Canadian makeup guru Tana D’Amico joins The Zoomerist to share her secrets for enhancing your beauty at every age and stage.

Contouring sculpts features by shading and illuminating, using darker shades to create shadow and lighter shades to highlight. It doesn’t have to be extreme, a la Kardashian, but this technique can be used to subtly enhance certain features while minimizing others. 

There are different tricks for contouring different face shapes. For a square face, use contour to shave a little off the corners of the jaw and sides of the forehead to soften the squareness. For a long face, brush contour on the tip of the jaw and the top of the forehead to soften the length.  If you have a round face shape, like mine, contour below the cheekbones and under the jawline to sharpen your look. 

Regardless of face shape, everyone should be highlighting the centre of their face, along the nose and forehead and the tops of the cheekbones – this trick makes you look fresh and awake. For an extra glamorous, camera-ready look, use the highlighter to make an inverted triangle under the eye socket, as well as on the nasolabial folds (a.k.a. your laugh lines) that run beside your nose and on your cupid’s bow.