Hello everyone.
I wanted to do something a little bit different for
you today, and I want to show you exactly how
I would lift and sculpt the face because I know
there's a lot of information out there and usually it's
people just drawing lines on their face.
There slightly more to it.
So let's do that.
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Going to be using these
Color Fluids from Hindash Cosmetics.
This isn't an advert for them.
I just really wanted to use them
because I received them that morning.
This is the shade Carve and I thought it
was perfect to show a good contour shade.
I'm going to do it quite heavy.
Sorry, that's my email.
So you can see exactly what I'm doing.
I'm going to start off carving out the eyes,
just like I would a transition shade for eyeshadow.
But you can see I'm kind of
lifting it up towards the hairline.
One thing I'm going to do with every
bit of contour shading that I do, I'm
always going to aim for the same place.
Now, when I go up around the hairline,
at the top here, you can see that
I'm starting from the arch of my eyebrow.
This is going to be a significant point
throughout the contouring, the kind of forehead
area when we want to lift.
Because lifting that arch even further by contouring from
that point gives you more of a lift.
And that's exactly what we're trying to do.
So again, this side, I'll show you exactly the
same, heading into the hairline, right into that hairline.
You can blend it in as much as you want or as
little as you want, and then taking it through the socket.
You'll notice that I don't go all the way into the nose because
that will bring the face down a little bit.
Again, going from that arch of the brow and then
almost curving and swooping up to join my hairline.
So we're left with this shape.
Now, this is going to lift because it's
lifting all those key points, the outside corner
of the eye and the arch of the brow.
And when those are lifted, your
whole face looks lifted, basically.
Now we're going to make this even more,
even more strong, even more intense, the lift,
by adding comparison to something lighter.
When you contour and highlight, you need comparison for
one to work, one or the other, you know
what I mean, in terms of lifting.
Now, I was just kind of measuring out where the
contour... sorry, I was watching Dog the Bounty Hunter on
my iPad, so I keep looking that way.
I was measuring out where the point of my
first contour I did for my eyes and the
point where my cheek contour are going to meet. Can you see?
And I've left this area for highlight.
I am going, cutting off my cheekbone up the
top there, to add structure and lift that cheekbone
even more, but still giving a really swooped down look.
Now I'm just going to use a concealer that's
a little bit lighter than my skin tone.
And I'm tapping this in with my finger and I'm going
to go over the edges of both of those contours.
And this is where you can kind of decide
how rigid you want to make that line.
Obviously, if you keep it quite
strong, it does look quite theatrical.
It kind of looks like lines on the face.
It's great on camera, not so much in real life.
So if you're going for a real life lift, not so good.
You can actually see in my hair
where all those lines are meeting.
Can you see I've kind of gone into
my hair? And you can see the different
points and how they're all meeting each other.
You almost want to imagine like an invisible
dot up in your hairline and everything is
being dragged up towards that dot.
And I'm using my fingers just to easily tap them in.
I feel like the textures are so much nicer when you
use a finger in terms of concealer, just because it sits
nicer, it looks more like part of your skin.
Notice how I'm not bringing anything
into the middle of the face?
I'll talk about that a little bit later.
I'm going to use this shade.
This is called, Heartist, and I'm using it as my blush.
I'm feeling for my cheekbone, where my cheekbone actually is
and I'm going to go on the top like cusp
of that cheekbone, but not all the way up.
So it's almost like half in between our contour,
half in between our highlight, which, of course,
you can add another highlight on top.
And I'm using quite a bit here.
But this product is very pigmented, by the way.
And actually, it lasted a really long time. It's a beautiful product.
And I'm tapping that
into that one area.
As I mentioned, notice how I'm not bringing it down past, if I was
looking straightforward, it's not going past the colored part of my
eye, it's staying to the outer part of my face.
We want all that lifting and all that shading and all that
color to be on the upper outer points of our face.
I'm just kind of bouncing the brush here, so
I'm still blending, but not actually moving around.
I'm going to take a deeper tone of contour
now, and this is the shade, Thorn, and I'm
only doing three tiny dots, and I'm going to
keep that right up in that little area there.
So if we're thinking about contour and
structure, it's usually made by a shadow.
So this is where I'm adding
deeper shadow and deeper shade.
Oh, sorry, I don't know what happened to my voice there. To that contour.
So you can see at the side there, you
can see how deep that one area is.
It's almost like the darkness and the shadow
is concentrated in that hollow of the cheekbone.
That isn't actually where the hollow of my cheekbone
is, but I'm adding it so it looks
like it, you know? That's what contour is.
It's mimicking the bone structure and
the shadow of bone structure.
Why am I laughing at Dog The Bounty Hunter?
There's nothing funny about Dog The Bounty Hunter.
Okay, now I'm adding a bit to my temples, but
more on the line of, can you see how I've
lined it up diagonally with the arch of each eyebrow?
I'm using a tiny, tiny bit because
this product actually goes quite far.
I kind of learned from here.
And I'm going to follow still, that line that we did
before, but not blend it out as much. Before I blended
it out so it was faded and diffused across the forehead.
Now I'm adding, we're using this darker shade, darker tone
to add precision to that contour and to that lift.
So we're really, really focusing where
that shadow is going to be.
And although a big part of contouring and shading
is to draw pretty much lines on your face,
you need highlight and depth to complement each other.
So the highlight looks lighter than the
depth, you know what I mean?
So for my eyes, I'm always going to do like
eyeliner, and this is with the same shade I was
before, but aim for the tail of my brow.
Now, if your brows come further down, then the
outside corner of your eye, obviously don't do that
because that will bring your eye down.
Just head upwards in the same direction
that your contour was going before.
This is going to be blended out, really defused.
But you can do this with your eyeshadow or
whatever your eyeshadow shape is going to be.
Sorry, this is the direction you
want to start going in.
I'm going to leave that line there just so
you can see the direction, and I'll show you
on the other side a blended version.
Did I do that? I can't remember.
That was my plan in my brain.
So I'm gonna blend this out so you can see.
I'm heading through the tail of my brow.
Like I do with a lot of my eyeshadow looks really,
just to kind of lift. And then almost making like
a diagonal line on my eyelid, almost going downwards.
I always quit like a cheese triangle on the
eyelid, and taking a tiny bit through the socket,
but not too much because, again, we don't want
to add any shape to the socket.
We're kind of adding all the
shape to the outside corner.
If we were to bring that eyeshadow inwards
to the nose, towards the nose, we're then
kind of turning down everything else.
So can you see, I've got a
little bit of concealer on my brush.
I didn't really show that.
And I'm putting a little bit of light
directly under the arch of my brow.
A tiny, tiny bit and no further.
And we're going to really blend this in with
a lot of precision and be really, really precise
about where we're blending and tapping that color.
We want the glow of that highlight or the main brightness
of that highlight to stay on the arch of the brow.
So I'm very, very gently,
I'm being really light-handed here.
Just buffing around the edges just
so we have this look.
We want that still very concentrated highlighted patch.
And I'm not blending it all the way down.
If we were to blend it all the way down to the
end of the brow, again, it will bring our eyebrows down.
So I'm still keeping it very concentrated there.
I'm using, this is the Hindash palette.
And I'm actually going to use the lighter powder in
the whole palette and tap that on top of that
light area, just to make it look a bit softer.
Sometimes concealer on the face
can look exactly like that.
Just concealer on the face.
So can you see I'm tapping it in. I'm using fingers.
I'm using very light fluffy brushes
and just really tapping it in.
I'm then taking more of a yellowy...
did I take the yellow one? I can't remember.
I usually use the yellow one from the Beautopsy Palette.
And I'm tapping that on the areas where I've
highlighted previously. This isn't baking.
We are using tiny, tiny amounts of powder at
a time just to brighten those particular areas and I'm
taking it all the way down the corners and
sides of the nose where we've kind of missed
out where any contour, any color, anything like that.
So we have that glow in the middle.
It then kind of makes it, terrible as
it sounds, the middle of our face come
forward and it further pushes back.
I choked on my words.
The rest off the face.
Just buffing everything in.
That is pretty much it.
So if you follow those instructions, be very precise of
where you're putting your contour and your highlight, it's
easy to make your face look pulled up. Pulled up?
You know what I mean.
Thank you so much for joining me.
That was a quick one.
You guys always ask for more tutorials.
So that's what I try to do here,
a little bit more in depth, but also super quick,
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