Forehead shape correction: top 5 tips from Elena Krygina

Elena Krygina is a famous makeup artist with extensive experience, a popular blogger, founder of her own cosmetics brand and a successful businesswoman. In her book “Makeup,” she explains in detail how to adjust the shape of the forehead step by step in order to bring the model’s or client’s facial features closer to ideal.

High forehead

Features: The upper part of the face is much larger than the rest.

Goal : Slightly reduce the forehead using darkening and lightening products.

How to make the correction : darken the forehead along the hairline, move to the side surfaces from the center. Be careful: pressing the brush too hard can cause stains, so darken very gently and gently. The next step is to highlight the space above the eyebrows with a wide horizontal stripe, which will help highlight only the lower part of the forehead. To make your face correction look natural, blend the product with a powder brush.

You can also reduce the height of your forehead by slightly raising your eyebrows. In this case, work them only along the upper border or even half a millimeter higher.

Low forehead

Features: the upper part of the face is the smallest compared to others.

Task : elongate the shape of the forehead using highlighting.

How to make the correction : straight from the very root of the nose, using a corrector two to three shades lighter than the skin, draw lines to the corners of the lateral surfaces of the forehead. This will give you an inverted triangle. Fill it with light concealer and blend well to blend it with your skin color.

Use matte concealers or products with a slight satin glow - shiny products can give an unwanted oily shine effect.

Broad forehead

Features: forehead is the widest part of the face.

Task: narrow the shape by darkening the side surfaces.

How to correct : layer the corrector gradually. First, very gently shade the sides of the forehead from the hairline by about 2.5-3 cm on each side. Then again, already 1-1.5 cm, from the hairline. Reduce coverage with each layer to create a fuller, non-flat forehead.

Highlight the center of your forehead with a vertical stripe to slightly lengthen it. The forehead will visually look narrower.

Narrow forehead

Features: unsharp hairline on the sides.

Task : to lighten the side surfaces of the forehead.

How to perform the correction: to visually make the forehead wider, it is necessary to lighten the side surfaces of the forehead, especially if the hair on the sides has grown very much and creates the effect of a triangular forehead. Additionally, you can slightly round the hairline using a dark corrector, but do not overdo it.

Hairline correction

Features: uneven hairline, which creates the appearance of facial asymmetry and disrupts proportions.

Task: straighten the hairline.

How to perform correction : this procedure is similar to straightening over-plucked and asymmetrical eyebrows. Using a correction pencil, draw a uniform oval line along the hairline. After this, fill in the voids using the hair technique, drawing in the missing hairs with a liner.