The alleviation of the burden on the cosmetic decoration and the effect of making the subject to look thin can be easily accomplished by providing a technique of cosmetic decoration which easily obtains the same effect based on light and shade as the application of foundation, allows the beautiful state resulting from the cosmetic decoration to last for a fixed number of days without being impaired by water or perspiration, and produces a natural finish. The method for cosmetic decoration according to this invention, in performing cosmetic decoration by resorting to the impartation of light and shade to the surface color of the skin, implements the cosmic decoration by causing the degree of pigment deposition in the area of the skin requiring to assume a darker color to be larger than in the other part of the skin thereby imparting light and shade to the surface color of the skin.