All the cool beauty bloggers are talking about contouring lately, and there is an appeal to looking as chiseled as Kim Kardashian, or Angelina Jolie in Maleficent. But so many bronzers and contouring palettes and tutorials involve products and tips for medium-toned skin that can look artfully sculpted with just a touch of bronzer. Any super pale person knows that rubbing on bronzer like that will just make her look dirty at best, and covered in fake makeup at worst. And it’s tough to find a highlighter that works when everything in the store is darker than your actual skin tone.
But just because you’re pale doesn’t mean you can’t sculpt some sharper cheekbones. Here are 12 excellent contouring tips and products that will make even the palest people look like Maleficent.
1. Contouring & Highlighting Basics
It's very important to first know the basics of contouring and highlighting. Practice is key on this tip. For a better guided tutorial on how to successfully do your own contouring and highlighting watch the video above and learn more about adding vamp to pale skin.
2. Face Contouring Powder
There are two types of contouring products, cream and powder. For beginners it's best to start with powder-based contouring makeup so you'd know how to contour your face without overdoing it.
3. Don't Forget Your Legs!
You might zoom in on contouring your face and forget that our legs too needs contouring for a more even look.
Tip: If you are a woman of natural volume, you'll realize that contouring your legs would make you look slimmer and sexier too!
4. Skip the Bronzer
Bronzers are great for the summer but including it in your daily makeup routing would tend to make you look dirty (It's a luck all pale-skinned woman dread so much).
5. Opt for Creamy Pigments
Creamy pigments are great for people with pale skin. Not only do they even-out complexion but it gives you the opposite effect of using a bronzer; a clean healthy looking skin
6. Use Two-Toned Palettes
Whether you be using Tom Ford's illuminating makeup or a trusted makeup brand you just picked up in the drugstore, do know that two-toned contouring makeup products will give depth to pale-looking skin.
7. Contouring Blush Makeup
Cheeks are everything when it comes to contouring your face. You get to decide whether to go all natural-looking or a full on chiseled look worthy of fashion runways.
8. Make A Visual Map of Your Face
Clueless as to where makeup goes? Creating a visual map on your face is a convenient way for you to know every curves on your face and save yourself countless hours figuring out where to do your contouring, blushing, and highlighting.
9. Additional Tips on Highlighting and Contouring for Pale Skin
Thanks to beauty bloggers, doing your own makeup becomes easy as counting peas in a pod.
10. Highlighting and Contouring Different Face Shapes
Not all tutorials online can show you how to highlight and contour your face. You must know that there are different techniques on blending for different face shapes and skin types.
Some people use their hands and that's fine. But to achieve full-on flawless effect of your contouring ventures, it's best that you use a good contour brush.
11. Use A Good Contour Brush
Some people use their hands and that's fine. But to achieve full-on flawless effect of your contouring ventures, it's best that you use a good contour brush.
12. Highlighting and Contouring for Different Hair Colors
And of course, you must also consider the color of your hair so tho match with that cute little face of yours.
Go ahead! Pick out your trusty makeup brush and blend your pale looking skin to a livelier and lovelier you!
- XoXo
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