How To: Contour and Highlight
Hey Everyone! Welcome back to my Blog. I was at the Irish Beauty Show in the RDS last Sunday and I picked up the Crown Brush 10 concealer palette which I've been dying to try out!
Here's my How to Contour Tutorial and a quick review of the product itself.
Enjoy! x
Its actually a drag queen makeup technique (taken down a notch or two) that has been around for years and has been made popular by Kim K and her fabulous makeup artist Mario.
To be able to contour and highlight like a pro there's a few things you need to understand before you go crazy drawing lines all over the place ( it happens to the best of us). It will also make it a little less confusing as to why you are putting all that crap on your face.
CONTOURING:
By contouring you are creating 'shadows' and are adding the illusion of a more structured and narrow face.
This mean if you want to make something appear smaller (eg. your nose) or give more depth to your face (eg. cheekbones) you contour.
HIGHLIGHTING:
As the name suggests you are 'highlighting' a feature on your face, making it appear larger (eg. lips, cupids bow) or making it 'stand out' more or appear fuller.
Personally I like to stick to contouring my cheekbones and forehead only, and highlighting every place under the sun! But its all about what you like and what suits your face shape and features the most :)
WHERE TO CONTOUR AND HIGHLIGHT:
You can do the whole sha-bang or you can pin point certain areas of the face you want to contour and highlight to make features appear larger or smaller.
Highlight:
Middle of Forehead
Center of the Nose
Cupids Bow (above lip)
Under Brows
Under eyes using the famous Kim K 'Triangle Technique'
Center of Chin
Tops of Cheek Bones
Contour:
Cheek Bones (always blend upwards)
Jawline (blend down onto neck)
Temple area and Forehead
Sides and Tip of Nose
As the name suggests you are 'highlighting' a feature on your face, making it appear larger (eg. lips, cupids bow) or making it 'stand out' more or appear fuller.
Personally I like to stick to contouring my cheekbones and forehead only, and highlighting every place under the sun! But its all about what you like and what suits your face shape and features the most :)
WHERE TO CONTOUR AND HIGHLIGHT:
You can do the whole sha-bang or you can pin point certain areas of the face you want to contour and highlight to make features appear larger or smaller.
Highlight:
Middle of Forehead
Center of the Nose
Cupids Bow (above lip)
Under Brows
Under eyes using the famous Kim K 'Triangle Technique'
Center of Chin
Tops of Cheek Bones
Contour:
Cheek Bones (always blend upwards)
Jawline (blend down onto neck)
Temple area and Forehead
Sides and Tip of Nose
QUICK REVIEW/MY THOUGHTS ON THE PALETTE
Highlighting and Contouring can be done using powders as well a cream products. This was my first time using cream products to contour and I really loved the effect it gave, it was really natural!
Here's a look at the product itself
Here's a look at the product itself
The concealers were really nice to use and they remind me of the Mac Studio Concealers. They blend nicely, some took a little more work to blend, but that was what expected for some of the darker shades.
The concealers give a medium coverage and a little goes a long way!
I think this palette is a must have if your looking to cream contour, conceal or if your a freelance MUA working on different skin tones.
Heres a look at the shades that come in the palette, the darker shades appear more red toned on camera but they are slightly more neutral in person!
Its so affordable and the quality is really nice for the price, I picked this up for €18 at the beauty show but you can get it from the Crown Brush website too!
Hope this helped some of you ladies!
If you have any questions let me know in the comments below :)
If you have any questions let me know in the comments below :)
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