Explore our 4-photo slideshow featuring our model, who starts bare-faced to showcase how precise makeup application creates a dramatic metamorphosis. As professionals at Marie Claire know, techniques like defined eyes, strategic highlights, or subtle nude looks sculpt facial volumes and accentuate your best features.
Photo: Laurent Humbert / Marie ClaireSelect areas to shade based on your face shape. Apply a brown powder or cream—one or two shades darker than your skin—under the jawline, temples, sides of the nose bridge, and cheekbones to sculpt a more defined contour.
Photo: Laurent Humbert / Marie ClaireStrobing enhances light-reflecting curves with pearlescent highlights. Apply to the tops of cheekbones (over pink blush for a healthy glow), forehead, chin, brow arches, and nose bridge.
Photo: Laurent Humbert / Marie ClaireA classic eyeliner line—thin or bold like Amy Winehouse—is timeless, but the smoky eye elevates any evening look. Line upper and lower lashes with black, blend with a brush, apply black shadow across the mobile lid, diffuse for a soft effect, and finish with volumizing mascara.
Photo: Laurent Humbert / Marie Claire
