"It's so complicated!" Charlotte exclaimed. "When I look at those kits I just want to lay down — like how is any woman supposed to understand this? You really just need two shadows: shade and light." According to Charlotte, the easiest way to contour is to take your darker shade and apply it with a contour brush. "Suck in your cheeks and go where the natural shade hits," she explained. "Go taut on your jawbone to get more definition, and go onto your temples. It will give you that facial architecture. Jennifer Lopez puts a little highlight and contour onto the cheekbones and underneath the jaw every day."
As for highlighter, Charlotte recommends making a C-shape from your brow bone to the tops of your cheeks to get "that candlelit skin." Dabbing highlighter on the inner corners of your eyes is a "great Hollywood trick" to open them up. If you drag your brush around the nose in a U shape, it shortens it.
