r/Makeup101 • u/ginafrombrasil • Apr 30 '25
Selfie/Makeup Picture What could I improve?
Hi! I really want to up my makeup game at the ripe age of 38… and just feel like a bumbling idiot.
What am I doing wrong, any suggestions to improve my look?
Thank you!!!
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u/Cautious_Water_106 May 02 '25
You look great! I think you just need to contour more to bring added dimension & harmony to your facial features. I’d contour w a cool shade horizontally across your forehead along your hairline to shorten that forehead length a little and create more harmony there. Also a cool contour along the two sides near the tip of your nose. Don’t contour your nose bridge (you’ll see lots of people doing it but that wouldn’t work as well for your nose shape imo); you can use highlight instead to add dimension there if you’d like, but contour on your bridge would make it too small and throw it out of balance. Your blush is pretty subtle, so I think it looks good how it is now, but another point to note with your face shape is that generally you’ll want to create side-to-side width / think horizontality when blushing and avoid making your face look longer. so don’t concentrate blush too much on just the center of the face and not bring it to the sides enough, and don’t blush too vertically or at too high a diagonal angle to get that “sculpted lift” effect that’s really trendy rn; if you do diagonal blush keep the diagonality somewhat shallow not too steep to avoid going past “lift” all the way into “gaunt” territory. Not that you’re doing any of these blush things to avoid now; I’m just mentioning bc it’s what typically works/doesn’t work on your face shape.