If you have a big nose, what are good makeup tips?

Question

No eyeliner? Cause I reckon my nose is just...bloody overpowers the rest of my face lmao.

Answer 1

I don't have a big nose but I knew somebody who did until she got a nose job. She would wear really big glasses and poofy hair, but that would just make her look like a clown and get made fun of relentlessly.

I would think  to do a highlighter on the bridge of your nose to distort the shape. Also large sunglasses and slightly teased hair to frame the face.

Answer 2

Draw away from your nose by highlighting your best features.  Play up your eyes with eyeshadow.  Find a flattering hairstyle.  Look up special powdering techniques to apply makeup on your nose and around it.  Look at all these actresses: Penelope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Uma Thurman and itc.  Having a large nose did not stop them.

Answer 3

i don't have a big nose

(but i do have other annoying features lol)

but i would say that making sure that you have makeup or powder on your nose to make sure there is no shine or oil

good luck!

Answer 4

Unfortunatey, there isn't much you can do. But if you have a wide nose, you can make it look thinner by taking a dark bronzer that you would use to hollow your cheeks out or to give yourself a little color, and put a line down each side of your nose starting from the top of your nose (by the eyebrow) and down the side of the nose to the tip. Then do the other side. It shadows the wide nose & gives the illusion of a thinner nose. I've seen this tip on Tyra and Oprah.  

Answer 5

Play up your eyes to make them look bigger. Learn the art of shading to give the illusion of a slimmer nose.

Answer 6

This will sound crazy, but the truth is that you should just ignore your nose. I know, because I have a huge one.

My brother studied theater in college, taught it as a career, and was an expert on all makeup techniques. He not only did theater makeup, he did it for photo shoots for models, and he taught courses for various makeup minded people like girls wanting to enter beauty pageants. He's the one who taught me about my nose.

Basically, anything you learn to do with makeup for your nose is only an illusion. It will only last a split second if someone really looks at your face, and the only idea they are going to take away is wondering why you bothered to do all of that in the first place.

A much easier technique is to find out what your best feature is and play that up. For most women, that will be one of three things: their eyes; their mouth; or their cheekbones. When you find out what your really outstanding facial feature is, then pay special attention to that, and a viewer's eye will be drawn away from your nose and to your really special feature.

Once you find your really good feature, don't just forget about the others. Wear light makeup on everything else, and just concentrate on the really good one. Let's say your really good feature is your mouth. Wear a bit of eyeliner and a light shadow which is just slightly darker than your skin. Wear a bit of mascara. Wear a bit of blush or bronzer on your cheeks to give them some color. Then make sure your mouth stands out. Line your lips carefully to make sure your lipstick doesn't feather. Wear a good quality lipstick, and put some gloss over the top to add shine. And make it a bit darker than it is naturally. You don't want to look like a clown, but do play up your mouth. People's eyes will be drawn to it, and that's the part of your face they will pay attention to--everything else, including your nose, will sort of fade into the background. Instead of a person leaving an encounter with you thinking, "what's with all that stuff all over her nose," they will be thinking, "wow, she has an amazing mouth and perfect smile."

Finding your best feature can be a little dicey. It's probably best to enlist a trusted friend. I say that for two reasons. The first is that we are so accustomed to looking at our own faces that we only see the bad bits--it's hard to see the features which really stand out as beautiful or interesting to others. The second is that if you ask someone in your family, it's like asking yourself. They, too, are accustomed to looking at your face all the time, and will have a hard time making up their mind about what stands out. Ask a good friend what feature they think is best on your face. What did they notice first in a positive way? (I had a friend ask another friend that question, and her friend promptly answered, "your acne," which was not what she was looking for.) What feature on your face would they like to have? Ask a lot of close friends, and you will eventually get a good consensus of what your best feature is. Then, you can use the creative makeupping to make that look more pronounced, rather than using it to try and make your nose less pronounced.

Once my brother taught me that trick, I stopped trying to do all the fancy shading and such with my nose. I found out which features are worth spending time on and which are not. And those are the ones I bother with.

Along the way, you may be surprised that you find you no longer worry so much about your nose. I thought the day would never come for me, but it did. I just seemed to grow into my nose. My face didn't get any bigger, but my nose suddenly seemed to fit it better, and I grew comfortable with it. So comfortable, in fact, that I eventually had it pierced :)  I did that just for myself, and I think often of the irony that I spent the first 20-odd years of my life trying to get people to NOT notice my nose, and now they notice it no matter what. It doesn't matter much to me anymore because now it fits my face, and since I am of mixed parentage anyway, the nose stud just adds to what people who meet me consider to be an "exotic" look. (Don't ask me what the h**l that means--when I figure it out, I am going to write a book about it and make a million dollars.)

So don't muck with trying to cover up or minimize your nose. I have tried all the stuff out there, and I am very good at the shading tricks and all that, but none of it is as effective as simply ignoring your nose and playing up something else. Find out what your best feature is, and then make that the focus of your makeup. That's the best makeup tip I can give you.

Answer 7

take cue from Sarah Jessica Parker. Do big hair and accent on the eyes.