“Contouring is a way of adding dimension and sculpting the face to bring out someone’s bone structure,” MAC Senior Artist Fatima Thomas tells ESSENCE. However, while higher cheekbones and sculpted jaw ...

Small changes to your contour placement can dramatically improve symmetry and definition. This guide highlights modern techniques that avoid harsh lines and deliver a more natural finish.

At this point people around the world have been contouring for years. Regardless of whether you’ve known it as draping, or shaping, before “contour” entered our recent vocabulary, you’ve likely ...

It's amazing how dusting a little bit of bronzer on the face to contour and carve out features can make a big difference. But it can be a bummer that the face-chiseling results go away the second we ...

“Contour is a staple in the beauty world,” Fenty Beauty Global Makeup Artist Priscilla Ono tells ESSENCE. “It’s a technique that defines and sculpts the face by using light and dark shades to ...

To put it quite simply, contouring can be difficult. Whether it's the stamping method, a hack for round faces or the one layer trick, makeup, not to mention the many tips that come with it, the whole ...

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