Makeup and Makeover Application Tips

Utilizing Makeup and Makeover Application Tips

After the initial time you spend learning the how-tos of makeup and makeover application tips, they'll begin to come as second nature. If you mess up a few times at first, don’t fret. It's like riding a bicycle. You may feel overwhelmed by all the little things you have to remember, but then everything will flow.

Choosing Colors

Everyone has one of the following undertones:

• Cool

• Warm

• Neutral

Here are a few ways to determine your skin tone:

• Do you look better in gold or silver jewelry? If silver, you're a cool. If gold, you're a warm.

• Do the veins in your inner arm look blue or green? Blue means you're a cool. Green means you're a warm.

• Do you look better in blue based colors, jewel tones, and icy blues, pinks, purples, etc, or do you look better in earthy, yellow based colors, earth tones, peaches, browns, etc? You probably guessed it: Blue tones mean you're a cool while yellow tones mean you're probably a warm.

• Genetics can show you your skin tone, too. Blue, blue-green, cool brown, and gray eyes can mean you're a cool. Additional factors are hair color. If you're a cool, you probably have cool black, ash brown, or ash blonde hair. The key here is the ash tone. You may also have rosy undertones in your skin.

If you're a warm, your eyes are amber, green, hazel, or dark brown. Skin tone has apricot or golden hues to it. Hair color is red, strawberry blonde, or brown with red and/or gold accents.

In some cases, it may feel nearly impossible to determine your skin tone. You may be a neutral. Some neutrals are slightly cool or slightly warm, but they're "in between" enough to wear any color beautifully.

Cool makeup colors go on cool toned skin; warm makeup colors go on warm toned skin. It's easy!

Cleaning Brushes, Keeping Products Sanitary

Especially if you're applying for a job as a makeup artist, one of the most important makeup and makeover application tips you can learn is how to clean brushes and keep the products sanitary for the next client. It's imperative that you know how to sanitize these instruments between uses.

• For brushes, squirt a bit of brush cleaning solution onto a napkin. Between colors and clients, swipe the brush on the napkin. You can also use alcohol.

• Powder products: Wipe the tops off with a napkin. There's no moisture in these products, so bacteria is less likely to grow there.

• Cream products: Scoop a little out and put it in a petrie dish or on a paper plate. You can work straight from those products instead of contaminating the whole product.

• Lipstick: Dip it in alcohol. Then hold the lipstick upside down and rub off the end with tissue.

• Use spare lip brushes and mascara wands—not the brushes in the lip gloss—to apply. Don't double-dip. If you need more, get another brush or wand.

Face Prep

It's important to clean off a client's makeup if they're wearing any. If not, you'll still need to prep their face for makeup.

Use a makeup removal wipe to remove the client's makeup. Apply a moisturizer or a makeup primer. Benefit's Dr. Feelgood is a popular primer.

Trying Out for a Makeup Artist's Position

One area the makeup and makeover application tips really come in handy is when you're applying for a job as a makeup artist at a counter. They want to see that you know how to prep a customer's face, walk them through the products you're using, and apply makeup well based on their features and coloring.

If you're going it alone and doing freelance work for proms, weddings, and big nights out, it's also a good time to know the tips..