With autumn upon us, naturally we want to keep up with the trends that fall 2015 will bring, with revolutionary beauty techniques like contouring and highlighting becoming mega hits this summer.

Just as we were getting the hang of contouring, the makeup world throws us something else called strobing. It is an easier face sculpting and highlighting method that gives amazing results with minimal effort.

This is similar to contouring but without the boldness of the lines and time constraining blending. Strobing uses soft and natural lighting to enhance your features with half the products, time and money.

This technique has been an instant hit with Hollywood stars and makeup artists, but it doesn’t take a professional makeup artist to execute.

Luckily, this technique is simple enough for the average person to attempt. All strobing requires is your favorite highlighting product or a dewy shimmer BB cream and a beauty blender.

Simple enough right? Now with that in mind, highlighters and shimmer creams can get pricey but there are some great dupes from drugstore brands like L’oreal and NYX that give the same results.

People with naturally drier skin don’t have to worry about makeup sliding off throughout the day. But those with oily skin have to be conscious of what type of dewy products they apply to their skin. If you have oily skin and you try to strobe, your skin might look more oily than it does naturally.

Another tip for folks with oily or combination skin is to invest in a mattifying face primer, something that will not add to your skin’s natural oiliness. You do not need to apply this to your entire face, only to the places you tend to generate the most oil, which is typically in the T-zone.

A good product to try that is a little pricey, but worth the money, is MAC’s Prep + Prime Skin Refined Zone for all-day oil control.

Once you have your base, you have to set your makeup with either a primer, setting spray or a setting powder; you can now begin to strobe.

If you have average skin that isn’t as sensitive to oil, you can skip the primer and the mattifying steps, and jump right into foundation, and begin the strobing process.

Since your face attracts natural light to certain areas, when you strobe it is not as difficult to find the areas you want to emphasize.

When you contour there are different areas that require shading and blending to carve out a shape. With strobing you have the four main areas that require your attention: the inner corner of your eyes, the bridge of your nose, your cheekbones and the brow bone area.

Beyond the four main areas, there are other places on one’s face that can be highlighted such as the Cupid’s bow and the forehead. But, you have to be extra careful to not over strobe, since that can lead to more oiliness.

Keep in mind strobing is a fancy word for “highlighting,” so if you invest in a good highlighter you are golden, literally.