I’ll rarely reach for bronzer specifically, but I use a more bronzer-like shade for a soft sculpting and warming effect when I don’t know what blush to pair with a look. I’ll just apply it to the tops of my cheeks or more like a cheek contour.
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Use a large brush that has been heavily dusted with powder to apply your bronzer. The excess may be blown off before the brush makes contact with your skin.
Apply it on the cheeks first, then move up in a “C” shape to the temples. In this case, blending is the key. Lack of color globs is desired.
Use a light touch and enough of blending on the nose to prevent a brown stripe. Since our noses naturally absorb sunlight, you don’t want to skip the nose, but you do want to exercise caution.
Apply a thin coating to the front of the neck and blend it in before moving on to the neck.
Use a fresh cotton pad to rub some of it off your face if you’ve gone excessive.
I usually throw it into my eye crease and up my temples in a C-shape to above my eyebrows, and then across the bridge of my nose. very sun-kissed looking!
I use a fluffy brush to lightly apply around my hairline, on my cheeks above the contour, across the bridge of my nose, and the end of my chin.
That said, I don’t wear bronzer very often.
I use my fingers and apply to my cheekbones. I am not a fan of powder bronzer, clearly.
I’ve been using a very old Lisa Frank angled brush that allows me to get the soft sculpting I’m looking for from my bronzer. I apply it just under my already high cheekbones, sides and upper perimeter of my forehead, plus where I have been noticing a little bit of *ahem* laxity beginning to develop on my jawline.
I love bronzer. Love it. It goes wayyyy back to the Guerlain bronzer days when that was it, even if it leaned warm. For that reason I no longer use it. If I have a weakness it’s bronzer. Powder only. I just counted and I have 12 powder bronzers. Oh boy! But I do rotate them 🤍
I have never used a bronzer and due to my porcelain complexion, I never will.
I tend to use a bronzer mainly in the Fall when I am starting to lose some of my suntan. I apply over the temples and above cheek bones and mix it in with face powder to soften the lines. I often layer blush and/or highligher over it. I use a blush brush for that. I also use it in the eye crease and sometimes on the bridge of the nose but not like the contouring I see (for that a blending eye brush works best). I sometimes mix a bronzer over a blush if I want a more muted color which I do in the summer. I have also used bronzer to warm up a face powder (blot powder or finishing powder) if the color is too pale for my natural skin tone. Then I would use a big fluffy fan brush or a blush brush.
Oh, an easy answer! I don’t! 🙂
I put it at the bottom of my blush and on the perimeter of my face from my temples to the widest part of my jawline-I think this limited application suits my pale skin best.
Sparingly, along the planes of my face (temples, cheekbones, bridge of nose) that actually would get tanned and freckled if I let them.