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When years ago, people would turn to plastic surgery to get their faces contoured, people later, and until this day, turn to non-invasive and minimally invasive procedures to define their facial features.  Most women, however, are turning to a more instant, less expensive and totally effective procedure to get that contour and getting a highlight comes in as a bonus.

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Sadly, many women remain intimidated by contouring and if the uses of liquid highlighter still baffle you, here are 9 tricks that can help you get the most with every stroke.  Let us demystify:

Find a highlighter product that perfectly blends with your skin.  

Although when you talk highlighters, you probably immediately think about pearly white shades, there is a more appropriate highlighter shade depending on your skin tone.

In general, use the following guide to get yourself the highlighter that will make your skin glow naturally:

• Fair skin tones must get a highlighter with a pearly white shade

• Medium tones must opt for highlighters with golden, peachy, blush pink or, light orange undertones

• Latina, south Asian, and dark skin tones will radiate with health using highlighters that have bronze shades in it, the intensity of which depends on how dark your skin is

Map out a highlighting strategy.  

It all begins with having a ready answer to the question, What would you like to highlight? Of course, you start with your assets, with premium attention going out for your eyes. A good highlighter and a great highlighting technique should be able to make your eyes pop out and catch light to brighten the complexion around it.

Choose a high quality brush or beauty sponge to blend in your products.  

An often overlooked requirement to highlighting but also when it comes to applying makeup products in general is getting the right tools to blend in the colors and highlights well with your skin.  Cream products do well when  rubbed and heated with your hands still, following through with a high quality brush or sponge can go a long way to get the right shade and blending that you are going for.

Use highlighter stick to touch up on your glow on-the-go.  

Even top quality liquid highlighters need a re-touch throughout the day or night if you want it to stay on. To relieve yourself of having to carry around your full beauty arsenal, however, you can opt to get a highlighter stick to make on-the-go touch ups happen much faster and with relative ease.

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Use a pen-type highlighter to create highlights on and around your eye line.  

For a makeup strategy that involves dropping a highlighter on your tear glands and lining your water line, pen-type highlighters which can come in either liquid, gel or pencil will be more ideal. These products often come with their own applicators for ease of coloring that will help you place your highlights right where you want them to be and keep it in place.

Highlight the highest points of your face.  

Knowing exactly where to place the highlights is the most confusing part of knowing the uses of liquid highlighter.  Inexperience with highlighting will often drive users to highlight their full face, which completely negates what would have been a smart use of highlighter which, primarily, should leave strategic points of your face with a subtle glow.

When light strikes, you want that highlighter to reflect back light. Therefore, apply your highlighter to the highest points of your face forehead, top of eyebrows, bridge of your nose, high points of your cheeks and chin. To bring your eyes forward, you should also apply it to the underside of your eyes.

Apply your matte highlighter and shimmer creams separately.  

This goes most especially when you have oily skin.  Even Scarlett Johansson practices this technique. She once spilled, I always like to start with a matte base then add shimmer.

Add contour to make your highlighting more prominent. 

The contrast in the darkness of your contour makes your highlighter all the more worth the time and effort.  Add contour to the deepest points of your face sides of your frame, underside of your chin and eyebrows, sides of your nose bridge and deep part of your cheeks.

End with a blush.  Add a blush to your cheeks. 

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Conclusion.

These tricks work even better if you can find the right shade of foundation or BB cream that perfectly complements your natural skin color.

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