Now I love a good contour just as much as the next beauty
junkie, and there are a ton of different ways you can achieve a contoured face.
You can use matte powder bronzers, cream bronzers, darker foundations and concealers etc. I
have tried everything and realized there are pros and cons to all of those
options. While they all give you the chiseled cheek bones, powders can tend to look unnatural in texture on your skin, especially
in daylight. I’ve noticed a few crème bronzers look a bit orangey or muddy, and that
using a dark foundations or concealers can cake up your face. So I’ve gone in a slightly less
conventional route in the search for a natural looking contour that will let my skin breathe and that I can wear
in the sunlight without feeling insecure.
This is when I noticed a bb cream in my makeup drawer that
was too dark for my skin tone and a little light bulb shaped like a
well-defined cheekbone went off in my head. Using a bb cream is perfect for a
more natural contour because it’s meant to be a subtle tint of color without
heavy coverage. It wont cake up your face or leave a powdery and unnatural
finish on your skin. It just blends in perfectly, but creates the shadow affect
you want from a contour. I use this everyday as either just a bronzer for my
cheeks and forehead or use a little more product and concentrate it where I want
to create a shadow and chisel out my features.
The BB cream I’ve been using is the Maybelline Dream Fresh8-in-1 Beauty Balm Skin Perfector ($7.59) in the color Medium/Deep. It gives the perfect tint of color without caking up my face. The brush I used to apply was the Real Techniques Contour Brush. Its the perfect size to concentrate the product in the small contour of your cheek and the tapered synthetic bristles blend the product out to a beautiful and natural finish (the brush comes as a part of their "core collection" set of 4 brushes for $18.00).
Shop the rest of the brushes. They're all perfection! http://realtechniques.com/
:) ttyl,
madeleine
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