Highlighting the Cheeks: How to Apply Stage Makeup

Series Summary

For decades makeup has been used to heighten or conceal facial and other features on actors on either a screen or a stage. It is almost always the case that every actor involved with a project wears some sort of makeup during a performance. This includes lotions, powders, lipsticks, polishes and many more examples. Makeup can be used to create an extreme look or make a person look like someone completely different like a zombie or a vampire as well. The cosmetics industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and much of that has to do with stage and video performances and their active participation in them.

In this free video clip series you will learn how to apply several different types of makeup from lipstick to rouge and how to attain certain looks that will transfer well to the performance. You will learn how to accent or hide certain features on the face such as the nose and eyes and other tips and techniques that will invaluable when preparing for a performance. Take the information from these videos and make your own statement.

Video Transcript

" Hello! I am Monte and today on behalf of Expert Village, we are going to be talking about makeup for the stage. Now we are going to talk about highlighting and shading the cheeks. Because the area of the cheekbones on the face typically are much softer curves than other features, there is not any sharp line that is going on when you are blending and applying this makeup. So this is a good place to be using your finger instead of brush if you like because you can apply more faster and you do not have to have any fine lines and also as another areas of the face that we discussed if you want to widen or narrow your cheek bones, if you want to put them higher up, lower on your face, you want to make them seem bigger or smaller, it all depends on how big an area you decide to highlight and where exactly the place to highlight."