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Fair Skin Contour Routine Ft. Smashbox & Stila

10/21/2015

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How can you get the best daily wear for the massive contouring trend? Are you having a hard time getting it to work for your fair skin? Read more about my technique to apply contour, and a couple of my favourite products to use! 

The Story

Do you ever find that your contour can look muddy, or that you have a giant line on your face? These are not sexy looks. Thanks to Kim K & her make-up artist, the act of "contouring" your face is super popular. I recently wrote a post talking about my technique on the FASHION Canada Magazine's Beauty Panel Page, which I will link to below so you can follow along with the actual process. 

LINK: http://www.fashionmagazine.com/beauty/2015/10/15/how-to-contour-beauty-panel-2/7/

I wanted to talk in this post about two of the key products in my contour routine. 

First we have our cream stage which I am using the Stila Shape and Shade Customer Contour Duo in Light. This can be found at your local Shoppers Drug Mart that carries Stila, or at Sephora and retails for $52 CND.

After applying my foundation and blending the edges in with the cream contour, I powder my face with a loose powder and move on to the powder contour stage. You can obviously select only one of these steps or both, depending on the effect that you want. 

For the powder, my favourite by far is the Smashbox Contour Kit in Light-Medium. Obviously the highlighters in both products isn't really a major highlight for me because I am so fair. I still love the texture of the highlighter, and I sometimes just go in with a shimmer. You can also find this at select Shoppers Drug Mart locations & Sephora locations. It retails for $50 CND. 

The Swatches

The Verdict

Stila Shape and Shade Customer Contour Duo in Light - The packaging is very nice for this product, I do enjoy the new direction that Stila has been moving towards the past couple of years. They still seem a little diss-jointed in certain areas as far as packaging and branding, but they are moving the right way! This product is a beautiful example of the newer products that they have to offer. The texture is soooo smooth! It blends beautifully into the skin, without giving an orange/muddy look. This is super important for us extra fair girls! Couple of drawbacks would be that the brush is sold separate and costs almost the same as the palette (it is seriously a stunning brush that can be used with so many cream products, so I can understand why it didn't come as a set). Second would be that I wish the contour was more of a grey undertone. Shadows are naturally grey, so it would have just made more sense in my opinion. Other than that, seriously one of the best cream products out there for contouring. Personally I don't believe in those giant palettes with 5 million contour shades, unless you are a makeup artist using it for work. It's better value to get the colours you are actually going to use in larger sizes, then a bunch of tiny sizes. 

Smashbox Contour Kit in Light to Medium - The packaging is lovely, I have a love/hate with how the mirror is taken up partially by a picto-gram. I get the importance, but once you start using it often, there is no point to having it IMO! I do think that a lot of thought went into this and it really shows. They where smart and put an actual contour shade in, then also have a bronze/warm shade and the highlight. Most people are confused with what to do about the bronze shade. Basically you wouldn't have a smokey eye with just black and white, you would have a middle shade in order to have a good blend and transition. That is basically what the bronzer colour is for, it is meant to go in between where you apply your contour and where you apply your highlight. This kit also comes with the brush, now it is a pretty decent brush all things considered. However I do prefer to apply with a fan brush, cause I am fancy like that. 

How do you apply your contour? Do you even bother, or do you think it's too many steps? I personally don't use it everyday, only full-face required days :P 

Until next time! 

amye89 xoxo
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