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I have a few tips and tricks that will make
makeup application more enjoyable.
Well right now I'm going to talk about highlighters.
First of all, I think we all understand what highlighters are.
They're literally supposed to highlight your makeup.
They can't become the makeup.
We've seen over the last few years
trends on Instagram and various other social media platforms that,
I think highlighters have taken such a centre stage that
everything else that's supposed to look
beautiful and glamorous has quite gone out of the window.
I'm not dissing the fact that highlighters
should be used or should not be used.
It's a matter of personal choice but
I really feel that highlighters have been abused.
And in the case of skin type like this
where the skin is open and slightly pitted,
there's more danger in how and where you take your highlighter.
In most cases, I wouldn't recommend it
all over the face anyway because,
it'll simply make the light bounce off
every part of your face and make you look round.
Highlighters are literally supposed to lift up your makeup,
just make it elegant, take it one notch up!
I'm just going to show you right now on Priyanka
how highlighters are normally applied
and they're not always rightly applied.
So I'm just going to show you how not to do it.
And I'm also going to show you how to do it
in such a way that actually makes your makeup elegant
and lifts your makeup up.
So let me get started with the wrong way to do it
or the unflattering way to do it.
First of all, it's a choice of brushes as well.
Never use large brushes like this to apply highlighter.
What you'll be doing is simply putting it across an area
that does not take highlighter well.
For example, if you're trying to highlight the cheekbone,
you tend to apply it above the blush
on the cheekbone
and into the temple.
But you see what it does,
it actually throws the light right exactly where you're trying to
hide pot marks or indentations in the skin.
While all this while it was looking quite flat.
Right now, it's thrown attention on to the very areas
that you're trying to conceal or set back.
So most people tend to apply highlighter with a very large brush
where it takes the highlighter past the area
that it should be applied in
where it doesn't look elegant anymore.
And also if you notice, it brings the very texture that you're hiding
into sharp focus.
And if you see the difference between this side
and this side where the skin is completely matte,
it actually takes the eye away from the problem area.
Let me show you how to use the highlighter right
in a case like this.
First of all, choice of brushes.
Try and stick to smaller brushes for smaller areas.
You're being very precise here.
You want to put a highlighter exactly where
the light falls on your face.
So you don't need to take a brush that's too big to handle that.
I'm doing the very same thing.
You can use a fan brush
or you may use a small blending brush,
whichever you find comfortable.
Since this is more easily available in most people's
normal kits, I'll show it with this.
Just take a small amount of the highlighter.
And in skin types like this,
you will always find a portion of the skin
very close to the eye
that does not have open skin.
That would be your cue.
You literally pick up the light
either on the brow bone, it's optional
and run it along the area
that does not have any open skin.
So it doesn't mean that you'll never use a highlighter.
It simply means that you know where to put it.
When you place the highlighter right,
you'll find that the face actually lifts up
versus just looking round.
Well I hope this video was informative,
and we brought a lot of key things into focus
especially trouble areas that you maybe fidgety with.
So please write to us about the things
that you find difficult to deal with
and we'll try as often as possible to put out videos
that address these issues.
But for now, stay tuned and stay Glamrs.