Best Way to Drawing Attention Away from Your Bad Points

Here are some easy solutions for drawing attention away from problem features.

Sticking-out ears: a sensuous mouth or dazzling smile will divert attention away from sticking-out ears. Also, if your hair is long enough, you may want to wear it in such a way that it falls around the sides of your face.

A protruding chin: shift attention from your chin by having your hair cut in a style that softens rather than frames your jaw line. If your hair is long, wear it layered to avoid a witch-like appearance or tie it back for a regal look.

A receding hairline or high forehead: draw the emphasis away from your hairline by: highlighting your eyes; dusting soft, brown powder along the hairline; sweeping your hair back off your face, tying it back or wearing a fringe.

A bulbous nose: play up your eyes, brows, lips or cheekbones to distract the eye from your nose.

Wonky lips: correct these by taking a brush loaded with a little concealer or foundation and then drawing a line over the part of lip that needs adjusting, before applying lip colour. A double chin: dust soft, brown powder over your excess chin.

High colour: tone down a red face by applying a green-tinted cosmetic primer, base or skin tint before using foundation.

Jowls: always hold your chin up – jowls are most noticeable when you tilt your head downwards. Highlighting your cheekbones and colouring your lips also draws attention away.

Harelip: also known as a cleft lip, this is where the top lip is split and turned up. Occasionally it can look sexy, but if this is not the case, wear neutral lip colours and play up your eye area.

Birthmarks: cover birthmarks with camouflage preparations like Dermablend and Keromask. As port-wine stains are pinkish-red in colour they are more tricky to conceal, so try a green-tinted primer beneath a camouflage product.

Vitiligo: vitiligo is a lack of pigment in certain areas, which results in patchy-looking skin. Even out the skin tone by darkening the white patches with camouflage products, long-lasting foundation or theatrical make-up.

Turn your flaws into assets

If you are unhappy with a particular feature you could always resort to the scalpel, of course, but surgery might take away the very thing that makes you special.

It’s not only classically pretty or perfectly formed features that give a face individual beauty style. In fact, you might find that it is precisely the feature that you detest the most (such as a prominent nose or a mole), that becomes your USP (unique selling point). Besides, what you regard as a flaw others may look upon as a plus point. For most of my teenage years I hated my large, ‘blubbery’ lips and consequently got through pots of concealer in trying to make them appear smaller. Then Julia Roberts appeared on the scene and I wished mine were even bigger!