Contouring with Cream/ Liquid Products

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I'm always envious of those blessed with naturally chiseled and defined features, those with killer cheekbones and slender noses...Unfortunately for me, I fall on the opposite side of the fence! I have quite a round face without much definition, so contouring is a handy skill to have in my  make-up arsenal. If you aren't born with it - fake it.


After watching Wayne Goss' interesting technique, I decided to give it a go myself! Like Mr. Goss, I favor contouring with cream products - they give a more natural, believable finish than powders and are far easier to blend.

I applied my highlight and contour shades as shown in the video. I didn't have any skin products in the right shades, so the highlight was a mix of my usual foundation and Sleek's white 'Pout Paint'. The contour shade was a darker foundation mixed with a deep red-brown Kryolan lipstick. I could have gone much darker with the contour, for a more dramatic result.

Then I buffed, buffed, buffed it all in with a light coat of my usual foundation on my Jemma Kidd stippling brush. I started where two shades met, blending them together, then moved on to the rest if the face. I was really surprised at how lovely the finish was! A healthy, glowy, dewy texture with soft shadows in all the right places.

I finished off with powder, neutral eyeshadow, mascara and a slick of Shu Uemura lipstick. No need for blush or bronzer! The slight red tone to the contour shade gave me a faintly bronzed, healthy complexion and the light really pinged off the highlight shade.

Overall, I'm impressed! I've used similar methods before, but usually working the opposite way (solid base, then contour and highlight). This method gives such a natural finish - you may want to sheer down your foundation shade before applying though, else it could end up looking a bit cakey.

How do you contour? Will you be giving this a go?

13 comments:

  1. Wow, this is fab. You look so pretty x

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  2. I love Wayne Goss!
    You did a great job!
    I still need to try this out.

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  3. Ooh Interesting, going to give it a try xx

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  4. I Love Wayne. He's so good! I've been trying to contour recently using this very same method but it's gonna take a bit of practice and a bit of shade adjusting lol

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  5. Great Job , the results are amazing !

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  6. hahahaha interesting! looks odd cos wouldnt you be mixing the dark shades around the lighter areas?? interetsing!

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  7. Every time I watch Wayne Goss contour I'm like THIS IS RIDICULOUS at first and think he's slapping it on heavy for the camera, and then he's like *blend blend blend* and it looks sooo natural. Myself, I just put my foundation on then use my finger to find the (rapidly filling out) hollow under my cheekbone with some Illamasqua Hollow. Super duper easy. Could never contour with powders, even though that hollow bit under my cheekbone is naturally apparent on my face without contouring.

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  8. Wow this looks great gonna have a go at this but first I need a stippling brush!! xxx

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  9. Thanks so much for posting this. I've always done my own version of contouring. I was laying in bed just last night thinking I need to learn to do it properly in time for my wedding. Ta-da, and there you are with this :) x

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  10. Whoa, that's awesome! I don't have ny cream contour shades, I might have to look into one.

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  11. I love contouring like this and if I could be bothered I would do it every day. Scott Barnes is very famous for doing this. At make up college my teacher showed us his book and then we had a go doing this using Ben Nye cream foundations. It was awesome but so hard to acually do it as full on as you need to look good under the foundation hahahaha!

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  12. actually that looks amazing. I would never have thought to use that level of colour difference contouring. I've done it before with bronzers and highlighters but I've never tried it like this. I'd really love to try though.

    Thanks for this it is really interesting and informative. I'm definitely going to give it a bash on my blog.

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    xx

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  13. I wish I could contour :(

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