What is Strobing? How to Strobe and FOTD

What is Strobing? How to Strobe and FOTD

Tutorials Cosmetopia Digest   Friday, September 18, 2015

Strobe lights. So I supposed "strobing" must be a form of heinous torture where beams of 50,000 lm/m² were shone into prisoners' eyes until they watered and their retinas just gave up and burnt out, as described in The Gulag Archipelago. Overactive imagination, much?
Turns out it is highlighting the face for a luminous look. If contouring "deepens" the shadow-areas and sculpts your face, strobing accentuates the brighter areas (apples of the cheeks, brow-bones, chin, centre of the forehead...) with a fresh glow. 
I usually prefer a matte look, as my face already produces enough oil to fuel a small country for a month. So I was leery of strobing at first.
Chances of my looking like a female version of Edward Cullen, Esq. a glitter bomb? Very high, I decided, reaching for my favourite highlighter. Nothing ventured.
And, this is the result.

The products and method I used to achieve this strobed makeup look are detailed further below. G'wan, look.