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We are trying something today that you might be a
little bit like, what is the point in this?
But there has been a trend taking over social
media, or a technique, we should say, that seems
in its experimental phase, to say the least.
And that is tan contouring.
So, taking a fake tan and using it to sculpt
and contour the face.
Sounds like a good idea. Right? Right.
So I am here at the end of the day, no makeup on.
I just have a little bit of lip balm.
I've done all my skincare, and
I'm ready to try this technique. Right?
It's going to be an overnight situation.
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Okay, let's get into this. Let's try it.
So a tan contour is actually quite a good idea, right?
They would do this to models bodies.
There was an invention a long time ago where you
would get into a sunbed and wear patches, right?
And where the sunbed tanned was where accentuated the body
a little bit, made it look a bit deeper.
It could give you, like, a more
of a sculpt on the body.
Not sure that really caught on.
But the idea is you
apply tan in the areas that you want to sculpt.
Obviously. When you wake up the next
day, you can wash it off and
you have this really natural looking sculpted contour.
This is a trick people were
actually doing with self tan anyway.
They were kind of using makeup brushes to apply
it, and I do think it's a good idea.
I have a few issues with this, however.
On the skin, on the face, I mean, your
skin has to be in good condition in that moment.
Otherwise you're going to get patchiness.
It's going to look a little bit rough.
There's going to be, like, accentuated texture.
So you do have to make sure
that maybe you've exfoliated the day before.
You've done a good skincare routine.
Not completely, because you don't want too much because
the tan won't sit very well on top.
So you do have to find that good balance.
Another concern for me was color. Right?
Contour is meant to be a shadow.
A shadow mimicking color, shade.
Because it sculpts the face.
It's meant to mimic the natural shadows that
are of the structure of our face.
Tan tends to be
olive, golden, tan, bronze.
It's not really a contour shade.
So is this really, would be my question,
is this really just bronzing in a permanent way?
This needs to look good because I have
things to do and places to go.
I do have instructions from the brand I'm going to use.
I'm going to use Forever Sundays.
I purchased this.
It's called Sculpt Tan Tanning Contour Stick.
Purchased this myself, and it's quite cute.
You see, I did try it once,
but I think I did it incorrectly.
So I'm trying it again because the
next day I didn't see anything.
So the top is usually, like, white,
but this is it here, just like so.
They have instructions, and they
do sell a Beauty Blender.
And I lost it.
I bought it and I completely lost it.
So I'm just going to use a regular one.
Okay. "Prep your skin with your favorite moisturizer." Done.
"Swipe Sculpt Tan
directly onto your first contour area."
That's a little bit high for a contour, but fine.
Fine.
"Blend your contour with your Forever
Sundays sponge into your skin."
Don't have it, but we're going
to use one that's similar.
"Contour your next area by swiping the product." Done.
"Blend, blend, blend.
Let there be sculpt.
Wait 30 minutes to 1 hour.
For a more natural look, leave
it overnight to be super chiseled."
I'm overnighting this because I tried it before
for a few hours, and it didn't really
make much of a difference on me.
So that's what we're doing.
"Wash off any excess product, and you
should be left with this sculpted look."
Okay, fair enough. We can do that.
Beauty Blender I'm going to use is from ISOCLEAN.
Because it's really soft and really squidgy.
I don't want to wet this and have it
interrupt the texture of this, which I did before
and also didn't see much of a difference.
So I'm changing it up a little bit.
Yeah. Okay, let's give it a go.
So this has a lock, like, on and off.
So I'm just going to unlock it.
Like so.
I'm kind of nervous.
Okay. So I kind of like to bring my contour
almost from, like, the corner of my beard, but
then I wrap it a little bit here.
I have quite a long face, so the ideal
is for it to not be that long.
So swipe it on the face.
This is... You know what? This color
is still quite bronze.
But it's not too orange.
So hopefully the contour, the finished
product, will be quite nice. I need to make sure...
See, it's kind of just gone.
It's kind of just gone. No?
No. It is still there. Okay.
I want a little bit more.
I want it to be a little bit more powerful.
This is kind of frightening
because it's semi permanent. Right?
Okay, so that's ideally where I want
my contour to be kind of.
Okay. I'm going to have to not talk the rest of the
way through this, because I need this to be okay.
I don't know.
I look at that and I feel like it's not that strong
and I need more, but I don't want to go too crazy.
That's tooo much. Oh, my God.
That's way too much.
Smells good.
It actually smells really, really nice.
So it is kind of looking quite contoury shade
on the skin, but it is still quite warm.
I mean, if I saw this on someone's
skin, I'd be like, that's bronzer, not contour.
Let me do a little bit down the sides of the nose.
I don't want to use too much.
I'm kind of scared of this because I want it to be...
Ahhhh.
I want it to be a perfect line.
Not too crazy.
Let's blend. What is that? What's this?
No, we don't have time for bits of fluff.
Oh, that's a scab. That's a scab.
That's another thing.
So I have a little scab there.
So is that now going to be a little dot?
You see?
No, that can't happen.
That can't happen.
Okay, that's fine. Makeup. Makeup exists. It's fine.
My mirror. Where's my mirror?
I don't know.
I feel like I need more.
Am I getting greedy?
Okay, let's get the forehead out.
I want to do, like... oh, where's my sponge now?
Oh, this is a mess.
I want to kind of just actually go
in the temples and then around the hairline,
because, again, my face is long.
And get in there.
Don't worry about...
Get in the hairline, into the hair, into the hair.
I mean, I feel like this will be,
like, a nice, all round tan color anyway.
I think I actually would have preferred to
use a brush, but I don't know how
a brush would work with the formula. Okay.
I don't know.
It kind of just looks like fake tan. Right?
I do still feel like I need a lot more here.
But it develops. It develops. Calm down.
What are you doing? Why are you doing this?
Add a little bit extra there, just for that extra snatch.
See, part of me, I'm going to do it.
I'm going to take a brush and just gently buff around.
Just a very light brush, just to buff those edges.
You know what I mean?
Okay. Okay.
So this is it before. It's going to develop.
I'm going to wash it off.
You see the lines there, right?
Wash it off and then see how it looks in the morning.
Could I see this replacing,
just putting on some bronzer and some contour?
Not really. Yet.
We haven't seen the results, but we'll see. We'll see.
I'll let that settle in. And then I need to put
my forehead away because that's crazy.
I'll see you in the morning.
Okay.
It is the morning, and I have decided to get
on camera looking like this in front of everyone.
That's fine.
We're all people.
Okay, so I've washed my face.
It's been overnight.
I honestly don't really see much of a difference.
I can see it kind of just caught in my beard
hairs a little bit, but that's just a fact of life.
If you're going to use self tan around that area.
I guess my forehead... I don't know.
You can see it very, very, very lightly,
but I don't think it's made such a huge difference.
Maybe, I don't know if there's darker colors.
Maybe I need a deeper shade.
Maybe I need to leave it on for longer.
A few days maybe. I don't know.
I don't really know to suggest here.
I did notice last night.
Do you ever just take pictures of yourself on your phone
from down here and just send it to your friends?
Well, I was doing that last night and I looked at my
skin and I was like, what the f... is going on with my skin?
It looked a little bit patchy in some
areas, especially on my nose and around here.
So I did panic a little bit, but it was fine.
It did stain the pillow a tiny bit too.
But other than that, nothing really
has seemed to have changed.
Let me turn some lights off so
we can see it less washed out, I guess.
That makes a bit of a difference.
You just kind of see it, like, gathered here, probably
where I didn't blend it in very well.
But I feel like that will come off when I wash it.
You know what I mean?
Again.
I'm not sure on that one.
I wonder what it would be like if I
just used a regular fake tan, like a body tan,
in a deeper shade, which I do have.
I have a face one actually thinking about it.
Versus like, a product that's, like, made for the face.
You know what I mean?
Perhaps if you were a little bit fairer in skin tone, this would
be a good one to go for, but for me, I think I
would have to double up, maybe do it over two nights.
Yeah.
Okay. Well, let me know what you think down below.
Would you try this technique on yourself as a bit
of a lazy way to keep your face contoured and
bronzed or whatever it is you want to call it?
Let me know down below.
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Thank you so much again for joining me, and
I will see you very, very soon. Bye.