How to Look Symmetrical 🤍 beauty + style tricks everyone should know

0:00 Hi loves. This video is all about how to create symmetry with your styling. Visual symmetry is absolutely key to elevating your style. And it goes beyond the current trends and the current body ideals. Rather, it comes down to the eyes natural affinity for symmetry and patterns. We see this everywhere in nature, especially in things we consider conventionally beautiful. As humans, we all have some degree of asymmetry, whether it's in our facial features or our body proportions. So, it's really not something to demonize, and this video is not for that purpose. Asymmetry is completely normal. In fact, it's one of the things that make us look real and human. Perfect symmetry is actually one of the hallmarks of the uncanny valley phenomenon. This is where something looks almost but not quite human. And if you do cross into the uncanny valley, it can actually create distrust and uneasiness in others, which we're not trying to produce at all. What I'm

0:45 talking about is visual balancing. This is not about stripping away the uniqueness of your features, but rather a styling tool you can use to let all of your features shine equally and really hone into the highest version of yourself with the body you currently have. Therefore, each person will use slightly different balancing methods according to their unique features. And it's a tool to ensure that you always look like you're wearing an outfit rather than an outfit is wearing you. All right, let's start with clothing. In terms of our body proportions, you can think of splitting your figure up into two halves split at your torso. A person tends to have either a wider upper half, a wider lower half, or balanced proportions. If you have a wider upper half, you'll tend to have broad shoulders and a wide rib cage. This is often referred to as the inverted triangle or athletic body type since it mirrors the body type we often see in gymnasts and swimmers. This also tends to mean your legs are proportionally

1:31 thinner and your hips are more narrow. These proportions with the wrong styling can make a person appear topheavy. I personally have this body type as I have broad shoulders and narrow hips. And since visually all the focus tends to go towards the upper body. Now a way to balance this is by adding wide bottoms like with a pleated skirt or widele pants. These not only add width but bulk to the lower body. By doing this, your upper and lower body will look more proportional. It won't exactly look like an hourglass, but it's not meant to. It'll simply make you appear visually balanced, which is pleasing to the eye. With this body type, you want to avoid tighter bottoms like pencil skirts, as they can create a tube-like appearance. For this body type, go for tighter tops and narrow neck lines. This is best to shrink the upper body, which will balance your proportions. The opposite will be flattering for someone with a wider lower half. This is the case when you're more of a pear shape. You have

2:16 prominent hips and narrow or slope shoulders. And since you already have a lot of visual focus on your lower body, you want to avoid really voluminous bottoms like bunchy skirts and instead choose sleek and smooth bottoms. To add bulk to your upper half, try puffy sleeves and wide neck lines. These make the shoulders appear broader and the upper body wider. By doing this, it's really great to balance wider hips. And lastly, for body types that are naturally balanced, in other words, where your upper and lower half have equal broadness, you'll tend to be able to flatter styles from both types. This tends to be the case for the hourglass and the rectangle body type. And for a more rectangular figure, lean towards wider bottoms as these will give you more curves to your silhouette. I do want to note that if you are a rectangle, you don't have to strive to be an hourglass. The rectangle is naturally balanced in its own way since your shoulders and hips are of equal width. With this body type, you can actually create balance in a different

3:02 way. The rectangle body type tends to be pretty angular and blunt, so try incorporating flowy styles and voluminous clothing. These will soften your body lines and add interest to your silhouette. In general, you can think of it like this. To set back an area, go for form fitting or sleeker styles. And to enlarge an area, go for a flowy or voluminous style. Future Juliana just popping in because I wanted to share with you guys an exciting announcement. I recently launched my membership program. It's basically a Patreon, but it's hosted on my website where I also do personal styling style-elev.com and I'll make sure to link it down below. With this membership program, I want to just build this really close-knit style community. I have multiple tiers and there's really no commitment. You can come and go however you like. But some of the things you can look forward to are more style videos. I'm also going to do things like blog posts, digital lookbooks, guides,

3:47 celebrity analyses, all that kind of stuff, as well as giveaways. Giveaways are going to be a large component to this program. I feel so grateful for you guys both on YouTube, well here, and on Instagram. So, everyone who signs up in the first week will be automatically entered into the first giveaway of many. I'll leave everything, the giveaway details, but also just the link to everything in general in the description. So, make sure to check it out if you are interested. I hope to see you there. The next area that I want to talk about is color. You may have heard the term that black is slimming and it's true in a sense. Dark colors and matte finishes remove dimension which shrink an area visually whereas lighter colors and glossy or shiny finishes. These add dimension and expand an area. This is why we tend to use dark matte shades for our contour to minimize the cheeks. Whereas we use shimmery highlight to the tops of our cheekbones to add dimension and make our cheekbones pop. And we can

4:33 apply this color tool to create symmetry. Choose darker colors and matte finishes for your larger features and lighter colors or bright busy patterns to your smaller features. This is not to hide certain features, but rather to set them all into harmony. If a feature like your hips are ultra wide, choosing tight, dark bottoms won't make them disappear, but they will look more balanced with your smaller features. So, if you have broad shoulders, choose a sleek dark top and bright flowy pants. As you can see, wherever I seem to place the lighter color is where the eye will tend to go. So, if I wear bright top, the focus does tend to go towards my upper half and makes it larger. Whereas, for lighter bottoms or if you have lighter skin like me, bare legs can also spotlight the lower half. In terms of makeup, adding dark liner to the waterline will set the eyes back into the face compared to adding white or nude eyeliner. This will enlarge the whites of your eyes and make them appear

5:20 larger. Therefore, for eyes that are very narrow and seem more closed in, adding white liner is great to make the eyes appear more open. Compare this to where lots of the whites of the eyes show. These look most balanced with dark liner in the waterline to bring the eyes back in and make them appear slightly more narrow. Another way to increase symmetry with color is by using color evenly throughout your outfit. echo colors throughout an outfit, especially at the top and bottom. This makes an outfit look intentional and balanced. There's this technique called the sandwich method where you match the color of the top and bottom of your outfit. This could be, say, your top and your shoes, but it can also be your shoes and your hair. This method kind of bookends your outfit and makes it appear complete. Whereas, without a matching color, your outfit can seem a little unfinished, especially if all the dark color is concentrated in one area. As you can see with this dark top matching with my dark hair, it better suits a

6:06 black shoe, even one that's just partially black. Whereas a lighter shoe often doesn't look visually substantial enough to balance against my darker upper half. A quick and easy way to look more elevated is by adding a pop of color evenly throughout your outfit. And this tip extends past your clothes, but also to your hair, your makeup, and your accessories. It's very popular to do this with the color red. To have red lips, red nails, a red bag to match your red shoes. Here's an example with gold. I have on a neutral outfit which doesn't look bad, but it looks a bit plain. Now, if I add gold cuffs, a gold bag, a gold belt, and gold shoes, the outfit looks a lot more intentional than having no statement colors. In general, more structured styles will tend to look more symmetrical. Like, if you have uneven shoulders, a structured blazer will streamline them and create symmetry. Structured styles in general tend to look simpler, which in itself is visually pleasing because it has cleaner lines. By structured styles, I just mean

6:53 a style that's not super stretchy and depends on your body to give it shape. I mean, there's nothing wrong with stretchy clothing, but they can be less forgiving if you're not in perfect posture all the time. Structure styles are often more flattering since they are looser or in the sense that they're not skin tight in all areas. This will make you more photogenic as well. Since it's unrealistic or at least difficult to achieve full symmetry at every angle. Now, more about facial asymmetry specifically. If you have high facial asymmetry, you can use your hair part to offset it. For whichever side of your face is smaller or lower, part your hair in a way that the larger half of the hair is on the smaller side of the face. Speaking of hair, a middle part will tend to highlight any asymmetry on the face. The middle part tends to draw a line directly down the face, which makes the eye focus on your features and any possible asymmetry more. So, a middle part is often best for very highly

7:40 symmetrical faces. If you have a wider or larger forehead, and especially if you also have a narrow chin, like with a heart-shaped face, you'll look most balanced with styles that have a lot of volume at the ends of the hair. This will visually pull the focus down and add visual volume to a more narrow chin. So, if this is you, try Curls or hair that's straighter at the top and curls at the ends. Now, compared to a shorter or a narrower forehead, these tend to really suit half up half down styles or higher upd. This adds visual focus to the forehead and expands this area. You want to consider your facial length as well. A longer face will look most balanced with shorter, wider hairstyles since it keeps the focus at the center of the face rather than dragging your features down. Compared to a shorter or rounder face, these tend to look balanced with a longer and flatter hairstyle. These

8:25 longer, flatter hairstyles tend to kind of drag your features down, but in a good way, as dragging your features down tends to elongate your face and balance your features best. Now, going back to makeup. If either your upper or lower lip is much thinner than the other, you can use a matte nude liner and overline slightly or use a contour shade and add a blended shadow outline around the thinner lip. This will make the lip appear fuller since it seems thick enough to create a shadow. And even if you don't have perfectly symmetrical eyes, if you draw symmetrical wings, these will visually take over and increase your facial harmony. All right, loves. That's all I have for you for this video. Please let me know if you like this topic and if you'd like to see more content on how to increase your visual and facial symmetry. I'll see you all very soon. Bye. [Music]