Blushers and Highlighting

Blushers and Highlighting-

Fair Skin

If you burn easily, get freckles when your burn, or if you have porcelain skin then you fall into this category. When picking a shade for your skin, remember, lighter is better.

Using a angled blush brush like the tap off the excess by “flicking” the end of your brush with your finger. This will get rid of any unwanted excess on your brush and keep you from applying to much on your cheeks. If you do apply to much, use a beauty blender and roll the area lightly, this will pick up any unwanted pigment on your cheeks.

Apply the colour to the apple of your cheeks and blend back toward the temple. For highlighting your cheeks you want to pick something for fair skin that’s a light champagne colour. Whether you choose liquid or powder form is completely up to you and really is a matter of what you are more comfortable using. Apply the highlighter right above where you placed the blush. This will add just the right amount of shimmer to the cheeks.

Medium Skin

Medium skin tones are the most common with 80% of all women falling into this category. The best blushes for medium skin toned ladies are rosey pink and deep peaches.

apply the blush to the apple of the cheeks and blend back. Again, remember, if you apply to much you can go in with a beauty blending or sponge and roll across the colour to pick up some of the excess pigment on the skin. For highlighting on medium skin toned, the best thing to use is a pale golden or warm gold. Don’t use a champagne colour or a light colour as it will look to frosty on the skin.

Depending on the kind of highlighter you choose, you can use a highlighting brush or CLEAN fingers, pat the highlighter onto the cheek bones right above the blush. The highlighter used here has a small amount of shimmer to it, using a matte blush allows you to control the shimmer and place it where you want it to be. You don’t want your cheeks to be overdone. Remember, you cheeks should look as if they have a natural flush to them.

Dark Skin

For dark skin, choose colours from rose to deep oranges. Choosing a shade that is to light will make your skin appear washed out and pale. You want to enhance the natural beauty of your skin.

Just as before, use an angled blush brush and remember to tap off an excess from the brush by tapping the brush with your finger. Gently apply the colour to the apples of the cheeks and blend back toward the hairline.

Remember, you just want to make your cheeks glow. For cheek highlighting using a gold colour is stunning. Using a champagne colour will look to frosty against the skin. Using your two CLEAN fingers, apply the gold colour to the top of the cheekbones above where you placed the blush.