Whatever shape your face, skillful shading and highlighting can help to enhance your good points and minimize the less desirable ones. Using a lighter shade of foundation than your overall base, highlighting makes features more prominent, while shading uses a darker tone to make features recede into the background. You should highlight good points, such as high cheekbones, but shadow plump cheeks or a heavy jawline. 

1 Keep your hair off your face by lying it back or using a hair band or scarf. Examine your face from the front and in profile. Touch the brow bones, eye sockets, nose hone, cheekbones and chin with your fingertips to understand how they are structured. 

2 Having decided 1 which features you want to shadow and highlight, choose a cake foundation color that blends perfectly with your skin tone when applied along the jawline. 

3 Apply a slightly darker shade of foundation to the areas where you want to emphasize the shadows, such as a heavy jawline. 

4 Use a slightly lighter shade of foundation on the areas that you want to highlight, such as the cheekbones. 

5 Apply (he base foundation to the whole face and neck, blending into the border lines of the light and dark shades. Check that the makeup looks natural and balanced; go back over the light and shadow areas if necessary. 

The finished effect: Soft, subtle foundaiion with good features highlighted and emphasized, and less desirable ones shaded and minimized.

 (source: Dk publishing Inc - Classic Makeup and Beauty - Mary Quant)