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What features do you like to highlight?
My eyes or my lips!
— Christine
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Despite what Wayne Goss says- my brow bones, inner eye, and lips are usually sporting some shimmer. Maybe I’m stuck in the 90’s but at my age (51) those are the only features I feel comfortable highlighting.
I have a very small upper lip so although I love and pretty much always use a bright lipstick I do prefer to highlight my eyes. I have very almond shaped eyes and even at 62 they are very, very deep brown. I also have pretty long lashes for my age so highlighting my eyes seems to be the best option for me, LOL.
Lips and skin, usually, but sometimes ALL OF IT! 😀
My skin, eyes or lips!
I’m trying to figure out what is meant by the question? Highlight as in using highlighter? Or emphasize specific features?
If its highlighter: tops of cheekbones, cupid’s bow, and a bit down center of nose very *lightly* so that I don’t look like Rex from YouTube!
If it’s my features: eyes, lips and cheekbones!
I read it as features, but clearly there’s a lot of confusion based on the responses! I think my eyes are my best feature, so I focus on them.
Me too! Exactly
I reread this 2x. I’m with you Nancy. Highlight my eyebrow area, cheek bone,sides of nose and cupid’s bow. Features are eyes,lips and cheek bones too. And very lightly down the neck area and between the breasts.
Same here!
Eyes for sure.
I was thinking about this and I realised I always use highlighter and/or blush for my cheekbones. Not because they are my most attractive feature (quite the opposite), but kind of ‘break’ my face which is quite long. Highlighter and blush give me more cheek and make my face less thin. My eyes are round and dark so quite prominent by themselves…
My skin! I’m lucky to have smooth and clear skin so I like to emphasize it with a bolder highlighter and subtle blush/bronzer.
Eyes for sure! I have really large, wide eyes as it is so it can be tricky striking the right balance between playing them up without looking overly ‘done’. But they’re my favourite feature so they’re always the focus.
Definitely my eyes! I spend the most time on them for sure! One area I really don’t highlight is my lips. I hardly ever wear lipstick or gloss because my lips are so dry and chapped ALL THE TIME! I have tried SO many balms, exfoliants, oils, etc and nothing works. Oh well, at least I save money on lipsticks and gloss!
Eyes! They are my best feature — maybe everyone’s. Windows to the soul and all that.
I do like blushed cheeks too. Without that, I look kinda dead. I have to be careful to scale back my heavy hand with blush. I do have a tendency to think “more is better,” and that is far from true most of the time. 🙂
Are you asking what feature you like to play up with makeup or literally what areas do you apply your highlight ? If the former, I’d say my eyes or cheeks. If the latter, I’d say just above my cheekbones and right by my cupid’s bow ?
What areas you like to play up 🙂
Not a big highlighting fan here. Brow bone and Cupid’s bow is about it for me. On special occasions, inner eye.
I read this as asking which features I like to draw attention to: 98% of the time, my eyes; the other 2%, my lips.
I recently decided to work on the minimalist-plus-flushed-blush-look (which would definitely highlight my cheeks alone), but it means finding a way to give myself a skin tone bare lip look, and I have yet to find a lip product that does that successfully (the color is always just so slightly off, which makes my lips noticeable in a different way). I once watched a youtube video where the youtuber said that before you run out and buy a bunch of nude lippies you should figure out if you even look good with nude lips by covering your lips with foundation. Turns out that looks great on me, especially with strong eyes, but I’ve searched for years to find a product that would make my lips disappear into my face the way foundation does. It’d be great if I could just use foundation, but it lasts about 10 minutes on the inner edges of my lips then starts wearing away very unattractively.
It wouldn’t matter except that I have repeatedly confirmed that the only way I can get away with strong blush is to make my eyes and lips disappear, and “natural lip color” (i.e. literally having nothing on my lips) doesn’t work the same visually. [sigh] I *will* figure this out!
As an oily person that used matte product most of my make-up life… I love to have a dewy look all over my skin. But the major highlight would be on the top of my cheekbones and above my eyebrows. If I use highlight on other `classic` part of my face (top of nose, uperlip, middles forehead), I look odd.
My eyes
I’m not a huge fan on limits but I am noticing now that I’ve found a foundation combo that is actually dewy on my dry skin, I’m more into mattes. I usually focus eyes or lips but sometimes, especially in winter, I highlight cheeks. I know it sounds crazy for someone with rosacea and a round face, but sometimes I embrace the deep berry cheek and make sure everything else except mascara and brows are light as can be without looking washed out.
If you mean “play up,” eyes and lips. If you mean “use highlighter on,” then cheekbones, brow bone, inner corner of the eye, and Cupid’s bow.
If the question means emphasize: my eyes and/or lips.
If it means apply highlighter: my cheekbones almost exclusively!
I would say… eyes (because I have to) and cheekbones (because I want to).
I have sparse, light brows and lashes, so I have to do something or my eyes disappear. Brow color and mascara are necessities.
But I like to highlight my cheekbones with contour/blush/highlighter bc I have a heart shaped face when I smile and my cheekbones are a good feature. Also, when I gain weight, my cheeks look a little jowly. So highlighting the cheekbones kind of lifts up the whole face.
My eyes! I have big eyes (that I use to hate so much) and curly eyelashes. But now I excentuate them ?
I took highlight to mean excentuate or feature lol
I like to highlight the top of my cheek bones with an actual highlighter. I don’t like a lot of highlighter all over the face. I will brighten up the inner part of my eye very lightly but not with a highlighter just with a lighter shade of eyeshadow. Sometimes I will use a dab of highlighter on the cupid’s bow of the upper lip.
Eyes normally, lips occasionally.
Just below eyebrows, cupids bow, sometimes upper cheek bones.
Eye Brows + Eyes
Under and over my brows, forehead, temples down to cheeks, nose and cupids bow. I love my Becca shimmer highlighter in opal, poured.
I highlight both my eyes and my lips. I have an unusual eye colour, blue but mostly grey, and one MUA told me she had never seen my eye shade colour before in 30 years in the profession. So I like to bring out those.
But then I love boldish lippies too. Although lately I have been toning it down.
Everything except for the tip of my nose !! That I don’t get at all ! It seems people get highlight crazy and either apply the most highlight there or the wrong highlight , I get maybe applying a lighter concealer for contouring purposes but don’t understand how people are okay with the fact their nose was dipped in the sweat of Edward Cullen .
“Their nose looks like it was dipped “
If you mean focus on: eyes.
if you mean shove glow on it: inner corners, browbone, sometimes the lid, cheekbones, temples, nose, nose tip and cupid’s bow. Some days I just basically roll in the stuff.
Definitely my cheeks as in the c form going up around eyes to above eyebrows. Sometimes very light on my nose bridge but don’t exactly like it as much or on top of lips in Summer can look as sweat easily. I could highlight the entire world have fallen madly in love with highliting. Lol!
Definitely my eyes & brows
Highlighter on tops of cheekbones, above brows, chin and cupids bow
If we’re talking about dusting some shimmer on certain features, then I love highligting my cupids bow, browbone, and inner corner. usually my cheekbones also (but subtly, I’m an oily skinned gal!)
If we’re talking about what feature we like to emphasis, then 9 times out of 10, its my eyes. I just love playing with different eye looks, and my lashes are pretty good with just mascara so there’s that.
I like to highlight my eyes.
Eyes, cheeks, & lips.
My eyes for sure!
I guess the feature I emphasize most is cheekbones, because they bring balance to the whole look. As for applying actual highlighter, I really don’t use it, except sometimes as an eye shadow. (I only bought it once, and I didn’t really like the way using it as highlighter actually looked, but I get them a lot in beauty boxes).