What would be of my life without Contouring and highlighting?? Death most likely.
Ever since I learned about the concept of contouring and highlighting, I do not leave it out of my makeup routine. I see it as a verrry important step, such as applying moisturizer to my face. I do it regardless! The way my face looks after the process is complete, makes me feel like I can conquer the world.
Okay okay okay, so what on earth is contour and highlight? It is the balance of shadow and light that helps features on your face come forward, as well as recede. The whole aspect of this makeup technique is to bring out your best features and hide the minor ones that you might not like. Contouring and Highlighting completely changes your appearance and you become an intensified version of yourself. Think of your beauty, times a million. Trust me, all these celebrities use this technique of Contour and Highlight.
Okay okay okay, so what on earth is contour and highlight? It is the balance of shadow and light that helps features on your face come forward, as well as recede. The whole aspect of this makeup technique is to bring out your best features and hide the minor ones that you might not like. Contouring and Highlighting completely changes your appearance and you become an intensified version of yourself. Think of your beauty, times a million. Trust me, all these celebrities use this technique of Contour and Highlight.
Contour
The way I see it, this technique can literally help you alter the way your face appears to the eye. With a darker shade of makeup you can create a shadow, which helps recede a feature on your face. I guess you can say that contouring works as temporary surgery that you can wipe off before going to bed.
Highlight
This is obviously the complete opposite of Contouring. Highlighting is exactly what the word says, highlight. This technique helps you bring out facial features and exploit them. These are the features that the eye is first drawn too.
Now that we've got the meanings down packed, lets talk about the actually application process. This, my friends it not a difficult one. Your ultimate goal is to make it all look natural in the end. To contour your face you will need a product that is at least 1 or 2 shades darker than your skin tone. To highlight, you will need a product that is light and standoutish (not even a word), but not heeeeeey-I-totally-want-you-to-see-my-crazy-highlight.
Okay, so now that we all know what contouring and highlighting is, how do we do this on ourselves? There are many different ways to contour and highlight; ultimately it all depends on your face shape. But here are some ways to apply this technique on yourself:
Thin Nose
This is obviously the complete opposite of Contouring. Highlighting is exactly what the word says, highlight. This technique helps you bring out facial features and exploit them. These are the features that the eye is first drawn too.
Now that we've got the meanings down packed, lets talk about the actually application process. This, my friends it not a difficult one. Your ultimate goal is to make it all look natural in the end. To contour your face you will need a product that is at least 1 or 2 shades darker than your skin tone. To highlight, you will need a product that is light and standoutish (not even a word), but not heeeeeey-I-totally-want-you-to-see-my-crazy-highlight.
Okay, so now that we all know what contouring and highlighting is, how do we do this on ourselves? There are many different ways to contour and highlight; ultimately it all depends on your face shape. But here are some ways to apply this technique on yourself:
Thin Nose
If you want a thinner nose without going under the knife (ouch), all you have to do is shade the edges of your nose with a matte face bronzer, using an eyeshadow flat brush. Apply the product along both sides of the bridge of your nose from the inner corner of the eyes down to the tip of the nose. To blend, you can use a blending brush or your fingers. Simply blend the products downward towards your cheeks. This will ensure that your contour looks natural. Then apply a highlight shadow down the center of your nose. Do this lightly, and blend to reach a natural look.
Emphasize your Cheekbones
After you have applied your foundation, you can use a Matte bronzer and a highlight powder to help you pull out those cheekbones that love to hide. Apply your Matte powder under your cheekbones. The fishy face will help you with this one. Begin from the top part of your ear and down halfway towards your mouth (stop right before the apples of your cheeks). Blend the bronzer into your skin and use foundation to clean up right under where you placed the bronzer and have straight edges. Apply a highlight right above your bronzed section (above your actual cheekbones) This will bring your cheekbones out.
Jawline & face shaping:
Using the matte bronzer, shade right along you jaw line to create an illusion of a thinner face. This trick can hide a double chin & a long chin. If you apply bronzer to your hair line and blend it well, it will make it appear as if your forehead has minimized in size.
Browbone Highlighting
Applying a Highlight to your brow bone will give your eyes and brow a lift. After your eye makeup is complete, apply a soft highlight (cream or white) color under your brow. This will immediately bring your arch a kick!
So that is ittt my people!!! This process is so simple and can do so much for you.
I hope i have answered some questions and can triggered your contour and highlighting addiction. :)
Love yaaa
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