Extreme contouring

This week in class Kat and Sue taught us how to do extreme contouring. We were shown how to create a dramatic look which shows a change to the shape of the face, especially the bone structure.

When contouring it is vital that you make sure the skin can breathe by not covering the entire face as the skin texture must show.

Kat's demonstration 1

Kat's demonstration 2

Below are the steps I followed to create my extreme contouring look:

• Apply a small amount of primer to the face, neck and ears
• Apply a light base over the face, neck and ears
• Apply powder over the top to set the base
• Highlight the forehead, cheeks, nose and jaw using a lighter shade
• Again highlight the forehead, cheeks, nose and jaw but this time using a darker shade
• Highlight the forehead, brow bone, cheeks and cupids bow using a shimmery shade
• Bronze the face using a matte shade

Here is my look the before and after which I created on myself it isn't as extreme as it could have been but I didn't want to darken it too much on my first attempt encase it went wrong. However if you look closely you will be able to see the areas in which I have contoured. 

Before

After

I did some more research into extreme contouring where I came across this video of extreme contouring using creams which I found very useful and interesting.