick.

3. Oval Face Makeup

If you have a combination of a square and round structure, congratulations you have an oval face. Most people wish to achieve this look through makeup. Usually, the forehead is balanced with the chin and the face is typically long in this case.

Special emphasis has to be placed on defining the eyebrows and the eyes. Different face shape contouring accentuates different features. The contouring center of the oval face will minimize the forehead width. Apply foundations in areas of the nose, cheekbones, chin, and forehead to define it better. Contour beneath the cheekbones and sides of the forehead to give it a narrow look.

Pro Tips: Highlight under the eyes and areas around it for an elegant look. Now evenly spread the blush on your cheekbone and not too under it for a lighter natural appearance.

4. Diamond Face Makeup

If you wonder if your oval face might have some angles attached to it, we bet you have a diamond face. You can precisely distinguish the wider cheekbone and thinner chin and forehead with an angular point to the hairline.

To minimize the width of the contour of the cheekbone with a shade darker than the skin color for a better effect. Add fullness to your chin and forehead by applying a highlighter to the chin and middle of your forehead. For an extra dimension and glow apply the mascara, eye shadow, and blush. Blush the temple inward with a ‘C’ curve that softens the overall look.

Pro Tips: To attain a narrow hairline, highlight the center of the forehead between your brows. Blending the bronzer upward can enhance the volume of your cheekbone.

5. Rectangle Face Makeup

When the width of the forehead, cheekbones, and chin are parallel. The length of the face is more compared to the width of the face, so you have a rectangle face. They usually have a stronger angular look. The idea is to soften the features.

Give your face a lift by contouring the high points and adding blush to the apple of the cheeks in a circular motion. Highlight the forehead and cheekbone. Remember to use a contour a few shades darker than your skin. It helps you give with best detailing. You can also contour the temple and forehead to slim the broader areas of the face.

Pro Tips: If you wish to make your forehead look smaller contour the hairline. Highlight the eye area in a triangle facing upside down for a spectacular makeup look.

6. Heart Face Makeup

A Heart Face shape has a broader forehead than the chin and the cheekbone. The chin is pointed, and the cheeks are narrower than the hairline. You also get to have a prominent widow’s peak, the shape of an inverted triangle.

To balance the wide forehead and thin chin we gotta focus on the practice of contour and highlight. Use bronzer or contour to the edge of the hairline and temple. Starting from the ear work till the middle of the cheek. Now highlight the center of the forehead, the high point of the cheek, below the eyebrow, onto the jawline, and down to the bridge of the nose. Use foundation in areas you want to restructure with more details.

Pro Tips: Apply blush leaving a few inches away from the nose, from the apple of the cheek to the ears. Highlight the middle of the chin to grab attention on its fuller volume look.

Conclusion

Trying makeup on your face all by yourself is easy. All you need to know few techniques based on the face shape you have. We hope our instruction gives you the confidence to do makeup for different face shapes. These steps are practically used in the daily makeup routines of our clients and have always given satisfactory results.

Remember to experiment with your look, try different styles, and see for yourself what works best. You can adapt any trendy makeup look while keeping the base as prescribed above. Knowing your face shape helps you a lot with the contour and highlight process.

We made sure to elaborate everything we could. Flaunt your makeup look with confidence.

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