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Summary: Base cream sets and holds your makeup. Learn how to apply base cream before foundation in this free makeup video about stage makeup techniques.
Elisabeth Crawford has been in over nine pageants and has been to many top makeup artists and hairstylists. She has flown many miles and spent thousands of dollars to learn from the...read more
"This is so important. This is actually a cream that goes on your face and this has SPF 15 so it's great for when you're going to be outdoors. It kind of sets the makeup and it holds the makeup much longer than what it would be if you didn't put a cream underneath. So, I'm going to go ahead and you rub it on both hands. I squeezed it three times but depending on what brand you use you might not have one that you squeeze. It doesn't really matter what brand you buy just as long as it's a good cream with probably an SPF and it's really good for your skin. So we go ahead and start it like I said at the forehead and work our way down. You want to make sure that you get a lot of cream on the face, you want to make sure that it's very nice and moisturized and very evenly spread out. You don't want any clumps of the moisturizer left on the face. As you can see, I also put it on the eyebrows because I'm shaping the eyebrows as I'm putting it on her eyebrows. I will go ahead and squeeze a little bit more because I need a little bit more and you saw how many pumps I used. Put it on both hands that way I can put it evenly on both sides of the cheek. Work my way down in a circular motion. You want to make sure that you get it even, that's why I'm doing it in a circular motion. Get it up in the nostril area, underneath the eyes, in between the nose and the eyes. You want to make sure that you work it all the way up into the ears. So we have it nice, clean, and smooth all over the face. Even the neck area is very important because we do put makeup on the neck area to blend it in. To give you that nice shadowing that you would want on stage. Because of the lighting in pageants is so bright that you want to make sure that you have very nice and smooth makeup."