Contouring and highlighting

Adding color will draw attention to any place on your face, but proper highlighting and contouring will do all the work and leave you with a polished finish whether you plan on wearing a bring hue on your cheek bones or not. No matter your style, after you've applied your foundation, use these tips to highlight and contour your way to a Lustrous and defined face without having to go under a scalpel.

Highlighting helps draw attention to your favorite features and brightens up those dark places that leaves you looking tired or your lips looking drab.

Contouring add dimension and depth to an otherwise flat face. Pick a product that has a strong color payoff so you don't have to use a lot to achieve the look you desire. Your features should be defined, but not look like they are caked with bronzer. Apple the product in areas that tend to have shadows on your face, or rather where you would like them to be. If prominent cheek bones are what you seek (which i am going to show you how to do), then dab a contouring product on the hallows of your cheeks. Then smooth out for natural looking skin. Other places to contour include on each side of the bridge of your nose, along your hairline, and the base of your jawline.

Together highlighting and contouring can truly change your entire look. You can have a thinner nose, cheek bones to be envied, and sun-kissed skin by simply lightening and darkening areas of your face. So, GIVE IT A TRY and accent the features you want to shine!

Now to show you how to contour and highlight your face.

Time to look like avatar! Just to show you where I contoured and highlighted, I used a darker foundation for the places where I contoured and light concealer for the places where I highlighted. 

Now using my bronzer, I...bronzed the hollows of my cheeks (shown on the pic on the right) 

Now on my cheek bones I just added a little bit of highlighter to bring out my cheek bones!

And here is a before and after! There is not much of a difference because my cheek bones are already pretty visible and the lighting is not the best but if you see it in person, you can tell that my face is more bronze and my cheek bones are sticking out a lot more. 

Now my question for you is can you tell if a girl wearing bronzer or not?

Citation:

Schweiger, Melissa Sephora: the ultimate guide to makeup, skin, and hair form the beauty authority/by Melissa Schweiger.- 1st ed. New York, NY: Sephora USA, 2008