![]() Makes for a more seamless finish, rather than relying on your finger-painting skills. If you find that the brush buffs away too much of the colour, you can always build the product up. (Please do excuse the fact that I hadn’t yet applied by undereye concealer in these photos! Massive oversight, but you can’t remember everything…) I used a little foundation brush to apply my Shade & Illuminate you could easily use fingertips, but I like the airbrushed finish that you get with the buffing motion of the bristles. You can’t really go wrong with this duo at all – the creams slide on beautifully, blend out seamlessly and leave you with just the merest hint of a glow and a shadow. The latter group will not be disappointed. There are two arguments here, about the level of pay-off: some might say that they want something very potent and show-stopping for the price of the palette (£56)) some might argue that for their investment they want something that is foolproof and that gives the finest, most subtle results every time. ![]() In the photo above I’m wearing the highlighter and shader, both unblended – you can only just make out the gleam of the highlighter on the cheekbone, but the contouring cream is very obvious. It’s only when the light catches it that it glows on the skin – there’s no glimmer or shimmer, no “snail trail” of light across the cheekbones. You apply the creams expecting to have two very distinct shades to play with but in actual fact, the highlighter barely registers on the skin at all. It’s quite a warm and orangey bronzer, very flat so that it doesn’t reflect light, and the highlighter is incredibly sheer and non-shimmery. Tom Ford’s Shade and Illuminateis a compact containing a duo of cream highlight and cream bronzer. Still not “bargains”, by any stretch of the imagination, but less “all-out luxe”.) (I have some suggestions at the bottom of the page that I think work well. ![]() If you can’t justify it (or won’t) then there are always alternatives. If you feel like a proper treat, a real splurge, then you know where to find it. I’m not going to do that whole “gosh it’s so expensive” routine, because we all now know how pricey Tom Ford’s makeup is. And how dull would that be?īut moving on to today’s product which is the Tom Ford Shade and Illuminate duo. If we could all carry off Kim Kardashian’s contouring, we’d all have Kim Kardashian’s face. Look at your face, follow your instincts, work with your assets and not with the ones you’ve seen on other people. But if you have very rounded cheeks and try to make them disappear and somehow morph into Kate Moss’s razor-blade cheekbones, things are going to get weird. Contouring can look amazing – sharp, polished, professional, “photo ready”. I’m going to say no more on the matter for now, but let me just point out that there is absolutely nothing wrong with a spot of contouring if you work with your face and what it has in the way of bones and fleshy padding. Contouring should be about subtle enhancement of the existing features, not creating some crazy optical illusion, but the world has taken the contour trend and run with it and now we all have weird facial hollows and cheekbones that look as though they’ve had strip-lights inserted beneath the skin. Do we want fake cheekbones painted on our faces? Definitely not. In fact many people look as though they have simply “painted on fake shadows”, a bit like the bodybuilders who spray on extra definition around the stomach area to give themselves more impressive abs. ![]() There’s a reason why it’s a relatively new idea, in mainstream beauty, and it is that contouring is actually quite a tricky thing to get right. ![]() I want to talk about contouring in greater detail soon there seems to have been this crazy fad for it and I’m not sure that everyone has been embracing the trend with quite the caution and trepidation that they should have been. ![]()
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