Just imagine running after the bus and sweating, and everyone is looking at you as you enter the bus because your face is lopsided or some hideous green colour is seeping through your foundation. Also, all that weight on your face feels too unnatural. While it gives you the flawless Kardashian chiselled look, I won’t want to experience a full-frontal makeup meltdown under the hot sun in Singapore. You basically need every single cosmetic you have. It’s such an unfamiliar routine that I dare not try it. It uses a myriad of colour-correcting cream products and bronzers and banana matte creams beneath your foundation, meaning that foundation is your last-step. The Clown Contouring, an Instagram beauty fad, is the opposite. This is the Kim Kardashian contouring look.A normal makeup routine applies the contour and bronzer after applying foundation. Asians typically have a broader jaw and higher cheekbones, so I won’t want to accentuate that further if I am looking for a narrower, sharper-chin look. While it gives a dewy fresh look (and possibly a make-up-free look), in Singapore, I reckon we’d end up looking like we have a lot of sweat and facial oil on our faces. I personally won’t rely on strobing at all, especially since we are based in Singapore. I have highlighters, but I enjoy using the Venus in the NAKED BASIC 1 Palette. I find these replaceable with white/shimmer/cream eyeshadow, but the eyeshadow formulas might not work for our cheeks. When I say cream strobing, I include those on a cream palette or on a stick. The ‘equipment’ you need would solely be highlighters, and they come in many different forms: powder or cream shimmer, white matte/cream, banana matte/cream, beige matte/cream, purple matte/cream, liquid highlighters (think Benefit High Beam), pencil highlighters. This is one of the reasons why I hesitate in trying it solely without contours/bronzers: I don’t want to make my already broad face even broader! What you are doing is making things brighter, and there is no going back from there. Strobing = highlighting, so to put it simply, you are playing with light. The art of strobing is trickier than contouring. There are many types of contouring out there, but I will focus on the ones I’ve heard of. They complement each other, so this means you should not use one without the other, if possible. Very, very importantly, contouring is NOT bronzing! These are two separate things! How do I put it? Contouring is akin to ‘having darkness to bring out the light’ whereas bronzing is like ‘having brightness to bring out the dark’. Contour brings out the natural shadows of your face when light hits. This is to bring out your cheekbones passively. Instead, I will be looking at the Kevyn Aucoin Sculpting Powder and its duplicates!Ĭontouring is the art of making la face slimmer by accentuating the shadows of areas of your face such as beneath your cheeks. Because it is life. Just kidding!īut in all seriousness, ever since I discovered contouring after my senior year university ball, I won’t be looking back to those pre-contour days.Īnyway, today I won’t be teaching you how to contour, because the pictures themselves are guides. Today we are going to talk about contouring! Why? Because I have a fat face and I want it to look slimmer.
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