What is Makeup? Makeup is not about putting on different colors or to cover flaws on a face. Makeup, if done well, can help to bring out one’s true beauty.
There are 2 kinds of makeup:
- Makeup that shows off one’s makeup ability
- Makeup that enhances one’s beauty
Both require an ability to analyze face structure and skin. A beautiful makeup means bringing balance to facial features and improving skin texture for a flawless result.
Examples of different facial structures:
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Close Set
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Wide Set
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Higher Focused
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Lower Focused
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Uplifted
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Droopy
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Makeup can be in the form of the way we hydrate a dry face before makeup, the way we massage the face for makeup preparation, eg massaging to reduce eye bags or to uplift a droopy face.
It can also be the emphasis we place on the eyeshadow on the eyes to correct wide-set eyes, thereby bringing the eyes closer, or contouring a high forehead thereby creating balance.
There’s not one face that is the same, thus there is no “correct way “ to makeup.
More often than not, balance and symmetry is the key.
Thus having the ability to recognize facial and skin structure before working on a model is one skill that a good makeup artist should have, and ability to correct and bring balance is one that an exceptional makeup artist cannot do without.
An example of a perfectly
symmetrical and “beautiful” face created by Face Research.