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These make-up products will help you emphasise the features you exactly wish to, and will leave your skin radiant too

8 contouring and bronzing make-up products to sculpt and define

These bronzers and contour products will enable you to emphasise the facial features you want to highlight

If you’ve done a good job at contouring and bronzing, it is best for nobody to actually realise you’ve done it. You can emphasise the features you want, make your nose look smaller, your cheekbones higher and skin glowier. While bronzers will give you the lit-from-within radiance that looks like you’ve just returned from a beach holiday, contour products will provide strong definition, and some double-use products will give you a bit of both.

Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Bronzing CreamShop here₹ 3,990The texture of this bronzing cream isn’t cream-like at all. Instead, it is featherlight and super smooth, which makes it blend into the skin easily, thanks to a combination of silica and soft-focus powders. It’ll warm up your face without looking too intense, so if you’re a contouring newbie, this is a starter product you can’t really mess up. The large compact is perfectly sized for you to swirl a kabuki brush through it, so you’ll pick up just the product you need.

Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Bronzing Cream

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₹ 3,990

The texture of this bronzing cream isn’t cream-like at all. Instead, it is featherlight and super smooth, which makes it blend into the skin easily, thanks to a combination of silica and soft-focus powders. It’ll warm up your face without looking too intense, so if you’re a contouring newbie, this is a starter product you can’t really mess up. The large compact is perfectly sized for you to swirl a kabuki brush through it, so you’ll pick up just the product you need.

Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Contour WandShop here₹ 3,650For a more directed application of all that warmth, a contour wand with a built-in cushion is a good call. You can squeeze to apply the cream-gel formula, and then blend it in with the end, which serves like a sponge that’ll give the sheer coverage you’re looking for. Despite the fact that it is liquid, it dries down super quickly without looking streaky.

Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Contour Wand

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₹ 3,650

For a more directed application of all that warmth, a contour wand with a built-in cushion is a good call. You can squeeze to apply the cream-gel formula, and then blend it in with the end, which serves like a sponge that’ll give the sheer coverage you’re looking for. Despite the fact that it is liquid, it dries down super quickly without looking streaky.

Fenty Beauty Match Stix Contour Skin SticksShop here₹ 2,250If you want cheekbones that look like they’re actually thanks to your natural bone structure, this product’s stick design and rounded shape give you directed, controlled application so you can draw the perfect lines up your cheekbones, your forehead, or even tricky spots like the sides of your nose or below your lips. The formula is super lightweight and has a skin-like finish, so you won’t land up with streaky lines.

Fenty Beauty Match Stix Contour Skin Sticks

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₹ 2,250

If you want cheekbones that look like they’re actually thanks to your natural bone structure, this product’s stick design and rounded shape give you directed, controlled application so you can draw the perfect lines up your cheekbones, your forehead, or even tricky spots like the sides of your nose or below your lips. The formula is super lightweight and has a skin-like finish, so you won’t land up with streaky lines.

Huda Beauty TantourShop here₹ 2,500This product doubles as a contour and bronzer—it sculpts and creates dramatic definition while adding warmth and a subtle glow to your skin. The cream-to-powder formula is packed with pigment so it has a strong payoff that’ll give you sharp cheekbones and a back-from-vacation radiance.

Huda Beauty Tantour

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₹ 2,500

This product doubles as a contour and bronzer—it sculpts and creates dramatic definition while adding warmth and a subtle glow to your skin. The cream-to-powder formula is packed with pigment so it has a strong payoff that’ll give you sharp cheekbones and a back-from-vacation radiance.

Kay Beauty Contour StickShop here₹ 599This stick makes contouring as easy as 1-2-3, just use the pen-like product to draw a line along the hollow of your cheekbones, the edges of your jaw bones and down the sides of the nose. The marula oil- and Vitamin C-spiked formula ensures that the pigment melts into your skin and blends in within seconds.

Kay Beauty Contour Stick

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₹ 599

This stick makes contouring as easy as 1-2-3, just use the pen-like product to draw a line along the hollow of your cheekbones, the edges of your jaw bones and down the sides of the nose. The marula oil- and Vitamin C-spiked formula ensures that the pigment melts into your skin and blends in within seconds.

NYX Professional Wonder StickShop here₹ 835This stick is ideal to use on-the-go. It takes the guesswork out of finding a contouring and highlighting product that’ll work together, and will ensure you can enhance and define with the same simple product, thanks to the double-ended wand. The wand has a warm contour product and a cooler, lighter concealer-highlighter combination.


NYX Professional Wonder Stick

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₹ 835

This stick is ideal to use on-the-go. It takes the guesswork out of finding a contouring and highlighting product that’ll work together, and will ensure you can enhance and define with the same simple product, thanks to the double-ended wand. The wand has a warm contour product and a cooler, lighter concealer-highlighter combination.

Benefit Hoola BronzerShop here₹ 3,100Ask any make-up artist or beauty editor and they’ll tell you they have strong feelings about this product. It’s a cult-favourite for a reason—if you apply it with a precision brush, it can deliver sculpted cheekbones and a lifted nose. However if you apply it with a larger, softer brush, you can get a buildable, sun-kissed glow.

Benefit Hoola Bronzer

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₹ 3,100

Ask any make-up artist or beauty editor and they’ll tell you they have strong feelings about this product. It’s a cult-favourite for a reason—if you apply it with a precision brush, it can deliver sculpted cheekbones and a lifted nose. However if you apply it with a larger, softer brush, you can get a buildable, sun-kissed glow.

Anastasia Beverly Hills Contour KitShop here₹ 4,500If you’re a contouring pro, you might want to step up your game from a simple defined cheekbone to an all-over sculpt. For that, this kit, with three different shades of a contour and highlighter product in finely-milled powder finish will let you colour-correct, lift, define and brighten your features.

Anastasia Beverly Hills Contour Kit

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₹ 4,500

If you’re a contouring pro, you might want to step up your game from a simple defined cheekbone to an all-over sculpt. For that, this kit, with three different shades of a contour and highlighter product in finely-milled powder finish will let you colour-correct, lift, define and brighten your features.

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