I know that I’m not blessed with the most razor-sharp bone structure in the word. I’m telling you, the things I would do for Sandra’s cheekbones… I’ve got my Dad to thank for my football head (and extremely hairy limbs) – thanks Dad! But as I’ve got older and give less and less hoots about what I look like I’ve come to accept my moonface. You’ll never catch me clown-contouring (though you may catch me googling it with my jaw on the floor because I’m utterly fascinated by the whole thing), however a subtle sweep of a tawny powder here and there does me a few favours when positioned in the correct place. I’ve tried a tonne of techniques and a shedload of different textures, but I think my latest tale caused me to fall in love with the best contouring palette of all…
A few weeks back I had some serious wisdom tooth pain that resulted in half of my face puffing up and looking like someone had over-inflated it like a beach ball. Thank you for kind responses to my ‘SOS’-style tweets and it seems a fair amount of you have been given some trouble by your back gnashers too. Here’s a few lessons I learnt during my dark times that might come in handy:
Wailing out loudly in pain will not do anything but make your neighbours think there’s something kinky going on upstairs. There’s no point. Just sob quietly to yourself and save your neighbours the grossed-out distress.
If your face doubles or as it did in my case, triples in size then make sure you take lots of photos. It will make you laugh afterwards.
Frozen peas are your new best friend. Fill two sandwich bags with a handful each and then rotate them as they begin to defrost.
Defrosted, slightly warm peas actually taste quite nice if you become hungry and don’t have the energy to get to the kitchen.
GO TO THE BLOOMIN’ DENTIST.
It wasn’t pretty and on the worst day it wasn’t worth putting on makeup, let alone contour but as the swelling went down gradually a stripe and blend under each non-existent cheekbone helped to add some kind of structure and shadow to my face. In my time of extreme contouring need I reached for the Kat Von D Shade & Light Contour Palette because I feel like for my skintone it has the best colour options. The paler powders work for setting or shimmer-free highlighters and the two contour shades on the left and centre of the palette work together to dial up the warmth or coolness of my desired sculpting shade.
Amazingly it worked. The combination of the using the left-side of the palette to highlight and contour with, really did do wonders. I’m back to my pre-swelling face shape and it’s still in my makeup bag. The formulas are creamy and blendable and have a hella’ load of pigment – in fact it’s worth giving the brush a good dust off before you start chiseling away. So if there’s one good thing that came out of my hamster-cheek experience, it’s a new found appreciation for this beauty from K.V.D. If you ever have wisdom tooth swelling then you know where to turn next time…
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