If you're looking to contour your face, you've come to the right place. We'll let you in on a secret: contouring doesn't have to be difficult! Whether you're looking to add definition or just enhance your natural features, we've got contour beginners covered with these easy-to-use picks. Here are our favorites.
Size: 0.2 oz / 6.2g·ITEM: 2601094
Color: Neutral Light - fair to light
$43.50
I loved how easy it was to work with, very much beginner friendly. I used a sponge on application, but I’m sure you could even use your hands with how blend-able everything is. ...I would definitely purchase this product and recommend it especially if you’re looking for a contouring stick that's easy to use with a natural finish and even beginners can use it effortless.
What it is: A lightweight, cream-to-powder, ultra-soft matte contour stick that creates a natural-looking, subtle contour and adds dimension to the face.
Finish: Matte
Formulation: Stick
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Vitamin E: Acts as a natural antioxidant that nourishes and hydrates.
- Green Tea Extract: Improves the look of overall tone and texture for a visibly youthful complexion. -Vitamin E: Acts as a natural antioxidant that nourishes and hydrates.
-Green Tea Extract: Improves the look of overall tone and texture for a visibly youthful complexion.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hy
$53.00
The most beautiful contour/ bronzer palette ever love this trio es perfect to take it everywhere, plus the packaging is so pretty!...The absolute best for contouring . It is extremely pigmented and blends very easily.
What it is: A matte, buildable, visible-texture-blurring trio to shade, bronze, and sculpt your face—for a touch of color to a fully contoured look.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Magnolia Bark Extract: Helps smooth fine lines and wrinkles
$33.00
It’s also easy to use for those who are beginners at contouring. I love the variety of shades for different skin types....It gives me a natural chiseled look. This is the perfect contour stick to use for beginners....Beginner friendly contouring must...Great for beginners!
What it is: A matte, cool-toned cream contour stick that blends easily to add instant depth and dimension to your face by mimicking the look of natural shadows.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Thyme Extract Blend: Helps nourish skin.
- Sunflower Seed Oil: Hydrates, smooths, and calms skin.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also vegan, gluten-free, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.
What Else You Need to Know: This easy-to-use cream contour stick takes all the guesswork out of
$93.50
This is only contouring product I own. And I never felt the need to buy any other contouring powder. ...Contour and Highlight Made Easy...The formula for both is A+ as it’s super easy to blend and very beginner friendly!
What it is:
An all-in-one pressed powder, bronzer, and highlighter to create killer cheekbones and candlelit skin.
What it does:
Celebrity makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury is a firm believer that shading and highlighting can re-sculpt and re-define your face. This iconic bronzer and highlighter duo has the perfect blend of pearl and golden pigments to sculpt and highlight your features. These universal shades are created from a refined golden base that flatters all skin tones. The sculpt bronzer adds buildable definition along the lower cheek, jawline, and sides of the nose while highlight illuminates the top of cheekbones, bridge of the nose, eye orbital area, and cupid’s bow.
Size: 0.28 oz / 8 g·ITEM: 2934545
Color: Phantom Shadow - Deep to rich-Deep skin tones
$46.00
The Anastasia Beverly Hills Smooth Blur Contour-Core Shadow is a decent option for subtle, natural-looking contouring. ...If you want an effortless, beginner-friendly contour, this is a must-have!
What it is: A gel-like, lightweight formula that blurs and blends with smooth, seamless coverage for natural definition.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Natural
Formulation: Stick
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, sulfates SLS & SLES, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also vegan and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: Ultra-smooth, undetectably blurred, and naturally radiant: This gel-like, cream formula is designed to sculpt and define features with a dewy, second-skin finish and lightweight coverage. Effortlessly achieve seamless definition with four cool-toned shades.
Size: 0.4 oz / 12 mL·ITEM: 2684447
Color: warm bronze - medium to tan skin tones
$49.00
A Must-Have for my Beginner Girlie’s...Absolutely in love with this product I’m a beginner in makeup & I was really scared to use Liquid/Cream products.But this blends like butter.It’s beautiful on the skin. 100% Recommend...Love this contour gel...I love this contour gel it’s really pigmented and blends out really nicely for me.
What it is: An all-in-one contour that creates instant definition for the look of a more defined face and high cheekbones.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Porcelain Flower: Brightens and moisturizes.
- Mango Butter: Moisturizes and conditions.
- Diamond Powder: Blurs the look of imperfections.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: Contour like a pro with this all-in-one, goof-proof sculptor. It creates instant definition for the look of a more defined face and h
Size: 0.37 oz/10.5 g·ITEM: 2867489
Color: Fair - natural matte finish for fair skin tones
$54.00
Would recommend for beginners and experienced users alike!...I am a fairly beginner at doing contour and this made it so easy for me to use in my results were amazing.
What it is: This viral, dual-ended contour stick creates a softly sculpted look with buildable coverage—new packaging and brush, same iconic formula.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, and triclosan. It is also cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This creamy formula suits all skin types, offering blendable, buildable coverage with a natural matte finish. Shades complement all complexions regardless of undertones and are never orange or muddy. Mario's contour stick features a removable angled buffing brush for effortless
Size: 0.28 oz/7.9 g·ITEM: 2877207
Color: Smolder - rich to deep with warm, neutral undertones
$21.00
A great product for beginners...This creamy bronzer stick by morphe is literally beginner friendly and doesnt break the bank. I love how easily it applies and blends and i dont have to worry about it setting before i get to blending it. ...I never tried this bronzer stick but I am amazed that I gave it try and it is really good one product even for beginner makeup people. It has smooth texture and it is really to use.
What it is: A lightweight, ultra-creamy bronzer stick that glides on with a soft-matte finish and long-lasting warmth and dimension.
Finish: Natural
Formulation: Stick
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Vitamin E
- Jojoba Oil
Ingredient Callouts: Free of phthalates and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also vegan cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: Experience a surge of effortless complexion warmth and dimension with the Morphe Sudden Heat Creamy Bronzer Stick. This ultra-creamy yet lightweight bronzer—enriched with vitamin E and jojoba oil—glides on luxuriously and melts in seamlessly. The result? Natural, soft-matte, buildable bronzed color.
Size: 0.12 oz·ITEM: 2711299
Color: 04 Deep to Dark - deep to dark skin tones
$19.00
Pigment is great and it lasts all day, only downside is that it is not very beginner friendly because of how pigmented it is...Beginner-Friendly!...I have never used contour before so I thought this may be a good product for a beginner to learn with.
What it is: An ultra-fine, highly pigmented matte contour powder to effortlessly sculpt and define.
Coverage: Medium
Finish: Matte
Formulation: Pressed Powder
What Else You Need to Know: This powder is the perfect partner for creating a quick, natural, contoured look. With its extra fine and weightless powder veil, it delivers intense and adjustable pigmentation from the first brush stroke. It comes in four cool-toned shades specially designed to create the illusion of natural shadow, adding shape and dimension to strategic areas of the face.
Size: 0.12 oz/3.5 g·ITEM: 2892487
Color: Curve - shadow for medium to deep skin tones of all undertones
$42.00
As a first-time contour user, I’m really impressed with Haus Labs' contour. ...This is such a beginner friendly contour stick. The formula is so creamy and smooth.
What it is: A precision contour stick that defines and visibly lifts*, with a buttery texture that effortlessly blends, seamlessly shapes, and sets for 12 hours.
Coverage: Medium
Finish: Matte
Formulation: Stick
Formulation: Cream
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Tea Rose Extract: Promotes skin suppleness.
- Suberin Extract: Offers a visibly smoothing and lifting effect.
- Vitis Vinifera Extract: Promotes skin smoothness.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan and cruelty-free.
