Cream contouring - Studio - Week 4

At the studio lesson Sue taught us how to use cream products to highlight and contour the face. Using cream products to shape the face is slightly different than using powder products and, in my oppinion, it is harder to do. But when "working for the camera" we have to make everything HD, so people can barely see that the model is wearing make-up or they cannot see at all. Cream products can be really well blended and really get into the skin, actually feeling and looking like skin.

The steps that need to be followed to work with cream products well are:

1.  Cleanse, tone and moisturize the face;
2. Apply (Kryolan) foundation that suits the model's skin tone and type and blend (with a kabuki/stippling brush);
3. Conceal (using Kryolan conealer palette) where is necessary - unde the eyes, spots, blemishes, any redness- and blend;
4. Highlight with a cream product above the cheekbone, the nazal bridge, on the forehead, on the arcade and under the eyes;
5. Contour with a cream product under the cheekbone, on the edges of the forehead, under the mandible if necessary and sculp the nose (using a flat brush and then a kabuki brush to blend);
6. Add a cream blusher and blend with a blusher brush/kabuki (if we have one);
7. Powder the face, especially the T zone (with a powder brush);
8. If we didn't have a cream blusher, after apply the powder we have to blush the cheeks with powder blusher (Kryolan blusher palette and Real Techniques blusher brush).

This is my before and after contouring with cream products on lovely Taylor: