The secret to wearing makeup is to look like you are not wearing any.

There are two different ways to apply makeup - you can either highlight and accentuate your features, or paint on an entirely new face. This new contouring trend does both. Women argue though that contouring gives off the allusion that your face is flawless by using your natural features.

Of course your face is going to look flawless when you use your natural features as a base for applying countless ounces of liquid makeup. You can hardly see your actual face.

Whatever happened to using powder and bronzer to highlight your best features and cover blemishes? I mean, that’s still how I use my makeup. I use Bare Minerals, and apply the “bare minimum”. It seems that nowadays using too little is almost frowned upon. Buying five different shades of foundation. Applying three different colors of liquid makeup, blending them together, then adding more liquid and powder makeup on top - now that’s what’s considered “normal” when it comes to makeup...

Why?

The trend is disgusting, unhealthy, and simply ridiculous. The process itself is time consuming and tedious, and for what? For a face that you can't even confidently call your own. Women say contouring is "sculpting" and "defining" natural features. I don't understand how using countless shades of makeup is "enhancing anyone's face. It seems to me your features are just being covered and hidden. This contouring trend throws the concept of "natural beauty" out the window, in to a trashcan, soon to be followed by countless tubes of liquid makeup.

Why are we becoming so obsessed with altering our own faces instead of showing them off? I love makeup, and I love that products were created to cover pimples and scars. The thing I love most though is that even after applying makeup, I still look like myself, just better! This is why I think the contouring trend needs to stop immediately. I'm a full supporter of embracing your natural beauty and accepting who you are. Contouring allows women to change themselves and the way they look, when they should be proud of how they look and who they are.

Contouring needs to be thrown away alongside all the makeup it requires.