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Welcome to BYOF, Bring your Own Freckles.
The guide below is how I usually do my freckles and along comes freckles come the responsibility of great cheeks (that's what what he said?)
Now, I am not an expert but over the years, I've learned what works for me and my large cheek real estate. Depending on your face shape and your desired/preferred look, you can definitely edit this up or down. The guide is really meant to be a 101/starting point.
Items you'll need(really, everything is optional)
- Primer (if needed)
- Foundation/skintint/any type of base (if needed)
- Concealer (if needed)
- Contour (if wanted)
- Bronzer (if wanted)
- Blush (if wanted)
Freckle substitute:
- Brown eyeliner
- Brown eyebrow pencil
- Freck Beauty Freck The Original Freckle Freck XL
- Light brown lip liner
[PSA: please be warned youll be seeing some close up images of my greasy hair, skin, bare brows, and large pores]
1. Prep your base, however you like. I find that better the base, better the cheeks. Really. Your bronzer, blush, contour pops out more and it's much nicer to blend on top of a foundation or concealer or skintint vs bare skin.
2. Take any straight, pencil like object, find the hollows of your cheeks. If it's your first time, maybe try to find before your base so you're not leaving finger prints.
Once you find your hollow, place the straight, pencil like object flat against your hollow.this will be your contour
3. Once you find your contour, you'll place your bronzer above that (it's OK if you need to overlap against your contour, remember, I just have a lot of real estate) and your blush will go on above that bronzer line.
3a. Please contour anywhere else you see fit, for me, it's the sides of my forehead and jawline and double chin.
Now I've place both contour and bronzer for demonstrative purposes but irl, I'll apply these step by step so they don't muddle together (is muddle a word?) I'm using so I was very generous with the amount of bronzer applied.
4. Blend. Brush choices are important, for contour, I use a small rounded brush and blend upwards for my forehead and hollows of the cheeks but downwards for my jawline.
5. Over lender? This is where your base brush or sponge you used to apply your base comes in clutch. It should still have some residue of your base on it, simply take the brush/sponge and clean up the edges (before and after in the picture below). Or if it really got out of hand, place a small dot of concealer in tha area you want to remove and blend out the edges using your brush or sponge.
6. Now time for blush placement. Because I'm getting older (🥲), I tend to place my blush quite high, it helps lifting the overall shape of your face vs if you place your blush too low, your face will droop slightly.
Look straight ahead, and draw an imaginary line down from the pupil of your eye to your jaw (demonstrated in the picture) and ideally, this is where I'll place my blushand I don't let my contour go past this line.
I place 2 dots of Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez Mini Soft Pinch Liquid Blush Encouragein the places I want the most color payoff, center of my cheeks and tops of my cheekbones. I usually blend a little on the tops of my nose because I like to blend I'm still young and cute 😂
7. Blend all together. Be careful here not tooverblend your blush too low towards the bronzer and the contour, don't let the hard work go to waste!!!
7a. Now if you did let your brush get overblended, it's A-OK. Just repeat steps 3 and 4 with a light hand.
Now,comes the freckles!
Freck Beauty Freck The Original Freckle Freck XLis my absolutely freckle product. I've tried a few others (because it's so pricey for so little product) but I find that it's worth the money plus, little goes a loooong way.
8. Brush off the excess product and start dotting in sections. I start with my nose and at first, you'll look like your have chicken pox (picture 1 below) but it's OK, it'll get better.
9. Blendquickly. Use your finger tips for super natural freckles. Use a puff for medium, noticeable freckles. If you like a really strong, beautymark status freckles, let it sit for about 5 seconds and then blend. It kinda stains (not your skin) and it'll stay put.
9a. If you want natural looking freckles, space them out. Don't cluster too close. Try a few, step back and see how you like them, go in for more or stop there. Now you can stop at the nose but if you're like me and like being extra, follow your blush and dot them randomly.get creative!!Just remember to work in sections and blend in between so your freckles don't set.
9b. If you're using an alternative like eyebrow pencil, the method will be the same but you may have more playtime. Unless you're using a product that sets, take your time, see what looks good, what looks bad. Eyebrow pencil worked great for me and found that it was very easy to remove the ones I didn't like (just take a puff and some powder and tap tap, gone!).
10. If you feel extra fancy, finish with highlighter on the tops of your cheeks, brow bone, and tiny bit on the point/ball of your nose.
Voila.now you are ready for summer.
Hope you guys enjoyed! Stay tuned for our other BIC tutorials! 🥰❤️🫡🙌
