With your shader shade along either side of your jaw.Suck in your cheeks and go below your cheek bone with shader but then go up a bit towards your temples, this makes your face appear less rounded.

Contouring on the round face is about making is appear slimmer and more defined. The round face shape is usually the one that’s refereed to as the “baby face”.

Round faces tend to have soft balanced features, typically with a shorter face length and narrower cheek and jawline. Highlight you cupids bow (which is the little dent above your top lip).Once you get the hang of pushing back features it should start to become clear to you how you can make your nose appear smaller. Shading your nose everyone has a different nose shape and therefore it’s a lot harder to just state a shading method that will suit all noses.Highlight your forehead more towards the middle the highlight down your nose.Use your highlighter on your cheek bones to make them stand out (notice how your cheek bones begin to look more prominent).Using your shader go along the top of your forehead, this is to make the forehead appear smaller.Suck in your checks and use your shader and go below your cheek bones, you go below because you don’t want to push this feature back as your trying to enhance the cheek bones.The Oval Face is the most desired face shape as it is the face shape that is most visually symmetrical because of this contouring is more about enhance the features they already have. Highlight under your eyebrows once there drawn on or filled in.You contour in a figure of 3, along the side of the forehead, along the cheek bone and along the jawline (not suitable for all face shapes).That’s why people that contour using highlighter and shader rather then just using highlighter their contour will be more intense and in some cases making their face shape appear totally different. Shader – will diminish a feature meaning it will push it back.Ĭontouring consists of using both highlighter and shader they work together as the shader will push back a feature the highlighter will enhance the feature even more. Highlighter – will bring a feature forward meaning it will make it stand out more. Contouring is all about knowing your face shape, once you know that you will the understand what features you need to push back and what features you need to enhance!

Beginner contour face oval