Out of all the skin care and makeup steps that exist, contouring might be one of the most complicated. You have to use the right shade of brown to do it — cool-toned, not warm. You have to apply your product to very specific spots on your face. And you have to blend it so flawlessly that no one should even notice it.

Sure, you could follow millions of tutorials online in an attempt to sculpt your features. Or you could try the “53 method,” a contouring hack that’s going viral for being pretty much foolproof. And yes, it literally involves drawing those numbers on your face.

The “53 Method”

This brilliant makeup technique combines two steps at once: concealer and contour. All you have to do? Grab your concealer and draw a “5” underneath your eyes, down the side of your nose, around the

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