How to Perfectly Contour Your Face as Per Your Face Shape?

Summary: Contouring your face enables you to highlight the best features. That is why you should learn the art of contouring your face. Here are a few tips on how to contour your face, which takes approximately 60 seconds, promise.

Contouring and highlighting didn’t come from your BFF who’s super into makeup. It actually came down from a lot of models, fashion influencers, and more as a way to shape the face with makeup and quickly became mainstream so everyone can have a chiseled look in their day-to-day life. If you’re new to contouring and aren’t sure how to go about it, here are some tips on how to get the best contouring according to your face shape.

Figure out your face shape

There are various ways to figure out your face shape from quizzes online to charts and more. Once you figure out your face shape head to step number two.

Contouring a square face

Start by contouring the corners of your face with your contour palette to make them appear less angular and give it a softer edge. By adding highlights to your forehead and chin you give your face more dimension and less of a flat appearance.

Contouring an oblong face

Using your highlighter palette apply your contour to your forehead and chin to shorten your face and balance your features.

Contouring a heart-shaped face

By using a face highlighter, highlight your forehead and chin to add more definition and give a gentle sheen to the skin. With a darker contour palette, you can narrow a wide forehead and soften a strong jawline.

Contouring a triangular face

The reason for contouring in this face shape is to bring the narrow and broad areas into proportion with each other to appear similar to an oval-shaped face. Use face highlighter along the jawline to make this area more prominent and balance out the middle portion of the face as well as use highlighter under the eyes to make the cheekbones pop.

Contouring a round face

When you use a highlighter palette on a round face you need to keep in mind that you need to add some structure back into your face so it appears oval. You will need quite a bit of contouring on the temples, cheekbones, and the sides of the jawline which will give you more definition. Use the highlighter on your forehead and chin to bring these areas forward and give them more dimension as well as create fuller-looking lips by highlighting your cupid’s bow.

Contouring an oval face

Use your contouring directly under the cheekbones and highlight the area under your eyes to make your cheekbones pop. You can even highlight your chin and forehead to bring these areas into focus.

You don’t need to be an expert to contour your face just read up on these helpful guidelines, and practice before you wear your look outside. Keep in mind that each face shape has different features which need to be brought forward – but don’t go overboard with the contouring, aim for an elegant and subtle look.

Daily Forever52 comes with different colored HD contouring palettes that consist of dark to light shades and go with every skin tone and face shape and is easy to blend and long-lasting. It hides imperfections like dark spots, blemishes and even blurs out insecurities.