When it comes to beauty, the most common questions asked are usually related to contouring: “What are the best contouring products?”, “How do I contour?”, “How do I blend my contour?”, “How do I make my contour look more natural” Here, we’re sharing 5 tips for blending contour.
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Apply a Cream Contour Before Applying Foundation
If you’re prone to overdoing it with the contour, or find that it often just doesn’t blend over the top of your foundation, try using a cream or liquid contouring product and apply it prior to your foundation. Blend it into the skin and then apply a light layer of foundation over the top. This will help to soften the colour, give a more seamless finish and ensure that the colour better suits your skintone, removing any overly warm or overly cool tones.
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Use a Sheer Product
Contouring creams and powders can often be very heavily pigmented and therefore very easy to make a mess of. Using a product that is sheer and easily blendable (like a gel) can be a fantastic option for beginners or those not overly confident with contouring. A sheer formula with less pigment will blend easier into the skin, ultimately looking more natural and making for much easier blending! For absolute ease choose a contour stick which can be applied directly onto the skin and then blended with a brush or your fingertips.
Try: Illamasqua Gel Sculpt in Silhouette, Benefit Hoola Contour Stick
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Choose Your Tools
There are hundreds of different brushes and tools on the market for applying and blending makeup. When it comes to blending contour, picking the right tool to blend is essential. For the ultimate blend try a duo fibre stippling brush (which contain a mix of natural and synthetic hairs) This style of brush picks up a lot of product making it perfect for blending and softening both cream and powder contours (use a clean brush to blend and work in small circular motions for the best results) Other great options include a square, flat contouring brush (these are often wide and fluffy, and designed to sit perfectly underneath the cheekbones) a flat top kabuki brush (great for blending in cream contours) or a blending sponge (such as a beauty blender, which are likely to absorb some product so you’re less likely to go overboard!) Although there are many different brushes and tools for blending, your fingertips can often be one of the very best tools in your makeup kit! Using your fingers to blend cream, liquid, and gel contours can allow the product to better blend into the skin. The warmth of your fingertips will help to blend the product into the skin and “melt” and “mold” with the other layers of your makeup, creating a more natural look.
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Use your Foundation Brush
If you’ve used a brush to apply your foundation, don’t knock it straight into the brush wash pile. After applying a cream or liquid contour take the same brush you used with your foundation and use it to buff and blend the product seamlessly into the skin. The light amount of foundation left on your makeup brush will combine and melt in with the contour shade, softening the intensity and giving it a more skin like finish.
Image: Dior Beauty
Blend With a Finishing Powder
If you prefer powder contouring, you may find that blending can be a little more difficult depending on the product you are using. The brush you are using to apply the product will also play a major factor into how the product sits on the skin. If you’re finding your contour just won’t budge, no matter how hard you try, take a slightly fluffy powder brush with a small amount of sheer (or translucent) matte powder and gently buff over the contouring powder, this will help to soften any harsh lines and create a more seamless effect.
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Yes, you can blend mushrooms. Blending mushrooms is a common culinary technique used for various purposes, such as:
Mushroom Soup: Blending mushrooms is often a key step in making creamy mushroom soup. It helps create a smooth and velvety texture.
Mushroom Gravy: Blending mushrooms can be incorporated into gravy recipes to add flavor and thickness.
Vegetarian Burgers: Mushrooms are sometimes blended and mixed with other ingredients to create vegetarian or vegan burger patties. The blended mushrooms can add moisture and a meaty texture to the patties.
Sauces: Blending mushrooms can be used to make mushroom-based sauces, which can be served over pasta, steak, or other dishes.
Dips and Spreads: Blended mushrooms can be combined with other ingredients to create flavorful dips and spreads.
When blending mushrooms, you can use a food processor, blender, or even finely chop them by hand, depending on the desired consistency. Mushrooms can add a rich umami flavor to your dishes, making them a versatile ingredient in various recipes.
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It seems a while since I posted but I’ve been busy learning new techniques, finishing paintings for gifts and my weekends have also been busy with parties, dinners…. The end of the school year is always quite hectic as we all try to cram and see each other before the 6 week summer break or say goodbye to those who are going back home or to their next adventure in a new country. Such is the life…
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One cannot learn aromatherapy without learning how to blend. Blending, however, can be very expensive if you’ve no idea where to begin. I’ve tried blending with recipes drawn from various sources: books, websites, phone apps and, quite honestly, the end result, in my humble opinion, is often disappointing.
So, I decided to try something else – reconstructing the fragrance from the list of ingredients printed at the back of a product. The product of choice: Origin’s Blade Runner Energizing Shaving Cream. FYI you can find the ingredients from the website.Â
Suffice to say I learned more than what I’d expected. I won’t spoil it for you by mentioning it here but I’m sure it’ll be quite an enlightening experience.
So I’ve noticed that a number of trans women are asking about walking and body language tutorials to avoid misgendering out in the Hellish Cis Wilds
And before some gross shit says it: cis feminists please go fuck yourselves if you think it’s “misogynist” to keep yourself from getting a bottle cracked over your head by walking a certain way because lmao even cis girls will do that to a trans girl for not being “feminine” enough etc etc.Â
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Here we go
I am socially ineffective (adhd, aut spectrum, dissociation from childhood trauma and dysphoria) so I actually had to learn a lot of things through observation and imitation. Like from the beginning. Social cues were something I sucked at forever. So I’ll try to share some insights on movement and body language.
Walking!
Walking is all about center of gravity, hip movement and feet placement.Â
When walking, the ways most commonly associated with cis girls in this hellish transmisogynist fuckorb of a planet are ways that reduce the space your feet are taking up in your path and increase the space your hips take in your path.
Some of this will actually happen without conscious action on your part if you’re on hrt and hrt boosts your hip and butt size substantially. The change in your center of gravity will actually make swaying as you walk seem a bit more natural, you’ll be able to walk faster and with better balance if you sway it.
But if for whatever reason that isn’t the case for you, there’s some things to remember.Â
Each foot gets placed closer to a center line in the path (this really helps with high heels which are brutal unless you walk like this)
So if you imagine a line running parallel and just under your center, your feet will land fairly close to either side of that line (but not exactly on the line, some people can do that but it can fuck up balance and falling sucks)
You typically see cis guys having their feet land farther from the line, they also typically slap their feet down on the ground. You’ll want to go heel down first, roll to toes. It’s actually a more efficient way of walking so yay, one of the few times a blending thing actually works better mechanically than a thing that gets you misgendered (This will not work for heels or wide platforms, you will need to do a sort of horsegoat-like clopping on the ground. No one’s going to notice when it’s heels though because well.. heels)
Hip sway will arise from the way you’re placing your feet but it doesn’t hurt to keep your posture pretty tight too. That will create more hip sway and you actually get a nice balancing effect that compensates for the loss of balance from having your feet in so close in the bottom. Your butt is going to move back and forth and your hips up and down
I can’t stress this enough, posture posture posture! You want to straighten your back as much as possible. Not only does it raise boobs (which can prevent a lot of misgendering based on chest) it will help balance and accentuate the hip swing and making it less stressful on your legs when doing this admittedly harder walk.
Body Language!
There’s a lot to cover in body language and I’m not going to be able to do all of it in this post because I’m exhausted trash and disabled and stuff. But here’s some pretty important cues that cis dickheads (aka #AllCisgenders) will use as gendering cues for you and that will help prevent misgendering and possibly even violence from the shittier ones D:
1: Posture:Â
I know this one sucks. Posture is tough, lots of us are used to sort of crushing ourselves into our own bodies to appear smaller, escape transmisogynist abuse, because we hate ourselves/the world, so no one can see us (never works hahasob)
But posture is a major cue that cis people look for, it accentuates the breast area as I mentioned above (and breasts are a gender cue that cis people jump on, although maybe less than hair and voice depending on cis person), deaccentuates the stomach area (stomach squish that seems larger than other squish sources sometimes sets off Cis Degendery Bullshit) and accentuates the ass area. It definitely will bring you to your full height but height isn’t necessarily a misgendering cue. If you’re standing with a certain posture and hip placement, height can even benefit you in avoiding misgendering.
2: Hip Placement:
Standing completely straight isn’t always the best call. A lot of the gendering cues cis people will react to involve shifting a hip slightly over, it’s almost like you’re putting a slight bend to the side with your pelvis and sticking a hip out slightly. This will take stress off one leg and put it more on another leg, often you have to lock a knee to stand like this. It does accentuate the particular hip you’re jutting out but I think cis people react less to that then to the way it bends your whole body? I dunno this one is a little bit of a mystery to me tbh. Cissers are weird.
3: Talking With Your Hands:
Cis people expect girls to be very expressive. This is a your mileage may vary thing because there’s a number of other groups that have varying level of Hand Motions while talking, so you might want to check on this among other communities. I’m white and I come from an Irish and Italian family so hand motions are already very common for me but I definitely found that if I was accentuating my words with hand motions (usually more of the hands then the arms, and with finger motions) I got misgendered less. Again, YMMV, I know trans girls with different backgrounds who got different results so check up on this one.
4: Sitting:
This one sucks a lot because it again involves that “make yourself take up less space” bullshit that cis misogynist pieces of shit love love love (and I include literally every cis feminist in that because yeah they think they as girls should take up lots of space but god forbid a trans woman does it, they’ll act like a fucking mra about it when we do it lmao)
So basically, posture is huge here. The straighter up you’re sitting the less space you’ll take on the chair area itself. Crossed legs are common but you don’t necessarily need to cross to avoid becoming a target for the misgendering from the cis. Pulling your legs in close together, pulling your feet under your chair, things that basically minimize the space you’re taking up horizontally (regardless of your actual size, you’re shooting to appear like you’re taking up less space, not literally take up less space, which is often physically impossible). Crossed arms or arms folded on your lap work. You can also lay your arms on your legs.
As a solid warning here, guys will continuously push themselves further into your space when you minimize like this and then misgender you (with the help of nearby cis girls, lmao nice solidarity fuckface) when you finally lay down a boundary even if it’s a boundary inside your literal flesh. I don’t have a good solution besides, don’t be near guys if you can help it or Destroy All Society, lmao
That’s all I have the energy for, I hope this helped. Maybe I’ll do a post about voice stuff later
