The Internet abounds with snippets of influencers coddling their faces with a contour-splattered fork. Yeah — these influencers are tracing their steps to the kitchen, and summoning up a fork — just to immerse the piece of cutlery in a sea of cheek-sculpting formulas. They are dousing the fork in base-settling formulas in an attempt to contour and conceal without actually needing to know how to contour and conceal. Because contouring is tricky, okay; so while you might look a tad silly executing the hack, there’s nothing more satisfying that sporting a Kim K-like aesthetic at the end of the day even if it means patting your face with a fork.
Remember that the bizarreness of the hack is not a comment on how resourceful it is — just draw your curtains, and shut your door unless you like the idea of an interrogation. Ahead — fork contouring.
You Might Want To Grab A Fork For This One
Gillian has all of her bases covered. Notice how the creator drenches a palette in dollops of blush, contour, and foundation before pressing the back of a fork over each of the formulas in succession — embellishing the face in streaks of pink, beige, and brown before blending it all in. She admits that she’s not a fan of the end-result possibly because she employed a lot of blush and contour into the dynamic — but the ‘fails are fun,’ she declared.
While Gillian didn’t use the fork as a stencil for contouring and highlighting, this creator did just that. She positioned the fork against her face, and filled in the gaps between each slot before blending it all in with a sponge. The end-result was a soft-focus, second-skin-like finish that didn’t look heavy-duty at all despite the amount of product she’d layered onto the face.
Though the concept of contouring the face with a fork has just made its acquaintance with the ‘gram, influencers have been chiseling and sculpting their noses with this piece of cutlery for years. The process involves contouring the space between the middle and outer-most slots with contour, and filling in the space in the middle with concealer to add definition to the nose. You blend it all in, and dust a little bit of highlighter on the tip. This is a fool-proof fork contour hack.
Use These To Fork Contour Your Face
Now — this contour hack has mixed reviews for sure. But if you want your contour to be your makeup’s pièce de résistance, you’re going to have to dip your toes in untraversed waters. And, who knows, it might just work for you. Just grab a fork, and get started.
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