I’m a beauty whizz and sick of seeing people make the same contouring mistake – put down the bronzer for start
CONTOURING has become a huge part of the make-up regime in the last few years, but it appears one woman has been left frustrated with the method people appear to be using.
Juliana Shiel, who boasts 79.6k followers on her TikTok account, uses her social media platform to talk about all things make-up and skincare.
From rating beauty products to recreating celebrity looks, the blonde beauty shares a variety of different content for her followers to consume.
Now, the Irish beauty has shared the correct contour shade and method to apply it to get the desired look.
“Every contour I see is a warm tone bronzer disguised as a contour,” she explained to her viewers.
Producing an e.l.f. Cosmetics contour product, she continued: “A contour should be cool-toned – a kind of grey-brown.
“This is an e.l.f. one and the shade is ‘Feelin’ Shady’.”
Dabbing a brush into the product, she went on to reveal that it was only £6 on ASOS.
“I’m going to use a MAC 270S to blend it in,” she shared before drawing a line from the side of her cheek bone down towards her mouth.
She then drew a second line going down from her cheek to her chin. Repeating this on the other side, she then used the contour on her nose and forehead.
“I’m going to soften those lines with a fluffy blending brush,” she continued.
@julianashiel went on to use the baking method on her under eyes, nose, the bottom half of her cheeks, chin and forehead.
Dusting away the excess, she then completed her make-up look with bronzer, blush, eyeliner and a soft pink lipstick.
“Okay, so this is my contour with my make-up done,” she added as the video came to an end.
“This is the @elfcosmetics putty bronzer in ‘feeling shady’,” Juliana wrote in the caption alongside a black heart emoji.
Her video resonated with many who are also tired of seeing people confuse contour with bronzer.
“Thank you! BRONZER IS NOT CONTOUR,” one person wrote, to which Juliana replied: “Periodt”. [sic]
While others were grateful for the useful tip as one person said: “thank you I’ve been looking for this tip”.
“Consider me influenced,” as a second shared as a third wrote: “Omg I thought I was going crazy. I have picked up so many “contours” and have been so disappointed at how warm & glowy they are. I’ve wasted so much€”. [sic]
Another asked: “how do I know where to draw my contour lines? Any tips?” [sic]
Juliana replied: “Make the duck face I’m making so you can see the line that defines your cheekbones! blend ALOT you don’t want an obvious line xx”. [sic]