Contouring

When contouring you must first familiarise yourself with the structure and anatomy of the face and where the light and shade naturally falls on the face also.

What you will need:

Small powder brush
Fan Brush
Mixing Pallete
Highlighter
Contour colour - powder or grease

Application

• To begin, first feel the face structure to determine where you will enhance the light and shade.
• Next choose either grease or powder to contour with, I chose a powder as I wanted a light effect. (choose a colour that is around 2 shades darker than the natural skin tone.
• Decant this into your pallete and use either your fan brush or small powder brush to apply the contour under the cheekbone (not on top). You can also contour under the jawline lightly to create an illusion of shadow therefore slimming the face and onto the temples.
• To highlight, decant some of your highlighter into your pallete and lightly dust over the areas you want to 'pull out' and emphasise. These areas include: the tops of the cheekbones, centre of the nose, centre of the chin and centre of the forehead.

You can go quite extreme with contouring but simplicity is nice also, here is an example of my work with simple contouring.