Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Liquid Contour: a Guru Score of 75%

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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✓Yay

"One last thing in makeup is the Rare Beauty Liquid Contour. I have tried a lot of different contours, bronzers. This one has got me right now. I just love it. I love the shades that this comes in. And this shade is perfect. So many of them are so warm that they kind of look orange or they're so cool that they look gray. And this one is just the perfect shade. This shade is called Mellow. And it's not too dark, not too light. What I love about this is how easy it blends. You can't make a mistake with this. It's not like most things where you can put on too much and then you're like, "Oh, where am I blending this to?" This just blends out so beautifully and it looks so great on the skin and it's very subtle. So you can do your contouring but it doesn't look like you're contoured. You don't want to have these muddy looking, dirty looking stripes all over your face to do your contouring. You just want it to look natural. And this is such a beautiful product for that. Absolutely love it."

Alexandra Anele

1.44M subs

✓Mixed

"I really love the formula and I hate the color. It's so damn red. I don't know if you're more neutral it'll work for you but I just, I can't use it. I think I'm just too green to be able to get away with it. I want like a real contour because this is supposed to be a liquid contour. The packaging is cute, I always love her packaging."

Robert Welsh

1.11M subs

✓Yay

"I do really really like this product. And this shade still has a little bit of warmth to me on my skin, but it's nice and subtle and natural. That's what we like."

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"I do really really like this product. And this shade still has a little bit of warmth to me on my skin, but it's nice and subtle and natural. That's what we like."

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"These aren't contours on the fairer skin tones and the medium skin tones. On the deeper skin tones, [...] people love them and they look really beautiful [...] on the skin. [...] I will still use these to bronze. I love this bronze. [...] But in my contour shades, I don't want it to be able to double as a blusher. [...] On fairer skin tones, I would not use this as a contour because it does come out cool and light. [...] As I tan, [...] I will use them, [...] but contours, not so much. If they brought out some contour shades in this formula, I would love that. But I'm not a fan of what these products claim to be."

Allie Glines

829k subs

✓Yay

"The contour product that I've been basically exclusively using for the past couple of months is this one from Rare Beauty. This is their liquid contour. I have the lightest shade, called Gentle, and it's just great. This one is more cool toned than their others, but once it's applied for me, it actually applies pretty neutral. So I feel like it works as kind of like a sculpting bronzer. Some of the other shades I've heard people say lean much more bronzery, so just keep that in mind. It might not be a contour product for everyone, but I just take a little bit of that on the back of my hand and apply my contour higher than I used to. Once you blend it in, you can see it still sculpts, but it lifts. I've been doing that with this. I do my contour prior to my concealer, especially for everyday. I just feel like it's easier. It allows me to be a little bit messy with the contour and then I can clean up everything after I apply it."

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All 3 takes from Allie Glines

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"This is their liquid contour and this is the shade Gentle. I think it's the perfect neutral undertone for me. Adds just the right amount of structure and warmth. Today I applied it with the Patrick Ta contour brush and I kind of just pressed it into the hollows of the cheek. I did a lighter layer today because I really wanted blush to be the focal point. But this has been a fabulous staple for my everyday routine."

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"The contour product that I've been basically exclusively using for the past couple of months is this one from Rare Beauty. This is their liquid contour. I have the lightest shade, called Gentle, and it's just great. This one is more cool toned than their others, but once it's applied for me, it actually applies pretty neutral. So I feel like it works as kind of like a sculpting bronzer. Some of the other shades I've heard people say lean much more bronzery, so just keep that in mind. It might not be a contour product for everyone, but I just take a little bit of that on the back of my hand and apply my contour higher than I used to. Once you blend it in, you can see it still sculpts, but it lifts. I've been doing that with this. I do my contour prior to my concealer, especially for everyday. I just feel like it's easier. It allows me to be a little bit messy with the contour and then I can clean up everything after I apply it."

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"What I loved about this is how natural it looks, it's a really really natural contour. So if you're scared of a more cool-toned contour product, don't be with this one. This is very user-friendly, very everyday appropriate. For me this shade worked great on my fair skin. I really loved how it was able to shape and it still warmed up my complexion without me feeling overdone. So for me this is very much an everyday type of contour. If I was doing a full full glam I think I would reach for something with a little more pigment just to really get that kind of look and structure, but for every day I think this is a real winner."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Sunscreen filters

Sun protection is the best evidenced way to slow visible ageing, and the filters are what does the work. Mineral and chemical filters both protect when a product is applied thickly enough and often enough, which is where most people fall short rather than on the choice of filter.

Source: DermNet

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Liquid Contour?

A liquid contour formula designed to sculpt and define facial features with a blendable, buildable texture available in multiple shades.

Is Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Liquid Contour worth it?

Mostly yes. 3 of the 4 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 75%.

What is Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Liquid Contour's Guru Score?

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Liquid Contour holds a Guru Score of 75%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 4 expert reviewers we have collected.