Smartly applied makeup can not only cover up uneven skin tone and make a complexion look flawless, but it can also change how someone’s entire face shape looks, just with some simple tricks. Adding shadows and highlights to certain areas, contouring is a makeup technique used by the pros to give people more flattering facial features, subtly adjusting nose width and length, adding depth to cheekbones or anything else. Here are 5 celebrities who say they love to use makeup to add contours to their faces.
Emma makes her cheeks pop by adding bronzer and blusher for some contrasting colour: “I’m a creature of habit. I like to find what works and keep buying it. I like a bronzer or blush because I am so pale and English.”
- Hayden Panettiere
Hayden puts bronzer in her hairline and in other places to create a shadowed look: ”I put bronzer around my face and in my hairline. I also use it as eye shadow. It gives the perfect contour in the crease and under the lash line.”
- Kelly Rowland
Kelly adds a lighter powder to create contours: “My beauty tip? Contouring your nose and cheekbones with powder can work wonders.”
- Nicki Minaj
Nicki says she has never had facial surgery despite rumors and thinks contouring makeup can change a face shape dramatically: ”I’ve never had surgery on my face. They’ll see contour and they’ll think you had surgery on your nose, no no no, look at RuPaul’s drag race and you’ll see how you can make your nose look any shape you want. When people see my makeup they think all types of crazy things that I’m doing to my skin, but it’s makeup.”
- Sienna Miller
Sienna reveals that she puts bronzer under her chin: “Always bronze underneath your jaw-line – it contours the face and adds depth. The bridge of the nose, cheekbones and temples are also essential.”
