If your skin is dark, I imagine the contour won't show up/will be too light. It only comes in one shade selection, but it seems like it'd work well for anyone with a fair to medium complexion. It is a small palette with a contour and a highlight. Her finished look is very natural … a little brighter, a little more “put-together.” We have to stan.The first is drugstore: Kate Slim Create Powder. Instead of contouring along the entire nose bridge, Pony simply applies the contour to the sides of the tip of her nose, horizontally across the tip and a tiny dab at the bottom of the nose, to make the nose appear more narrow and straight.Īnother big difference? Pony contours her lips! What a concept! Her tip makes your lips appear fuller and to help keep your lipstick from smudging. She applies the contour stick from Etude House in all of the same areas (along the hairline, cheekbones, jawline), but the nose contour is where things change a little. In Pony’s tutorial (which you can find here), the makeup star takes the more Korean approach. (In Western makeup, it’s almost a requisite in tutorials at this point.) Contour is just now becoming popular in Korean makeup, and even now, I don’t really see a lot of Korean women doing it in their makeup tutorials. It’s like the little ummph that takes your makeup from basic to slay. It’s not as extreme as Western contour IMO - it’s applied with a much lighter hand and isn’t so drastic as some Western contour can be. People can seriously make their noses look like they’ve had plastic surgery. Western contour (or at least the Instagram version) is quite intense - some people have snatched their faces so severely they look like different people. Highlighting is when you take a lighter colored concealer type product (not to be confused with the shimmery highlight product you place on your cheekbones) that you place under the eyes, in the middle of your forehead, and down the middle of your nose. Once you contour, you have to balance that out with highlight. Then you place it along the cheekbones, down along the sides of your nose, and along the jawline. You place it (pretty heavy-handedly) around the hairline. It’s not a bronzer - it’s a more cool-toned product (hence the whole shading thing). Western contouring typically involves a product (either powder or cream) that is multiple shades darker than your skin tone. My favorite? Makeup Shayla’s:īut back to the differences. You can spend hours, days, weeks, on YouTube looking at tutorials, do’s and dont’s, tips and tricks, techniques. Like I said earlier, contouring has been a cornerstone of Western style makeup for the vast majority of the 2010s. It’s been around for approximately a bajillion years, but became popular in the last few years due to Kim Kardashian-West proclaiming it was her biggest makeup tip.Ĭontouring involves taking a cream or powder product and placing it on strategic areas of your face to create more dimension and depth. Contouring is a makeup technique that uses makeup to sculpt, shape, or enhance certain parts of your face and body. So first, let me explain what contour is. What are the key differences? Let’s take a closer look. Her technique was similar to Western beauty bloggers, but also not the same. But the video that caught my eye was the one where she demo’d the contour sticks. She recently came out with a collab with Etude House, complete with contour sticks and a rosy tinted eyeshadow palette. Watching her YouTube videos is one of the highlights of my life. Kardashian kontour? How about something just as effective but a bit more natural? Korean makeup artist extraordinaire Pony shows us how to do a Korean contour with her new Etude House collab that anyone can do.ĭo you love Pony? Because I LOVE Pony.
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