How to create faux freckles

I’ve always seen freckles as a symbol of beauty and now the beauty industry is finally recognising this in the latest trend to hit the beauty sphere; faux freckles.

In terms of beauty trends, faux freckles is probably one of the easiest to master – you won’t need to learn any particular techniques like you do with strobing or contouring.

Freckles are typically a very natural thing so when you’re applying false freckles, you want it to look as natural as possible. Look for a eye/ brow pencil that is around one shade lighter than your natural hair colour and lightly dot them onto your skin, around the nose and cheeks where the sun naturally hits. Make sure you use a product that you can easily remove, you don’t want to make the mistake of permanently staining your skin like beauty Youtuber Naomi Jon did.

I do have a few natural freckles, but they only really tend to come out in the height of summer when I spend a lot of time in the sun. I did find it quite hard to find a light brow pencil and a lot of the ones I saw were all pretty dark. In the end I found Maybelline Master Shape in Dark Blonde which was a little bit lighter than my natural hair shade.

Maybelline Mastershape brow pencil has a really soft tip that is perfect for applying faux freckles to my skin. I applied gentle pressure as I didn’t want it to look too over the top, and the rest is a soft natural look. The best thing is I can remove it whenever I want!

So what do you think of the faux freckles look? Is it something that you’ll be trying? Let me know what you think in the comments box.

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