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Summary: Easy fake bruises and special effects makeup! Take care of your skin and prep for makeup in this free video series on making fake bruises and stage makeup effects.
Erin Keith has been working in makeup, cosmetics, and special effects makeup professionally for more than two years. Since attending East Carolina University and Margaret Kimura...read more
"Hi! I'm Erin and you're watching Expert Village. Today, we're going to be working on how to do a bruise. Before we start anything, we need to prep the area that we're going to do. We've already washed the face with a cleanser. You can do it with a makeup wipe, or you can do it with a liquid soap, whatever you'd like. Also, I wanted to show you too this astringent. It's actually to tone. It's Rose Petal Witch Hazel. It's alcohol free. It's good. It's moisturizing to the skin and it relieves your skin of all the extra excess skin and dirt. We're going to be doing a bruise right here on the cheek today. We're just going to kind of clean that off there. Get all that extra what not there. Comes off. Works like a charm. After that, we're not going to do any moisturizer because we're going to be using a moisturizer based makeup today."
eHow Article: Skin Prep for Stage Makeup