Makeup, TutorialsKatherineFebruary 03, 2022Makeup, Beauty, Red Lip, Glam, New Zealand, Makeup Artist

The Secrets of Makeup Mastery. The Beauty Blog New Zealand

Makeup, TutorialsKatherineFebruary 03, 2022Makeup, Beauty, Red Lip, Glam, New Zealand, Makeup Artist

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Skills. Techniques. Theory. The three essential components of excellent makeup application and results. The Beauty Blog New Zealand features the latest skills, techniques and theory to build your beauty confidence with makeup. Join the community on Instagram, Facebook, and more here!

The Secrets of Makeup Mastery

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Skills | The Beauty Blog New Zealand

Perfect makeup application begins with practice. The best opportunity to practice begins with your own face, understanding the shapes and contours and learning what makes you unique.

Product application is one of the most essential skills to master, and is unique for each type of product. For this featured classic makeup look a smooth flawless skin texture is crucial to achieve. Utilising the correct tools for your skin type, age, and texture is the key to this skill. A flawless skin look begins with the correct base, and skin that is clean, exfoliated and moisturised. Dry skin that has not been exfoliated can result in a build up of product through its inability to blend with the skin, and this can often create an uneven appearance in texture, flakiness, or unwanted pore definition. Preparing your skin properly with a moisturiser that is right for your skin type, along with the correct primer are also essential steps to achieving beautiful skin. Finally, using the correct process for applying your foundation is crucial. Always apply wet before dry, liquid foundation before powder and use a brush for larger areas and a sponge to smoothly apply product in the creases and smaller and more delicate areas of the face such as around the eyes, and the nose.

Techniques | The Beauty Blog New Zealand

Techniques of cosmetic makeup application are built from the ground up, with excellent tools being the key to excellent results. Trialling a number of different product tools can often be best to find out works well for you, but here is a general breakdown of the most popular.

The techniques used in this classic red lip makeup look include base application for a natural skin glow, setting the brows to frame the face, defining the lips before applying colour, and using subtle contouring for shaping and effect. When applying the base always use soft circular motions with either your brush or sponge, to avoid streaks, and spend ample time blending to ensure it will wear well all day. A smaller angled brush of up to one centimetre in width is essential for achieving perfect brows, as it creates sharper lines and definition. Defining the lips before applying product is also important for an excellent result. Spend time applying lip liner to create your desired lip shape, for this look the corners are brought in and the cupid’s bow and lower middle lip are extended out to create the illusion of fuller lips. It’s imperative that this is done with lip liner first, before applying final product to achieve even and accurate coverage. Finally, to achieve a subtle contour the apples of the cheeks are applied with product first, using an angled blush brush in long, sweeping circles starting from the hairline above the ear and down in an angled motion. The higher the blush the more youthful the finish, and the result should be graduated where the product is most notable on the upper cheekbones, rather than toward the nose. This produces a more angular appearance for the softer face type. A deeper shade of contour is applied in the same way but from the bottom of the ear slightly diagonally toward toward the nose.

Theory | The Beauty Blog New Zealand

Every art form and skill is connected to a wealth of knowledge and information that underpins results. The theory of makeup artistry is important in order to achieve any beauty look.

One of the most essential pieces of beauty knowledge for achieving perfect makeup involves understanding bases. Knowing which skin type you have along with the underlying base of your products will ensure everything comes together as it should. The most common bases in cosmetic products are either oil, silicone, or water based. In theory, if products with the same base compositions are used together on the skin, they will apply more evenly, easily, and smoothly. In combination with selecting the best base for your skin type, should ensure a smooth and flawless appearance. The most common bases are silicone and water based products, but oil based is better if you have particularly dry or mature skin. Combination skin types are very common, with oily areas often in the T-Zone of the face and dryer across the cheeks. To counteract this it is important to use the correct products across each section of the face, and identify each area correctly.