hi guys welcome back to my channel so before we go ahead and get started
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just like you know move on with it. I got a ton of requests from you guys wanting to
see a how to like contour and highlight for a beginner so I hope you guys find
this helpful I did cream contour and powder contour as well so I showed
options for all type of makeup users with different skill levels so anyways
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the video okay so my base is currently done because I just wanted to focus on
the contouring and highlighting for you guys so I'm gonna go ahead and speed
through everything that I did but I started off with my water bTW smooth
sailing perfecting primer I have been really loving this primer next I'm gonna
go in with my wander Beauty and nude illusion liquid foundation and they also
sent me this as well and I have been absolutely loving it I have it in the
color golden medium you really do not need a lot of this because a little bit
goes a long way and I find that it lasts me throughout the day as well and I also
blended it out with this Wonder Beauty sponge and I have been loving this this
has gotta be one of my new favorite sponges of all time and I'm gonna walk
you guys through my actual contour and highlighting routine do you have these
cookies so Girl Scout ones and you can pick them up from like Walmart eat did
not start going into I started this video all morning there is like not a
sound from them and now he needs most fucking LA at 1:00 in the afternoon
anyways we're just gonna go through it so ignore that so I assumed you guys it
have been covered up any of my like blemishes or anything yeah while I put
on the concealer this is gonna go ahead and cover up anything that we need
covering okay this some of my new favorite highlighting products these are
new things that I picked up this year this is the flower Beauty concealer I
have been loving this concealer it is so good so full coverage creamy as well and
it doesn't dry too mad this is in the color light medium and then I also have
my NYX HD studio concealer don't sleep on it because it is super super high
coverage it's just really good so you definitely have to try this this one is
a little bit lighter and a little bit more peachy so I'm gonna use that to
really correct the hollows on my under eyes and you mainly want to focus on
areas that you want to bring out or highlight I have little under-eye bags
that kind of sink into my skin so I kind of want to bring that part out peachy
color is gonna do a really great job of correcting the darkness on my under eyes
especially if you have darkness you want to go in with something that is a little
bit more like oranjee peachy tone to kind of correct for that for the rest of
my face I'm gonna go in with a concealer that is my
I'm gonna go in a little bit right here in this area where I have a little bit
of darkness I'm not gonna use that much because this peachy concealer is just
going to correct what I have going in with my flower beauty light illusion
concealer I'm gonna go ahead and highlight the rest of my face and this
one is more close to my skin tone when I do my concealer I like to bring it down
more than I do bring it out just because when I blend it out I don't like to have
a ton of product in this area so I'm focusing more other product right here
in this area and then on the other side I'm gonna do the same thing I'm also
gonna do a little bit right here between your brows I never did that much here
around my nose area as well so we're gonna highlight around there I'm gonna
go ahead and first focus on the spot concealing and I'm just gonna go in with
a flat brush this is from motd cosmetics just any flat concealer brush will do
and I'm just gonna go ahead and blend out the edges it doesn't have to be
perfect cuz I want to go in with my sponge later but doing it with the brush
just gives you a little bit more like high coverage normally I would go in and
blend out all of my concealer first and then go on with my contour but for the
sake of the video I'm just to show like where the placement everything is gonna
go I'm gonna go ahead and do my contour as well and I'm gonna do cream and
powder contour as well and for those of you that are more new to makeup you're
not comfortable with using cream yet I would just get the step all together and
go straight to powder contour instead of using cream I'm gonna do both just so
that I can like set mccune contour by highly recommend cream contouring
because I feel like it looks better in pictures one of my favorite things to
use is this la girl Pro conceal in the color beautiful bronze my focus for my
contour is I want to slim my face down I feel like my face is kind of like round
so I focus a lot on my core my corn tour I focus a lot of my contour like on the
outer edges of my face so I will put a lot of contour like in this area to kind
of slim it down a little bit I put some right here and force a lot up there like
that and then I'm gonna but Katie I guess today is just the day of like
interruptions and then I'm gonna go ahead and go along my jaw line as well
do a little bit of lines right there and I don't really put any up here just
because I don't want my forehead to look shorter I just want it to look skinnier
so I'm gonna focus a contour on the sides I'm gonna do my nose contour later
after I blend that out just because I don't want anything to get really mixed
up and then I'm gonna put a little bit of the contour right there and that
really helps to make your lips look extra juicy I'm gonna put some on here
as well and you can see like almost immediately how much more plump it makes
my upper lips look there we have all the contour plays so I'm going to go in
first and blend out all the concealer that I have to bring in and I'm gonna
focus on that first and then go in and blend out the contour shades afterwards
some of the edges aren't fully blended out so sometimes I will go in with a
brush and we have the synthetic buffing brush and blend out any of those
highlighted areas anywhere that has like extra concealer that isn't fully blended
out from my nose area especially right here on my inner corners okay next I'm
gonna go in and blend out my contour and since it has kind of been sitting here
for a while I'm actually gonna go ahead and spray it to kind of dampen it up and
make it a little bit easier to blend out and then going in with my morphe m47
brush this is one of my favorite brushes for blending out my contour I like that
it's a stipple like it doesn't blend away any of my life foundation or
anything like that but it does a really good job of blending out my contour so
I'm gonna go in slowly you want to make sure that when you're blending it out
you're not bringing it lower because you want to make sure that it stays on this
line or higher and you don't want to go lower than that because it's gonna
change the way that your contour looks I'm going to blend it into the edges of
my hair as well because you want to make sure that everything just looks really
seamless
and here this line isn't blending away that smoothly just because I kind of
left off a little bit too long so I'm going to go in with my sponge whatever
foundation Tosh concealer is on it and I'm gonna go ahead and use that to clean
up the line a little bit there I feel like that looks a lot better so I'm
gonna go in and blend out this jawline area as well so there you can see such a
difference in how contoured and like snatch my face looks compared to like
this side one thing you want to keep in mind too is when I'm in a rush
I don't cream contour I just don't have time I feel like it takes so much longer
so I reserved it for like special events or what I know I have like a lot of time
to get ready I just know it looks better but it also takes a little bit more like
time and effort okay so that is what it looks like with everything blended out
and I don't have any powder on my face yet so I'm gonna go in and set
everything in place but before we go ahead and do that
I am also gonna do some liquid highlighter I really have been loving
this went wild hello halo liquid highlighter and the color goddess glow
this is really great for enhancing whatever highlight you put on top
especially if we're gonna do cream products as well you might as well go
all in I'm gonna start with my fingers to spread it out and then I'm gonna go
in with my sponge and blend that out and I want it to stay up on the like top of
my cheekbones I don't want it to go too low
okay so that is what the cream contour looks like blended in the skin just
looks really healthy and glowy and now I'm actually gonna go in with powder we
want to set everything so it lasts the whole day I'm gonna go ahead and blend
out any of the creases that happen on my under eyes guess on my whole face also I
didn't realize how many drugstore items I'm using I just really love drugstore
with my Maybelline fit me in the shade 10 on the other end of the sponge I'm
just gonna pick up a little bit and set my under eyes I don't want a lot of the
powder to be concentrated right here because it's gonna look really dry so
since I'm really oily I'm going to start here first so I'm gonna place a sponge
here and that places most of the powder there and then I'm gonna go ahead and
slowly bring it up I'm going to set my nose and my t-zone as well I'm not gonna
use a loose powder and set my whole face just because I prefer a pressed powder
so I'm actually gonna go in with my cargo HD foundation powder and this is
in the color 20 I love this powder because it does a really good job of
like smoothing out all my force and just makes my skin look really smooth and I'm
just patting so it doesn't move any of the hard work that we did earlier now
that we had the face set I'm gonna go in with my bronzing powder and this is a
cargo HD picture-perfect bronzing powder if you compare it to my Kat Von D
contour palette I side-by-side you can really see how warm it is compared to
all the other powders these are a little bit more cool tone so when you're
contouring you want to make sure that you're using more cool tone color -
imitates like the shadows of your face I really like my japonesque brush so I'm
going to pick up some of this bronzing powder and dust off the excess because
you don't want to get too much and then I'm just gonna go ahead and slowly Pat
it like on the areas where are we contour it but I'm gonna bring it a
little bit more higher to just to warm up my face and I'm kind of doing like a
patting swirling motion I'm also gonna drag it around the perimeter of my face
just to kind of warm up everything so you can see there's kind of a difference
no Browns are on it versus versus the side it looks a lot more warmer and it
looks like you just spent a lot of time out in the Sun you just look more flesh
and pretty
next you want to go in with contour taking a much smaller brush this one is
a more you brush it came in low set but any type of brush that is really fluffy
smaller would be really good for contouring because you don't want it to
go all over the face you want to be able to control exactly where it goes so this
brush is really good for getting into like the hollows of your cheeks and
anywhere that you want to contour it I'm going to go ahead and pick up this shade
right here this is in the color of shadow play start here in the outer
corners of my faith do kind of a like patting motion as well just so that we
can get most of the product out on my face and then slowly drag it in right
here and we want to fall that same line that we did when we cream contour
earlier just so that you can get like a really sharp effect and it just makes
your face look really slimming almost like imitates a shadow pick up some more
and I'm gonna go ahead and do the same to my forehead the site just looks a
little bit more sharp and angular my camera does like a weird blurring effect
I had the sony a6000 and i don't know why but every time I like contour my
face it makes my skin look like not real so the zoom you guys in so you can
really see I don't know like if my camera's doing well that's real close oh
yeah now you can see like everything looks really nice and angular just
turned off the functions I don't want it to look fake and blurred out do you guys
don't want you guys to be able to see like how it actually looks in real life
this seems like a lot of stats but personally I love blush I will always do
this step so I just picked out the brits B's blush in the color bear peach and I
absolutely love this color it's so pretty it's gonna put it on the
cheekbones and then I'm gonna go ahead and drag it over the rest of my face as
well anywhere that looks a little bit more like grayish or needs a little bit
more color I will just bring the blush there finally we're gonna go in and
contour the nose and this is a really important step you want to make sure you
even out all the contouring that you did by making sure that you
put shadows everywhere the in face normally has shadows so I'm gonna go
ahead contour my nose really lightly and I'm going in with my luck c18 to brush
and this was in collab with JT weighty 180 I absolutely love this brush I
cannot go anywhere without it angle of it it's just so perfect for getting like
a straight line down my nose and it's nice and fluffy enough so that
everything blends out really nicely if I'm gonna go in with this color right
here just get a little bit of it top away the excess cuz we don't want too
much and I'm just gonna start tapping a little line where I want my contour to
start I want my nose to look slimmer especially because how it looks it just
looks kind of like wide girth and I don't really want that so I'm gonna go a
little bit more closer to the middle of my nose and my like actual noses and
that just gives it a really nice slimming effect so I'm just gonna Pat it
in for now just to get the product down onto my nose okay so now that we have it
set you can already tell that my nose looks slimmer than it actually is so now
I'm gonna go in and slowly with up and down motions to slowly blend it out you
want to make sure you stay in that line I start with not a lot of powder because
it is way easier to build up something then try to take away some of the
contour so I'm gonna go ahead and blend that out and then I also drag it up into
like my eye area as well I feel like contouring this inner area
it just really helps to snap your nose and just makes it look more natural when
it follows down here I don't know just draw it a little bit down here so that
is what my nose looks like I feel like just looks so cute contouring my nose
it's like one of my favorite things ever so now that we have that the final step
is highlighting and I'm gonna go in with my Becca opal highlighter I'm gonna pick
it out with a BH Cosmetics number 4 brush you can use any type of brush but
I just prefer a more dense or a longer brush for my highlight and sweep it
along the high points of my cheeks exactly where I put the cream contour
earlier and it just makes your skin look super healthy and glowy which I love and
then on a smaller brush I'm just gonna take a little bit of the highlighter I'm
gonna drag it down my nose and this just helps to finish off the contour that we
did earlier there you have it this is what the finished contour and highlight
looks like it just looks super pretty natural and it doesn't look like
anything too crazy I just love highlighting and contouring
because feel like it makes my face look so good
in pictures as well if you have a really long face and you want to shorten it up
I'm going to focus a lot of the contour right here in on the top of your
forehead if you want to slim it down like me I like putting it on the edges
of my face I like my jawline to look really sharp as well as you
get more experience with that contouring and highlighting you just can kind of
play around with it and decide what looks best for your face shape and so
this is something that I have found that just works for me I love the way that my
face looks in pictures so I always do the cream contour and the powder contour
when I have time I also have on my lip on my Nix on my lips NYX abu-dhabi
I featured that in my favorite nude libby's video so if you guys haven't
seen that I will link it up in the corner if you guys want to see the full
foundation routine as well that I did before this I will put a little video on
my Instagram but anyways that brings us to the end of this week's video I hope
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