The Easter days are behind us and it must have been a cozy little gathering at the table. I also searched for quite a few eggs myself (chocolate eggs, mind you, which were immediately devoured upon discovery) and the butter lamb no longer has legs, a tail, or a face. The fact that my face now seems a few kilos heavier is the after-effect that I should have thought about beforehand. Until I remembered Kim Kardashian's trick, where shaping and highlighting with some powders makes you forget about the Easter days. Or not the Easter days, but the side effect then.
What does it promise?
They are three simple sticks with a cream texture. A bronzer, a highlighter, and a sculpting pencil. You can draw simple lines on your face, blend well, and smudge, allowing you to work magic with your face. From defined cheekbones to a perfect nose and a sharp jawline.
This does it:
Josselin: “Will Malherbe, makeup artist from Smashbox, got May-Britt and me all excited about the pencils during the presentation last week. The point is: everyone wants a slimmer face where the cheekbones stand out beautifully and the cheeks aren't puffed up, but we would prefer to indulge in a brownie during the afternoon slump. I’ll keep quiet about the hips for now. I always find pencils quite scary. If they are hard to smudge, you end up with some sort of Indian stripe on your face, and that is the last effect you want to achieve. These pencils are very soft and therefore easy to blend. You make crosses (crosses, because they blend out easier and thus you don’t get the Indian effect) with the pencil where you want them. The dark pencil is for shaping, the middle one is a bronzer, and the light color is for highlighting. First, you place all the crosses and then you blend in one go. This gives you the best effect. And Will is right: when May and I got to work ourselves, it was really damn easy and we got an amazing result. Since then, we’ve been coloring ourselves silly. Those pencils are now a standard in our pencil case.”
Contour Stick Trio, €44,50, Smashbox, www.smashbox.com
