Hey girls! Last week I shared with you my top 5 favorite bronzers and got a lot of great feedback, so this week I’m going to share with you my technique for contouring and bronzing my face.

I’m going to be using two of the bronzers (pictured below) that I recommended last week as well as two different brushes, both of which make using bronzer a breeze.

Physicians Formula Shimmer Strips in Vegas Strip | N.Y.C. Smooth Skin Bronzing Face Powder in Sunny

Bronzer may look difficult or intimidating at first (I know, nobody wants to look orange or fake!), but I swear it’s so much easier than it seems! Below, I’ll show you how to contour and highlight using bronzer. Let’s get on with the tutorial, shall we?

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How to Contour with Bronzer:

Use an angled contour brush — this is incredibly important as it will give you the most sculpted, precise application. My angled brush is from Sigma Beauty, which highly recommend picking up. Then with your bronzer, (I used N.Y.C.’s Sunny Bronzer for this step) you’re going to apply this to the part of your face RIGHT below your cheek bones. To help find the spot where you’re supposed to apply the bronzer, it helps to make a fishy face like I did in the photo on the left:

You’re going to just lightly blend the bronzer all throughout that specific area. I would also recommend that you blend the bronzer up to your temples and down your neck to balance everything out and frame your face (this is otherwise more commonly known as the E or 3 shape).

Now that you’ve contoured your face, depending on if you want to or not, you can choose to dab a little bit of your brush into the bronzer and lightly blend this down either side of your nose, as this will help slim your nose if you’re looking for that effect!