Highlight the importance of this handy product.
If your clients’ makeup bags lack a highlighter, it’s time to fill them in on how to positively “reflect” this season. “Highlighter can really lend a lifted look,” says Sormé educator Fari Hosseinan, citing highlighter’s age-reversing points. “Apply it on the tops of cheekbones for a healthy looking glow, or under the eyebrow for an immediate brow lift.” Julie Hewett, renowned makeup artist and founder of her eponymous pro-makeup line, recommends patting liquid highlighter onto cheekbones for a “more natural and dewy look, rather than over-the-top shine,” while Hosseinan values placement: “Blend along the cheekbones upward toward the outer corner of the eye and along the temple in a ‘C’ formation” to impart a subtle, youthful glow.
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Light Eyes!
Our pros lend these eye-opening highlighter tips:
Tiny lids: Highlight across the entire upper lid to attract light from all directions.
Flat lids: Apply highlighter in an upward stroke on the inner area of the eyelid toward the brow bone.
Puffy lids: Highlight just below the eyebrow arch.
Wide-set eyes: Smudge highlighter along the middle of the creases of the eyes.
Close-set eyes: Apply highlighter to the outer third of the top lash line and blend outward.
—Karie L. Frost
(Photo: Andreea Angelescu)
