Contouring help requested from you knowlegable girls!

[stinger4711]

Okay I need Some serious Help! Ive been trying to figure ths out for ever and im clueless! I want to contour my cheeks/ highlight to scult and make my cheekbones prominent. Im a bit clueless as to what colors to use. I like to use bronzer on my face and Im lost as to what 3 colors to use for my highlighter, contour color and blush color that goes together. Im an nc35. And sometimes I use self tanner.
I have Nars laguna bronzer and too faced snow funny for bronzers. I also have:
Mac Blush- ambering rose and dollymix
Lorac Blush- pink
Nars- deep throat
LM- transclusent powder and secret brightening powder
And
Bare escentials: warm radiance, pure radiance, bare radiance and rose radiance.... Anyhow, can someone suggest a combination of threee to contour, highlight and blush with? and Do i use the same bronzer as I use on my face... Ahh please help! Also, im definately willing to go buy something so any reccs or suggestions would be so appreciated. I hope this makes sense and thanks so much!!!

 

[blazeno.8]

I would probably say that you need to have a blush with a matte finish to make it work. Well it doesn't have to be a blush, any face product will do. For me, I use the sculpt 'n' shape duo, but I used to use Blunt blush to contour which might be too dark for you. I know that some people like to use Emote to contour. I would say that the blushes you have right now would be good for the blush color, but I don't know what your highlights look like. Normally I go for something that is lightish and neutralish.

 

[stinger4711]

Thanks so much! i actually just got emote today! So if I use emote to contour with, one of my blushes, and a highlighter... do I still use bronzer. Thast what im confused about .. With highlighting and contouring do people still put on bronzer? Sorry if thats a dumb question. Im new with all this stuff. Also, what would be a good highlight color??

 

[blazeno.8]

Hmm... that's a good question. I'm an NC 45 so I use bronzer as a blush. I contour with my matte blush, then apply my blush or bronzer, then I put on my highlight. I just have to make sure that the highlight is the lightest thing on my face so the blush can't be too shimmery or reflect more light than the highlight color.
For a highlight you can use a wide range of colors. I even like to throw pops of color into my highlights every now and then by using frozen white or something a little gold.
I think there might be a thread in the Beauty of Color forum that might have some good information. Try typing things like "contour" or "highlight" into the search.

 

[stinger4711]

Thanks so much!!!! you helped a lot!!