Hi lovelies,
When thinking about getting our body into a certain shape, you've probably come across the term “contouring.” Ultimately, it's a way of sculpting your face and your body to make it look more defined using some subtle techniques with makeup and skin toner. But it's not that straightforward to do right. When you are contouring your face, you can use various types of makeup techniques, but how can you apply this to your body?
Preparing Your Skin
When you are getting ready to contour your body and make sure that you've cleansed, moisturized, and exfoliated your body. It's important to use a gentle body scrub in the shower to get rid of any dead skin cells and make sure that you use hydrating body lotion.
Contouring Your Body
When it comes to contouring your body, you've got to break it down in terms of body parts:
Contouring Your Chest
While you may think that a breast implant and boob job will do the job fine, if you're looking for a little extra lift, you can place contouring cream or powder in a V-shape around your cleavage. This will boost the look of your breasts.
Contouring Your Abs
It's not something you may need to do every day, but if you want to show off your stomach, for example, if you are wearing a low-cut top, you can contour by drawing a line down the middle of your stomach, and from there, you can add muscles on either side, creating a 2-pack, 4-pack, or 6-pack.
Contouring Your Arms
If you are concerned with flab, you can bypass this problem by applying vertical lines of contour products along the hollow part of your biceps. But make sure you start by flexing so you reveal your muscles.
Contouring Your Collarbone
You need to define your collarbone with a bronzer. If yours aren't visible, you need to shift your shoulders forward so they stand out. With your contour product, draw lines below and above each collarbone, and create two V-shapes between your collarbones.
Contouring Your Legs
Applying bronzing cream on all of your legs will make for a slim look, and it's as simple as that!
Final Points
Remember to blend! One of the biggest mistakes we all make is forgetting to blend properly, and when we see harsh lines, this completely underwhelms our contouring effect. Using a make-up sponge in circular motions will create a seamless blend.
Adding highlights. Finally, you need to add a highlight, and after placing the liquid highlight on the high points of the areas you've gone toward, you start to blend it out, and this will give you the perfect opportunity to show off your newly contoured body.
We all need to remember that while contouring is a great tool to highlight what we've already got, we must remember to practice self-care so we feel great inside and out! Summer is upon us, so no doubt you are looking for ways to highlight your attributes. Contouring might be the missing ingredient!
