The only feature that I definitely enhance would be the overall tone and evenness in my skin, but I feel like when I apply highlighter, it’s less about accentuating bone structure as it is just admiring the way the light reflects!
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I fill in my brows which frame my face and add definition to my face. Mascara provides length, fullness and volume. Bronzer warms up my face. Blush adds life and vitality. Foundation evens out my skintone and conceals blemishes. I would say most of the makeup I wear is to enhance my features. Does it change my face? Somewhat. But not in any dramatic way. I don’t over draw my lips, wear falsies or contour which are more deliberate ways to change your features or creates that illusion anyhow?
To enhance? Yes, absolutely! I do like to bring out my best features. Change? I prefer to call it “morphing”. Just sounds nicer! As in; tightlined upper lashline, followed by curling and quite a bit of mascara to make up for my sparse, straighter lashes and to make my eyes noticeable behind my glasses. I also morph my very uneven, acne scarred, eczema spotted skin into a lovely, even canvas, too!
This is a hard question to answer. I think I mostly try to enhance my better features. If makeup had the ability to really change certain features, like really give me bigger lips I would definitely go for it!
Definitely to enhance. I from time to time, I use an angled brush to apply blush in a way that hugs the underside of my cheekbones, emphasizing them a little more. With hooded eyes and skin prone to flushing, ensuring volume of my eyelashes and an even skintone are important ways to enhance my facial features.
Yes. My lashes are light and my eyes bright so I feel I need liner and mascara to give my face definiton.
I feel the same way about highlighter!! “ohhh, so shiny” 🙂
I would say I do use my undereye concealer to ‘change’ my dark circles and not look like I haven’t slept in days, and generally utilize the rest of my eye makeup to enhance my eye shape. I really enjoy applying my makeup every single morning.
I use blush to help bring out my cheekbones more on my round face and to give my face some structure.
Honestly, I wear it to change the way I look. I sculpt my brows in a way to make my eyes look more open, and when wearing eyeshadow I’m mindful to make my eyes look further apart and bigger. I naturally have small, close, deep-set eyes so my eye makeup is done to make my eyes look larger and brighter.
I just think it looks neat. All jokes aside, probably to enhance features. I have green eyes so I use a lot of warm tones on the eyes. I already have kinda defined cheekbones but I use blush to sculpt them a bit. But for the most part I really just put stuff on my face that I like, usually without the conscious idea of playing up a feature. I have fun with it.
…I guess the change the way I look option…but only in the sense of like hunger games, district 1, change the way I look. I mostly wear makeup for creativity and to play with colors and tones!
Definitely for enhancement. I use a subtle hand in all of my makeup because I believe cosmetics is not plastic surgery, and I don’t have to go overboard with it. Especially for face makeup, I choose the technique that’s the most flattering for my face shape, and use cool tone contours to make my flat features look more alive. The extent of pop of color would be the extremely small lid space (I’m monolid) and I wouldn’t even go beyond a silverish green or a baby blue.
I like to think I use makeup to smooth, refine, and enhance. I hope I’m still recognizable without makeup on! 🙂
For me, makeup is all about enhancing what I have and covering any flaws (dark circles, broken capillaries) rather than changing how I look which is why you won’t find me wearing stuff like green or black lipstick, icy green blush/highlighter, etc.
1. Change the way I look: I love that I can give myself an instant facelift with strategic product placement.
2. Enhance features: I have good face structure, so I love base and cheek products. Good contrasting colours for my green hazel eyes do wonders. My lips are decent enough, so bright lipstick is always fun too.
3. Colour and Texture: sometimes I like makeup purely for the beauty of the colour and/or texture. My favourite highlighter is Looxi Beauty Ever After purely because of the range of colour play.. and it has the same name as my farm. So there’s that as well.
Neither. I view makeup the same way as I do any other accessory; it just “completes” an outfit. A necklace or earrings aren’t “necessary”, but they really add something to an outfit, as does lipstick. Then again, some accessories do have a utilitarian purpose, like a belt or shoes, which I compare to foundation or brows. My makeup is always based on the clothes I’m wearing, not only in color, but overall “feel”. I often have days I wear liitle to no makeup; most days I wear a “base” is because I wear a TM/BB Cream, which doubles as my skincare/SPF.
Depends on the day! Some days I really want to sculpt my face to change my features for more desirable ones (sharper cheekbones, smaller nose, bigger eyes, bigger lips) but it’s all in good fun though. Other days, I want lighter, more natural makeup that just makes me look more healthy, even and awake. I think of it more of creating an “illusion” rather than “changing” because, really, that’s the purpose of makeup and I think the term “change” makes it sound like I would like the way the makeup makes my face look to be permanent.
Eons ago, I went to a class and was selected by one of the MUAs to get a make-over for demonstration purposes. I don’t know what this MUA was thinking, but when she was done, I didn’t recognize myself. She put me in all warm colors and I’m fair with pink undertones. I had an orange face, bronze cheeks and brown lips. It was a spectacular fail. No one uttered a peep. What could they say? Oops?
So, given that memorable experience, I have to say my goal is to enhance my features, unless and until I decide to change them for a Halloween-pumpkin look, a CIA covert operation or a bank heist. Then, the change-my-features makeup might come in handy.
Something similar happened to me with Napolean Perdis a decade or so ago. I am porcelain with pink undertones too and I ended up with warm shades and looked like an orange oompa loompa by the end of the day.
Enhance my features, for sure. I still look like the same person when all is said and done.
enhance, though I need more help with my skin 🙁
OMG, my skin. Adult acne from the age of 22 and melasma patches (thanks hormones!) on my cheeks and forehead so it has been a battle to find a full coverage base that looks reasonably natural and lasts all day. MJ Remarcable and EL Double Wear Max Cover are top of the pile at the moment!
I wear very strong prescription lenses so tend to go with light and bright eyeshadows colours because my specs make my eyes look smaller already and I have black geek frames so I have dark shadows around my eyes already, so… I always like to have really lit highlighter to combat this as well 🙂
I don’t think this changes the way I look – I just look more awake/alive… which is good, because I like me quite a bit 😉
I agree with you Christine it really for me is more about evening out skin tone. I don’t really contour. When I highlight it is just to add some light reflection on top of my cheek bones which I do have high cheek bones. I have brown eyes but I could see someone with beautiful color eyes trying to play up the color in their eyes. Christine you have beautiful eyes I am surprised that you never try and play up the colors in your eyes. I don’t know if the color of ones eyes is a feature exactly but if I had pretty color eyes I would definitely be trying to enhance the color through wearing certain color eye shadows.
Most of the time it’s to gently enhance certain features and maybe lessen others (I’ve got a very round face so contour makes it a bit less so, but I also have lovely lips so I like to make sure they stand out). Sometimes if I’m going for a more “out there” look it will be a total transformation though.
I wear makeup to draw attention away from fine lines and slight sagging ( jaw line and smile lines) and accentuate my good points cheekbones, eyes and lips.
Yes, to both. That’s the beauty of makeup.
To be honest, a bit of both. I wear foundation to even out my skin tones and provide a blank canvas for my blush.
I use eye brow pencil because my eyebrows are very fair and normally you would not see them.
Lipstick I use because it both enhances my features and brightens up my whole face. Without lipstick, I would look colourless and ill.
Eye shadows I use to enhance my hooded eyes.
I do both. I have asymetrical lips so I overdraw them to even them out and I use dark shadow on my upper lids to minimize the hood. I use highlighter or a lighter shade of foundation to add a little “lift” to the corners of my mouth and eyelids. Fortunately everything else just needs a bit of smoothing out and polish.
Mostly to enhance my features, such as my eyes, high cheekbones, and lips.
I do a little to change the way I look: I’m heavy and have a round face, so I do some light contouring just to give my face some dimension. I have a really wide nose with a wide, flat bridge, so I contour down the sides, also to give it some dimension.
I started with makeup because I wanted to change the way I look. Didn’t like it. So now, i use it to enhance my features for sure.