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Summary: How to cleanse the skin for applying high fashion makeup; get professional tips and advice on applying makeup and cosmetics like you see in fashion magazines and fashion shows in this free beauty video.
Jenny Karl has over eleven years experience working for cosmetics establishments in NY, NJ, PA, and CA. She's also worked as a freelance makeup artist and light, hair, and wardrobe...read more
"Okay, so the first step before you apply any makeup is to make sure your skin is cleansed and moisturized. So make sure you've washed your face. If you don't have a sink and water handy. Than take a makeup remover wipe and just make sure you get off all your makeup. All your foundation your eye makeup especially. Make sure you take that off. Make sure that your whole face is cleansed so that you can begin on a clean pallet. After your face is pretty much free of makeup then you want to start with your moisturizer. And you want to do that immediately after. Right after you cleansed your face you'll feel it's tight and your skin is gonna be calling for some hydration. So you want to put your moisturizer all over your face. If you're oily, use an oil free. If you're really dry use a more hydrant moisturizer. Put it completely all over the entire face, blend it in really really well. Don't neglect your neck. You want to take all the way down the neck and you just want to blend it in blend it in really really nice. And then once it's all blended into your face you want to use an eye cream. I firmly believe in eye cream no matter how old you are. Eye cream just helps your makeup go on smoother. It helps hydrant your eyes. I mean the first thing that is gonna start showing age is your eyes. So you just want to take a little bit of eye cream and just gently put around the eye, not on top of the eye but around the eye. And then lastly, lip moisturizer, you don't want to forget your lips either. Especially if you are going to be using dark pigments of colors and especially in the winter time when your lips are just naturally dryer any way. You want to you want to definitely put a coat of lip moisturizer on before you start. And by the time you get to your lips your moisturizer will be all soaked in. Alright and now we're ready to begin the foundation. "
eHow Article: Cleansing Skin for High Fashion Makeup