Whether you’re an aspiring makeup artist or if you would simply like to improve your makeup techniques for yourself, there are many tricks from the pros that you can borrow. These are things that they learned from makeup school, and developed on their own while working as professional makeup artists. In the next section, we will be dishing out exactly what these top techniques are so that you can apply them on yourself, or on a client when you are applying makeup as a professional artist in the future.
Top Makeup Techniques to Borrow from the Pros
Here are the top makeup techniques that you can borrow from professional makeup artists:
- Invest in high-quality makeup tools.
For every profession, there is a certain tool used that will make you do your job excellently and efficiently. For makeup artists it is none other than professional-grade tools – starting from makeup to the brushes used. Even if your makeup skills are not that well-developed yet, the mere fact that you are using high-quality makeup tools will greatly improve the results of your work.
For makeup application, there are different brushes that you can use for various applications. Pro makeup artists recommend investing in the following basic makeup brushes:
– Blush Brush
– Concealer Brush
– Lip Brush
– Fluffy Powder Brush
– Flat Eyeshadow Brush
– Foundation Brush
– Precision Angle Brush
– Small Blending Brush
Once you have these professional-grade tools, learn how to use them. A good tip to remember is to hold the brush on the handle to improve your control level. If you want to put pressure on the application, put your fingers closer to the silver part beneath the head of the brush. To apply color evenly, hold the brush handle on the center.
- Learn about the different kinds of foundation that you can use.
Experts say that there are three different kinds of foundation that you can use: powder, liquid and cream. Cream foundation offers full coverage with an opaque effect. But if you would like the makeup to have that translucent effect, you can mix cream foundation with primer. There are plenty of other tricks that you can use to mix and match these three types of foundation based on the effect you want to achieve.
- Learn about contouring.
When you see the before-and-after pictures of Hollywood celebrities, you will see how different they actually look sans makeup. The technique that makeup artists use for this is contouring. This involves highlighting and shading to change the shape of the face. If you have chubby cheeks, for example, you can have model-like cheekbones with some makeup trickery through contouring.
- Master the art of applying eye makeup.
Similar to how you can change the shape of your face through contouring, you can also change the shape of your eyes through makeup application. There are plenty of makeup tricks you can use to make your eyes pop. For example, those with narrow-set eyes can elongate the width of the eyes using black liner. Small eyes can look wider and more open using beige-colored eyeliner on the lower inner rim. You can develop your skills at applying eyeliner and eyeshadow to be able to change the shape of one’s eyes through makeup.
- Puff up your pout sans the injection!
Lastly, you can apply foundation to the entire lip to remove the natural pigments and make the lipstick color pop. Next, use white eyeliner pencil over the natural contour of the lip, do the same using a colored lip pencil to match your lipstick. Then, apply lipstick using a lip brush in a downward motion.
Follow these tips from professional makeup artists and have fun using your face as a canvas of colors!