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There's but something about a fuller confront that lends a more youthful appearance -- so if you've got a naturally sparse visage or take lost volume in your cheeks due to age, you may look more gaunt than glam. But no demand for a long face -- beauty experts agree that you can create the illusion of fullness with a few easy tweaks to your makeup and hair routine.

Contour and Blush

If you have a long, thin face that you want to brand fuller, don't contour or highlight your confront in the usual spots like the temples, cheekbones and jawline -- you'll just wind up making your face look more than athwart. Instead, brush a little profile powder or bronzer across the lesser of your chin to shorten the look of your confront then information technology appears fuller. Employ blush to the apples of your cheeks to draw attention to the heart of your confront and create the illusion of width. Start closer in on your apples and blend it outward for the most flattering look.

Shape Eyebrows

Your eyebrows may seem like a pocket-sized detail in your overall look, simply having the correct shape can make your face appear fuller. The most flattering shape for a sparse, long face up is a clean-cut brow with a depression arch; this helps to open your face horizontally to add together the appearance of width. Work with a professional esthetician to sculpt your eyebrows into a flattering shape, and so maintain the look with periodic tweezing.

Add together Some Bangs

Add together bangs to your hairstyle to aid a long face appear fuller. In particular, blunt or rounded bangs work well because they conceal your forehead to shorten, shortening the length of your face and so information technology looks wider. If y'all adopt a softer look for your bangs, get for a long style that hits at the cheekbones. They'll help emphasize the center of your confront and volition subtly add volume.

Layer Your Hair

If you're not a fan of bangs, add layers to your haircut. Cull a cut that helps add width to your face up -- layers that hit at the cheekbones or chin are platonic. If yous're worried about your pilus looking too beefy, you don't have to layer it throughout. A few face-framing layers that hit at the chin tin have the same result every bit a total-on layered cut -- and you tin keep the rest of your style one length so it isn't likewise poofy.

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