Something you will learn along the way as your contouring skills become heightened and you venture into the professional realm –your expectations should neither be high nor low, but they should exist. Find what works for you and go with that.
For those who are desperate to contour but are yet to master even the basics despite multiple tries, it might be worth your time to visit a specialist because even after watching a dozen contouring videos, it’s no clearer how you should be contouring your exact face. Whatever floats your boat because you’re the one steering and it’s your boat, you bought it, you can take it anywhere you want to go. So don’t feel bad if you contour, enjoy the hell out of it, are good at it, and it boosts your self-esteem.
Those who think contouring is strictly for less than average chicks clearly doesn’t know how to see the beauty in every living creature. Once you contour, it’s like there’s no going back.įirst of all, don’t feel bad if you’re not drawn to contouring or even if you were drawn to it, and you realized it wasn’t for you. But contouring is not gym or hot weather friendly, it must be washed off before sleeping, and it will, without a doubt, change your face, or at least the way you see your face, forever. It’s literally painting on your face, using light and shadow to get a desired effect –so all art school students might want to apply should they be called. It could be for you, though, because contouring is an art. So if words like blending, primer, and highlighting sound more like art school terms to you than words associated with makeup, it might not be for you. Contouring is hardcore, like seriously hardcore. This is not for the get up and go girl, not for the natural mama, and surely not for those who think they want to dabble a little in makeup. For your information, contouring is not for the girl who isn’t really into makeup and it’s not for the girl who doesn’t have at least thirty minutes to spend on her face. Contouring takes the world, spins it on a dozen different brushes, then comes out at the other end looking fresh as fish, fierce, and fabulous. Contouring paints the world with shades that give it more than just a lovely sheen or gloss.