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How To: Create Fabulous Cheek Contours

FabSugar — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:47:14 -0700

If only we could all be born with naturally high and defined cheek bones. Most of us, however, need a little help to get the perfect contour and shape. Here's how to create that model-esque look in three easy steps.

First, apply a foundation that's one or two shades darker than your skin tone to the area of your cheeks that hollows out when you pucker up. Blend well, so that there's no line. I recommend MAC Cosmetics Hooked Bronzing Powder which you can buy here for $19.50.
Next, use a peachy apricot or a brown-based blush on the apples of your cheeks and be sure to blend well. I really like Nars Blush in Gina for medium skin tones or Orgasm for fairer skin. You can buy them here for $25.
Lastly, shine and define. Use a light golden or shimmery yellowish powder on the area right above your cheekbones. One swipe with the brush should be enough for a glowing accent. I recommend Diane Von Furstenberg Eclipse Highlighting Powder in Sunshine. Buy it here for $30.

To get all these contouring tools in one package, read more.

If you don't want to buy all the blush and powder separately, Scott Barnes Cheek Palette in Sundance has all of the essential ingredients for creating the perfect contoured cheeks. Each palette has three different pressed powder blushes in matte, demi-pearl, and pearl colors, which you can either blend your blush over together or use individually. Buy it here for $45.

Emblazoned Sunshiney Bronzers

FabSugar — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:24:55 -0800

Does winter have you feeling pale and bleak? Check out these festive emblazoned sunshiney bronzers to lift you up and create a tan looking face. Here's a look at four fun compacts with sun emblazoned logos built right into them. Apply them to your cheeks, forehead, and shoulders all year long. I have a feeling it's going to be a bright, bright, sunshiney day...

This Mosaics Collection Blush by Lancome, $35, is perfect for defining, highlighting and creating contour. Lancome is always thinking of great new packaging ideas. This one is tops! Now available in: breezy rose, bronze chic, celestial plum, cheeky brown, and eternal fire.

Stila Sun 'N Highlighter, $24, is a great way to warm up your face. All you have to do is make a single swirl with your brush all around the compact and apply. You will instantly look tan and radiant with this two-in-one bronzer and highlighter.

For two more emblazoned sunshiney bronzers, read more

What a pretty Embossed Bronzer by Laura Mercier, $32. This is a silky smooth formula that has just a little bit of glow to it; the results are a very natural look. Just add a pop of color to the apples of your cheeks and you'll look as though you are fresh off of the beach.

This All Over Skin Bronzing Powder by Sephora, $12, makes self tanning easy as pie, for a fraction of the cost of designer prices. Available in bronze (light skin) and cool (darker skin).

Simply Fab: New Benefit 10!

FabSugar — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:00:46 -0800

10 by Benefit, $26, is a bronzer and pale pink shimmery blush duo that can be perfectly applied to your cheeks in one simple swoop! It comes with a wide brush that collects color from both the pink and the bronze sides of the compact to make application a cinch.

The bronzer goes on your lower cheekbones to add contour and depth, while the pink highlighter powder goes on your upper cheekbones to brighten up your face.

You can also add some color to your décolleté and shoulder areas. This combo looks great on any complexion. Voilá, you're a perfect 10!

Pairs of Purple Lipsticks & Glosses

FabSugar — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:41:48 -0700

Purple is back with a vengeance! I love the way tanned skin and a lavender lip look together. It can be soft and sweet with a touch of pink on your cheeks and nothing on your eyes but mascara - or it can be sexy and seductive with contoured cheekbones and a dark cat eye lash line and falsies. Here are three of my favorite FABulous and fierce purple pouts:

Combo #1

Benefit's The Gloss in Kiss Me is a sheer fuchsia color that perfectly compliments a purple lipstick. Buy it here for $14.

Pair it with Benefit's Shang-ri-la Sheer Lipstick in Picked Up In Paradise. If you hurry, you can bid on it and save. The current offer on e-bay is for $8.99

Two more great combos, so read more

Combo #2

The next lavender combo I love is from Laura Mercier. Try her Lipstick Lip Shimmer in Amethyst, $20.

Match it with the perfect Gloss Glace in Violet for shine and enhancement. I am on my third tube of this gloss. I wear it over anything pink or purple.

Combo #3

Since we all have the brands we love, here's another purple classic. MAC's lipstick in Fluid is back "in" again. $14

Dab a little of Bobbi Brown's Lip Tint in Lilly (second from left) $16 in the center of your lower lip for some seriously luscious lilac shine!