Contouring involves creating a flawless sculptured face by tweaking some of your facial features. It gives the impression that your nose is smaller and trims your chin by creating shadows on your face.
Contouring: the focus of manipulating light and shadows. Enhancing/ creating shadows.
Strobbing: the focus on highlighting and creating a dewy glow on the high plains of the face. Enhancing the highlights and not the shadow.
Clowning: the combination of colour correcting with cream concealers and contouring. This is a fashion trend amoung MUA and not generally used for general daily application.
How to:
A great foundation will give you a flawless look. Apply your foundation evenly over the entire face, making sure that you blend in the neck and ears.
Start highlighting by using a small flat make-up brush. Use a concealer that is two shades lighter than your natural colour as a highlighter.
Highlight by appling the concealer to:
- The bridge of the nose (from the top of the nose where your eyebrows meet, to the tip).
- The centre of your forehead, and fan out in a half moon or rainbow motion.
- Your cupids bo (top lip), in line with your nose, and on your chin.
- Under the eye area, focusing in a triangle shape with the point facing down to the corner of the mouth.
- Your cheek bone in a 45 degree angle from the outer corner of the eye connecting to the top of the ear.
Use a darker foundation to create the shadows under your cheekbones and on the sides of the bridge of the nose.
The contouring foundation or concealer should be two shades darker than your normal colour.
Blend the contouring lines and highlights together using a foundation brush until the two colours are blended and smoothen out.
Finish the look of by applying your Inglot HD Sculpting powder to set the contouring.
Apply mascara, lipstick and blush and you are ready for the big screen.
