The Tutorial Was Not Written for Your Face
Pick up any bestselling contouring guide and the first thing it tells you is to hollow out your cheeks by drawing a shadow from your ear toward your mouth. That technique was developed for faces with angular, already-prominent cheekbones, the kind that cast their own shadow in natural light. On most Indian faces, it deposits a muddy stripe across the widest part of the cheek and stops there, doing nothing structural at all.
