How To Contour Your Cheekbones Like A Pro

April 23, 2024 by Manasa Hegde

How To Contour Your Cheekbones Perfectly

And you thought only professional salon experts can contour your cheeks well? Think again. Contouring involves the right knowledge of mixing different shades that complement your skin tone, face dimension, and shape. With a little practice, you can easily master the art of contouring and fold it into your daily routine.

To get perfectly contoured cheekbones, you do not need a hoard of makeup equipment and products. Just some few good quality stuff that brings about the desired impact! Here are 5 Steps that will Help you Achieve the Perfectly Contoured Cheekbones.

Things you Need:

Foundation
Brushes
Contour powder/Bronzer
Highlighter
Blush

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Best Contour Your Cheekbones Like A Pro
Do you know where to exactly contour your cheeks?
Pro Tips for the Newbies

Best Contour Your Cheekbones Like A Pro

Step 1- Identify the Area to Contour

Do you know where to exactly contour your cheeks?

Suck in your cheeks and feel the hollows of the face. With your index finger, you can also feel the cheekbone; mark that area across your face, below the cheekbone.

[ Read: How to Get Perfect Cheekbones With Makeup ]

Step 2- Position the Contouring

Place the brush vertically at the end of your eyebrows. This is the part where the contouring ends- if you are new to the art of contouring, you can mark this area for ease later.

Step-3 Start contouring

Take a good quality angled contour brush. Load it with some contour powder or a bronzer that is two shades darker than your skin tone. Brush off the excess powder.
Start from the area just below the hairline, you must have marked it by now. Brush down to the center of the cheekbones.
Do not apply too much pressure on the brush as the contouring powder will smudge over the cheeks.
Always balance the bronzer by comparing the right and the left side of your face. The tone, shade, and amount of application should be proportionate on both sides.
You can go for a second quote or a darker shade if you feel the contouring needs more definition.
Now take a blush that compliments your skin tone. You could also go for browns, pink, bronze, or mauve.
Apply using a fluffy powder brush. Dust excess blush from the brush and evenly blend the blush with the bronzer. Make sure no lines or patches are visible.

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Step 4- Highlighting Hacks

To accentuate your contouring, add some highlighter to the cheeks. Select a cream-based highlighter and apply it with a fluffy brush.
Apply it half an inch below the hairline, the area just above the cheekbones. In case you do not have a highlighter, you could go in for peach or brown shimmer blush to create a similar effect.
Highlighting or shimmer blushes are particularly useful for people who have subdued cheekbones. It gives the cheeks a more defined outline. Apply the highlighter on the apple of the cheeks with a blush brush.

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Step 5- The Grand Finale

To ensure that your makeup stays for long, top up with a translucent powder to make the makeup look complete. Follow the steps as directed above. You will definitely get a contoured look with chiseled cheekbones with a perfect shadow impact.

Pro Tips for the Newbies

If there is a weak area on the face that you want the focus away from, you can play with your stronger features like the eyes, nose, and lips. Just make them more prominent to take away the attention from other areas.
When you dip your brush into the bronzer, ensure that you dust the excess powder before application. This will give an even look and you will not appear heavily dabbed with makeup.
For a more emphasized contouring effect, sweep the hollows using a deeper shade of foundation/concealer or use more of bronzer.
If the contour shade appears too dark, dab some translucent powder to reduce the intensity of the contour shade.

[ Read: How to Contour Your Face ]

Sweep the contour brush along the bottom of the cheekbones, as if straddling the lower half of the cheekbones.
Blend, blend, and blend. No part of the cheek should look dabbed with powder, concealer, or a highlighter. Use the brush strokes effortlessly to get a uniform shade and also brush some bronzer beneath your chin, forehead, nose, and on the neck.

Contouring is not just an easy trick it’s also fun if you do it rightly. Do not indulge in hundreds of beauty products as it that will make your face heavy-handed and cakey. Just some good shades of bronzer, complimenting highlighters, and blush along with 2-3 good brushes are enough to get the desired look. Always apply a primer topped up with a foundation to prepare the base before you start the cheek contouring process.

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