Contouring and highlighting are like chocolate syrup and vanilla ice cream: best together. First, let's review these makeup techniques before getting into the mind-blowing contouring maps that follow.

Contouring is when you use a matte (read: not shimmery) powder, cream, or pencil product that's two shades darker than your skin tone to shade areas you'd like to define or reshape, like your nose, forehead, chin, and cheekbones.


Highlighting 
(or strobing, Try LIGHT IN A STICK)
offsets contouring by accentuating areas of your face with light concealer or highlighter. To properly highlight or strobe, use a concealer that's two shades lighter than your skin tone or a highlighter that flatters your complexion to emphasize the areas of your face that naturally catch the light.

How to tell if your face is shaped like a diamond:

• Your hairline is more narrow than your cheeks.
• Your chin is slightly pointed.
• Your face is longer than it is wide.

Where you should contour:
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• ​The area below your cheekbones starting from your ears and ending in the middle of your cheeks.

Where you should highlight:
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• Under your eyes in an upside-down triangle shape and along your brow bone to brighten your eyes.
• In the middle of your forehead and the middle of your chin to help broaden these naturally narrow areas.

How to tell if your face is shaped like a heart:

• Your cheeks are wider than your hairline.
• Your chin is narrow and pointed.
• A true heart-shaped face also has a widow's peak. 

Where you should contour:
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• Along the sides of your forehead and temples to create balance between the wider upper half of your face and the more narrow lower half.
• The area below your cheekbones starting from your ears and ending in the middle of your cheeks.​
• The small area right below your chin to soften the point.

Where you should highlight:
Try Light in a Stick

• Under your eyes in an upside-down triangle shape, which brightens your eyes.
• In the middle of your forehead and the middle of your chin to help broaden these naturally narrow areas.

How to tell if your face is oblong:

• Your face is almost twice as long as it is wide.
• You have no major points along your jaw, chin, or hairline. 

Where you should contour:
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• Along your hairline to create the illusion of a lower hairline.
• Under your chin to make your face appear a little rounder.
• The area below your cheekbones starting from your ears and ending in the middle of your cheeks.

Where you should highlight:​
Try Light in a Stick

• Under your eyes in an upside-down triangle shape to brighten your eyes.

How to tell if your face is shaped like an oval:

• Your face is 1.5 times longer than it is wide.
• You have no major points along your jaw, chin, or hairline.
• Your face resembles an upside-down egg. 

Where you should contour:
Try Sculpt in a Stick

• The sides of your forehead just slightly to make your hairline appear a little more narrow.
• The area below your cheekbones starting from your ears and ending in the middle of your cheeks.

Where you should highlight:​
Try Light in a Stick

• In the middle of your forehead and the middle of your chin.
• Under your eyes and along your brow bone to brighten your eye area.

How to tell if your face is shaped like a rectangle:

• The width of your hairline and jawline are about even.
• Your face is longer than it is wide. 

Where you should contour:
Try Sculpt in a Stick

• On the sides of your forehead to make your hairline appear more narrow.
• Along your hairline​ to create the illusion of a lower hairline. 
• Under your jawbone to make your jawline appear more narrow.
• The area below your cheekbones starting from your ears and ending in the middle of your cheeks.​

Where you should highlight:​
Try Light in a Stick

• In the middle of your chin.
• Under your eyes and along your brow bone to brighten your eye area.

How to tell if your face is round:

• Your face is about as wide as it is long. 
• You have no major points along your jaw, chin, or hairline.

Where you should contour:
Try Sculpt in a Stick

• On the sides of your forehead and along your temples to make this wider area appear more narrow.
• The area below your cheekbones starting from your ears to in the middle of your cheeks, and then curving down to your jawline to lengthen your face.

Where you should highlight:​
Try Light in a Stick

• In the middle of your forehead and the middle of your chin.
• Under your eyes in an upside-down triangle shape to brighten your eyes.

How to tell if your face is shaped like a square:

• Your face is about as long as it is wide. 
• The width of your hairline and jawline are about even.​

Where you should contour:
Try Sculpt in a Stick

• On the sides of your forehead to make your hairline appear more narrow. 
• Under your jawbone to make your jawline appear more narrow.
• The area below your cheekbones starting from your ears and ending in the middle of your cheeks.​

Where you should highlight:​
Try Light in a Stick

• In the middle of your forehead and the middle of your chin.
• Under your eyes and along your brow bone to brighten your eye area.

by BROOKE SHUNATONA

If you've ever tried covering a bright red pimple with skin-colored foundation and cried a little inside because the redness still peeped through, chances are it's because you're not correcting the color first. 

Using orange and green concealers might sound crazy, but the science behind it actually makes a lot of sense. Complementary colors (what you learned about in your third grade art class and never thought of again) are colors that fall on opposite sides of the color wheel and cancel each other out when used together. For example, if you have a red pimple, use a green concealer tone down the redness. 

Beauty vlogger and makeup artist Heidi Hamoud uses this old-school color theory to correct areas of her skin for a completely even skin tone, and the results are amazing. Here's how she does it:

Make sure your skin is really hydrated before applying thick makeup so the product doesn't settle in your fine lines and creases. Try Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream. 

Heidi used an orange shade to combat bluish under-eye circles and green concealer to cancel out some of the redness on her cheeks. Try  Secret Concealer by Laura Mercier for your orange under-eye shade, and the Camouflage Cream Pot by Make Up For Ever for the green. 

Use foundation and concealer that match your skin tone this time. Apply your foundation all over in a patting motion to evenly distribute the product without removing the colored concealer underneath. Finish by applying your concealer in the shape of an upside-down triangle underneath your eyes to brighten the area.

It's like magic, I tell ya. Watch the full video tutorial below. 

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