There are two facts that I can always be certain are true in life. Number one – I have a round football head inherited from my Father, and number two – I will always favour chocolate over any other edible substance. I might as well give up now attempting to rectifying the second fact but in terms of my moonface there is hope in the form of contouring. Contouring is something I flit in and out of phases with, last year I discovered the rather fabulous Sleek Contouring Kit and persisted with that until I used up it’s last sculpting stroke but I never got round to repurchasing and for the past few months I have been going contour-free. Then a few weeks ago I attempted to contour with one of the most warm-toned bronze creams I own, the results were disastrous so that day I went out and purchased this – Kevyn Aucoin The Sculpting Powder in Medium, and you know what? I’m bloody glad I did…
Kevyn Aucoin recently-ish relaunched into Space NK (my second home) and after initially not being too fussed I’ve become increasingly interested in their offerings – I’ve heard ravings on both of their mascaras and apparently he was the guy who created the Shu Uemura Eyelash Curlers (my faves) and the curlers from the his own line are even better (they’re next on my shopping list). I’d seen a few people speak about The Sculpting Powder and as a contour it ticks every box – blendable, subtle and a cool toned mix of grey and brown shades which create a natural looking shadow on the hollows of the face. It’s one of those foolproof products that would be very difficult to look too heavy handed with. I’ve been dusting it on with a MAC 188 brush under the cheekbones, onto the temples and then under the chin and I could not be happier with the results. It looks so natural, so natural in fact I doubt others can see a difference, but when I look in the mirror I see a hint of a cheekbone and that’s as good as it’s ever gonna get people.
The Kevyn Aucoin Sculpting Powder doesn’t come cheap – £34 in fact and I picked mine up from Space NK, but I reckon there are similar shades in MAC’s Powder Blush line-up that would serve the same purpose, and if you fancied being really savvy you could sniff out a cool brown shade of eyeshadow off the highstreet and get clever with blending. It’s not so much about the formula, just the cool brown, slightly grey toned hue. Cheers for reading, but now I must rush off to go and admire my brand-new cheekbones…
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