What Makeup is Best for Your Face Shape?

 What Makeup is Best for Your Face Shape?

There are four main face shapes: oblong, heart shaped, oval shaped and round. Each face type has different looks that go better with it.

Here’s how you tell what face shape you have: measure your face width at the chin, cheekbones and forehead. Then measure your face length. You’ll find that the dimensions match one of the face types described next.

You have a heart shaped face if you’re narrow at jaw line but wide at cheekbones or forehead. You’ll often have lovely high cheekbones that you can emphasise with blush and toner.

If you have this face you really want to make your eyes stand out as the focal point. You can do this with dark eyeliners and eyeshadows.

Famous people with heart shaped faces include Michelle Pfeiffer, Claudia Schiffer, Lucy Lawless, Naomi Campbell and Carmen Electra.

Oval shaped faces where your chin and forehead are the same width. This is a face shape that is very versatile. Actually, people with other face shapes often try to make them appear oval. I think that each face shape has its own unique beauty.

Oval faces are very balanced though. You can wear almost any hairstyle. For makeup, you can choose which feature you want to have as a focus: eyes or lips. (If you focus on both, the effect can be overwhelming.)

Here are some oval face to watch: Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, Cindy Crawford, Uma Thurman, Julia Roberts and Elle MacPherson.

Round Shaped Faces are, well, round. For this shape your face is about the same width and length. You can look very cute though! People with this face shape often look very young.

You may want to create more definition by giving the illusion of a narrower face. There are a number of ways you can do this. The best way is using contouring. You can use darker toners around the edge of your face to achieve a more defined look.

Celebs that have a round-shaped face include Kate Winslet, Christina Ricci and Drew Barrymore.

If your face is longer than it is wide, you are an oblong shape. This shape can be striking, though you may want to give it a slightly softer rounder look. You can do this with highlighting. The areas you want to highlight are the temples, the chin, as well as the area right above the cheekbones in the face.

Also try a bit of blush on the cheekbones to soften the square. Using darker foundation round the edges of your face will also give it a more rounded look.

Celebrities that have an oblong face shape include Gwyneth Paltrow, Kirstie Alley, Janet Jackson, Angelina Jolie.

Makeup Color Charts: How Best to Use Them

Even nature uses color to attract. Look at brightly colored birds, flower and butterflies. Makeup is no different. When you find the right colors for your complexion, you stand out, look magnificent and feel great.

It’s almost like cheating, or getting an unfair advantage. But the truth is, you will always have colors that look great on you. And yes, colors that really do nothing for you, or worse, make you look unwell.

So, how do you find out which colors are best for you? It’s relatively straight forward. There are three main areas that you need to pay attention to.

In order of importance: you eye color, your skin tones and your hair color. Once you’ve got these sorted, choosing makeup colors and even clothing should be a clear and simple. So, how do you pick the best eye color makeup?

You want to use the color wheel to choose contrasting tones. For instance, if you have blue eyes, the opposite tones are golds and pinks. For colors to go with your skin tones, try the winter, summer, autumn and spring palettes.

This way of finding your colors  has been around for a while, but that’s because it works! There are other ways of classifying colors, like warm tones and cool tones. However, using the seasons is a good way to get a basic range of colors that work for your complexion.

Lastly, it’s important to look at what will go with your hair color. Admittedly, eye, hair and skin tones really go together. You want to look at them as a whole to get the colors which will really do it for you. But it does help to look at hair, eyes and skin tones separately first.

Once you’ve sorted your ideal colors, the fun begins! Choose from that color palette eyeshadows, lipstick and mascara to bring out your natural beauty.

For foundation, concealer and blush, go for colors that are closer to your skin tones. And choose clothes colors that fit into the winter, summer, spring, autumn ranges. That way your clothes will bring out the color of your eyes and set off your skin to best advantage.

Getting your colors right may take a little while. But once you’ve got a clear idea of what really works for you, you’re onto a winning formula. You can still experiment a lot within a color range. And you can try many different combinations of colors. Knowing the ground rules of your colors gives you a wonderful base to advance from with confidence.