Contouring 101: How to master this makeup skill?

Contouring 101: How to master it?

Morgane Klein Forest

01 Jun 2015

mis à jour le 3 May 2019 à 17:37

Follow the advice of Estée Lauder's senior makeup artist, Patrick Lorentz, for a flawless, contoured face.

Contouring is like Photoshop in real life. You get to sculpt and illuminate the face according to the light and make your best features more prominent. It also helps to correct minor defects and shape your face according to your bone structure.

THE BASIC MATERIAL

Use a concealer or highlighter about two shades lighter. In the shadows, choose a powder two shades darker than your skin tone and use a medium sized brush to dab the base of the hairline.

CONTOURING, EXPRESS TECHNIQUES

Needless to study all the tutorials of contouring can be found on YouTube! Do you want to get Kim Kardashian's flawless contoured face? Patrick Lorentz has a few quick and easy techniques to replicate at home.

PLAY OF LIGHT

Use an illuminator pencil to mark your face, starting at the top of your eyebrow, then back down along the ridge of the nose to the cheekbone to draw
the first loop. Then come back at the nose and follow the nasolabial fold down to the jaw. Repeat on the other half of face.

A GAME OF SHADOWS

This time, using your makeup brush, draw an E in the other direction. Leave the temples, go around the cheekbone to the middle of the cheek and then do the loop along the jaw and up to the chin. To really highlight the cheekbones, apply powder under your bone and not over it. Blend the materials properly so that they blend into the skin. The idea is to be subtle and get a natural result.