I don’t know about you, but one of the early makeup tips I learned was to smile while blushing. I never asked that (though I wasn’t entirely sure where that damn Apple was), and it’s followed me in over 30 years of makeup. But makeup artist Kiki G. made me realize that I should stop doing it all at once.
Kiki, who has the Instagram and Tiktok makeup tip series, shares “But why, Tho?” recently advice that instantly changed the way I blush forever.
She points her video harshly to the camera, saying, “Don’t smile…”, softening to qualify the command with “When I blushed.”
Kiki places his fingers straight on his cheek. “I’m going to smile. It goes up. And I relax. It goes back,” they show. It’s not a rocket surgery. But that makes her the next game-changing inspiration: “This means that the blushing arrangement is actually lower than while you apply it.”
And that means: “The placement under the blush moves people’s eyes downwards when they see you. It causes a drooping effect. “Also, we get wrinkles as we age. They have no problems, but I don’t want to mark them with a blush.”
What should I do instead? Use your fingers where your cheekbones protrude. “Then take your face as cold as your soul and like a stone, apply it to the right to that highest point, then gently fuse the edges,” says Kiki. Kiki says.
