Hi, I'm Pallavi Symons, your makeup expert
at Glamrs.com
So, why do you think contouring & highlighting
might be important to a makeup?
Basically contouring and highlighting bring out
your features and they create shapes across your face.
So contours normally bring out
the hollows of your face.
So, if you have high cheekbones
by all means, you know
use a beautiful bronze colour
to deepen the hollows.
Or if you want to bring something forward
highlight it with shimmery products
or lighter toned products.
So, it's a marriage of the two
that makes the face look beautiful
and very very structured.
That's what I'm going to show on Karishma here
She has a very young face.
So, the contours are still there, though they are there
they are barely visible
and with makeup, you can actually
make them come through even further.
So, I'm going to get started.
There's two kinds of brushes that you can use for contouring.
You can use a small headed blush brush
or you can use an angled blush brush.
So, something like that.
Normally for contouring,
you need to use something that's a deep skin toned.
So, I'm using a matte bronze colour.
It's a Mineralize Skinfinish product by M.A.C
It's a deep dark.
So start from the middle of the ear
and almost to the middle of where your
eyeball would be if you looked straight
and just right under the cheekbone.
So you're not using it on the cheek!
This is right under
so you create a kind of shadow.
You can also use it in the hollow right here at the temple.
and along your jawline.
What this will do is,
it will shape the bone structure
it'll reshape your bone structure.
Just under your jaw, not bang on it
because then you can see the
red demarcation between your foundation and
the bronzer.
Make sure that when you're working close
to the sides of your face
you blend the colour off into the hairline.
You can work it along the grooves of your neck as well.
The little hollows right here.
Another great thing that contouring does is
normally when you have large foreheads,
you can use contouring to minimise
So if you're conscious of your forehead
or your jawline and you want to minimize
you darken the areas that you want to minimise.
Also, if you have rounded cheeks,
it's better to work it straight rather than go at an angle.
because if you work that at an angle,
it'll cup your cheek in a way that it looks heavy.
So, if you have heavy cheeks
I would suggest go this way, straight up.
So, you're actually cutting your cheek,
the lower half of your face into half.
So, if you saw that
will be a clearly
very chiseled face on this side
and slightly rounded version on this side.
I'm just going to repeat it on the other side.
Same thing.
Work into your hairline
and along the cheekbone in the hollow
along the jawline and underneath.
Just make sure it's well blended.
Now to go into the second stage of this makeup.
Once you've contoured, you also want to bring back
to the fore, the features that you want to highlight.
So that would be the roundness of your cheeks
the soft roundness of the cheeks.
Most people are under the impression that
if you want to use a bronzer the right way,
you suck in your cheeks.
But you actually may lose proportion of your face if you did that.
So, it's not recommended for everybody.
I would suggest, simply use a bronzer
from the middle of the ear
softly blending it out
to almost the middle of your cheek.
But the colour should be least over here
and darkest close to the ear.
Now, I'm going to proceed to the highlighting
which is exactly the opposite of contouring.
In contouring, you're shaping the face and
highlighting, you're actually rounding the face off.
So where do you put a highlighter?
Normally, after doing this, you want the cheeks to
reattain their roundness and their softness.
So you simply have to use a highlighter
just above this
on the high planes of your cheek.
So you use a highlighter above the bronzer
not on the bronzer but above.
Softly blending it into your temples
and if you have brow bones that are very very big
you can also put a dab of it
on the brow bone.
Just make sure that you don't go too far in
with your highlighter because then it tends to make
your face look oily rather than shimmery.
So, put a good concentrated amount here
and if you can see what it does,
it immediately softens the contour that you created.
I'll just simply repeat on the other side.
So once you pick up your cheekbones
Now the trick is in blending.
Now you can see those two definite marks.
Well, that's with highlights on the cheeks
as you can see.
You can also highlight other planes of your face
like your brow bones.
When you're highlighting your brows
just remember not to bring the product too far in
because that's not normally where light falls on your brow bone.
Just the peak right here.
Under your arch
and sweep it outwards.
When choosing a highlighter, make sure
that it's not too far apart from the colour of your skin.
So, you can choose a soft bronze or
a soft gold, beige, champagne if you're light skin to medium skin.
You can go darker bronze if you're a darker skin toned person.
Another place that's interesting and you'll see
used very widely world across
is highlighting right here.
Just on the
top of your lip
on the cupid's bow because this immediately adds a pout.
If you're highlighting the bridge of your nose,
do it only on the bridge of your nose.
Don't bring the product too far down
or too far up.
You just want to highlight that because that looks
the most flattering.
And if you did this,
mattify these two areas completely.
Again
a tiny bit of highlighter right here
where the brow bone picks up the colour.
Don't use it all over your forehead because again
your face will look oily.
The whole point is that your T-zone needs to be clean and matte.
And just right here where the light catches your chin.
But not in the hollow.
Now, using the same blush brush,
just make sure it's a little clean, just wipe it on a dry tissue.
You start with a blush on the cheek,
and roll it into the bronzer and highlighter.
That way you don't see anything as separate colours.
They all blend and become one.
And still when you turn, only the right things catch light.
So, when you finally look at your face, it needs to look
not like three different colours but as one.
So the easiest guide to highlighting and contouring
is your facial structure.
Wherever there's hollows, contour
and wherever there is a high planes, highlight.
So, I think this is a tutorial that you can take home and
start doing now because it's really as simple as it looks.
Even if you just did this much, it makes a whole lot of
difference to your makeup
and the focus doesn't always have to be
on your eyes and your lips,
the rest of your face comes alive too.
So, give it a shot, it's really not as difficult as it seems.
With the right tools and the right products,
you'll have a very good go at it.