Hey guys welcome back to my channel today. We're going to be doing
contouring and highlighting and specifically for beginners
so I want to be going really step-by-step giving detailed tips and tricks and just basically like my
Overall contour and highlight Routine and let me guys know let me know
let me know if you guys want me to do sort of like a
Series for beginners so like makeup tutorials for beginners sort of thing just like I did my drugstore series
And I'm still doing my drugstore series because I think that would be really cool
I just did how to apply lashes for beginners, and I've done a couple in the past as well
So I was thinking just to do more just because I know a lot of you guys have been enjoying what I've been doing
Tutorials more so geared towards beginners, and I hope that they are helpful
So if you want me to do something like that definitely comment down below let me know and then also
subscribe if you haven't already
And yeah look out for those videos, so let's go ahead and get into this video
Personally I like to begin the highlighting process with my concealer so today I'm going to be using this one from Nars
It's the nars radiant creamy concealer in the shade custard you do want to use a concealer shade that I would say is about
2 to 3 Shades lighter than your foundation shade
So I like to use this one because it has a really nice peachy undertone to it so it actually cancels out
Discoloration underneath the eye is Spf purple or dark circles
This is really going to help cancel it out
But it also does help to have that brightening effect that we're going for with our highlighters
So I take this and I actually create like a little bit of a triangle
so I'll apply it straight from underneath the eyes to about where the nose nostrils end and
Sort of go in like a little triangle motion then we'll the same concealer
I'm taking that in between the brows and then up onto the forehead in a little palm-tree motion and then down the bridge of the
Nose this you want to keep as straight as you possibly can because this is what's beginning our nose contour?
and I take it down the Cupid's bow towards the lips and then continuing that line on the chin area then going back to the
nose placing a little bit of the concealer on each side of that line that we've already created and
Lastly underneath the cheekbones where we're about to con so this highlighting process is really going to give you a slimmed down effect
It's going to bring out any areas that you've just
Brighten then we're going to add some contour into the base using the benefit Hoola Kwikki contour stick now
Contouring is really important because that is the step in this whole routine that's really going to
slim down any features on your face and kind of bring them back add some shadows and add dimension to the look so
What we're going to do is take our little quickie contour stick and just kind of go at it
So I first like to take the contour underneath the cheekbones to really get that defined look that
We want then I start to take the product up towards the temples and because I have a round face shape
I like to really heavily contour the size of my face to elongate it if you have more of an already
Naturally elongated face then you're going to actually want to go lighter on the side, but heavier on the forehead area
But like I just said for me
I do go heavier on the sides and you can see I
still follow that same technique on the forehead so I tend to place most of the products on the sides and then just do a
Very small line on the highest forehead area then I move on to the nose contour because we already have that
Concealer down it actually makes it a lot easier to do the nose contour
You kind of just go within the lines
definitely underneath the nose to kind of give it that more uplifted look and you just want to blend everything out till it's nice and
Flawless I do like to start with the concealer
Areas just because those are the areas that we're highlighting those are the areas that we want to keep on the lighter side
So I don't like to mix too much of the contour shade with the concealer so I start off with the concealer
Areas and then I just kind of blend it out to my little heart's desire and once I get to the contour areas
I always use pressing motions so as not to wipe any of the hard work that we've done
already and a little tip if you feel like you've added too much contour you can take a little bit of foundation and
put it on to your beauty Blender or beauty sponge and
Blend that in between the contour in the highlighted area so that it has more of a seamless finish
Going from light to dark before we go ahead and finish off the contouring and highlighting you do want to set down
The base at this point so you can either use a translucent powder you can use like Laura Mercier dermablend pretty much
Whatever you want cody airspun or a very light pressed face powder. Which is what I'm going to do, too
Okay, so this is the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush
Finish powder and shade medium - and I'm just taking this on a super fluffy brush
You definitely want to use a fluffy brush for this step. So this is a sigma Spotlight duster f 37
I'm just going to very lightly tap this into the face you want to use pressing motions not swiping motions or swirling motions because you
want to continue to press the
Product into the face so that we don't move around all those cream products underneath now to further highlight that under I like to take
My Kat Von D
shade and light
Palette and I use this little banana shade right in the middle because that shade really has a brightening effect
It has an undertone that again is going to cancel out any discoloration that you have under there
so I'm just taking that on the same exact brush the sigma Spotlight Duster, and
Pressing that into the under eye area and I just ended up switching to the sigma tapered highlighter
F-35 because I wanted something with a little bit more precision and just something that I could get a little bit more
Payoff with because this palette is honestly really amazing. It's very very creamy and pigmented
um so I wanted to get like I
Always do this when I'm doing tutorials for some reason I forget liquid highlighter
I don't know what it is like when I'm like doing my everyday makeup off camera
I just know to do it but for some reason whenever I get on camera all of a sudden in my mind is just
Not with me and I forget
so I'm not still add on the liquid highlighter although it is going to
Apply a lot more seamless if you do it before you powder anything, but yellow
We're still going to do it so today
I'm going to be using this highlighter which I've been loved being lately, so this is benefit Sunbeam
And I like it because of the applicator it kind of looks like a little nail polish
but it's so easy to apply so I take this down Manone like so
And also a little bit here on tops of the cheekbones
Ready we got that under control. We remember it. It's alright
We're going to move on and then set down the contour
So I know this is a lot of sense, but this is like full out full contour and highlight Routine
this is what I would do so I'm going to take a mixture of these two shades from the Kat Von D Palette and
press that into the face with my mac
168 brush this is a really important step and a really good tip to press press press because like I said a million times in
This video it is so important not to wipe away those clean products that we already have down then for the nose
I'm honestly taking the exact same product, but on a different brush
This is the best brush for nose contours for Powder Nose conners
I should say so this is the Morphe 47 it has a super flat and narrow Edge
So I literally like stamp it on to my nose to do the contouring and it's amazing so like I said
I'm literally stamping it on to the sides of the nose around where we have already put that highlight down
And then I'm just going to blend that out with any eye shadow brush then my favorite part
Adding highlight, so this is now now. We're done with like the contouring and highlighting section, but now we're going to add on highlighter
So this is the over cosmetics Rodeo drive highlighter one of my all-time favorites
It's such a beautiful formulas very pigmented very creamy and the perfect gold, so I'm just applying that with my Sephora Pro
Fan at 65 to the top of the cheekbones, and you can see I do have like a little break out here
So you actually don't want to apply the highlighter to that area you want to apply almost like around it or at least
that's what I do you could skip the highlighter too, but I
Still do it. I have trouble keeping this part straight to be completely honest. I don't know what it is
I think it's like just my natural nose isn't like completely straight here, so I
Have a little trouble with that, but that's okay
Then right here
That's good. Keep it though kind of looks like snot, but
This glowy snot were ok with that and of course you guys know the inner corner
And just to make sure that everything is really nice and blended out
I do like to go back in with a fluffier brush, so this is the part I usually use for bronzer
This is the Mac 135
And I just lightly kind of blend out the edges so that that highlighter and the contour and the bronzer all
kind of blend together nicely
That's going to be it for this video. So this is the finished look
I really like this particular step-by-step a way of contouring and highlighting just because I feel like it all kind of melts together
It doesn't look like you just stuck on some contour and called a day it just creates a very very small
It's finished, so I hope you guys find it helpful
Let me know if you do want me to do sort of that
Series geared towards beginner because I would be so down. I really want to you know
I think it's I don't know let me know if you think it's helpful
When I do go over kind of like the basics like this and go very step-by-step very detailed and everything like that
Share my tips and tricks because I never want you guys to feel intimidated my makeup
I want it to be fun for you guys because I know when I was getting to makeup
I was intimidated so if I can help out in any way, just by going over the basics
And you know just teaching you guys a little bit more about makeup for those of you
Who are beginners out there then again?
I would be so down so let me know in the comment section if that's something that you would like and I have a giveaway
For you guys for this video. So this is the benefit Hoola quickie chondritic that I use today to do my cream contouring
It's one of my favorite cream contour products
so I'm really happy that I can give one away to you guys and
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I love you guys so so much, and I will see you next time