Tag: Contouring

23rd January 2015

Clinique Chubby Sculpting Sticks in Curvy Contour and Hefty Highlight

  Just a week after I featured one simple contour kit (with an unfortunate typo) along comes another, even simpler, one from Clinique.  Another extension to the astonishingly successful Chubby Stick range, this features one contour crayon, and one highlighter and is easy enough even for the most cack-handedly muppety of us. Really, it’s almost insultingly simple to use – draw a dark line where […]

15th January 2015

Laura Mercier Flawless Contouring Palette

First things first, let’s get some pedantry out of the way: Discrete means: Separate.  Apart.  Individual. Distinct. Discreet means: Subtle.  Unobtrusive. Private. Both the packaging and press release for this Laura Mercier Flawless Contouring palette promises you, (over and over): “DISCRETE” contouring.  This word they keep using, it does not mean what they think it means.  It has caused a couple of head-desk interfaces at […]