Keep reading below to find out how to go about nose contour for the four major nose types, and if you’re already contouring your nose you might also discover a tip or two for an even sexier snout. Like faces, noses come in so many lengths, tips and shapes, and that means a variety of techniques to try out. Today we’re giving a refresher course in nose contouring. Your nose defines your silhouette, and determines how our other features play together. We’re here to say that your nose is just as beautiful as the rest of you, even if you’re not 100% happy with it! While our noses aren’t exactly as expressive as the rest of our features, they are one of the most important elements of our face. You know, the one that sticks out, right in the middle? If you guessed nose, well you’re right on the… well, you get it! Chat her up on Facebook and Instagram.Let’s talk about that one area of our face that we’re always just a teensy bit self-conscious about. When she’s not blogging about hair and beauty, she’s enjoying her Chicago hometown with her hubby and two children. What’s your take on contouring? Do you do it? Share your thoughts below in the comments section.īriana McCarthy is a writer, blogger and editor of The Mane Source. ![]() Just don’t touch that beautiful, blunt nose. So ladies, by all means, beat that face and snatch those brows. It is time to believe the truth about the beauty of black women. It’s time to reject the lies we’ve been conditioned to believe about beauty, more specifically, about our noses and put things into proper perspective. ![]() We’re attempting to conform to a standard oftentimes without even knowing it. Some of us have unconsciously (and some of us consciously) have been trying to conform to the European standard even if only in a small way like contouring our noses. I’m just trying to get ya’ll to see things for what they really are. So, what’s my point? Am I attacking black women who contour their noses? No. Why else would we contour them? I know that is a strong statement to make, but it is what it is. We’ve begun to believe the lie that “our” noses are bad and “theirs” are better. We’ve allowed a standard that doesn’t even consider us seep into our beauty routines. Somewhere along the way black women have started to drink the proverbial “kool-aid”. I can’t help but feel like contouring our noses is a subconscious (or for some a conscious) attempt to make our beautifully blunt noses conform to European standards. Society subconsciously and sometimes overtly asserts the notion that European features are more desirable and African-American features are flat out unattractive. We live in a world where beauty is not only defined by, but also revolves around European standards. Thinner noses are typically found on people of European descent. Typically, our noses are larger and more blunt-and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. It sounds like the opposite of a nose of an African-American woman. We contour our foreheads to give our face more dimension and our noses to make them look smaller and more defined. We contour our cheekbones to make them appear higher and our jawlines to make our faces appear slimmer. Contouring, for those who may not be familiar with it, is applying a darker shade of makeup on certain areas of your face to make them recede or look smaller. ![]() Out of all of the above, contouring seems like it is becoming more and more popular amongst makeup lovers. Arched brows, defined lashes, bold lipstick, and a killer contour: these are a few key ingredients to a face that is absolutely beat, honey.
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