How to contour forehead

The shape and size of your forehead is an important detail in corrective face contouring. While most women often ignore and take their foreheads for granted, many never bother applying any makeup to it and others spend their lives obsessing over the shape and size of their forehead and devising ways to hide it. Irrespective of which category you fall in, you simply must understand the importance of a proportionate and well contoured forehead, and its overall contribution to your facial beauty.


Generally, women with heart shaped faces have wider temples and foreheads. If you are one of them, then to get an overall balanced look, you need to focus on the temple area of such a wide forehead, shading it well. This shading needs to be balanced by highlighting the center of your forehead and the bridge of your nose.
Such precise, corrective contouring helps to make your face optimally oval and proportionate in viewing. Similarly, for women with a round face who have a broad forehead, highlighting the center of their forehead is a good idea. Such women should also contour the sides and temples of their foreheads to give their face an overall slim look.

 There are a few things need keep in mind while contouring your forehead:

Blending

It is generally thought that blending makeup is very easy and straightforward, given the relatively large area that the forehead covers. While this is true to a certain extent, attention still needs to be paid to detail. For example, if you have a long forehead, then you need to begin by dotting your foundation or contouring powder about half an inch under your hairline. The chosen contouring medium should always be a softer or bolder shade than the shade of your daily wear foundation.
On the forehead, you can use either a brush or just your index finger to blend your contouring medium in a downward, sweeping motion. While applying such shading on your forehead, you must avoid straight strokes at all costs, as these serve to make the makeup very obvious and visible. Similarly, if you are struggling with a wide forehead you need to apply small amounts of your contouring powder or cream onto the sides of your forehead and along the temple. In such a case you need to brush your makeup towards the center of your forehead and in upward, subtle and light strokes to give your forehead a longer and thinner look.

Experiment with your hair

Another solution of dealing with a forehead that is too wide or narrow, is to experiment with different haircuts and hairstyles that work well to camouflage your forehead discrepancies. For example, experts generally suggest maintaining a fringe haircut, if you have a long forehead or to leave your forehead open (no fringe) should you want to camouflage a small forehead. However, should you have a wide forehead you should never comb your hair back, as that would make your forehead even more visible and obvious.

Highlight other facial features

A way of drawing attention away from an unflattering natural forehead is to play up other flattering features of your face such as your eyes, cheekbones and your lips. For example, to take away focus from a very narrow and small forehead you can always use stunning eye makeup, give your lips a glossy makeover or even better flaunt well defined, chiseled, rosy colored cheekbones.

Define your eyebrows

Another way to draw attention from a problematic forehead is to ensure that you always have eyebrows that are well plucked and defined. Such chiseled eyebrows work to provide a visual break between the eyes and the hairline. Even to such an extent that people looking at you often tend not to notice your forehead or its shape. Team these eyebrows with well blended and colored eye shadow on the upper eyelids and no one is bound to notice your tiny or broad forehead.

Use powder to set

As with all makeup, always dust some translucent powder onto your whole face especially your forehead as this ensures that your attempt at shading and highlighting stays in place and doesn’t smudge every time you touch it or reach for your hair. The best way to apply such powder is to use a clean face puff or natural hair powder brush.

Camouflage with fun accessories

If all else fails, you can always depend on numerous fashionable cool accessories to combat your forehead size. In some cases, you can choose funky cool summer hats that serve to cover a wide forehead or you could try tying colorful scarves around your forehead. You can also use or weave in artificial hair such as an attractive set of colorful curls that cascade down your forehead, hiding it.