contour

Yes, the contour palette is back, though Patrick says “no-makeup makeup” is still very much here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

Sometimes they are used to contour or shape the nose or lips.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

The simple contour of a chapel, its steeple slightly off-center, stands out from the wall about six inches deep.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

Yeah, the Chinese government is definitely mining my data, but so is Mark Zuckerberg, and Zuckerberg’s Facebook never gave me the perfect step-by-step tutorial of how to contour my face for a truly flawless finish.

From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2025

Bulges in the rock implied bulk, and tonal shading with earth-tone pigments lent contour and perspective.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell

Mendelsohn’s forms have their roots in the earlier Art Nouveau with its sinuous lines and voluptuous contours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

For the new research, the team built a collection of silly sprinklers with different contours.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

The contours of Pride appear in my mind whenever I’m watching a movie that I feel speaks to my own uniquely homosexual sensibilities, which frequently change.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

To define the contours of that right, courts will look to history and tradition, just as Justice Samuel Alito did in Dobbs.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

She grew tense as fine steel when he traced the mutilated contours with his finger tip from a pit in her shoulder blade almost to the base of her spine.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Lawyers for the guitar builders say the guitar was actually designed by a few people, who landed on the contoured shape for comfortability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

A towering performance that is also impressively contoured, Lithgow’s portrayal of dyspeptic British author Roald Dahl infuses Mark Rosenblatt’s drama with chilling mystery.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026

This hero was contoured and svelte, wealthy and suave, a Wall Street whiz and owner of land, a man who wore Brioni suits and a Cartier family heirloom watch.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2023

But the heart of the product remains its flexible, contoured foot bed, produced in Germany.

From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

As the first-stage fuel tanks emptied, the G forces increased and pushed us back into our contoured seats at five times our normal weight.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

Selfies were becoming more prevalent as social media grew, and standards of beauty hewed close to celebrity Kim Kardashian’s looks, especially in regards to eye makeup and products used for face contouring.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026

Some hailed it as the future of non-invasive face contouring, but others condemned it as dystopian, and said the firm was making women feel more insecure.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025

Skye concedes that writing a memoir is a challenge, but not so much emotionally as narratively — contouring the flow and storytelling with an editor’s sharp eye.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025

In a follow-up article in November, the society said that because of the injectable drugs, the well-established link between “weight loss and body contouring is becoming ever more connected.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

Now she brought out fake eyelashes, green shadow, black liner, base, contouring brushes, eyebrow pencil, coral gloss.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart