Practical - Extreme Contouring

Extreme contouring is a much more artistic interpretation of your everyday contouring, often using brighter and more creative colour choices and focusing more on the skulls natural bone structure of the jaw, cheeks, brow, temples and jaw. This is a look far more intense than everyday makeup and therefore is a technique more suitable for avant garde and editorial makeup. The dramatic contour of celebrities such as Kim Kardashian uses a similar technique although is often to harsh for every day and is designed purposely for photography, therefore extreme contouring is a technique that should be used only for imagery.

Process of Extreme Contouring

1. Cleanse, tone and moisture the face to ensure a clean base for application. 
2. Apply a primer to the skin e.g. Illamasqua Matte Primer
3. Taking a pale colour e.g. white supra colour, apply along the natural highlights of the face such as the cheekbones, forehead, nose and jaw.
4. Blend the colour out to soften.
5. If using a powder for the contour use a translucent powder and pat into the skin with the side of brush or puff to remove greasy consistency of white base.
6. Take a darker colour of your choice in either a grease or powder and apply under the cheekbone, close to the nose, sides of the temples and jawline.
7. By taking the contour in closer to the nose and emphasising the natural hollow the expression will appear angrier and more alien.
8. Once powdered you may go over with contour powders and highlighters to add extra dimension.

My version of E.C. using 'Pink & Gold'

Evaluation

Overall I was rather pleased with the final outcome of extreme contouring as it is more an artistic makeup style, and a new favourite technique of mine as it holds significantly less boundaries and is more open to artistic interpretation, although developing an understanding of bone structure and working to enhance the natural contours of the face was rather difficult to begin with and essential. This look was a mixture of pink, white and gold highlight to emphasis the jawline, cheekbones and sides of the nose. This is definitely a technique that I will develop and use in the future work and projects and I feel I can develop myself to be bolder with my colour choices and strength of colour application when completing an extreme contour.