When you're planning your get-gorgeous routine for this coming weekend, how about playing up your cheekbones for a change? (It's alllll about contouring right now.) Check out this photo for inspiration.
Holy cheekbones, right?! For a Broadway opening the other night, Jennifer Morrison wore a velvet tux, so her makeup artist, Nick Barose, decided to go all-out 1970s party-girl glam with her makeup. "With pantsuits, your makeup really needs to be playful, because if it's just beige and blah or too natural you'll look like you're going to a business meeting," he explains. In the tradition of Studio 54 regulars like Jerry Hall and Bianca Jagger, he gave Jennifer dramatic eyes, strong lips AND very sculpted cheeks (one was he modernized the makeup was to smudge the eyes in plum instead of black). And it's those cheeks I'm totally mesmerized by!
So how did Nick make Jennifer's cheekbones pop like that (without getting TOO crazy-dramatic)? He used both a contouring palette and a pale blush. "There is a subtle darker stripe running down the hollow of her cheeks--as long as it's well-blended, this will look cool. But DO NOT do a stripe with pink blush, do it with contouring palette." On Jennifer, he used the Smashbox Step-by-Step Contouring Kit (but lots of brands sell these). Then, do a swirl a sheer pink powder blush only on the apples of your cheeks; Jennifer is wearing Lancome Blush Subtil in Cosmopolitan Pink, a velvety matte sheer pink.
How many of you contour your cheeks? Would you like to try sometime soon?