One of the greatest mysteries of makeup is how to contour and highlight based on your face shape. If you're anything like me, these two beauty aspects have confused and haunted me since my early teens ...

Pick up any bestselling contouring guide and the first thing it tells you is to hollow out your cheeks by drawing a shadow from your ear toward your mouth. That technique was developed for faces with ...

As a self-proclaimed blush connoisseur and admitted late-night TikTok scroller (anybody else?), it didn’t take long for me to discover that contouring with blush is totally a thing. Interestingly ...

As an Asian-American, I have always looked more on the youthful cherub side (no complaints here), which has made contouring extra tricky. So when vertical contouring started popping up on my FYP, I ...

There are many things I don't understand in life: electricity, how to change a tire, Miley Cyrus ... and now, clown contouring. Clown contouring, for those of you who don't know, involves using ...

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Everything you need to know about contouring and bronzing deeper skin tones. The plight of deeper skin tones within the makeup industry has been discussed and dissected ad nauseam. Yet, in the year ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. If you've applied your favorite foundation and found your face looking a bit flat, ...