After a certain amount of time has passed, it becomes embarrassing to ask questions about something seemingly everyone knows everything about, like contouring. If the details of this trend have ...

This technique changed everything.

Makeup has the incredible power to enhance our features and bring out our natural beauty. One technique that has gained immense popularity in recent years is contouring. By strategically using shadows ...

I asked makeup artist Hillary Clark to critique my beauty routine to help minimize my uncertainty. Clark suggested a few improved application techniques and said I can repurpose some of my products. I ...

“Underpainting is essentially ‘painting’ or applying contour and highlighter before your foundation,” explains Dani Kimiko Vincent, celebrity makeup artist, brow artist and founder of Kimiko. The ...

“Contouring is a way of adding dimension and sculpting the face to bring out someone’s bone structure,” MAC Senior Artist Fatima Thomas tells ESSENCE. However, while higher cheekbones and sculpted jaw ...

We’re all familiar with the art of contour makeup (whether we can actually do it well ourselves is another thing) and how artists are able to create envious bone structure—even if you weren’t born ...