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Saturday, July 6, 2013 @ 12:18 AM
Beauty Tip # 5: Contouring.
I know, I know, finally! Lol. :p
For my beauty tip number 5, I wanna blog about the importance of contouring. Now, I'm not saying this is a must when you do your make up because it's all up to preference. But if you want to look more made up on certain days or you want to achieve a slimmer face or if you've always wondered how celebrities attain taller looking noses then this is definitely for you.
First of all, what is contouring you may ask. Well, in my own words... Contouring is strategically applying a make up that's 2-3 shades darker than your actual skin color or simply using the darker shade in a contouring kit in certain areas of your face to bring out or conceal some areas of the face.
So, what areas on your face do you actually contour? Basically there are 3 areas of the face that you need to contour but sometimes you can go all out in applying your contour color like applying some contouring on the sides of the nose. Those 3 basic areas are the sides of the face, jawline, and a bit on the hairline
Why the sides of the face? This is to bring out your cheekbones and to make your face look slimmer.
Why the jawline? To make your face look slimmer and to emphasize your neck.
Why the side of the nose? To make you seem like you have a taller or nose or simply to intensify the shape of your nose.
Why is there no picture of the contour on the hairline? Well, this is because I have bangs and I have a humongous 5-finger forehead. Teehee :p But seriously, for those of you who do not have bangs this is so your face shape can be better seen.
Now you may ask what do you use? Truthfully you can use any face brush but the best and most accurate brush to use would be and angled blush brush or a contour brush like this:
But if you are into contouring the sides of the nose this brush may be too big so for that I advice using a pointy-tip eyeshadow brush like some of these:
But let me just say that these type of brushes are best used for powdered contour make up like this:
or this:
Actually, when it comes to contouring there are 2 ways you can do it - it can be either wet contouring using darker shade foundation or dry contouring using powdered make up which is what I am blogging about now because it is a lot easier than wet contouring.
But what it you don't actually have a contour kit? My best and very effective advice would be to use a warm brown eyeshadow like this:
(or any brown eyeshadow color that's close to something like this.)
But there
is a disadvantage in using eyeshadow as your contour color only because
you may run out of it faster as compared to actually using contour make
up.
Or you could also use matte bronzers which is actually one form of make up this is most commonly used for contouring. Here are some samples:
 
But in my personal opinion, I don't contour with bronzer as much anymore since I've been using a contour kit because I just find bronzers too orange for the job as compared to using brown powdered make up which ends up looking more natural for me.
Before putting this blog post to a close let me just add on how much contour make up you need to apply. Well, it really depends on where you're going. If it's just a daily thing then lightly brushing the make up on the mentioned parts is just fine but if you have an evening event that you have to go to then it's ok to go a bit darker.
So, before going I just want to somehow show you guys the difference of doing contouring by these two pictures of myself. Now, I know that it's not that obvious but that's the thing about contouring, it's there but you don't want it to be screaming that it's there. Now that's one secret of make up artists :)
xoxo,
Krizia ❤
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