It’s the End of an Era: Kim Kardashian Claims She Is DONE with Contouring! (Will Drag Queens Follow Suit?)

Gasp! At last week’s Vogue Festival, Kim Kardashion spoke with makeup mogul Charlotte Tilbury and Vogue’s Fiona Golfar, and stunned the audience by announcing she found contouring passé,and that it was all about NONTOURING from here on out.

Yes, nontouring is now a thing.

She said:

“I think right now it’s more about nontouring, like real skin with less make-up on it. I’m trying to wear less… and my husband loves me without make-up,” she told the packed auditorium, which included said husband Kanye West in the front row. “Now when I travel I just bring a small make-up case, and I’m content with that. I’m really into strobing now, so just highlighting the skin without using bronzer. I love contouring and I don’t think I’d stop contouring my nose – I know people think I’ve had a nose job but it really is just make-up!”

God help us all, the world is about to change FOREVER. If Kim abandons the Cubist contouring she unleashed upon the masses lo those many seasons ago, there will be a domino effect that will DECIMATE the makeup industry. Now, it’s always been my contention that Kim (or rather Kim’s makeup artists) based her contouring on drag queen makeup tricks picked up from Drag Race. Specifically Raven. Yes, I truly believe in my heart of hearts that Raven is responsible for every girl in America looking like a Picasso nightmare. DAMN HER TO HELL.

But now that long national nightmare may be over.

A trend is a trend and a trend will always end.

But let’s think about the implications of that. What will drag queens do if it suddenly become outdated, unfashionable, and démodé to have cut creases and jaw shading you can see from space? What happens when the “beige rainbow” on every queen’s forehead is considered fusty or dowdy or, worst of all, SO LAST YEAR? Don’t think it won’t happen. Just as we will all surely giggle at man-buns and lumberjack beards in 20 years, we will also find extreme contouring extremely funny. Kim is just the first to recognize the trend has hit peak saturation and moved on.

So. Contouring is OVER. Long live contouring! (via Jezebel: Photo: Pacific Coast News)