24 Contour Kit Product Reviews

Contouring – the art of using light and shade to strategically shift the angles of your face – is a technique coined by the drag scene and brought into the mainstream by the likes of make-up artists Mario Dedivanovic and Patrick Ta (not to mention a certain Kardashian). Today, it seems no make-up bag is complete without the right contour kit to create those killer cheekbones.

Recent years might have brought a backlash over the paint-by-numbers nature of the Instagram Face, but there’s still a way to contour that flatters (rather than changes) your individual features.

Lori Woodhouse, Education Director at Tom Ford Beauty perfectly sums up why a good contour kit makes such a big difference: ‘Contouring amplifies your natural beauty and helps to enhance the bone structure, finding balance and symmetry.’

Her top tip is to always find the right shade (using the wrong one is a common mistake), and to get to know your face by studying its angles, ‘applying the contour where the natural shadow falls under your cheekbone.’

From creams to powders via pro-level palettes, there’s a contour product in almost every beauty collection these days – but some are inevitably better than others. So, which are worth investing in? Let us fill you in…

We’ve rounded up the very best contour kits, so you can sculpt, chisel and shape to your heart’s content.

The Best Contour Kits, Sticks and Palettes To Flatter Your Features