Jordan Liberty creates an easy spring look featuring natural contouring on Ford model Ashley Brielle. Contouring should be soft and subtle - no more stripes! Here's all you need to know about contouring: 1. What is contouring and highlighting? From an artist's perspective, contouring is just a form of shading, or adding DEPTH. This is why you contour areas that you want to look concave (go inward), like the lower part of the cheekbones. These deeper shadows can change the curvature of the face, add dimension, and can even transform a face completely! Think about it: a 3-dimensional object is defined by how light falls on it. Highlighting does the opposite of contouring, it makes objects appear convex (go outward). It can also make the face look lifted and youthful, which is why many of my more mature clients are more highlight-savvy than their daughters. 2. How to choose your contour shade: as a general rule, you want your contour shade to be DARKER and COOLER than your skin! tone. Because contouring is just a fancy way of creating shadows, you want to mimic the cool gray color that a shadow casts over the skin. This is why contouring products look drab and dark - and also why bronzers make such terrible contour colors. Bronzers warm the skin - we want to cool it down! Can you contour with a bronzer? Yes - but it will be much more apparent and can even make the skin look dirty. 3. How to choose a highlighter: opposite your contour shade, you have many options for
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