Cheekbones...They never went out of fashion. From the covers of glossy magazines, thin models with perfect cheekbones smile beautifully at us. It seems very beautiful. And I want those for myself. But for some, Mother Nature already gave them expressive cheekbones, and some, even after losing a couple of kilograms, still didn’t get cheekbones. Well, as in every situation, there are at least two ways out. And in this “cheekbone” problem there are three of them. Let's start with the most cardinal one.
Extra chins
Incorrect position during sleep and walking, long periods of time near the computer make the chin muscles most prone to early sagging. A set of exercises should be done daily for 20 days. Then a few classes a week are enough.
- Warm up your muscles. Use 35 standard taps on the chin with your knuckles. The same exercise should complete the gymnastics.
- From a sitting position, slowly raise your head and look at the ceiling. Place your lips together as if for a passionate kiss, then send a light kiss to the ceiling. Relax and lower your head. You need to do 7 repetitions in one approach.
- The principle of operation is the same as in the previous exercise. Only now, looking at the ceiling, you need to make chewing movements 22 times.
- Now you need to stick your tongue out at the ceiling. Raise your head and reach your chin with your tongue. Count to 7 and return to the starting position.
- Stretch your neck forward as much as possible and sing.
- Lie on your back, raise your head and stretch your neck to your chest. You need to feel the muscles tense. Hold the position for 3 seconds and take an even position. You need to repeat the lifts 11 times.
Makeup to the rescue!
The first results after gymnastics will be noticeable in at least a week. On a round face, it will take a month for a visible effect. There is a way to make your cheekbones look much faster. This is makeup.
Blush
To make your cheekbones look fuller, blush is best. They will highlight natural shadows on the face and help visually create relief. The shade of the blush and the density of the brush play a key role here. Girls with a cold color type (Winter, Summer) need to choose colors with a grayish undertone. Owners of “warm” colors (Spring, Autumn) will benefit from cosmetics with a “brick” and reddish tint.
Blush application scheme
How to apply blush:
- First, the skin is covered with a light foundation. This is necessary to create a spectacular transition between the cheekbone shadow and the plane of the cheeks.
- The zygomatic bone, even if it is not very expressive, is parallel to the lower jaw. Based on this, you need to determine the line for applying blush. Place the brush on your cheekbone and visually determine the area to be painted.
- Along the highlighted line, lightly brush the blush brush from the cheeks to the temples.
- Now draw in your cheeks and apply blush to the sunken areas. They will need to be stretched towards the temples using a clean brush. Professional makeup artists do this simply with their fingers.
- To make the effect even more noticeable, the jawline is also emphasized.
- Light areas are highlighted with powder to create a subtle contrast.
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This makeup is suitable as a light daytime makeup.
It’s even easier to add shadows to your cheekbones at home. To do this, you will need an eyeshadow palette of a suitable dark and light shade. As with blush, you need to draw in your cheeks and apply the shadow with light movements along the sunken area. Protruding bones are painted with light shades. The correct way to do this is to use shadows with shimmer or highlighter.
The principle of applying shadows to the cheeks
The main secret of girls with beautiful cheekbones is shading. You need to blend the shadows from the cheeks to the temples, practically spreading the paint under the hairline. There should also be no clear transition between light and dark areas.
Contouring
Hard contouring will help to make dimples on the face, cheekbones, and reduce cheeks. Using this makeup technique, you can actually create a “new” face for yourself.
Contouring scheme
How to remove cheeks with contouring:
- A light foundation is applied to the skin. It should be thoroughly blended over the entire skin. It is important that its layer is uniform, therefore, when applying foundation, we recommend using artificial bristle brushes.
- On top of the cream, on sunken areas (where dimples or cheekbones should be), apply a very dark bronzer or liquid blush. The main secret to contouring is using products with cool undertones. It is believed that this will allow the image to look as natural and organic as possible.
- A light tone is applied to sharp protrusions, cheek bones and chin. It can be replaced with concealer or nude shadows.
- A clear white line is also drawn above the cheekbones. This way they will look pronounced and very impressive.
- As a result, individual areas are drawn on the face with clear lines: cheekbones, forehead, cheeks and chin. To make your makeup look more prominent and as natural as possible, you need to shade clear lines. Please note, blend rather than erase them with a brush.
- For evening makeup, you can highlight the hollows with bronzer over the shaded areas, and highlight the ridges with a highlighter with soft shimmer.
The right haircut and makeup is a simple and affordable way for women to emphasize their cheekbones and make them more expressive. As for hairstyles, you can pay attention to the following options:
- Ladder haircut starting from the middle of the cheek.
- Hairstyles with straight bangs covering the eyebrows.
- Straight strands, the ends of which are slightly curled, help visually elongate the oval of the face and emphasize the cheekbones.
- You can pay attention to this styling: tie up straight hair on the back of your head with a hairpin and let a few strands of hair fall onto your face.
When doing makeup, you can pay attention to some sculpting techniques that will help highlight your cheekbones and make them more expressive. In this case, you need to take into account the shape of your face:
- Round face. In order to highlight the cheekbones and elongate the face, use this technique: apply a darker shade of blush below the cheekbone, and apply a lighter shade, for example, peach, to the apples of the cheeks.
Avoid using blush with shimmery textures if you have a round face. They will diffuse the light, visually making the face even wider.
- Square face. Apply blush from bottom to top, do not reach your temples. It is better to choose terracotta tones. You can apply blush with reflective particles or highlighter to the cheekbone.
- Triangular face. It is advisable to draw cheekbones in the upper area of the cheeks in the shape of a boomerang. The shade of blush should be used as close to natural as possible. To highlight cheekbones and soften some of the angularity of the face, use cream blush with shimmering particles or highlighter. Apply them to your temples.
- Oval face. It is considered the ideal form, so you need to select the texture and shades of blush based on the color type. To highlight the cheekbones, you can use blush, applying it to the central part of the cheek and slightly moving it upward towards the temple area.
Thus, there are enough ways to “create” cheekbones. Makeup and hairstyle are simple, but in order to achieve lasting results and further tighten the oval, it is recommended to use exercises. When performed regularly, they can improve the features and shape of your face.
Zone of grief
Nasolabial wrinkles make a woman look older and look dull. It's easier to prevent them than to get rid of them. But the right exercises will help you cope with this problem.
- Pronounce all the vowels of the alphabet loudly and clearly. Watch for clarity of articulation.
- Blow up an invisible balloon. You can use the real thing, and it will also be beneficial for your lungs.
- Pronounce the sound “o” with your mouth as open as possible.
- Move your lower jaw forward and close your mouth tightly.
- Pull your cheeks in, then inflate them one by one.
Beautiful lips
The lips contain a lot of muscles, so physical activity will not hurt them either.
- The whistle strengthens the contour well. Whistle a new melody every day, you will be pleased with the results. Superstitious people can do this exercise outside. You need to whistle for at least 5 minutes.
- Stick your tongue out at the reflection in the mirror. Don't be shy, stick out as much as possible. Stay in the final position for a few seconds. Repeat 12 grooves.
- Blow on the dandelions. If it’s not the season, take a small feather and blow it away for 3 minutes.
- Make a fairy fish smile. Purse your lips tightly, then smile widely. Smile 12 times, remembering to relax after each repetition.
- Howl like a wolf, only slowly, in different voices. Exercise is good not only for muscles, it copes well with depression. Do the training for 7 minutes.
- Draw with a pencil, which must be held tightly in your mouth. Circles and letters are suitable for artistic creativity. Create for 4 minutes.
Correct cheekbones
High cheekbones create the entire contour of the face. A flabby face and jowls are not at all what a beautiful woman needs.
- Take a deep breath, fill your cheeks with air. The mouth is tightly closed, palms are pressed to the cheeks, fingers are on the ears. In this position, try to squeeze out the air, and your cheeks should resist the pressure. Resist for about 7 seconds and then you can exhale. The number of repetitions is at least 5. If you urgently need to remove signs of fatigue, this exercise will help perfectly.
- Round your mouth, press your tongue firmly against your cheek. Now move your tongue over the entire surface of your cheek. Make sure your cheek is always pressed tightly against your tongue. This should be done for 7 minutes on each side.
- Puff out one cheek. And then roll the air to the other cheek through the upper teeth. Back - through the lower ones. And so 12 times.
- Open your mouth, tense your facial muscles, turn your lips inward. Place your palms on the sides of your face and slowly pull your entire face up. If you do everything correctly, a burning sensation and fatigue appear in the muscles.
Radical methods
Actress Jada Pinkett Smith literally knows how to pump up her cheekbones - she made her cheekbones more expressive with the help of silicone prostheses. But the famous actress Marlene Dietrich did it differently: she removed four molars. With the help of such dental manipulation, she achieved the long-awaited “triangle” face shape. The current stars, the Olsen sisters, have followed in her footsteps. And in general, many cosmetologists say that the procedure for cheekbone augmentation is now more popular than lip augmentation. But this is the first way out, but the second method is less radical.
Expressive eyes
Puffy eyelids and wrinkles under the eyes upset many people. These defects are especially noticeable in the morning. A few exercises and your eyes will shine. You need to repeat all exercises 7 times.
- Close and open your eyes wide for three counts.
- Same exercise, but now make scissors from your index and middle fingers and apply them to the outer corners of your eyes.
- Use your index finger to lift your lower eyelid and look straight ahead. Count to 3 and release the eyelid.
- Move your eyes from side to side and in a circle. This must be done every 30 minutes if you work on a computer.
If you get into it and your training has become regular, then it’s time to move on to more complex complex exercises.
Basic basis
These simple exercises are popular among many women. In a few minutes of exercise you can effectively load all the muscles of the face. All exercises are done by alternating tension (7 seconds) and relaxation (3 seconds). You need to start with 6 repetitions, increasing the number daily.
- Forehead. Place both hands on the forehead so that the nameless clubs lie on the brow ridges. Overcoming the resistance of your hands, raise your eyebrows and shift the skin of your forehead down.
- Eyes. Open your eyes as wide as possible, move your pupils in different directions. Then apply gentle pressure on the outer corners of your eyes and tighten your lower eyelid.
- Cheeks. Place your fingers on the corners of your lips. Try to smile from ear to ear, tensing the muscles of your cheeks and mouth as much as possible.
- Corners of lips. Press your lips between your teeth, pulling the corners upward. This exercise also removes wrinkles above the upper lip.
- Nose. Place the index finger and thumb of your left hand on the bridge of your nose and squeeze lightly. Use the finger of your right hand to lift the tip of your nose. And try to lower your nose down using your upper lip. The lip should be pulled as tightly as possible over the upper teeth.
- Chin. Make a fist and place it under your chin. Try to open your mouth against resistance. And then stick your tongue out in the same position.
- Neck. Pull back your lower lip so that your teeth are visible. Make sure that the corners of your lips do not move. If the exercise is performed correctly, relief muscles appear.
- Face contour. Open your mouth wide, the muscles of the cheeks, chin and neck should be tense, the lower jaw pushed forward.
Visual effects
You can visually pump up your masticatory muscles with the help of cosmetics. By the way, at the peak of the popularity of “sculpted faces” in the 80s, this is what they did. Makeup artists worked their magic on the models' faces, resulting in beautiful cheekbones. But for the average woman, such cosmetic procedures were inaccessible, since ordinary powder and blush had a dense structure. If applied incorrectly, the face felt like it was under a mask. Now the cosmetics industry is replete with powders, blushes, bronzers and other products with light structures that easily correct the face. The brush with the product should be guided from the temple to the corners of the lips. The line should be drawn not along the cheekbone itself, but under it.
There is another way to pump up the cheekbones on your face. It will not require money, much less cosmetic or dental intervention. This method can not only pump up the jaw, but also tone all the muscles of the face, rejuvenate them and fill them with new energy for new smiles.