Make - Up Procedure
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FOUNDATION
Take your chosen colour and test a little on the inside of
your neck. If it blends well, it is suitable. The foundation is applied evenly over the entire surface of the face. It is blended under the chin on to the neck so there is no definite
line of demarcation. Use too little rather than too much. Two thin coat sare preferable to one heavy layer. Foundation is applied with a damp sponge.
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BLUSHER
Apply blusher to enhance loveliness, by heightening your
natural colours and recontouring your features. Apply it with a brush to the correct position for the facial shape.
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POWDER
This
sets the make-up. Apply with a square cotton wool
by gentle press and turn motions all over the entire face,
including the eyebrows, and the eye lids. The powder
should be an invisible film.
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EYE COLOURING
As the eyes give the face much of its character, you
want to emphasize them more than the above features. For a professional make-up, minimum of 3 colours have to be used.
Step-By-Step Basic Make-Up Application
Preparation: Be sure you have everything you need for the make-up before you start.
- Prepare yourself. Secure your hair off your face and tuck tissues into the neck line.
- Wash hands and dry thoroughly
- Clean your face
- Tone
- Moisturiser
- Blot the moisturiser
- Apply foundation
- Apply the corrective make-up
- Do the contouring
- Apply the blusher
- Powder the face
*Note: If the contouring or blush colours are of a powder type, the powder is applied after the corrective make-up
and before the contouring and blushing. If they are of a cream type the powder is applied over them.
- Brush the eye-brows to remove powder.
- Apply eye-shadow. The basic and most natural application is colour to the eye-lid. Contour colour in the crease and highlighter on the area directly under the eye-brow. Be sure to blend colours
carefully.
- Apply liner or kohl
- Apply mascara
- Apply lip liner
- Apply lip colour
- Inspect and touch up the make up
- Remove the hair band tissues and rearrange your hair.
CORRECTIVE MAKE-UP Corrective make-up helps play up the good
features and tone down the bad ones. Facial features can be accentuated with proper highlighting and subdued with the correct shadowing and shading and balanced with the proper hair style.
During
the day, light is more intense and make-up has to face strong scrutiny. Therefore make-up must be fairly natural. In the evening, the light is less intense and make-up must be stronger on the
face, especially on the eyes, so strong colours may be used. Shades and highlights appear to look false.
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When making up, take into consideration:
1. The Clothes you will wear.
2. The type of function you will be attending
3. Your personality
4. Your age Clothes largely denote the colour you choose for eye make-up. The colour should blend well with the clothes to
reflect your personality and eye colour. The type of function that you will attend also denotes the type of make-up, as light affects make-up. Artificial light is usually from above, casting
shadows on the face.
- Candlelight lights up the whole face and has a slightly yellow effect.
- Red light alters everything, turns yellow to orange, red to brown and fades rough.
- Straw-coloured, normal light has a warming effect, turns violets to grey.
- Blue light turns all make-up grey, red to purple. The rouge should be kept to a minimum.
- Neon light or fluorescent lights is very harsh and scrutinising
shows up blues and mauves, every line wrinkle and blemish.
Foundation should be nearest to your skin colour or a shade lighter, or use a darker colour to create warmth. Take care of the colour you use that they blend with your skin colour. To conceal wrinkles and
cervices normally on drier skin, use cream foundation but use it sparingly. It should be applied in circular motion and not too heavily, otherwise the appearance would seem faded.
Corrective Make-Up For The Forehead
Too broad - shade along the hairlines
Low forehead - Apply a lighter foundation cream to the
forehead to give it a broader appearance between the brows and hairline.
A protruding forehead
- Use a darker foundation just below temples, cover the eyelids and across the upper part of the nose. This will give an illusion of fullness to the rest of the face and give the forehead a smaller look. With a suitable hairstyle, attention can be drawn away from the forehead.
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Corrective Make-Up For The Nose Large, protruding nose
Use a lighter foundation cream on the cheeks and at the sides of the nose, to make it appear
smaller. Avoid placing the rouge too close to the nose. Short and flat nose
Use a light foundation right down the centre, this will make the nose appear longer. Broad nose
Draw 2 vertical
lines along the nose with either a brush or pencil to show what size you want the nose to appear. Apply darker foundation to sides and lighter to the centre. Rouge not too near the nose.
Long nose
The tip should be covered with a darker foundation. This includes the nostrils and a little may help. Crooked nose
Drew 2 straignt lines on
nose. Apply a lighter foundation on the concave areas and a darker one on the convex. Turned up nose
Lighter foundation down centre to tip, darker one use under tip and rim of nostrils.
Hooked nose
Shade tip and sides with darker foundation.The jaws of neck are as important as the rest of the face. Be sure to carry the foundation cream down below the
dressline in order to prevent any lines. Receding chin
Highlight the chin by using a lighter foundation and a darker one under the chin and over the neck. Road jaws
Apply a darker foundation,
starting at the temple, as this will minimize the lower part of the face and create an illusion of width to the upper part of the face. Double chin
Apply a darker foundation
or a shade lighter, above and below the jawline, stopping short of the chin. Narrow jawline
Highlight by using a lighter foundation than the one used on the face. A long thin neck
Apply a lighter foundation on the the neck than the face. Short, fat neck
A darker foundation to counteract thickness. Corrective Make-Up For The Lips Drooping corners
Build up the upper lip at corners of mouth. Thin lips
Increase size of both upper and lower lip with a gentle curving line. Thin, upper lip
Build up curve of upper lip to balance. Thin, lower lip
Extend curve of lower lip to balance. Sharp cupid's bow
Narrow corners, fill in most of cupid's bow with the sides of upper and lower
lips. Large full lips
Keep lipstick colouring inside of lip-line. Shade colour off at sides. Keep corners very sharp. Small mouth
Build out sides of upper
and lower lips and extend corners of mouth.
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