MAKEUP Consultant offers tips to look your best

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The holiday season is a catch-22 for women who like to look their best.
More than other times of the year, the holidays and their accompanying parties and social engagements offer an opportunity to put on one's finest frocks and show them off to a crowd. But once at these gatherings, one usually nibbles at the plentiful bowls of chocolates, cookies and other sweets that can leave one feeling full -- and looking full in the face.
Diane Kendal, a consultant for Calvin Klein Cosmetics, says it is possible to use makeup to make your face look a little slimmer.
"The trick is to not get something that shows the line of demarcation -- always blend. It's all about the placement of the makeup when trying to make the face appear thinner," she says.
Kendal suggests using a bronzing powder in the hollow of the cheeks. The bronzer also can be used to heighten the cheekbones, contrasting between light and dark on the skin.
If you wear foundation, try using a product one or two shades deeper than your natural skin tone to produce a difference in texture of the skin, she says. The same deeper-shade theory works for powder, says Kendal, and make sure the powder is translucent.