Technical File: Highlighting and Contouring Cont.

Highlighting and Contouring Using Grease-based Products

During this session, we were doing highlighting and contouring like we were before but with grease-based creams rather than powders. For this we used the Kryolan foundation and concealer palettes. I started off just applying the base to the face, using the foundation and the concealer palette, making sure that I had a good skin match:

After I’d done this I mixed concealer and foundation together to create a shade about two shades lighter than my models skin and used this as a highlighter, I applied it to the cheekbones, down the nose and on the chin. I felt that using this as a highlighter was really effective for a subtle and natural look and liked it was it was easy to blend the colours together. For the contouring I mixed shades together to create one that was about two shades darker than my models skin tone and then applied this under the cheekbones. To finish, I used Illamasqua’s Loose Powder all over the face and then used the dark red in my Kryolan Blusher palette, asking my model to smile, and then running it along the cheekbone. I really liked the end result for this look and would definitely use it for when I want to create something very natural looking.