Strobing: description and creation

Smooth, radiant and well-groomed skin is the main goal of strobing makeup. What cosmetics are needed to create such an image, and how to do makeup yourself at home - we will tell you in our review.

Strobing got its name from a strobe lamp, it is used for photo shoots. During shooting, it flashes and highlights the protruding areas of the face. As a result, the exterior looks more sculptural and expressive.

The trendsetters from Asia were the first to "love" the new style. Soon, the new make-up could be seen on catwalk shows from Prada to Versace. Following them, popular beauty bloggers from Instagram "flickered".

This rapidly growing popularity can be easily explained. Strobing allows you to:

• lighten and highlight the protruding areas of the face;
• do a seductive makeup based on a moist glow;
• achieve a rested and healthy look;
• Softly correct rough facial features while maintaining a natural feel.

The strobing makeup technique is relatively young. She shifted to the beauty Olympus contouring, which at one time entered the TOP of beauty trends thanks to Kim Kardashian. Contouring focuses on visually changing facial features through dark color correctors and bronzers. Such makeup aims to shade the cheekbones, visually reduce the nose, and give expressiveness to the chin - all this allows you to create a clear and sophisticated image.

However, in recent years, natural style has been confidently kept in trends.In order to make the most natural make-up, correction is used by placing light shimmery accents. This technique is strobing.

The highlighter has become a real "star" of the style; it is distinguished by the presence of iridescent particles. This composition is available in the form of a cream, powder or stick. With a highlighter, draw the back of the nose, a butterfly above the lips, cheekbones, as well as the chin and forehead areas. Light highlights raise the cheekbones and make the nose appear thin.

Strobing is a fairly popular technique these days, for several seasons it has been among the leading trends. It is no coincidence that during Fashion Weeks, models are increasingly appearing with a practically clean face and delicate shimmering skin. The popularity of the technique lies not only in the aesthetic effect, but also in the simplicity of execution.

Strobing is suitable for owners of normal to dry skin, as the basis of the effect here comes down to shimmer. The greasy skin itself becomes covered with sebum during the day, so the additional application of the shimmering segment turns the face into a New Year's ball - it does not look very beautiful.

However, if you persist in your desire to arrange strobing on skin prone to oily content, then use special matting bases. When choosing a highlighter, it is better for such women to give preference to dry and textured ones. And the lightening itself is done only on the butterfly above the upper lip and cheekbones, avoiding the T-zone.

The strobing technique has its own rules. It is very important to have clear accents. Keep in mind that a light highlighter will visually add volume to your face. Therefore, if you are the owner of a protruding chin, massive nose or forehead, you should not apply a highlighting agent on them.

Manufacturers produce a highlighter in a variety of colors. For fair-skinned women, pale pink tones and champagne colors are optimal. For dark-skinned and tanned women, it is better to opt for golden textures.

Life hack: On vacation, the highlighter can easily replace most of the cosmetic bag. You can cover it on a cleansed face without a tonal foundation, blend it on the eyelids, as well as in the corners of the eyes - then the look will become open and expressive.

The skin on which the strobing is formed should look healthy. Otherwise, the glow will only accentuate blemishes such as acne, pimples or enlarged pores. That is why make-up artists and makeup artists first of all apply a high-quality tonal foundation that hides all the flaws, and only after that they use strobing.

Do not apply the highlighter in clear lines, it needs a mandatory shading. This can be done with a dampened sponge, a loose brush, a beauty blender, or with your fingertips.

Try not to overdo it with a highlighter. The main task of make-up is just to slightly highlight the skin and give it the most natural overflow. If the funds are too much, then you will achieve the exact opposite effect of shiny skin, which in fact is not at all.

Choose the correct application intensity.

As we mentioned, the main strobe weapon is the highlighter. Keep in mind that dry, flaky, and normal skin requires liquid, creamy textures. For combined and oily epidermis, crumbly will be the best solution.

As for the shade, for porcelain thin skin, peach and light pink highlighter tones are desirable. For owners of dark skin, makeup artists recommend golden shades, and you can emphasize light skin with beige and nude tones. It is best to purchase a large palette - this will save you from having to use the same tone every day. This is especially true in the summer. The palette's tint palette ranges from unripe peach to cappuccino, so you can easily match your tan to your tan.

It is better to use pearlescent shades as a basis for strobing. Usually they are applied to the entire face as a whole, only overlapping on top with a tonal agent. This option looks especially stylish in photographs, since the radiance of the face comes out slightly noticeable.

You will need powder for makeup. The creamy duochrome texture gives the best effect. When creating everyday makeup, you need very little of it - just lightly touch the skin with a brush. Keep in mind that the silvery pink cold undertone will always show more strongly in the case of layering.

Strobing cream. By analogy with BB cream, strobing cream solves several problems at once. It effectively moisturizes and gives the face an unobtrusive shimmering glow. Such a product is applied to the skin as a tonal foundation, and then accents are formed with a highlighter.

Primer. Some primers contain light reflective particles. When applied, they delicately shine through the foundation. It is advisable to take a composition with silicones, such a base will smooth out the skin's relief and fill in mimic wrinkles.

It is important to apply any cosmetic product correctly. You can of course make this coat with your fingers. Firstly, it is not hygienic, and secondly, you will have to spend a lot more time.

Strobing style make-up is easy to do on your own, popularly this style is called "cross the face". This is due to the fact that the highlighter highlights the T-zone (chin, butterfly above the lip, chin, nasal bridge, as well as cheekbones). That is, it turns out that the product is applied exactly in the middle, both horizontally and vertically. We suggest using our instruction diagram.

First you need to prepare the skin for make-up. Remove makeup residue with micellar fluid and sprinkle with thermal agent. Then apply a moisturizing foundation with light movements. In the warmer months, you can use a cream gel, in the autumn-winter period it is better to opt for denser formulations, for example, take a nourishing cream.

When it comes to strobing, it is essential that the skin looks healthy and as if exudes radiance from the inside. Therefore, before applying the highlighter, use a concealer, it is best to choose a composition with reflective particles. They treat the area under the eyes. Choose light moisturizing textures - they effectively mask bruises and fine lines. At the same time, the concealer does not dry out the skin and therefore provides the necessary natural effect.

After that, you can go directly to strobing. To do this, take a highlighter with a liquid texture and apply a little of the composition to the base areas. It is necessary to highlight the bridge of the nose, the area above the lips, the area above the cheekbones, as well as the area between the eyebrows.

Draw the composition to the center of the forehead and work on the area under the eyebrow. The most effective is a coarse highlighter, that is, a product with shimmering elements. It is necessary to shade it immediately after application, it is important not to let it harden.

A tonal base is applied on top of the highlighter. You need to select it taking into account the type of skin, but it is better to give preference to lightweight options. Otherwise, too dense bases will overlap the highlighter, tonal fluids are most effective. If you have visible imperfections on your skin, you can use a dense corrector, but locally.

Next, you need a highlighter in the form of a stick, it will provide a more pronounced flicker. Draw it over the highlight areas again. You can apply it directly to the skin, or you can first take a small amount on the fingertips to warm it up and give it plasticity. For swarthy skin, golden bronze is suitable, for white-skinned women, pearl-silver tones are suitable for the face.

Make-up is fixed with translucent powder. To do this, a small amount of powder is collected with a fluffy brush and distributed over the face in a thin even layer. Strobing eliminates the use of bronzer; it is replaced with a universal pink blush. It is best to use dry textures.

Finish with a powdery highlighter, a simple flat brush will do. The composition is shaded over the face with gentle circular movements as if you are polishing the skin, trying to visually make it smoother. Apply a small amount of foundation to the brush, shake off any excess and sweep over the cheekbones, nose, above the lip and under the eyebrow. With a brush, on which there is practically no product left, highlight the forehead area.

When performing strobing, people who are just mastering the technique often make mistakes. More often than others, the following are found.

• Excessive gloss. Strobing should not make a woman's face shine, she should not resemble a Christmas tree decoration. The essence of the makeup technique is to create a subtle, subtle shimmer that can be mistaken for naturally glowing skin.

• Selection of funds without taking into account skin type. So, for normal and dry skin, creamy textures will be optimal, they are easy to use. Dry highlighters work better on combination to oily face.

• Applying a highlighter all over the face. In this case, instead of the desired pearl shimmer, you will achieve a shiny skin effect.

• Application errors. To show your cheekbones favorably, you need to smile and only then highlight the apples of your cheeks. After that, the product is carefully shaded towards the temples.

• Lack of moisture. Even if the skin is oily, it needs to be moisturized before strobing. The fact is that a lack of moisture becomes the main reason for the secretion of sebum.

• Insufficient feathering. Strobing assumes the most natural and smooth transitions of shades.

• Wrong color matching. The highlighter should match the woman's color type, harmoniously match the color of the skin, eyes and hair.

Other mistakes include overly intensive application of tone, fixing powder that was applied too much and at the same time forgot to brush it off, as well as overfulfilling of contouring.

Using strobing allows you to advantageously beat all the features of a woman's face, make them more attractive and feminine.

Strobing helps to visually enlarge the eyes, they look wider. And if you put a highlighter under the eyebrow, then the look will be deeper and more open.

Applying a highlighter to the prominent areas of the cheekbones visually lifts them.

If you apply a highlighter over the upper lip, it will appear more plump and voluminous.

The agent is applied to the nose to make it smoother.

In recent years, the trend of emphasizing the clavicle and shoulder area with a highlighter has become widespread. Tanned beauties from social networks were the very first to pick up this fashion. Cream and powder for strobing the body will come in handy here. This bow allows you to attract male attention to the seductive parts of the body.

And in conclusion, we offer you some photos before and after strobing.