Contouring the Face. In four easy steps.

Contouring adds shadows to your face to create dimension, carving the cheeks or accenting the cheekbones, thinning out the nose, etc.

1. Get out your contouring kit ( I use the Stila Contouring Trio. Get a fluffy blush brush and use the lightest shade and apply it to the apples of your cheeks and the peek of your chin.

2. Suck in your cheeks making a fish face and apply the darkest shade into the creases you made in your cheeks in a vertical but slanted line from bottom of cheeks to the side of your cheekbones. Also apply a straight horizontal line directly under your chin from side to side.

3. Use medium shade to blend in between lightest shade on your cheeks and the peak of your chin to under your chin on your neck where you made the line.

4. Blend any harsh lines. By this time you should have created a shadow affect to camouflage any double chin that might have showed before and you also should have created a strong cheekbone.

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