'It's a much more forgiving way to bring focus and shape to the face.'īut while it sounds like it's totally less maintenance than contouring, don't be fooled-this look requires healthy, naturally-glowing skin as its base, which, as you know, calls for a disciplined skincare regimen (cleansing and moisturizing daily, you know the drill) and an antioxidant-rich diet. 'It's about using reflection on high planes and points of the face that catch the light to create spotlit areas,' Alex Box, creative director of Illamasqua, told the London Evening Standard. The makeup technique will help you channel your inner disco ball by letting your born-with-it (or, erm, enhanced) radiance shine through with reflective products. Here's the gist: Instead of painterly bronzing and blending, strobing seeks to define your features by using light-and light alone. It's kind of like contouring's au naturale French cousin.
And if you're looking to buck the airbrushed trend once and for all, the new strobing trend is a game-changer. Needless to say-contouring as we know it today, despite its face-narrowing, cheekbone-carving powers, is not for everyone.
