Highlighting and Contouring for Photography
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Makeup for Photography
• Applying makeup for photo shoots involves specific techniques that depend on a number of factors: Lighting: Indoors or outdoors? Film or digital technology? Colour or black-and-white? Style: What image does the photographer want? • Making a photograph is a collaborative effort. As the makeup artist you are part of a team that includes; the photographer, the stylist, the hair stylist, the dresser, and the editor (if it is a magazine shoot), publicists and handlers (If the subject is a celebrity), and the subject being shot. WWW.THISISMINK.COM
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Makeup for Photography • Your job is to be true to your own style, yet be open to understand the requirements of the stylist, editor, and model; and to create a makeup look that works • The only way to accomplish this is to communicate with everyone on the set and be observant • Don’t ever be embarrassed to ask questions or to give your opinion • Throughout the process ask for feedback WWW.THISISMINK.COM
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Makeup for Photography • After you have applied the models foundation, let her look at it in the mirror to see if she thinks it looks right. It is much easier to change things at this stage than to wait until the whole face is done • When analysing the first shot, get the photographers opinion on how the makeup us working – or not – with his/her lighting • Once the shooting starts don’t think that your job is done. You need to stand by the set with your tools – powder, blush, lipstick etc. WWW.THISISMINK.COM
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Makeup for Photography • Watch the model to keep a close eye on how the makeup is holding up and what might need fixing • Exaggerate the effect you are trying to create – film has a tendency to neutralize, so the colour needs to be much stronger than what it would be in real life • Over do it and then assess it not by how it looks to your eye, but how it looks on camera WWW.THISISMINK.COM
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Contouring & highlighting
• Contouring techniques are employed to balance the face shape and to enhance features • Contouring makeup means using the art of chiaroscuro (painting with light and shade) to create the illusion of reshaping and sculpting the face and features • When applying shadows and highlights to the skin it is important to ensure there is a significant tonal difference between them and the base colour, otherwise they will be lost. WWW.THISISMINK.COM
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Shading • Shading is the blending of a makeup shade darker than the foundation or skin tone in order to diminish a feature • A large nose could be shaded at the sides to make it appear thinner • A double chin could be made less obvious by shading underneath the jaw line • Generally a correct colour selection will involve shifting two or three shades down the tonal range of the foundation or skin tone, ensuring that you remain within the correct underlying skin colour • Bronzers or tinted powders can make useful shaders. WWW.THISISMINK.COM
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Shading Common areas for shader application: • Hollows under the cheekbone • Just below the inner corner of the eyebrow • Cleavage • Under the chin • Socket line of the eye • Hairline • Sides and tip of the nose • Temples • Hollows of the collarbone WWW.THISISMINK.COM
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Highlighting • Highlighting is the blending of a makeup shade lighter than the foundation in order to accentuate a feature or facial plane • A correct colour selection will involve shifting approximately three shades up the tonal range of the foundation or skin tone, ensuring that you remain with the correct underlying skin colour • As with shading the application will require careful blending • Iridescent powders can be useful highlighters WWW.THISISMINK.COM
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Highlighting Common areas for highlight application are: • Brow bone • Centre of the eyelid • Centre of the forehead down through the bridge of the nose • Cheekbone plane • Centre of the chin collarbone • Top of the breast WWW.THISISMINK.COM
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