Contouring the Face

Video Transcript

"Hey, I'm Chelsea Bogazzi with suburbanheresy.com and we're talking about beauty tips today and make up. And this is my model Nicole and we have just applied foundation and bronzer and powder on her. And so now we're going to talk a little bit about contouring. And contouring is a way to help accentuate the different features and bones on the face. So we're going to contour her cheeks to show off her cheek bones and her jaw line. You can contour different areas of the body to help, you know accentuate or you know to enhance or to recede different things that you need. So if somebody has you know, larger eyes there are different things you can do to make the eyes look smaller by contouring. And the same with the nose and the jaw line and the chin and everything. So I've got a good picture here that shows the different things or the different face shapes on right here and where you want to contour. This is obviously an over exaggeration, but it does show the natural shading of the face. so where all these darker lines are, that is where you're going to naturally want to darken the face with either a darker foundation or you can even use bronzer to help do that. And then the areas of white on the face are where you want to highlight. So a good way of remembering that is to think of if there was a light shining on your face, where would that light hit first. And those are the places that you're going to want to highlight and everything else is what you're going to want to shade. So we're going to start out and I'm going to use this make up right here that has a highlighter and it has a receder in it. I'm going to use the darker color to do the contouring and the lighter color to do the highlighting. Ant then I have this brush that is and angled brush. And it's really important to use and angled brush because it practically does everything for you. When you apply the make up it'll naturally grab the color in the right places and help you apply it in the right places. So I'm going to start by applying some of this to the brush. And I'm going to apply this between the jaw bone and the cheek bone, to this area right here, up to the ear. And this is great for photography. It will help bring out the facial features but it will also help make a face look thinner. It'll help bring out different, you know different qualities of the face. I'm also going to apply it down here on her jaw line to help enhance her jaw bone. So if you turn your face to the side you can kind of see that that's done. And then I'm going to use another angles brush to contour her nose. I'm going to bring it down right there. And then I'm going to follow and do that same thing on the other side. But I'm also going to use the highlighter and highlight her cheek bones. And this is just a really nice light natural highlighter. And when using a highlighter it's really important to use something with a little tiny bit of shimmer. You don't need too much shimmer. But shimmer and frost is going to help enhance and bring things out. Whereas the color that I contoured is matte. So that's going to help recede that, recede that area. I've done that and I'm going to put some on the bridge of her nose. Now I'm going to go ahead and copy that one on the other side."