Understanding of bone structure of the face for highlighting and shading

Highlighting and Shading the face

Everybody has different face shapes and unfortunate about the shape of their face but you are able to change this through concealing your face shape by highlighting and shaping the face, the are techniques easy if you know your facial shape. 

Here are the most common face shapes and the highlighting and shading have been added in to show you what we would hide and what we would bring out more onto the face to define it.

Highlighting - To highlight the face is the best features of your face as your standing it out more by using a lighter colour.

Shading - Shading is when you want to either enhance a bone or feature on the face to make it more defined or to hide features on the face you don't want to stand out.

Here are the different diagrams of face shapes,

the brown shows the shading and the nude shows the highlighting.

If I was to highlight and shade I would use this product which is Kryolan contouring kit, the product is like a foundation and gives a variety of tones for all different skin types.

Bone Structure 

This is all to do with understanding our bone structure and to know what certain bone on the face we want to bring out using highlighting and shading (for example the cheek bones/zygoma are a popular bone on the face most people bring out whilst highlighting and shading). Here's a diagram of all the bones and labelled on the face.

My extreme contouring 

So I tried out the 'extreme contouring' using the colour red as I wanted to try out something different. Here are the method, pictures, products and equipment I used to complete my look. 

Here is all the equipment and products I used:

-Kryolan grease paints pallet
-Kryolan blusher pallet 
-Illamasqua foundation base 
-Illasmasqua powder 
-Illamasqua powder puff
-Kryolan foundation brush
-Kryolan eyeshadow brush
-Kryolan blusher brush

Firstly I applied my highlighting on the face using the Illamasqua foundation base which I used my foundation brush to apply, here's an image on what areas I highlighted.

Then I added red shading to define my face shape, the things I shaded are the features of my face I want to enhance as this is extreme contouring and I want to make my face look fierce and sharp.

Here are the results off the shading, this was the first time off me completing a extreme contour look, for next time I will blend in more and not go over the top with the shading.

Here I have blended it in more and tided the highlighting and shading and it looks a lot more sharper and extreme.