At least give me an “A” for effort.
I’ve always had a wild fascination with contouring. I’m simply amazed at all the women who can pull it off and pull it off well. This technique looks simple, but it’s more work than I thought, for the average person. Since my New Year resolution was to familiarize myself with beauty, for Christmas I gifted myself the trio contour kit from Smashbox. It seemed easy enough to use considering there are only three colors in the kit, the contour, bronzer, and highlight. For a beginner, like myself, this was a recommended palette. Fair enough. But difficult enough more. It’s not that I struggled, or maybe I do, who knows? Anyway below this what the end result looks like.
I don’t really see a whole lot of difference other than the fact that my nose and cheeks stand out and are more defined. Below is what the pre-blend looks like.
Before I use the highlight section on the Smashbox palette, I use my Revlon Colorstay Concealer. After I’ve blended everything together I also go back and add some shine in the nose, forehead and cheek area using “MAKE” which a skin illuminator in LLos.
It’s hard for me to contour everyday, but when I go out, or there’s a special occasion I tend to use this method as my go to. So far I like the results, I just feel like I need more practice and time.
Please give me feedback on your thoughts on these products and my application method. It will be appreciated. Thanks. As always.
I’m not a professional makeup artist but I have been trying to learn how to contour myself and here are some tips I learned : a stippling brush for blending comes out much better than a beauty blender, when you blend blend in a circular motion upwards not just back and fourth, and set it with a powder but also never neglect your cheeks and always add a bit of blush! Hope these work for you too
Hey thanks so much, I’m usually very horrible at makeup, so they are great pieces of advice. Thanks again.
You’re welcome! I’ll be posting about makeup soon so keep an eye out for those posts !