Contouring My Face
Marthe Bernskoetter
Facial contouring is a term that refers to sculpting or tightening different areas of the face. Popular facial contouring procedures include FaceTite, AccuTite, Evoke, SculpSure Submental, and Ultherapy. Each procedure has something different to offer; these technologies can sculpt the chin and jawline or tighten skin around the eyes and neck. Click below to navigate.
FaceTite is a non-invasive procedure that offers an alternative to a surgical facelift. It is scarless and bladeless with little downtime. FaceTite relies on the latest in radiofrequency technology to tighten skin in the face, neck, jowls, cheeks, brow area, nasolabial folds, forehead and jawline areas.
AccuTite is similar to technologies like FaceTite and BodyTite, but it is specifically designed to tighten skin in small areas. The minimally invasive procedure can solve problems like baggy eyelids, loose skin around the knees, and bra overhang.
I've seen this trend (located at #tapecontour) popping up on my For You page at least once every day for a few weeks now. The results are pretty much always great, but I cringe every time I watch a person's face distort as they literally try to pull their mouth upward and outward. If you've ever hated something so much that you had to try it yourself just to prove how stupid it was, you'll understand why I had to do what you're about to see me do.
Thankfully, this viral trend is simple enough that I only had it try it once to get it down pat. I pulled a piece of clear Scotch tape across my face, which was immediately uncomfortable. With my lips screaming for refuge and the bottom half of my face pulled taught, I felt less like a resourceful makeup artist and more like Pee-Wee Herman during his morning routine in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Truly, I might as well have put some on my nose and bore my nostrils to the mirror (tra-la-la-la).
Resisting the urge to pull that tape right back off, I applied my favorite contouring cream, Jones Road The Face Pencil in Shade 21, along the upper edges of the tape on either side and blended it out with MAC's 188 Synthetic Small Duo Fibre Face Brush.
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The main tips are to use the contour shades to slim and narrow any larger or more pronounced areas of your face, as well as defining your cheekbones, while using the highlight shades to bring forward any parts of your face and to brighten up your eye area.
Hi, see attached model. I would like to contour the face of the KF-16 for welding purpose. My first attempt gave a result that did not make sense. The tool path is partially off the part and only on one side.
I know the cam side. I could not figure out how to draw a plane in the center of the bore. Looks like I need to learn the drawing side of things. If you have time can you explain how you drew the construction plane.
The main tips are to use the contour makeup shades to slim and narrow any larger or more pronounced areas of your face, as well as defining your cheekbones, while using the highlight shades to bring forward any parts of your face and to brighten up your eye area.
You will need good slip on the skin to glide the Multi-Sculpt easily across the face. If you are adding the Multi-Sculpt into your everyday skincare routine, we recommend using the tool after you have applied your serum and moisturiser. If you are following the Multi-Sculpt 10 Move Face-Sculpting Method we recommend using a face oil like our FaceGym Signature Face Oils to allow enough slip for the duration of the protocol.
The Multi-Sculpt is made from medical-grade stainless steel that is non-irritating for all skin types, can easily be sanitized and sterilized and can be used cool or warm. It is also an exceptionally durable material that won't break or chip if you drop it and has high corrosion resistance giving your tool longevity.
The Multi-Sculpt is a great tool for anyone who wants healthy skin and facial muscles. Using the Multi Sculpt daily - alongside a good skincare routine - will help to maintain good skin condition and sculpted facial contours.
Stainless steel is a medical-grade material that is non-irritating for all skin types, can easily be sanitised and sterilised and can be used cool or warm. It is also an exceptionally durable material that won't break or chip if you drop it and has high corrosion resistance giving your tool longevity.
It's amazing how adding just a little bit of shadows can drastically improve the depth of your photographs. Contouring faces is a little trick that can take a few minutes to do, but ultimately increases the overall image quality. I'm going to show you how to use the adjustment brush tool in Lightroom to act similar to the dodging tool in Photoshop, and then the key areas to brush for properly contouring a face.
I often think people underestimate the true power of Lightroom. It's true that Photoshop is an amazing tool that allows you to do much more than Lightroom, but Lightroom can be equally effective if used right. All the contouring in the image above was done using the adjustment brush tool. By adjusting a couple of settings, the brush acts very similar to the dodge tool in Photoshop.
I don't like to adjust the exposure because I don't want the brush to darken everything. I adjust the shadows because I want it to make the shadows that already exist more pronounced. I'll go over why the saturation is up in a moment.
The flow affects how much the brush is actually brushing. The flow is set to 53 so that I can control how much the brush affects the shadows. The density does exactly what it sounds like, it affects the density or the opacity of the brush tool.
The above image shows where I've brushed in red. Brushing certain areas will add dimension to the image, and make it appear sharper. The three main areas to brush are the cheekbones, nose, and forehead. Brushing the cheeks makes the face appear slimmer, brushing the nose makes it less pronounced, and brushing the forehead makes it less of an attention grabber. I also brushed underneath her chin to add some separation. You can see I also added a little brushing to the shoulder to add dimension.
When you start darkening the shadows with the brush tool, sometimes it can make the person's face look dirty. This is where adding saturation comes in. By adding saturation you bring back some of the color that was lost when that area was darkened.
Then you did the opposite of what the technique proposed. You took it into photoshop and frequency-separated and burned and dodged the hell out of it, then brought it back to lightroom. Why don't you try again with an unedited RAW and prove the technique has merit.
So it is possible to contour in Lightroom. Just don't like the final result on the picture at hand, seems over processed to me, specially on the nose and eyebrows.
Other than that, it's good to know that the cheaper Lightroom lets us at least get some job done.
I would not trade it for Photoshop's dodge burn masks, but that's a personal opinion.
I agree, and looking at the images posted, I over worked the shadows to much to prove my point. I just wanted to show work can be done in Lightroom for the people that are over whelmed by the vastness of PS.
Much better, but I still prefer the original. It still looks to me a bit like what a lot of women tend to do as they get into 40s (sorry ladies, just a man's observation) where they overdo the makeup and end up looking older than they really are, and often times quite scary looking. The afters look like they could be mom. The age difference is that big.
The article does a good job of showing what is possible with Lightroom, which was obviously the whole point. After that people will have their preferences as to how far the retouching should go. I prefer a more natural look that does not age the model, so just less of what he did, or nothing at all.
I think most photographers of today do not realize or truly appreciate that amazing photo retouching was being done long before the computer. If they did, they would have a much greater appreciation for what can be done in an app like Lightroom, which is ridiculously more capable than the tools used by the best Hollwood retouchers of those amazing glamor photos of the 40s and 50s, that we all know.
For article purposes, yes. So we can see what's been made. Nice though, i'm kind of impressed by LR. For a "cheap" software, it gets most done.
Replying Chris Smart comment, i don't know if you people missed it, but most super models are now contouring compatible, they almost look the same from Adriana Lima to Sara Sampaio, face and jaw lines, small noses and big eyes.
Girls tend to look like this nowadays due to marketing and trending stuff.
It's when you look at a 40s picture and say, well woman were different back then, your grandkids will tell the same about today's woman and men.
I believe traits are fashionable, belonging to a certain time period on our history, moden one, because cave man looked the same for hundreds of years, just straight walking bushes. And i'm getting off topic here...
From what I have seen, models in recent times are mostly chosen because they look unusual, not because they are exceptionally beautiful, or even beautiful at all. I'll take the women from the 40s through to the 80s; they had eyebrows and didn't look scary and unnatural. :)
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