The key to great Carnival make-up is proper contouring and highlighting. You want to be glowing, which gives a more festive look to complement your ensemble. Glowing or highlighting, Carnival Glitz make-up artist Sasha Bowie explains, emphasises the areas you want to be seen, while contouring plays down the areas you would rather make smaller, or less obvious. Here’s how to Get The Look. (Photos: Mark Anthony Chen, Model: Lorraine Fanan, Make-up: Sasha Bowie)

Your Nose

One of the key places for contouring is the nose. To create a more flattering look use any cream, powder, liquid make-up that is a few shades darker than your skin tone and apply it along the sides of the nose. Bowie goes around the nostrils as well and stops at the tip, making a line across with the dark colour to create ‘the Angelina Jolie nose’ look. Blend it out lightly, creating a space right down the centre of your nose and apply a shimmery colour… bronzer works well. This should be a shade lighter than your skin tone. For Lorraine, I put concealer down the centre of her nose followed by a shimmery MAC highlight colour several times over that. Lastly, I dusted the translucent powder over the entire nose to set everything in place.

Other Areas To Highlight:

*You’ll need to use shimmery powder/cream, or even a shimmery cream set with a shimmery powder*

-Cheekbones (for that poppin’ glow).

-Collarbones to create a more prominent and slimmer look.

-Your décolletage.

-Your chin and above the top of your top lip.

Other Areas to Contour (create more depth, hide, or appear smaller)

*Use a matte shade cream, powder etc a few shades darker than your skin tone*

-Your chin – if you have a double chin, not to worry. Just brush on a darker shade underneath the chin.

-Beneath your cheekbones. (To find the exact spot, suck in your cheeks and make a pout). Applying the darker matte shade in the exact area created when you suck in your cheeks, then extend out and upwards into your ears.

-Jawline – Trace your contour shade along the bottom of your jawline, (after contouring the cheeks, you can blend into the jawline to form a slight 90-degree angle. This gives an even more pronounced jawline and high cheekbone look.

Lastly, remember to play around and have fun with your make-up, Carnival is about emphasis and drama, so don’t hold back… get as creative as you wish.

Carnival Glitz

Sasha Bowie

Director

409-7070

sashabowie@yahoo.com