'I've given her the best nose job!' Khloe Kardashian's make-up artist reveals the subtle contouring tricks she uses to transform the reality star's face

  • Make-up artist Joyce Bonelli details how she's used contouring to transform Khloe's features in a new interview
  • Get the scoop on the celebrity artist's forthcoming cosmetics line

By Sarah Ferguson For Dailymail.com

Published: 13:19 EST, 17 May 2017 | Updated: 21:02 EST, 17 May 2017

Like her sisters, Khloe Kardashian, 32, is often the subject of plastic surgery speculation, but we can put at least one of those rumors to rest.

'I’ve given Khloe [Kardashian] the best nose job for eight years with contour. No, she didn’t, it’s just makeup,' her make-up artist Joyce Bonelli revealed to nymag.com in a new interview.

Joyce, who has worked all of the Kardashian/Jenner ladies, helped construct the family's signature sculpted aesthetic that's become so popular with the masses, but her style has recently shifted to a refreshingly natural look.

How-to: To sculpt Khloe Kardashian's nose, make-up artist Joyce Bonelli uses bronzer and a small brush to draw lines from the inner corners of the brows down to the edge of the nose on both sides and then paints a highlighter along the bridge

How-to: To sculpt Khloe Kardashian's nose, make-up artist Joyce Bonelli uses bronzer and a small brush to draw lines from the inner corners of the brows down to the edge of the nose on both sides and then paints a highlighter along the bridge

Before and after: Since working with Joyce (here she's pictured before), a master at contouring, Khloe's nose has appeared thinner and more symmetrical.
Before and after: Since working with Joyce, a master at contouring, Khloe's nose has appeared thinner and more symmetrical  

Before and after: Since working with Joyce, a master at contouring, Khloe's nose has appeared thinner and more symmetrical  

Contouring is still her go-to technique when working with the Kardashians, but as you may have noticed if you keep up with them, Joyce is now doing it in a more blended, less obvious way.

'As an artist, you get bored with things. I'm always switching it up,' Joyce said.

One look that she's really become bored with is the ubiquitous Instagram make-up look that features painted-on brows (she calls this an 'epidemic') and layers upon layers of products.

'It’s always the same thing. I’ll see them and be like, "what is going on?" You need to chisel this makeup off their face,' she said.

The early days: Joyce, pictured here with Kim Kardashian, 36, took a heavy-handed approach to make-up when she first started working with the Kardashians

The early days: Joyce, pictured here with Kim Kardashian, 36, took a heavy-handed approach to make-up when she first started working with the Kardashians

A new technique: Though she still contours her clients, the make-up artist doesn't like it to be obvious and  aims for a natural look on clients like Kendall Jenner, 21

A new technique: Though she still contours her clients, the make-up artist doesn't like it to be obvious and  aims for a natural look on clients like Kendall Jenner, 21

Despite being over the too-flawless Instagram look, Joyce admits that she had something to do with the birth of the trend.  

'That's how I used to do make-up,' she said. 'Now I realize that everything doesn’t need to look so perfect. There needs to be dimension.'

For example, she'll create a look with perfect skin and messy brows or bare eyes and a pop of color on the lip. 

She also likes to keep the number of products she uses for a single look to a minimum. In a how-to video posted to Khloe's app this week, the make-up artist used a highlighter pencil along the model's brow bones and on the eyelids as a primer and a bronzer on the cheeks and to contour the nose.

Exciting things to come: Joyce (right) revealed on Instagram on Wednesday that she's gearing up to launch her own line of cosmetics this fall 

Exciting things to come: Joyce (right) revealed on Instagram on Wednesday that she's gearing up to launch her own line of cosmetics this fall 

Monochromatic: Considering the face painter is into the monochromatic look, seen here on Khloe, we're expecting wearable neutral make-up from her forthcoming line 

Monochromatic: Considering the face painter is into the monochromatic look, seen here on Khloe, we're expecting wearable neutral make-up from her forthcoming line 

She is also using this newfound less-is-more approach when developing products for her forthcoming cosmetics line, which she plans to officially launch in the fall.

'I’m not selling a thousand different things, it's just a few things that I love,' she said. 'The basis is it's about the ritual of beauty for a woman. It’s to bring out each person's and accentuate that.'

A product that she's especially excited to reveal is a clear brow gel that doesn't budge. 'It doesn’t look like makeup, but just keeps it where it is supposed to be,' she said. 

Product launches from members of the Kardashian glam squad have thus far been must-haves - Jen Atkin's haircare line Ouai and Mario Dedivanovic's Anastasia Beverly Hills palette are two that come to mind - which makes it likely that this one will not be an exception.

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