Professional Makeup Application Steps
by Caelie Steele, Makeup & Hair Artist, Instructor
www.belleoftheball.us
Are you a bride who is interested in doing her own makeup the day of the wedding? Are you a makeup artist starting out? Are you just interested in learning how to do a basic makeup application on your self? Here are the steps I recommend for Makeup Application.
Start by having a squeaky clean face
Have a clean face, its best to have a clean canvas to work on, your makeup will look better and not cling to dead skin cells. Plus by starting our clean you will not have to spend time trying to clean up or cover left over makeup.
Prepping the skin
Cleanse & Scrub:
Make sure you : cleanse, scrub, then use a light weigh oil free moist, or gel, then sunscreen. I prefer a water base matte SPF 30 sunscreen, which also acts as a primer for the foundation.
Dry Lips:
You might also need to: exfoliate the lips with a sugar scrub or lip exfoliation product. Then hydrate with a lip balm.
Eye Cream:
Mature skin or fine lines around the eyes:
Its important to use a Eye cream to help plump up the skin around the eyes if the person has fine lines. I use a eye cream or eye gel around the eye more than not.
Makeup Application Steps
1. Cleanse and prep the skin. Make sure all residue of eye makeup (including last nights mascara is off the eye) clean palate to start with is important.
2. Clean up eye brows: Tweeze, wax and/or trim brows (see eye brow theory video)
3. Foundation, then highlight
4. Concelear & set foundation with a loose powder
5. Eye shadow base application (see eye shadow base video lesson)
6. Eye shadow-lid
7. Eye shadow-brow bone
8. Eye liner, top & bottom
9. Eye shadow-contour
10. Fill in eye brows & set eyes with powder
11. Blush (usually two blush colors and/or a bronzing powder)
12. Bronzer and/or contour powder
13. Set entire face with loose powder
14. Curl lashes
15. False eye lash application
16. Mascara, bottom lashes, then top (let dry then second coat)
17. Lips (liner, lipstick, gloss)
Take photos of the Makeup-inside and out side so you can see what it looks like on Camera.