This Trending Highlight and Contour Hack Utilises a Surprisingly Common Tool

We use the same makeup products as our favourite beauty role models, so why aren’t we glowing just like them?

The key may be in how you contour and highlight your face. The right techniques can truly accentuate your features.

Psst, just between us – there’s actually a trick to it and it uses a tool that most of us have, just not at our vanity table – a flashlight!

Curious about how a a flashlight can help you improve your contour and highlight game? Continue reading!

Step One: Illuminate Your Face from Below

After completing her foundation routine, TikTok user @_itsjing strategically places her phone flashlight beneath her face.

This technique helps identify ideal highlight spots on her front profile, focusing on areas with shadows like under-eye, smile lines, and the corner of her mouth.

Following that, she dabs a concealer a few shades lighter than her usual tone onto the shadowed areas with her flash brush. She then uses a mini sponge to blend the formula.

Where to Find the Products She Used

• Timage Dual-texture Highlighter retails for RM355.55 and is available on Shopee. A discount is offered at the time of writing. Tap in to see updated price.
• Flower Knows Mini Sponge retails for RM3oo and is available on Shopee.

Step Two: Cast Light from the Sides of Your Face

This step aids in pinpointing sunken areas around your mid-face. For @_itsjing, shadows emerged near her nose area, which she illuminated by applying light concealer in the form of a small triangle.

According to @_itsjing, this technique imparted a more youthful and lifted appearance by effectively highlighting her sunken areas as seen in her before and after pictures!

@_itsjing This flashlight hack to help you pinpoint the right placement for facial contouring/highlighting! Xiaohongshu girlies never miss😩#contourhack #hightlightingandcountour #asianmakeuphacks #makeuptips #makeuptutorial #chinesemakeup #xiaohongshumakeup ♬ original sound – Jing

Step Three: Direct Light to the Sides of Your Nose

Position your phone below your brow, along the side of your nose, to capture the natural nose shadow, as showcased by our DV member, Swee Qi, on @dailyvanity’s TikTok. Follow the shadow using your preferred contour powder and brush, and achieve a seamless, natural-looking nose contour effortlessly!

Swee Qi shared that this hack was super easy to incorporate into her daily routine. She liked that it allowed her to enhance her nose contour while remaining true to its natural shape, and thinks it could be useful for those who want to try nose contouring but aren’t sure where to start!

@dailyvanity This torchlight contour hack is ✨game changing✨ #contour #contourtutorial #torchlightcontour #contouringhacks #contouring #makeuphacks #makeuptutorial #learnontiktok #tiktoksg #tiktokmalaysia ♬ Strangers – Kenya Grace

Where to Find the Products She Used

• Too Cool For School Artclass By Rodin Shading retails for RM131 and is available on Shopee. A discount is offered at the time of writing. Tap in to see updated price!

Featured image credits: @_itsjing/TikTok, @dailyvanity/TikTok