How To Use Tarte Pro Glow

And so you got a Tarte highlight and contour kit and have NO thought what to do with it or how to use information technology. Cheers FabFitFun team! 😒

I am here to help you brand sense of all the madness!

If you have make upwards brushes, it volition exist helpful, only I'm a strong believer that fingers are okay to use equally long as they are clean.

I similar to use brushes from Elf Cosmetics because they're super inexpensive, readily available at your local Target/Walmart, and are of amazing quality for the price. I wrote near my favorite ones in a post a few months ago.

You will need a brush for highlighter/contouring:

This brush can be used for everything really. It's a great brush for building up product.

Might look something like this. A medium sized castor with long fluffy bristles – Like this one, or this one

A brush for contouring:

A brush like this volition help you become a more dramatic look past picking up more product.

A dense brush with brusque bristles – I like to apply this one and this i (which is technically an heart shadow brush, merely whatever)

And a blending castor:

A brush like this will make sure everything looks seamless.

A large ol' fluffy brush with semi-dumbo beard to buff out harsh lines like this one

Dandy! Only I nonetheless don't know what a highlighting or contour is.

Fantabulous question! So the commencement four colours (lit, strobe, fire, stunner) are your highlight powders. Highlighters are meant to reflect low-cal off the high points of your confront, where the light would naturally hit information technology get-go. It'southward a thing because people these days are really going for the "good for you glowing" look. When your skin is hydrated and bouncy, calorie-free bounces off your cheek basic, your brow bones, and span of your olfactory organ. Highlighters help create the illusion that your pare is plump, bouncy, and reflecting all the light that touches it like the star you are.

You can use simply one highlighter at a fourth dimension, or you tin mix them equally well. Some of these are warmer (lit and burn down) and others take larger pieces of glitter in them (strobe), it's like a choose your own take chances. No right or wrong way to do this.

In the second slide, you should exist able to see how reflective these highlighters are!

The two shades at the bottom (shade and sculpt) are your contour shades. Contouring ways that you lot are creating shadow on your face to make your high points "popular". Information technology'south all about the illusion of light and shadow to bring out your best features. Shade is a cream contour and sculpt is a pulverisation. Depending on your preference, you can use either and they practice the same thing. Those with skin on the drier side may adopt the cream contour.

My personal preference is to use my fingers for foam contours (I besides prefer them in a stick format (Chapstick style) and a brush for powder contours.

Overall, highlighting/contouring is a technique to bring some more dimension to your confront. If you Google it, it can exist a pretty intimidating topic, simply you can utilise some basics in your every day routine to refresh your routine.

Bonus tip: You can too use whatever of these shades in this palette as eyeshadows.

This is how I have been using this palette lately:

Step 1

You lot desire to stop all your complexion make up/skincare offset. Then terminate your foundation, concealer, gear up your makeup with powder, if that's a affair yous do. Pause before y'all put on whatever blush.

Step two countouring

In my little Instagram series, I show how I use the profile shades in a more dramatic mode (what I'd practice for being on camera or on stage). For a more subtle look, use a less dense brush with long bristles, and slowly build upwards your shadow areas. (See the video at the end of the mail service for more details)

Near of these slides are me blending, blending, blending! The areas I tend to contour are my cheeks and my olfactory organ. Y'all can also add shadow correct along your jaw and hairline. What that does is make the edges of your confront recede and then the features in the middle of your face stand out.

Step 3

This is usually where I add blush. Opposite to popular belief, it'south all-time to apply chroma when yous're Non smiling. You want it on the apple of your cheek, aye, only in one case yous stop smiling the blush is going to cease upwards likewise far downwards your face up. You want it to help lift your features.

Step 4 highlighting

In this slideshow I testify you where the most mutual places to highlight are. Your cheekbones, the bridge of your nose, brow bones, the tip of your nose, cupid's bow. Sometimes, I even add a touch of highlighter on the center of my eyelids. You can also add highlighter right downward the centre of your face up, similar the centre of your forehead and a little on your chin equally well.

I hope this helps!

For a much more than detailed tutorial, watch this video from one of my favourite make up artists.