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#EASY CONTOUR STEPS HOW TO#

This sets your foundation, contour, and highlight and helps blend any lingering visible demarcations. Set it and forget it.ĭust translucent loose powder over your face using a fluffy brush. That's because shimmer tends to exacerbate oil, large pores, and fine lines. If you're using a shimmery highlighter, Eugenia suggests placing it on your cheekbones and down the center of your nose only.

Then swipe highlighter on your cheekbones and forehead, down the center of your nose, under your brows, and in the middle of your chin. Get lit.Īpply your highlighter in an upside-down triangle underneath your eyes to add a bit of lift to the face. Soften any obvious lines with a damp blending sponge or a small, clean, fluffy brush. "As women age, gravity makes the face fall, so you don't have that nice definition," Eugenia explains. Contouring the jawline is particularly important for older women. Shade around your hairline and temples, down the sides of the top of your nose and under the nose tip, and under your jawline.

(If you're having trouble finding this spot, suck in your cheeks like you're making a fish face.) Sculpt the face.Īpply your normal foundation, then add contour beneath your cheekbones by following your jaw's natural indentation "from the top of the ear angling toward the mouth," Eugenia advises.

#EASY CONTOUR STEPS HOW TO#

Eugenia has been using contour makeup since she started out in the business, so if anyone knows how to contour properly, it's this woman. To avoid the latter scenario, we sought the advice of Eugenia Weston, the founder of LA's Senna Cosmetics and an Emmy-nominated makeup artist who used to make Barbra Streisand's custom foundation. Done wrong, it makes you look like you rubbed dirt on your face and then drew attention to it with a bunch of shimmer. Done right, it gives you sculpted cheekbones and a more streamlined nose and jawline.

Below your cheekbones from your ear to the middle of your cheeks and then down to your jawline to add some length to your faceĬontouring for a Square/Rectangle Face ShapeĪ square face shape means that your face is roughly the same length and width (if not slightly longer for a rectangle) and your hairline and jawline are about even.Do you know how to contour? Are you sure? Even for those of us who love makeup, contouring-the art of shading and highlighting the cheekbones, forehead, chin, and other facial features-can be intimidating.

Around the sides of your forehead and temples to slim down this area.

In the middle of your forehead and chin to widen these partsĪ round face shape means that your face is roughly the same length and width and you have no obvious points along your jawline, chin or forehead.

On the lower chin to bring up the point.

Along the sides of your forehead and temples to balance out the wider upper half of your face with the narrower lower half.

You may also in most cases have a widow’s peak.

In the middle of your forehead and chin to help broaden these narrower areas.Ī heart face shape means that your chin is narrow and pointed and your cheeks are narrower than your hairline.

Under your eyes in an upside-down triangle shape bringing it down in line with where you contoured.

Don’t bring the contour too close to your mouth, as this will have the opposite effect you’re looking for.

Diamond shaped faces also tend to be longer, rather than wider.

Under your eyes in an upside-down triangle shapeĪ diamond face shape means that your cheeks are the widest part of your face, with your hairline and chin narrowing.

Below your cheekbones starting at your ears and ending in the middle of the cheeks.

Along your hairline to bring this down and give the illusion of a smaller forehead.

There are also no defined points to your chin, jaw or hairline.

Contouring for an Oblong / Oval Face ShapeĪn oblong face shape means that your face is almost twice as long as it is wide.