How do you contour and highlight your face?
The main tips are to use the contour shades to slim and narrow any larger or more pronounced areas of your face, as well as defining your cheekbones, while using the highlight shades to bring forward any parts of your face and to brighten up your eye area.
How do you contour your face step by step?
How to Contour: A Step by Step Guide
- Prep the face. As always, start with skincare: Wash your face and apply moisturizer to keep makeup from clumping up around any dry skin or harsh lines.
- Shadow.
- Highlight.
- Blush.
- Blend.
- Set.
Where should I contour and highlight for beginners?
For most people, these areas would be the sides of your nose, the jawline, the hollows of your cheeks, your temples and the perimeter of your forehead. You have the option to contour your eyes and neck as well.
How do you blend contour and highlight?
Once you’ve applied contour makeup to the areas of your face you want to contour, it’s time to blend it out. Use a regular foundation brush or a beauty blender sponge and tap over the contoured area, blending it into your foundation. You don’t want your contour to look streaky, so this step is key!
How do you contour your cheeks?
To define your cheekbones, apply a cream contour that is about 3-4 shades darker than your skin color to the hollows of your cheeks. Make sure to blend the contour going up your cheekbone and not downwards to make it blend seamlessly into the blush that will be applied later.
Where does highlighter go on the face?
Where To Apply Highlighter
- Your Cheekbones. Starting with the most common place to highlight your skin: the cheekbones.
- The Bridge Of Your Nose.
- Your Cupid’s Bow.
- Your Brow Bone.
- The Inner Corners Of Your Eyes.
- The Center Of Your Eyelids.
- The Center Of Your Chin.
How do you choose highlight and contour color?
Make sure you test multiple colors on your skin until you figure out which shade works best with your skin tone. For highlighting, pick a powder that is one to two shades lighter than your foundation, and for contouring, go with a powder that’s one to two shades darker.
What do you use to highlight your face?
What you’ll need:
- Liquid foundation in your normal shade.
- Liquid concealer or foundation in a slightly lighter color than your skin.
- Concealer, foundation, or powder in a slightly darker color than your skin.
- Setting powder (Mine: M.A.C. Mineralize Skinfinish Natural powder in Dark.)
Where do you contour on face?
Add contour to the hollows of your cheeks. For rectangle-shaped faces, try to avoid applying contour too far into the center of the face. Instead, keep it closer to the sides of your face. Move up to your forehead and apply contour along the hairline, starting in the center and stopping before you reach your temples.
How do you apply contouring for beginners?
Therefore, it’s extremely important to know where to apply contour and highlighter and to only apply it in those areas. Contour should be applied on the sides of your nose, under your cheekbones, around the top of your forehead, and the bottom of your chin and jawline.