Advanced Contouring Tricks

Remember, dark makes an object appear to recede; light makes it stand out. To take facial contouring to the next level, use a white concealer stick for highlighting.



This tip is not exactly contouring but is good for all shape faces. It’s a trick a friend in the theater taught me. Put a dot of white concealer just under the inner corner of each eye and blend. Notice how the whites of your eyes sparkle?



Contouring a Round Face

Extra highlights visually elongate a round face. Put a line of white concealer on the brow bone of each eye and blend. If you like the shape of your nose, run the white concealer right down the center and blend. If you don’t care for its shape, you don’t want to draw too much attention. Experiment with a dot just on the tip.



Contouring a Long Face

Play up your eyes but not your mouth. If you use a lot of color on both mouth and eyes, you accentuate the distance between them. You can use eyeliner subtly to make your face look wider. Apply soft pencil eyeliner along the lower lashes from the middle of each eye to the outer corner and a tiny bit beyond (curving up like an eyelash). Then come back toward the eyelid to form a small (bent) triangle. Blend.



Wasn’t this fun? Kind of like in high school when we got together and tried out different makeup techniques.



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