Practical: Contouring

Practical: Contouring

Contouring helps to define and enhance the cheekbones and give the face more depth as a whole it can be worn in a more subtle way for day to day makeup and also more extreme and dramatic for high fashion and catwalks.

"Grease on Grease, Powder on Powder"


Step by Step Process

• First apply your base foundation- refer back to my previous post but do not powder the face this must be done at the end of the process.
• To start with you will need a darker shade of concealer compared to the base foundation and feel for the underside of the models cheekbones if you struggle to find them it can sometimes to help if your model can suck their cheeks in you should be able to find the hollows of their cheekbones.
• Apply the darker shade of concealer to the hollows of the cheekbones, the jawline, the sides of the nose to help give the illusion of thinning and also a small amount to the temples.
• Blend the concealer in using your finger to start with and then use a medium buffing brush to help blending any sharp edges in to make them look more natural 
• Once this has been done and you are happy with how the shading look, get some translucent powder on a powder puff and gently roll the powder across the concealer until the skin feel dry to touch and then brush off any excess powder with a fluffy brush.
• Apply some contour powder over the areas you have used the concealer which will also help to matte the concealer down.
• Now for highlighting you will need a lighter/gold shimmer tone powder and a medium brush, apply the powder across the tops of the cheekbones, down the centre of the nose and slightly across the forehead, under the natural brow line. 
• This will help to give the skin the illusion of a more glowing look as the natural light will reflect the highlighted areas.
• To give more of a natural look to the models face you can go in with a natural colour blush and lightly apply to the apples of the cheeks, ask your model to smile whilst doing this as it will help to give the blusher a more natural look.

My model's skin before base and contouring

Model after base and contouring