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Entity says don't contour your face with makeup, just try the strobing technique.

Have you ever felt brave enough to dive into your makeup bag, reach for your contouring brush to contour like a pro but ended up looking more like Ronald McDonald than Tyra Banks? You aren’t alone. Even with how-to videos showing “how simple” contouring can be, well-contoured faces seem to appear only on makeup artists and celebrities who can hire professionals to make them look glamorous and elegant.

Have no fear! Hope has arrived for all women aspiring to be contour queens – it’s called strobing and it’s trending! In contrast to contouring, strobing focuses on adding shine to your face in areas where the light naturally hits. Although it’s a completely different beauty technique, strobing provides similar effects to contouring. It allows for more sculpted, prominent facial features. The best news of all? Strobing is basically mistake-proof. So dump your contour palettes in the trash, buy a highlighter and follow the three easy steps below to score your own strobed look.

1 PICK THE RIGHT HIGHLIGHTER.

The first question to ask yourself is if you have oily or dry skin. If it’s oily, stay away from liquid highlighters and go for a matte powder. If it’s dry, do the opposite and also buy a facial moisturizer. Skin tones, on the other hand, require a little more thought before making a choice. Use pearl and very light pink highlighters for fair skin, champagne to bronze-colored highlighter for medium and olive tones, gold and peach for dark skin and gold and bronze colors for deep skin tones. If you don’t find the right shade or type of highlighter on your first try, as the saying goes, try, try again!

2 PLACE THE HIGHLIGHTER ON LIGHT-CATCHING AREAS.

Think back to how you highlighted all over your textbooks in high school. Remember those annoying people who would highlight the whole page of human anatomy? That didn’t help you study at all. Similarly, when strobing your face, you don’t want to highlight the whole area. Instead, identify which facial features are more prominent than others. Some examples include the area right below the brow, your cheekbones, the bridge of your nose and your cupid’s bow. Highlighting your chin and forehead is optional. Also, depending on how oily your face gets throughout the day, you may end up with a bit of natural shine in those areas anyway!

3 BLEND, BLEND, AND BLEND SOME MORE!

If those days of contouring have taught you anything, it’s that blending is a woman’s secret weapon with makeup. Use the same trick when strobing. The best part is, the rules are less strict when blending highlights. You can blend with a fan brush, a makeup sponge or even your hands! Just use whatever gets the job done to give your face a subtle, dewy look. Goodbye clown contouring and hello supermodel strobing!

Edited by Casey Cromwell
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