When you are applying make up to achieve an overall attractive and classy look that you feel great about it is important to choose one particular feature to highlight. This is often your best feature, the one you want to draw the most attention to. This will create the impression of lifting your whole appearance to the level of your best feature which is exactly what most of us want.  We all want to be seen as the best part of ourselves, not the worst, and choosing the proper focal point to feature in the application of makeup can help that immensely.

You have to think of your appearance as a blank canvas. When an artist paints a picture he doesn’t decide in a flash exactly how the entire thing is going to appear. Once he has decided upon the subject of his painting he decides the best way to present that subject. He then chooses colors and shading for the background that will compliment the featuring of the subject of his painting. If you can begin to view your face like an artist you will realize how great of an effect you can achieve by highlighting on of your best features and using everything else to compliment that rather than trying to make everything stand as its own individual entity.

Your face is one place, make it work together.

You need to decide if your big blue eyes, your full lips, or maybe your high and delicate cheekbones are the feature that you want to play up the most. Do so, but remember then to play down the other features. Just the bare essentials in colors that compliment the rest of what’s going on. One of the worst sins in applying makeup is getting a look that’s way too busy, with emphasis on the eyes, the eyelashes, the cheekbones, and the lips. When each area looks like it has a makeup metaphorical bull’s eye on it we often stray into the territory that is better left to people who wear red noses and floppy shoes for a living.

Look at your face like an artist’s canvas. Decide what your best feature is and how to draw as much attention to that feature as possible. Everything else that happens is then secondary and in support of that prominent feature. You will be very happy with the result as people eye will be naturally drawn exactly where you want it to go.