Beginner Contouring Products 2017
Contour Your Way to a Natural Beauty Look With This Guide
As 2017 was predicted to be the year of natural makeup, we're definitely on board with a slightly more low-maintenance approach after all that festive glitter. However, natural beauty doesn't mean you can't finally master the contour technique you've been wanting to try forever. The beauty world is still obsessed with contouring every inch of the body and doing a full-on Kim Kardashian face. But for many of us busy or lazy beauty girls, we'd rather sleep extra 15-20 minutes than channel our inner Mario Dedivanovic. If you want to get all those extra snooze minutes in but still want to be bronzed and highlighted, we've found the best products to easily create everyday natural contoured makeup that highlights your best features.
With these products and guide become a master at everyday contouring that leaves you skin feeling dewy, natural-looking, and beautifully bronzed.
Barry M's Chisel Cheeks Contour and Highlighter Creams (£8) are perfect if you don't want to invest in higher end contour products. These sticks are cheap but pigmented and don't break the bank even if you want to try more than one contour product. Lightly use a beauty blender or a stippling brush to fully blend out and build to your desired coverage.
Reviews of the Step-By-Step Contour Stick Trio (£35) from customers say that these pencils are the easiest contour products for beginners as they come with instructions and the creamy formula makes them easy to blend leaving a natural look.
The Master Contour V-Shape Duo (£7) is the ultimate two-in-one creamy contour and highlight stick, it has a dark and light shade on the same stick but different sides, it is as simple as turning the stick to use the shade you want. Perfect for the on-the-go makeup girl.
Nudestix were a brand built on natural and easy to use products and its Sculpting Pencil (£24) is a fuss-free way to naturally enhance your bone structure.
The Studio Quiktrik Stick (£26) is a creamy contour and highlight stick with slight shimmer, a little goes a long way to creating a natural look with this stick. One MAC customer reviewed this product "as someone who isn't all that great or patient with makeup but still wants to have a little bit of contouring, this is perfect for me." Proof that this MAC stick is perfect for easy contouring.
If you prefer a powder to cream the Sculpting Kit (£28) may be your perfect beginners purchase. Powder contour kits can be quite pigmented so a little product can go a long way making this kit a good investment.
The Wonder Stick (£10) is another cream contour product with no shimmer pigments for those who want to add highlight afterwards or no highlight at all. The cream formula allows for a buildable coverage giving a natural finish.
The Nars Contour Blush Kit (£32) comes in multiple shades to accentuate individual skin tones giving a completely natural and enhanced contour look. As it has strong powder pigment be careful using this for the first time as you can always build the colour, but it is harder to remove too much product!