You're already a pro at contouring — as in you've read countless stories about it online and probably have watched 3,000 YouTube tutorials; it's hard, I get it — but here are a few (heart-shaped!) contouring hacks, from beauty blogger Arshia Moorjani, that could (1) make sculpting your face a lot easier and (2) make you look cute AF in the process.
Here's a little preview of Moorjani's technique she's about to school you on:
And here's her final, insanely sculpted result:
OK, now for the how-to:
1. Using liquid concealer, create tiny hearts under your eyes and down onto the top part of each cheek. Choose a shade that matches your skin tone or is slightly lighter, and then begin drawing baby hearts by simply pushing the doe-foot applicator up to the right at a slight diagonal, and then up to the slight left.
2. Dot on a deeper-colored formula for a natural-looking contour. Take another concealer or cream matte bronzer that's two shades darker than your skin tone and dot it along the hollow of your cheekbone.
3. Blend, blend, blend. Start with the lighter concealer first and then blend out the darker-colored formula.
4. Choose your eye look of choice, dust on some blush, highlighter, and a glossy lip, and prepare to S L A Y in your new date-night look.
But Moorjani isn't the only one heart-contouring her way to chiseled cheekbones. Ally and Taylor Frankel, creators of NudeStix, also show Cosmopolitan.com exactly how to contour your entire face using their genius makeup sticks and, spoiler alert, more hearts!
For a more neutral look:
Apply the heart-shaped contouring like Ally does in the video above. If you want to use less product, you can always create the heart shapes using dashes rather than a continuous line.
And then blend, blend, blend with clean fingertips. Be sure to add more color to your eyes or cheekbones, if need be.
For a more dramatic smoky eye and red lip look:
Take a cue from Taylor as to where to apply the hearts to perfectly contour your face.
Blend to perfection, bumping up any color on your eyes or lips.
Voilà! Regardless of whether you choose the softer or bolder look, you're about to look like a bombshell this Valentine's Day.
You can also check out this equally adorable XO contouring video for a look you'll absolutely ~love~:
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Carly Cardellino was the beauty director at Cosmopolitan. If you follow her Instagram, then you know she'll try just about any beauty trend or treatment once (the pics of her purple hair are on IG to prove it). But her favorite part about being in beauty is finding the most effective products, and then sharing that intel with others—because who wants to spend money on stuff that doesn't work? No one, that's who. Her most recent discovery: De La Cruz Sulfur Ointment, which will change your blemish-clearing game! Hopefully through the beauty stories she writes—and the experiences she shares—you can see exactly why she's in this business.
