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Highlight and Contouring- Contouring and highlighting is the act of enhancing facial features. Contouring defines or reshapes ones face. On the other hand highlighting brightens ones facial features. This may seem as an easy technique to do but it can be very tedious. In order to do correctly firstly, to contour one should have either a cream product or powder two shades darker from skin color. For highlighting one should have a cream or powder product two shades lighter than skin color. Powder products well give someone a more natural and subtle look, and cream products can give a more sculpted effect to the face. Done right the action of contouring and highlighting can reduce the appearance of a larger forehead, it can reduce the appearance of larger cheeks and can also produce a more chiseled jaw line. Mentioned by Erickson and Katheryn one by all costs should avoid shimmer products when producing this makeup effect. One can easily combine two makeup effects both named highlighting one highlight is the technique mentioned throughout, but the other highlighting technique is actually using a shimmer applied after contouring and highlighting on the high points of someones face. Those high points being the temples of the face, the tip of the nose, the bridge of the nose, the highest part of the cheeks, and the upper lip.

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