We introduced you to strobing last year. You know, contouring’s less labor intensive cousin? Well, forget all that. A new beauty trend is here and you are going to love it for summer.

The latest beauty trend is called “stripping” and it is super hot. And not nearly as sleazy at it sounds.

Since a more natural look is on trend this year, and thank golly for that, it isn’t a surprise that the number of products it takes to achieve the look is more minimal too. You’re yearning to bust out the good ol’ bronzer right about now, aren’t you?

We all want to shake off our winter pallor and sport a healthy glow this time of year. But the old ways of bronzer are behind us. Stripping, or “sun stripping”, is a way of using bronzer that makes it look like you’ve actually spent a little quality time under the sun. Who comes in from a fun day outdoors with a uniformly bronzed face? No one. Ever. That’s why all-over face bronzing got kicked to the curb in favor of this new approach.

Best of all it’s fast, easy, and requires only one product. Here’s how.

How to Perform the Stripping Beauty Trend in 4 Easy Steps

1. Choose a bronzer. Here’s the trick with stripping. You want it to look natural, so stay away from bronzers with shimmer and select one that looks good on your skin tone. Also, powder works best for stripping. Alima Pure Bronzer comes in two color choices, light bronze and medium bronze, and is super natural looking. Another option is W3LL People Bio Bronzer, a universally flattering shade that looks like a true glow.

2. Use the right tools. You don’t want your bronzer everywhere. A semi-sturdy brush, like the Alima Pure Flat Top Brush, is perfect for applying the bronzer. You will also want a blush brush, like Alima Pure Blush Brush, for blending.

3. Apply the bronzer. After applying your foundation or tinted moisturizer as usual, apply a strip of bronzer across apples of cheeks and bridge of nose, where sun hits your face when you are outdoors. This is going to look wacky, but stay with us.

4. Blend it out. Now, using the blush brush, blend the strip of bronzer outward slightly and buff to a natural looking glow.

That’s it, peeps. Couldn’t be easier and you will love the just-been-out-in-the-sun look it gives your skin.

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The queen of contouring, Kim Kardashian, has launched herself a website, complete with an app and beauty tutorials. One that is making news? The how-tos of strobing. Or, um, how to use highlighter.

Mrs. Kim Kardashian West has a brand new website and it is chock full of (what else) beauty advice. How could this just be happening now?

Anyway, it is here and you can “unlock” access to Kim’s “world” for free for the first seven days, if you so wish. After that it’s going to cost you $2.99 per month. The video tutorials on Kim’s site are getting a lot of attention. One particular crowd pleaser is her vid on strobing.

What the H-E-double hockey sticks is strobing?

You know how Kim K.W. is all about the contouring, right? It’s like she invented the look. Or at the very least, is its super public poster child-in-the-belly child. Well, strobing is a different makeup technique that also enhances and perfects the facial features, but with the use of highlighter instead of the heavier handed, dark makeup. It’s like contouring’s less-is-more bff.

So, if you’ve ever wanted to try the look of contouring but all of the makeup involved totally turns you off, strobing could be for you. All it takes is a decent highlighter and a few implementation tips.

The idea behind strobing is to illuminate the high points of the face to slim the nose, make eyes pop, and create a poutier pout. Those areas would be cheekbones, brow bones, bridge of nose, and bow of lips. Pat or brush either cream or powder highlighter onto these areas of face. Two sure to please natural picks are RMS Beauty Living Luminizer and Alima Pure Luminous Shimmer Powder. And that is pretty much all there is to successful strobing.

You may be wondering right about now, if strobing isn’t the same as highlighting. Pretty much, yes. Rose-Marie Swift, makeup artist and creator of RMS Beauty, has been touting the beauty benefits of highlighter for a while now. It can be used to not only enhance features, but brighten under eye circles, and even as a lip gloss.

What’s new to Kim may be old news to us green beauty gals. Nevertheless, highlighting (or strobing, if you’d rather) is a worthwhile trick to add to your look.

We’d love to know…what’s your favorite way of using highlighter?

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