Nose Highlighter 101: How To Lift, Sculpt & Contour The Look Of Your Nose With Highlighter

Darlings, all you need to get a glowing, sculpted, chiselled-looking nose is Charlotte’s Hollywood Glow Glide Face Architect Highlighters and expert NOSE TRICK application secrets! Putting highlighter on your nose can change the look of your face, giving your facial architecture a pinched and sculpted look with a gorgeous glow.

Discover how to apply nose highlighter and why putting highlighter on your nose is a quick trick for everyone, everywhere!

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How Nose Highlighter Can Lift the look of your Nose

When looking at someone’s face, the nose is a central detail that captures the eye straight away. With nose highlighter, you can reshape the look of your nose for a softly sculpted look while giving it a gorgeous glow that illuminates and enhances your natural features.

By highlighting the bridge of the nose, you can pull focus inwards and create the illusion of a narrower framework. Highlighting the tip of the nose has a similar effect, diffusing the look of a rounder or larger tip and guiding the eye upwards to make the nose appear smaller and more lifted.

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Tilbury Tip: To give your nose highlighter an even more lifted, sculpted look, try contouring your nose with Charlotte’s Hollywood Contour Wand before you apply your highlighter.

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What is Nose Highlighter

Highlighter is a multi-use product that gives glow lovers around the world the gorgeous glow that they adore. Charlotte has identified the 6 PERFECT PLACEMENTS for your highlighter to give the face a dreamy, dimensional glow, including a fabulous, flattering nose highlighter technique.

Putting highlighter on your nose is a way of tricking the eye and enhancing the look of your facial architecture. By capturing light at the centre of the face, your highlighter can create the illusion of a nose that looks smaller and more sculpted.

Discover where to apply highlighter with Charlotte's Glow Glide Guide

Step 1: Choose a Precision Makeup Brush
Nose highlighter requires a more precise application than highlighting the cheekbones or jawline. Charlotte recommends using her Eye Smudger Brush, a domed, dense, synthetic brush that gives you more control over your highlighter placement.
Step 2: Highlight the Centre of the Nose
Take your favourite shade of Charlotte’s Hollywood Glow Glide Face Architect Highlighter and using the Eye Smudger Brush, lightly sweep it along the bridge of the nose. When applying highlighter on your nose, keep it focused on the centre. This is the body of your ‘exclamation point’.
Step 3: Highlight the Tip of the Nose
With a less-is-more approach, place a dot of highlighter on the tip of your nose to complete your exclamation point. Be sure to keep your application precise to create the perfect, central spotlight for your face!

Tilbury Tip: To cheat a shorter, more lifted-looking nose, place the dot of your nose highlighter slightly higher than the tip of your nose. This helps to draw the eye upwards, creating the illusion of a more lifted, button-shaped nose.
Step 4: Buff and Blend
Finally, for a seamless, soft-focused finish, use the super-soft bristles of a clean Eye Blender Brush to blend out the edges.

Tilbury Tip: If you’re looking for a beaming, blinding nose highlighter application, take Charlotte’s Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray and wet your Eye Blender Brush to intensify your highlighter’s glow.

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