Kat Stays Polished | Beauty Blog with a Dash of Life: contour

Jesse's Girl Highlight & Contour Kit

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

PR Sample

If you're anything like me, you've been waiting and wanting Jesse's Girl Cosmetics to come out with some cheek products. Well, out prayers have been answered because they now have an all-in-one highlight and contour palette! YES - there are 4 beautiful highlight shades and 4 amazing contour shades.

Jesse's Girl Highlight & Contour Kit | Kat Stays Polished

This palette is lightweight and easy to travel with. Keep it tucked away in the sleeve for easy storage! For just $12.99, you can have a palette packed with smooth, buildable powders that give you anything from a natural look to a completely bold and glam look. Bring out the best in your features with Jesse's Girl!

Below I have swatches of the highlight shades and then swatches of the contour shades. The third highlight shade i could actually probably use as a light setting powder. It's close enough to my skin tone and it's matte, which is nice. Or, I could use it for the simplest and most natural highlight for days when I'm not trying to look like I have something on.

As for the contour shades, I think I'll find myself using the 2nd and 4th shades most often, especially when I get darker in the summer. The 3rd shade could almost act as a blush shade or be used in place of blush...maybe even mixed with a blush. There really are so many possibilities.

Are you excited about the new Jesse's Girl contour kit? I'm so happy they have one now. If you want/NEED one of these, you can find them online, at your local Rite Aid, and now on Amazon!!

Rimmel Sculpting and Highlighting Kit by Kate Moss

Monday, April 04, 2016

PR Sample

Good morning! Can you believe it's already April? People are already gearing up for summer. What's an essential for golden summer makeup looks? A contour kit, of course! Rimmel came out with these new Sculpting and Highlighting Kits by Kate Moss and comes in 3 different shades.

Rimmel Sculpting and Highlighting Kit by Kate Moss | Kat Stays Polished

The shades available are: #001 Golden Sands – for fair skin, #002 Coral Glow – for fair to medium skin, #003 Golden Bronze – for medium to dark skin. I would actually use all 3 depending on my look and depending on how dark my tan gets this summer.

You'll see in the swatches that some shades have more shimmer than others and the lightest highlight shade has the least amount of shimmer. To be honest, most of the kits I have from other brands have a darker bronzer color. I don't know if it's because I just like the darker shades or if I never really paid any attention before.

Rimmel Sculpting and Highlighting Kit by Kate Moss - Golden Sands | Kat Stays Polished

Rimmel Sculpting and Highlighting Kit by Kate Moss - Coral Glow | Kat Stays Polished

Rimmel Sculpting and Highlighting Kit by Kate Moss - Golden Bronze | Kat Stays Polished

So, if you had to choose, which ones would you go for? They all have a pretty good formula and are pigmented enough to give your skin a hint of color. Some of the powders come off a little dry but for the most part are pretty smooth and apply with ease. You can snag these wherever Rimmel is sold by you for about $6.50 per kit.

PÜR Cosmetics - Cameo Contour

Wednesday, February 03, 2016

PR Sample

As busy as I seem to get, I need a stash of multipurpose products. These PÜR Cosmetics Cameo Contour foundation sticks are PÜR genius! << See what I did there? These sticks come in 5 shades and each stick has 2 colors - 1 for highlight and one for contour.

PÜR Cosmetics - Cameo Contour | Kat Stays Polished

Each stick is about twice the size of lipstick, both tall and wide. The product itself is pretty dense and because of how little you need and how pigmented this product is, it'll last you at least a couple of months.

Here are the light ends of each stick. If you really wanted to and depending on your actual skin shade, you could use this for light foundation or even concealer.

Here are the darker contour shades. They are obviously much darker than your highlight shade but it still gives you a nice variety. I'm also happy to have a cream contour option in a stick! I've use stick foundations before and those have been my saving grace some mornings.

Another great perk of this product - it comes with a makeup sponge for easy application! It has a pointed end and one of the sides is flat which I think is nice - again, semi-multipurpose.

Okay kids, here are the swatches of both sides of the contour stick. For this product, the color I am sticking to is the Tan shade. The medium shade highlight might be okay for me, sparingly, but the contour shade in medium is pretty perfect. Do you ever mix and match shades for your contour?

After seeing how these shades look, which one do you think would be best on you? Do you like products that come in a stick or do you prefer to have traditional liquid or powder products?

Each Cameo Contour stick is $39.50 and comes with the beauty sponge. You can grab yours online or wherever PÜR Cosmetics is sold!

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em michelle phan - Chiaroscuru Contour and Highlighter Stick Review

Monday, December 09, 2013

Hey guys! Today I have a review on the em michelle phan Chiaroscuru contour and highlighter stick. This was one of the items I snagged from the Black Friday super sale! I have been wanting to try products from em cosmetics for a while but could never justify the price for what I was purchasing, especially not having tried it yet. I figured this was the chance to get in on the action.

Let me just say that the packaging truly is amazing. It's a nice glossy box with lots of details and is also pretty heavy duty. I am keeping my stick in the box it came in.

em michelle phan | em cosmetics - Chiaroscuru Contour & Highligher

This is what the outside of the stick looks like once you're taken it out of the box. It is heavy duty plastic and fits right into your hand!

When you remove the cap on either end, it will expose this sleek, buttery product to either contour your face or highlight it. I have the shade medium because that's what I get for most products including concealer and some foundations.

At first glance it almost looks like the shades will be too dark or look odd on your skin tone. At least it was that way for me. Who would ever think that a highlight would be so rosy or brown? Well, the only way to ever find out is to swatch and use it, right?

After swatching it on my arm and blending it in, I couldn't wait to try it on my face. You'll notice that the two just blend right in to my skin and into each other. When I do my daily makeup, instead of using my bronzer powder, I now use the em cosmetics chiaroscuru stick. It's so natural. It glides on smooth and blends in to basically nothing giving you the perfect natural contour and highlight.

Overall, I am SUPER impressed with this. Am I $25 impressed? I'm not sure yet. It's definitely a deal at 50% off their retail price, which is what I got it for.

Stay tuned for my next review which will be on the Party Life Palette, which I also got at 50% off. =)