 Is it possible to make ourselves look more youthful with a little bit of extra cheek products, contour, bronzer, highlighter and blush? Well, we're sure going to give it a try in this tutorial today. Hello, my friends. I am so excited to be bringing you this video today and always in the lap because he just thinks he has to attack mama when she starts to talk to the camera. So he gets a little bit of attention deficit disorder going, but yeah, he's a fun boy, but he definitely thinks he has to be in my lap. So what we're going to do today is we are going to be creating this look on the cheeks. And I actually made a tutorial about this. That is one of my most popular videos that I did all this when I did have my weight on. I'm coming to you from a place of love, not criticism when I talk about thinning a fat face because I live that way for such a long time and I want you to know that. And those of you that are interested in how I lost the weight, I will make sure I leave the playlist down below about my weight loss journey for you. So we're going to go ahead and get into this tutorial where we can thin a fat face, we can get our beautiful dewy glow on, look more youthful and look all put together. So stay with me. We're going to do that right now. All right. If you're anything like me, one of the things that I've noticed as I've gotten older is that my hairline is getting a little bit more receding and I probably should do some bangs or something. But I had bangs for years and it wasn't until the past five years that I haven't had bangs. So it was kind of a nice change. But I want to disguise that high forehead. And the best way to do that is with contour. And then what we're also going to do besides disguise the high forehead, we're going to carve out a cheekbone a little bit. And then we're going to carve out this gel line. I have pretty good gels right there. Those are inherited. My dad has the same face shape as I do. But the other thing this can help with is really helping to make your neck look slimmer. So if that's something that you have kind of struggled with, this might be really good for you too. The Sephora Second Chance is the perfect color of contour. It's muddy and you don't want your contour to be tan because what happens is we're working with shadow and light. And when we're wanting something to recede or bring it down or carve out, we're wanting that to make a shadow that looks like it's hiding something. So I'm taking this Elf Stipple Brush, which I've had forever and I love. And I'm just loading it with the second chance. And then I'm going to go directly into my hairline. What I'm going to do is I'm going to stipple real lightly, but I'm going to go clear up in there because I want this to really be hidden with the hair itself. I don't want there to be a line where my scalp starts and I'm just going clear up into these widow's peaks that I have. And that is my biggest concern lately is just that my hairline right there is receding so much. Okay, now you're going to blend and just push that brush towards the forehead, not back towards the hairline, more towards the forehead so that that blending looks seamless up there. You can go down into the temple on the hairline over here. Okay, so you can kind of see what I'm doing up there. So just blend that a whole bunch towards your forehead and really blend that well. All right, now we're going to carve out a cheekbone. So what we want to do is go from the corner of our mouth to the top of our ear and you can lay down your brush or whatever. And that's about where your cheekbone is going to come. You're going to put your finger and feel your cheekbone that way too. The other fun thing that I like to teach is about a little tiny bit of a hook right here. So we're going to go on a straight line with a tiny hook. And I actually do start right there on that little hook part. And we're going to go just straight up towards that ear. I don't come any further than the middle of my pupil on my cheeks because I don't want there to be a bunch of color right here on my cheeks. I just want it to look really seamless. So we're just stippling and blending, stippling and blending. This is where it helps to kind of go up into the temple a little bit with your product. A lot of blending will help you to really make this look seamless. Okay, now for the gels. Normally what you want to do is you don't want to have a line of demarcation, right? But what if you have a really full face and you don't have a definition in your jawline? So this is what I do because I have these gels right here. I take my brush, I go directly under my chin, starting at my chin area, and I'm going to go out towards those gels. And I'm going to disguise those with shadow. Now taking a little bit more product, I'm going to completely fill in my chin right here because when you go like this, you can tell I have a double chin. And then I'm going to bring that down in kind of a Y shape. So you're going right up here a little bit thicker across the chin and then straight down the neck to try and make it look like my neck is elongated. So not a ton on the front of the neck, just a little tiny bit of shading. And then more towards this area right here. If you do get too much contour on this part, you can always go in with a powder, like a little setting powder that maybe has a little bit of a lighter cast to it and buff it out. But sometimes I do a tiny bit on the side of my nose here, just a little bit, just whatever's left on my brush. I don't do a lot there. When I did this tutorial before, everybody was asking, don't you get a line of demarcation? I'm going to kind of do this. You can tell that I don't have that hard line of demarcation, even when I'm turned sideways. Let me get a little closer so you can tell that that's not real stark right there. You don't want anything to be real stark. You want it to be blended like crazy. If you need to go back in with another fluffy brush and just blend across it so that it blends in well, but you're going to have such a pretty look to your face after you do these few simple contour moves. All right, the next thing I'm going to go in with is a bronzer. And I'm just taking the Milani Silky Matte Bronzer. This is in zero two, I believe. I think there's four colors. So that color right there is second chance. Let me show you what the Milani one looks like. Look how different we're talking about. Contour, bronzer, shadow and warmth. So the contour is the shadow and the bronzer is the warmth. I'm going to load my fat Kabuki fan brush up with that. I'm going to just take off a little bit with my fingers and then I'm going to do the same thing that I did up here right on top of that contour. So now we're warming up the face a little bit with this bronzer, but we're going right on top of the other contour to blend everything perfectly. Now I'm going to go down into those cheekbones. I'm going to go right on top of where the sun would normally hit down my nose, across my chin and across my forehead. That's where the sun normally hits you. That's where bronzers should be placed is where it warms you up the most. You can kind of dust it around your face if you like to. So now we have that bronzer on. Again, it helps to buff, buff, buff, everything like crazy. It really does help. All right, one of my very favorite tips that I learned as a mature woman was to do my highlight before my blush. That way you don't have a stark highlight. It just looks like a glow. So this is a new Catrice highlighter. It is called More Than Glow Highlighter. It's pretty beaming, but I'm using a fan brush and I'm going to just go across my cheeks and just highlight those cheeks a bit before we do blush. And I always stay just on the high points of the cheeks. You can do it right there on your cupid's bow if you want to. You can do a little bit down your nose if you want to. I'm not one that goes across my nose very much, but if you like that, go ahead and do that. And then it goes just a little bit there on the forehead, a little bit on the chin. And this is such a pretty glow on this. Isn't that beautiful? That glow on the cheek. Now that would probably be too much. If I just left it, I wouldn't like the highlight when I walked past the mirror. So we're taking a little tip from our friend Patrick Taugh and that he taught us to do a little bit of powder blush before we do our cream. So I'm taking an angled, stipple brush from It Cosmetics and an Essence blush. And I am just going to pick up some of that powder and we're going to go right on top of that bronzer and on top of the highlighter. So I am staying out here and I'm not going any further again than the pupil of that eye. And then I'm going to completely bring it up around the eyebrow to tie everything in again and then on the other side. This blush is so pretty. I love the color. It's just a mauve, pretty color. I'll make sure I throw that up on the screen for you. All of the products will be listed and linked below if you are interested. And then I will go just down my nose again and across the chin and across the forehead just to tie everything together. And if you want to, you could go down your neck as well to tie everything together. Alright, so last step is the Elf Putty Blush. I love this blush. It's so pretty and I can never find the name of it. I think this one is Bora Bora. If it's not, I will make sure I throw it up on the screen. So I'm going to load this brush up. I love these brushes because they put the perfect amount of blush on without getting too much on and then you're going to have to go back in and really blend. So again, I want most of it deposited out there and I'm going to bring it clear in just on top of that other blush that I just did. And again, I don't bring it in very far. I'm looking at that from the side and I'm thinking that I need to blend a little bit better. So I'm just going to take my fan brush that I had before that had the bronzer in it and I'm just going to push up and push it all together so we are blended. We are carved out. Look at it from straight on. You can really tell the difference that it makes between having it on and not having it on. I will throw up a picture here of my bare face and then you can see how different it is with the bare face and then this contoured face. So I will just kind of scoot over here so that you can see the two of them together. So really a stark difference and it's a beautiful look for a mature woman because we have that flush on our cheeks. We carved out that youthful appearance like young people have when they have carved out cheekbones and jaw lines and we have our forehead pulled down highlighter that is just a subtle hue underneath our blush and a very flushed look to our skin today with a lot of warmth from that bronzer. So I hope that you did enjoy this. Please give it a thumbs up if you did. I love this particular technique for older women. It is just a beautiful technique to be able to use to really give you a youthful appearance. Thanks so much for spending a little bit of your time with me today. Take care everyone and I will catch you all in my next video. Love you. Bye.