Highlighting and Contouring

When it comes to highlighting and contouring it simply means enhancing your best features. It defines your cheekbone, slims your nose and also sculpts your face. I usually get a lot of questions on how I contour and highlight. Hopefully this detailed post would help a lot of people who are curious and willing to learn. I haven't made any youtube videos lately due to laziness and lack of time. Therefore, I hope you guys enjoy this post on my blog. 

STEP 1: I started with my highlight, using my LA pro girl concealer in toffee and Sephora collection concealer in #35. Usually I would use fawn from LA pro girl but I love the result I get from mixing  these two concealers. 

STEP 2: As you can see I love to play around when doing my makeup, there's no logic to the tribal marks you see on my face. All you need to do is place your concealer which should be a shade or two lighter than your complexion on areas where you want to highlight. Which are under your eyes, the bridge of your nose, your chin, your forehead and your cupids bow.

STEP 3: Apply your contour using a concealer two or three shades darker than your complexion. I'm using the darkest shade in my mac concealer palette. I applied it to the hollows of my cheek, the sides of my nose and my temples (side of my forehead).

STEP 4: BLEND, BLEND, BLEND, this is the key when it comes to sculpting your face. I love to use the beauty blender, it is the easiest and fastest way to blend your concealer in my opinion. 

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AFTER ---

STEP 5: Set the concealer, I use my ben nye banana powder to set my highlight and my bare minerals loose foundation powder in warm deep to set the contour.

 STEP 6: Remove excess powder, I applied my mac studio fix foundation powder in NC45 on top to blend everything. FINISHED LOOK BELOW.

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHEN CONTOURING AND HIGHLIGHTING, YOUR FACE SHAPE SHOULD BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION.
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20 Facts About Me.

1. Swift is not my real name, it was a name i gave myself when i was going through a name change phase and it was also because of how much I loved taylor swift at that time that i decided to change my name to Uche Swift.
2. My best color has been the same since I was 13years old. Guess the color?
3. Every time I meet someone new, the first thing I look at are their brows.
4. Being a makeup artist has made me notice really weird things, like my attention to details on people's faces is incredible.
5. I am very afraid of animals, especially dogs.

6. I love watching anime in my down time, I rather watch anime than tv shows or go clubbing. 

7. I see beyonce as my inspiration, I'm not obsessed with her. I just like the idea of a woman achieving so much for herself as an individual. Hope to do twice as much for myself. 

8. I moved to Canada by myself when I was 16 and I have been living by myself ever since. Sometimes I wonder if I can tolerate living with other people.

9. I hate winter with a passion, I hate being cold. Sometimes I literally sleep with my winter jacket if the heater is not warm enough. 

10. I randomly break a move in public when I hear my favourite song. It doesn't matter where I am, I would start dancing. 

11. I'm the second oldest of five children. 

12. When I meet people I randomly think about what makeup look I could do on their faces. 

13. The first time I have ever been on an aircraft was on a private jet with my dad and the minister of energy and power

14. It is not that I'm weak but whenever someone cries Infront of me, I start to tear up for a reason I don't understand.

15. I am allergic to alcohol, bet you didn't know that. Now u do because, it is something I found out the hard way. 

16. I spend more money on makeup than  clothes, bags and shoes put together. 

17. As much as I love makeup, I prefer wearing lip glosses to lipsticks. 

18. I don't like wearing watches, too stressful for me.

19. I'm afraid of not achieving much before I die.

20. If you didn't know yesterday was my birthday and I thought it would be cool to write 20 facts about me. So now u guys know a little bit more about me. Enjoy!!!