I’m the primary to confess that I like my skin tan, chiseled, and glowy all yr round. That said, when a recent product hits the wonder industry and claims to do all three, I do know I immediately have to get my hands on it — and that is exactly what I did once I first heard the news about Tarte’s Sculpt Tape Contour.

I would not necessarily say I’m an expert in the case of contouring but I’ll say that I even have tried my fair proportion of contour products (hello, a few years of Better of Beauty testing) and I even have a fairly good grasp of what forms of formulas work for me. Nonetheless, I normally follow cream or powder formulas in the case of sculpting my face — so this Tarte one feels form of like uncharted waters for me.

Sculpt Tape Contour is a liquid formula that is packaged in a tube that distributes the product out of a cushion tip, just like how the viral Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Contour Wand operates. Nonetheless, what makes this one different is the skin-loving ingredients which might be in it. Each of the five shades is loaded with moisturizing shea butter, brightening licorice root, and hydrating glycerin. For a deeper look into the list, Latest Jersey-based cosmetic chemist Ginger King noted that the diamond powder within the formula incorporates dimethicone, a smoothing ingredient that may give skin a filter-like effect.

To learn the right way to apply this contour product to perfection, I opened TikTok to see how all of the girlies on the app were applying. In any case, it did go viral after launching earlier this yr. It appeared like everyone did it the best way it’s explained on Tarte’s website — to dot the areas you wish to contour and mix it out with a sponge or brush. Seemed easy enough, so it was time to get to work.

I applied a bit of little bit of moisturizer and primer to my skin first before popping the cap of the product. I twisted the applicator to unlock and gently squeezed the tube to dispense the formula to the cushion tip. I applied the shade Medium Bronze to my skin as so: 4 dots across my brow, 4 across my jawline, three on each hole of my cheeks, and just a few dots down the bridge of my nose.