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It’s happened to the best of us. In an effort to look glowy and ethereal, you get a little too heavy handed with the highlighter and now you look like a disco ball. Not cute.
You might think your only option is to remove your whole face of makeup and start from scratch, but wait! You can actually fix this mistake without taking all your makeup off. Here’s how:
Start with makeup removing wipe or a cotton ball with a little bit of makeup remover on it and lightly dab the areas where you applied too much highlighter. By lightening up the area you won’t remove a huge chunk of makeup and you might actually get the desired highlight you want.
Once you have removed enough, take your foundation or concealer and just touch up the area super lightly. Now, you can either come back in with the highlighter or there still might be some highlighter leftover that looks just as dewy and glowy as you initially intended. Viola, problem solved!
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