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Hi, I'm Tia Ward and this is my series of Model's Corner.
Today I'm going to be showing how to highlight and contour naturally with products that I
love, and I hope you love too. [Music]
So, I've already done my base. I'm wearing Kevin Aucoin. It's his sensual skin enhancer
and it's really great. It's like a cream and it's amazing. It really, you can build it.
It goes on really thinly to start with and you can build over if you need any coverage,
any heavier coverage in any other areas. So, for me I have acne scaring on my cheeks at
the moment. So, I go in much heavier on these bits to conceal as best I can the marks that
are there. So after I apply my cream base I set it with
a powder. Today I'm using NARS. This is a powder foundation and the color is Tahoe.
It's quite a deep yellow because I'm quite yellow and my face is always lighter than
my body so to match the two up I dust a little bit of this on. Tap off the excess and then
just gently rub it all over, just to set the cream so that the powder contour and highlight
has something to cling onto. So today, to contour my face I'm going to
be using Kevin Aucoin's sculpting powder. This is great, it's a really lovely color,
it's not too muddy and it doesn't have any shimmer in it so it's not going to create
that sort of leery dirty look. So taking a smaller more concentrated fluffy
brush I'm going to swirl it around the product again making sure it's just on the head of
the brush. I'm going to tap off the excess to ensure it doesn't give me a harsh line.
I want a more blendable line. And I'm just going to trace down my cheekbone here. I'm
moving in an up and down line as well as a circular motion just to sort of start creating
a chiseled cheekbone. And I don't take this product all the way down to sort of here,
I stop underneath my eye, pretty much. So, just building it up rather than going in really
heavy handed to start with and looking muddy. I take it all the way form my cheekbone to
my temple and into my hairline so you can't really see the difference.
[demonstrating technique] Like that.
So, after I even out both sides I make sure that the contour is in the same place. I take
my foundation brush with a little bit of the left over product from the foundation on it
and I make the line a little bit more clear. Just to get rid of any of the fallen product.
And then I take the same brush that I applied the contour with and just give it an extra
little buff. The aim is to not have any harsh lines, it's to define and enhance what you
already have rather than applying a mask, as it were.
I then take the same fluffy brush with a tiny bit of the contouring product on it again
and just trace my hair line. The idea is to create a more narrow look. And I just do my
jaw as well. Just tracing the natural line.
The idea behind contour and highlight is that the darker areas recede in the light and that
the lighter more shimmery areas become more prominent so if you have quite a wide face,
if you apply the shadow around your face it creates the illusion of a narrower silhouette.
When you apply the shadow underneath your cheekbone you're creating the illusion of
this bit being higher up. So having said that, with a smaller brush, and even smaller brush,
I'm going to take Kevin Aucoin's Celestial Powder which is the highlighting opposite
of the contour that I've used. I'm going to take a really small fluffy brush, get some
of the product on there, and again tap off the excess. And for this bit I'm going to
use just a little bit above where I put the contour I want these bits to come to life
a little bit. I like to take it under my brow bone just to lift that bit up a little bit.
I also like to put it above my cupid's bow here to emphasize my top lip. Down the middle
of my nose and just in this area of my forehead.
All the products I've mentioned in today's video will be linked in the box below so do
check them out.
You can get contour and highlighting products in different formulations. So there is cream,
some people use liquid they can use their liquid foundation in three different shades
to highlight contour and just cover their natural skin in the right match. But I get
on really well with powder as during the day it absorbs some of oil from my skin. A little
tip that I always use is to take the same highlighting powder and a really small concentrated
brush like this, dab it in and again tap off the excess and i just put it in the very inner
corner of my eyes.
When I contour and highlight, for me personally it's about enhancing what's already there.
I don't like to mask the skin in anything and I don't like to sort of create what isn't
already there if I don't have to. A lot of people like to contour their nose, I don't
do it often, but I'm going to show you how I would do it if I did it every day. I'm going
to take a really small brush this time, really concentrated and quite flat in order to make
sure the product goes exactly where I want it to, and the same contouring powder. I'm
just going to trace down the side of my nose. And the aim of this is I think to create a
slimmer nose for most people maybe to shade out a bump or if they are not happy with the
profile that their nose gives. I then take a fluffier brush and really set to work at
blending that out so it looks as natural as possible. You want people to think you've
got a little bit of make up on but you want them to wonder where you've got it and why
you look so good. So, really really blend you don't want any harsh lines. And once you've
given it a good jush give it a good once over in some good light because you don't want
to go outside in the daylight and think ugh what have I not done.
Another thing you can do to contour is take some of the same dark powder on the same fluffy
brush that you've blended out your nose with, take off the excess again, and you can just
define your eye socket. And that's in small sweeping motions just where your crease is,
just under where you put the highlight when you did your brow bone and carry it around
to the top of your cheekbone just for a little bit of definition.
Um, I really love the Kevin Aucoin sculpting powder but another alternative, a cheaper
alternative is Benefits Hoola. It's also a matte bronzer, it's great, it's a great [unknown
slang ?gypajoop?] if you can't stretch to the Kevin, it's quite expensive.
Another tip and trick that I have is to use a brightening powder underneath your eyes.
It's not a highlighter as such, but it's a product that sets your concealer or foundation
if you don't use concealer and helps to reflect the light away from your under eyes. It's
not for covering up spots or blemishes just for where you need light to bounce a little
bit. It's a loose powder this one is by Laura Mercier and it's called her Secret Skin Brightening
Powder. It's incredible. It's got tiny light reflecting particles in it, it's not glittery
it just gives a really subtle shimmer and helps to bounce the light away evenly giving
you a bit more of a radiant glow.
Another formulation that you can use to highlight and contour is cream. I personally get on
better with powder but I love this Top Shop Glow highlighter. It's really creamy and really
incandescent and just in the light it gives off such a subtle glow it's beautiful.
This is how I like to contour and highlight personally. I like it very natural, not too
much, not so noticeable.
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I'll be back with another episode of Model's Corner next week so see you then.
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