How To: Make Your Nose Look Thinner
Rhinoplasty is one of the top five most common plastic surgery procedures performed each year! The good news is makeup can be an effective way to slim your nose instead of choosing to go under the knife.
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Using Makeup to Create the Illusion of a New Nose
What You’ll Need:
Contour Powder/Cream
You can use a product made specifically for contouring, or try a foundation 2-3 shades darker than your skin tone. Matte brown eyeshadow can work just as well too!
-I recommend Makeup Forever’s Sculpting Kit and Kevyn Aucoin Sculpting Powder. The contour shades are really unique and give off a “shadow” color which is exactly what you want your contouring to look like, shadows!
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Highlight
I prefer a matte highlighter when contouring noses. A white/nude eyeshadow would work will, or try a foundation color 2-3 shades lighter than your skin tone.
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Angled Brush
An angled brush is ideal for sculpting noses. Keep it small so that you have more control over where your product ends up.
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Fluffy Blending Brush or Sponge
For blending your contouring. I like the Beauty Blender sponge to soften lines, but brushes work well too.
How To: Slim a Wide Nose
Step 1- Apply your foundation. You can do your face now, or wait until the end. I would wait until the end so that you will be able to judge how your new contouring will look with your overall face.
Step 2- Dip your angled brush into your contour powder/cream/eyeshadow and draw a line down each side of your nose. Keep it light. It’s easier to build product than to take it away. (Check out the diagram above to get an idea about where to place your lines).
**Optional Contouring: Depending on Your Specific Nose**
If your nose is wide all the way up, carry your line to the bridge of the nose.
If your nose is wider at the bottom, draw a small line outward when you get to your nostrils.
If the tip is wide or bulbous (omg, I hate that word!! I had to use it though, sorry), draw a “down-facing arrow” once you reach the tip.
Step 3: Clean off your brush.
Step 4: Dip your brush in your highlight powder/cream/ eyeshadow and draw a slender stripe down the center of your nose. (See Diagram).
If the bottom or tip of your nose is wide, only take your highlight half-way down.
Step 5: Take a clean fluffy brush or makeup sponge and blend your lines (be careful not to blend them together though). Blend until you can’t see a “line” anymore; it should look natural. Obviously, my diagram is just for reference. Please don’t go outside looking like Jennifer Aniston in this picture haha..
If you have followed the directions correctly, you should notice a subtle change in your nose! Let me know if it worked for you, or if you have any questions!!
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January 26, 2010
Thank you for this! My nose is really wide and I’ve always heard about this technique but never understood how to actually do it. The diagrams helped a lot. I hope it works on my nose!
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Lindsey Reply:
January 26th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
I’m glad I could help! Actually seeing how its done always helps me better than reading the steps as well. Let me know how it goes and if you have any questions.
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May 15, 2010
Great stuff as usual…
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June 14, 2010
Your site is like a blonde with a brain. I like it. All jokes aside, very informative aricle and equally impressive design.
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August 27, 2010
I have used the NoseSecret nose corrector for years and I find them very helpful when it comes to slim the nose without surgery or make up.
It is worth to try.
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February 11, 2011
Spot on post. Great read with my nightcap
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July 27, 2011
thanks for an excellent post. bookmarked and will come back for sure.
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August 21, 2011
I’ve been conturing for a while, no one thinks there’s anything wrong wih my nose but i don’t like it, this is the best conture advice i’ve found on the web, you may have stopped me from considering going under the knife in the future
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Lindsey Reply:
August 22nd, 2011 at 1:00 pm
That’s fantastic! I’m glad you found it helpful.
Thanks for letting me know
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