How to make highlighter at home?

Highlighter - can replace professional makeup artist. He will easily emphasize exactly what is needed to create an unforgettable image. With it, you can arrange accents, hide fine lines and create makeup that will leave a vivid impression. Leading makeup artists claim that you can make the highlighter at home.

Not everyone and not always have the opportunity to buy this tool. Perhaps you have often visited the question of what can be used instead of the highlighter. Fortunately, you can replace it with improvised cosmetics. Reviews confirm that the homemade highlighter is not inferior to the purchased one, and sometimes exceeds it.

If you are going to make a highlighter with your own hands and replace it with other means, you must clearly understand what this makeup is for.

This cosmetic does not hide the errors of the skin. Redness and irritation, bags and bruises under the eyes with it you do not mask. On the contrary - you can attract attention to them. But to highlight and shade the necessary areas of the face so as to draw attention to them and distract him from the problem areas, the highlighter can.

When choosing the appropriate option you need to focus on the color of your skin.

It is very important that the highlighter is brighter than the natural color of the face in several shades. So you can favorably brighten and shade certain areas of the face.

When choosing a color for a cosmetic product, the following recommendations should be considered:

• Fair-skinned girls and women to highlight the eye line, a white or light pink shade of this cosmetic product is suitable.
• The fair sex Olive skin is better to focus on the peach shade.
• Black or tanned girls should look at the golden hue.
• Versatile and suitable Almost everyone is considered a beige shade.

You must take these features into account even if you replace the purchased highlighter with the home one.

If you are going to find a replacement for heat-giving, find out what types of such cosmetics exist.

On the modern cosmetic market, the following highlighters are distinguished:

• Compact. Universal, suitable for daily use. Sold in the form of powder. You can choose such a tool for your skin type.
• Liquid. Available in a convenient dispenser jar. It is easily distributed over the skin and lasts a long time. With it, you can be sure that you do not have to correct makeup every half hour.
• Serum. Not only emphasizes the right places, but also cares for the skin of the face. Moisturized and well-groomed skin is guaranteed. This type of cosmetics is more suitable for already mature women.
• Pencil. Convenient to use. They can highlight areas such as the inner corners of the eyes, lip contour, eyebrows. It is easy to use, you can not worry about the clarity of the lines.
• Cream. Although the texture and cream, but such a highlighter does not differ in ease of application.
• Shimmer. It is a dry product with many shades. Differs in ease of drawing.
• Rainbow. Last beauty sensation. With the application of such a tool can handle only a professional. If you are not confident in your abilities, then it is better not to experiment.

In women's cosmetics bags, there are some tools with which you can easily make a highlighter even at home.

The easiest and quickest replacement method is shadows. Almost all women and girls have such cosmetics. However, not all shadows are suitable for such a mission. Dry pearl shades of light and beige shades will do. For dark-skinned women, you can choose a golden hue. Apply a shadow with a brush or just fingers.

Liquid shadows are also a good option. Apply them even easier. To make the transitions invisible, the shadows must also be mixed with the foundation.

Very unexpected, but very effective. Illuminizer at home can be replaced with a moisturizer.

Use the cream should not be before makeup, and after. A small amount of funds go to the places you want to allocate. Light moist shine you provided.

In addition, you kill two birds with one stone. Moisturizer will not only complete the makeup, but will also care for the skin.

If you do not have a highlighter, but have a primer, you can safely use it instead of the first tool.

It is good if you buy a primer with shining particles in advance. Remember to apply the primer so that it replaces the highlighter, it is necessary after the completion of the makeup. Then the effect will be impressive.

Leading make-up artists of the world are using when creating makeup Vaseline. There is nothing easier than replacing the highlighter with this tool.

Apply a small amount of Vaseline on the cheekbones, the end of the nose, a little on the forehead. You will look as if you came out of an expensive salon. And certainly no one will suspect that you spent the whole day at work.

The highlighter can also be replaced with a gloss or lip balm. Here we must be aware that the bright and rich color will have to be well shaded. It is better to simply choose a lighter tone and not doubt the result. Even a well-chosen tone requires skillful application.

To make a highlighter at home, you need the following components:

• light shadows and powder;
• any cosmetic oil;
• convenient mixing tank;
• wooden or plastic spatula.

Combine a little powder and shadows, preferably in a glass jar. Mix everything well. Pour in the same cosmetic oil. Stir to a smooth consistency.

Ready highlighter apply to complete the makeup, store the remnants in the refrigerator.

How to do and how to replace the highlighter, you already know. Now you need to figure out where and on what parts of the face to put it.

Such cosmetics are applied to the most prominent areas of the face:

• The back of the nose. The highlighter applied to it visually reduces the nose. Not everyone can use this trick, but only owners of a straight nose.
• Line under eyebrows. So you will not only emphasize eyebrows, but also make the look more expressive.
• The front of the forehead.
• Lip contour The caused highlighter will create a volume effect.
• Cheekbones With the help of the highlighter, you can fine-tune and “raise” your cheekbones.

Apply highlighter to the face in several ways:

• Using brushes. Give preference to brushes from natural ingredients.
• Fingers If the option with brushes does not suit you, you can completely trust your fingers. Apply a little product and gently blend it.
• Sponge It will help not only to apply a cosmetic, it also qualitatively blends it.

Highlight your own hands at home, see the next video.