I follow you just fine! This is great stuff.
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Using the palette above, I've been doing a little contour with the darkest shade on the left, and using the lightest multishade one on the right as the actual bronzer, but it's light enough and shimmery enough to provide a subtle highlight.
Is that Chocolate Soleil something I could use as a light and subtle contour? I'm a 4Y05 at Sephora's ColorIQ, and used to be a NC20 at MAC, though I'm not sure that's still accurate since I get a lot more sun in Florida. Cool tones on my face make me look like a corpse. (I still use them for my eyes, because blue is the compliment to brown.) I don't want to go to full-on Kardashian contour, I just want a little bit of 'cheat'.
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I have freckles. A lot of them. I'm figuring that with bronzer, I'd follow the freckles -- the places where I have the most of them would be the bronzer spots. I like the Snow Bunny because it's light and gives the freckly muddiness a little more glow. I'm not trying to look darker, so much as I want to look glowy, if that makes sense. With the freckles, I don't think I need much bronzer, so I like the light shimmery multishade because it gives a tiny bit of highlight, too.
I should say outright that I'm a tinted moisturizer/sheer BB kind of girl -- because of the freckles, a full-cover foundation generally looks really fake and awful on me. I like the freckles and I don't want to conceal them, but I do want to even out the tone of my face aside from those, if that makes any sense at all.
The only real full-coverage thing I wear is concealer, and that's a whole 'nother set of challenges as far as blending goes. I wind up using three tools to do it: Apply with tiny little concealer brush to place everything where I want, blend with the Beauty Blender, use a larger and fluffier concealer brush to feather out the edges around my cheeks and the corners of my eyes. I may be able to bring that down to 2 when my BB micro.minis arrive, but the BB is just too big for me to see what I'm doing when I blend around the eyes. (Did I mention that I'm horribly nearsighted?)