I hate my nose. Of all the features I’ve been blessed with, my nose is the one feature that just makes me look at my face and say, “WHYYYY?!”
During a game of tag with third grade classmates, I was running full-speed across freshly-rained-on pavement. Of course I slipped, skidded across the bumpy concrete (on my face), then slammed nose-bridge-first into the sharp metal edge of a tether ball pole base.
A fourth grade teacher who witnessed the entire event scrambled after me, swooped me into his arms, and carried me as I sobbed and wailed to the nurse’s office where all they could really do was slap a few bandaids on me (arms, elbows, knees, face, etc) before calling my mom to come get me.
I didn’t grow up with money. I have a working class family, and we’ve had to hustle for everything we have. Getting my broken nose fixed was not my parents’ first priority. Can she breathe? Yes. Is she a little banged up? Sure. Will she live? Definitely.
Problem solved.
Unfortunately, now being 28 years old and making YouTube videos + posting pictures of my face all over the web, having a broken nose has not been the easiest thing to deal with. But there’s always makeup, eh?
In this video, I show you how I cream contour my face using Anastasia Beverly Hills’ Cream Contour Kit in Fair, and how I deal with my crooked nose thanks to breaking it at such a young age. Enjoy!
Products Used:
- Anastasia Beverly Hills Cream Contour Kit “Fair”
- Benefit Cosmetics “Dew the Hoola” (http://bit.ly/2a1ceCB)
- Make Up For Ever HD Blush “220 Pink Sand”
- RCMA “No Color Powder”
- Too Faced “Milk Chocolate Soleil” (http://bit.ly/2ackTok)
- NYX Powder Blush “Nutmeg” / use Tarte Cosmetics “Exposed” blush dupe
- The Balm “Mary-Lou Manizer”
Brushes Used:
- Sigma “3DHD Kabuki Brush” (http://bit.ly/29ZXAuw)
- MAC “231”
- Marc Jacobs Beauty “The Face II” (http://bit.ly/29lyJpj)
- Mac Jacobs Beauty “The Conceal” (http://bit.ly/29ZXGCJ)
- Sephora “Classic Multitasker Brush #45”
- Sigma “Tapered Face Brush F25” (http://bit.ly/2a4UqY3)
- Japonesque “Kumadori Contour-Highlighting Brush”
- Real Techniques “100 Powder Brush”
- Real Techniques “Setting Brush”
See the eye makeup tutorial for this look: https://youtu.be/Uyp2cmWcfow
2 comments
Hie I also have a broken nose and I need to learn how to contour my nose can you help me?
Omg…I thought I was the only one out there struggling with this…
When I was about 3 or 4 years old, I was foolishly running around in a small mobile home and I ran smack into a wall, splitting my head open. This apparently collapsed a bone in my nose, but because I was so young, the break wasn’t noticeable – until I turned maybe 12 years old. As my nose developed, the crookedness became plenty clear, however, we just assumed it was a deviated septum, not a broken nose from an accident over a decade ago (by now, I am 16 at the moment).
My mother is completely supportive of me wanting to get surgery to fix my nose, but my father says things like, “If you want to alter your body when you’re out of MY house, go ahead.” He refuses to accept that this isn’t just, “Oh, I feel like getting a nose job.” My nose is BROKEN, for goodness sake. I’d like to have a single shred of self confidence and have a crooked nose smack in the middle of my face isn’t helping.
Lol, anyways. Ranting, I know, but it’s nice to know that there’s somebody out there who has dealt with the struggle of a nose that is crooked by breaking it a long time ago. Cheers. XD
Lol, anyways. It’s just nice