Last year was undoubtedly the Age of the Contour, and no one did it better than Kim K.
Instagram feeds and YouTube accounts all over the world were filled with beauty gurus demonstrating how to get the perfect Kim K cheek. Makeup companies started listening and the market was flooded with contouring brushes, contouring palettes and various highlighters all designed to help people achieve the defined jawlines and slender noses of our favourite celebrities.
The makeup trends that need to stay in 2014.
Contouring itself is nothing new. Celebrity makeup artists have been doing it for years. The basic notion is that anything you want to hide (wide nose, big chin) recedes with the use of darker colours – and anything you wish to highlight (cheekbones, brow bones, cupids bow) is illuminated with pearlescent pigments and lighter shades.