5 TikTok nose contour hacks that will blow your mind
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The universe of TikTok is truly quite puzzling for the ’80s to ’90s kid. What’s the point of it? How do you navigate it? Does it work like Facebook and Instagram? What are these people doing?
The answer to all your questions: yes, it’s similar to Facebook and Instagram where you get to record videos of yourself to post on the platform for everyone to see.
Yes, you get to tag your content to relevant hashtags. No, you’re not here to just share your private life moments such as weddings or your culinary feats with your close-knit circle of friends. No, there’s no point to it. The point is to rack up numbers and be viral.
So, since there are relevant hashtags, you will find an entire trove of makeup tips, tricks, hacks, and mini “tutorials” over on TikTok. These makeup videos are pretty entertaining – great for a mindless afternoon if you have time to spare and nothing to do (really?
Is that possible?). After an hour of scrolling, we found some pretty interesting and practical nose contour hacks that these young ladies touted. But, hey, remember this – these videos were made with the intention to go viral.
Here, five TikTok nose contour hacks we will try at home:
1. Lash Glue + Shimmer Eyeshadow
@_gwendymartinez_ ♬ original sound - Gwendy ?
Who uses lash glue to contour their nose? Well, TikToker Gwendy does:
- Start with applying your falsies’ lash glue on the highest point of your nose tip, then draw a line down the middle of the nose bridge – essentially drawing a “!” exclamation mark.
- Then, lightly tap on the glue with your fingers to blend it out. Gwendy then takes a white shimmer powder from her eyeshadow palette and applies it to the lash glue in the same manner.
- Again, she blends it out lightly by tapping on the glue and shimmer eyTheshadow mix, retaining the “!” shape for an exaggerated, anime-like lifted nose for your Microsoft Teams or Google Hangout calls.
2. Tweezer Contour Guide
@molchanovamua ♬ WHOLE LOTTA MONEY - Bïa
Ukranian TikToker, @molchanovamua‘s nose contour hack is so straightforward that it made us exclaim: “Why didn’t I think of that?” in our heads when we first saw her video:
- Take a household tweezer and align it to the centre of your nose bridge
- Pick up your preferred contour of choice with a brush and line your nose bridge, using the tweezers as a ruler and guide
- Keep the tweezer on, and blend the contour lines both inside and outside of the tweezer
- Remove the tweezer and tada! You have a TikTok nose job
3. Eye socket to nose contour
@makeup Do you know where to start this?! ?Comment below! @looksbylou ##fyp ##foryou ##makeup ##contour ##mua ##advice moreyouknow ##makeuptok ##contourtips
♬ original sound - looksbylou
How do you draw your nose contour? Where do you start and end your contour line? New York City-based makeup artist, Lou, shared that a natural way to draw your nose contour is to start from the edge of your eye:
- Start from the outermost edge of your eye socket
- Follow the curved socket line, to the side of the nose
- Now that you’ve reached the side of your nose, continue down the side of your nose bridge and to the tip
- Finally, highlight the tip of your nose bridge with a yellow and beige tone for a natural finish
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4. The old school way
@rhiathesaint How I contour my nose ❤️
♬ original sound - Rhiathesaint
Think everything on TikTok will be fun, young, and crazy? Not really. We found London-based makeup artist, @rhiathesaint on TikTok where she shared some ultra-precise (and super satisfying to watch) traditional nose contour techniques:
- Draw a line with lighter toned foundation or concealer along the top of your nose bridge. Blend it out lightly with a liquid foundation or concealer brush
- Use a darker toned concealer or stick foundation to draw two parallel contour lines down the side of your nose
- With the same contour, draw a horizontal line across the tip of your nose (that piece of skin above your nostrils)
- With a lighter toned foundation or concealer, draw parallel lines down the base of the sides of your nose (where your cheeks start)
- Blend out the contour lines carefully with a precise concealer brush, followed by a dust of setting powder
- Finally, get the lighter toned foundation or concealer once again to brighten up the under eye area. Blend carefully
Sounds like you need some expert foundation and brush kit to pull this off? We think so, too. If you don’t have 30 minutes of free time to pull this off, be like us – just watch it for the symmetrical precision and secondhand satisfaction.
5. Lifted Nose Tip
@makeupbyarlinda how i contour my nose✨ ##fyp ##foryoupage ##fy ##makeup ##contour ##contouring ##nose ##makeuphacks ##howto ##makeuptok ##nosecontour ##viralmakeup ##easymakeup
♬ Originalton - Alicia Ashanti
Do you like that lifted nose tip look? TikToker @makeuparlinda has a great nose tip contour trick for that:
- Draw parallel lines down the sides of your nose bridge, leaving a 0.5cm gap (or more, depending on your nose shape and preference)
- Then, draw a horizontal line down both sides of the nose bulb and towards your cheeks to create shadows
- Draw another horizontal line across that little piece of skin above your nostrils
- Blend out your contour lines and you should see the lifted nose tip appear
- Finally, with your concealer, draw two parallel lines down the base of your nose bridge. Blend it out towards the under eye area
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This article was first published in The Singapore Women's Weekly.