Cocoa & Contour: Kat Von D Shade Light, Lorac Pro Contour, Too Faced Cocoa Contour, Marc Jacobs Contour and ISH Contour Review and Swatches

Last year I reviewed 99% of my makeup collection! Well here's the last 1%... the rest of my contour palettes! I've reviewed a number of contour palettes. Some of my favorites have been the Too Faced Sweet Peach Glow Highlighting Palette, Tarteist Pro Glow Highlight & Contour Palette, Smashbox Lighting Theory Palette, Mally Shimmer Shape & Glow, and Tarte Makeup By Shayla Contour Palette. Other palettes in my collection that I also use to contour with are the Becca Cosmetics Chrissy Teigen Glow Face Palette, Becca Sunchaser Palette, and Bobbi Brown Face & Bronzing Duo. The palettes below are ones I purchased (ISH was gifted) when contouring first became HOT! I never reviewed them. They're still available for purchase. Are they still worth buying? Let me share my thoughts. Please share yours.

Kat Von D Shade + Light Contour Palette ($49) - Supersweet

I understand why everyone raved about Kat Von D's Shade Light Contour Palette. It's really good. This is the powder version. There's now both a cream & powder version (that you can customize). Her website offers 3 contour shades and 3 highlight shades. Pick and choose what works for you! All 6 shades worked for me and gave me a natural looking contour. They really blend well and define the face beautifully. I'm interested in trying her cream contour.

Lorac Pro Contour Palette ($45) - Sweet

Another really good contour palette is Lorac's Pro Contour Palette. 3 highlighters and 3 contour shades are also offered in this palette, but all the shades didn't work for me. I used the medium contour and both the beige & shimmer highlight in my look below. So I think for many, you'll only use 1/2 of this palette. It's really pigmented and comes with a great brush & mirror, but again the shade choices limit you.

Too Faced Cocoa Contour ($42) - Supersweet

This contour palette really surprised me! I didn't expect a lot from it, but it's really good! Too Faced gives you 3 contour shades and 1 highlight shade, but I use the light contour under my eyes and as a highlight. So I pretty much have 2 contour shades and 2 highlighters with this palette. I found the shades easy to blend with my makeup. It comes with a great mirror and brush. For anyone that doesn't want a heavy duty contour, but just wants to do some shading this is great. It's a great everyday contour palette.

ISH Contour Kit Light/Medium ($32) - Sweet

This was gifted to me! Thank you Rowena of Rolala Loves Blog! And what a great little palette. It contains a highlighter, blush, bronzer and contour shade. As a contour it's very lightweight. Great for everyday! The real razamataz is the highlighter, blush and bronzer. It gives you a wonderful glow and shockingly that pink blush looked good on me.

Marc Jacobs #Instamarc Mirage Filter 40 Contour ($49) - Bittersweet

Overall, I haven't had much luck with Marc Jacobs makeup EXCEPT FOR HIS LIPSTICKS! Love them! When I swatched this I knew I was doomed. LOL There are actually 3 of these you can choose from. Maybe I picked the wrong one. LOL This one didn't work for my skin tone. It just kind of blended in and didn't contour at all. Oh well :S It's a very classy palette. Sleek in design. Great mirror. I would definitely swatch this before buying. It didn't do anything for me.