Summary: Many stage makeup artist will forget to fill in the eyebrows of the actors. Learn how to do stage makeup eyebrows with tips from a cosmetologist in this free theater makeup video.
Laurie Olson is a qualified cosmetologist and has been involved in theater and television makeup for over 20 years.read more
"The next step is to do the eye make-up, and there's quite a few things that are involved with that. And sometimes I see people forget about the eyebrows, and especially with those who have really light eyebrows, and blond eyebrows, on stage with those lights, if you have blond eyebrows and you haven't put a little bit of make-up on it will look like you have none at all. And so people will be captivated by the person running around on stage that has no eyebrows, rather than what's really going on stage, the story line. So it's important that you wear something on your brow. And I actually prefer to use a powder and a brush, I think it gives a much more natural effect and you can have a lot of control, and I really like it because you can actually fill in where it needs to be and you can actually make things darker as well. So we're going to just to Zandra's here and we just start here and we just do some really nice little strokes. And as you can see, it's not heavy, it's not drawn on with one single line with black pencil all the way across. Try to use the color that is closest to their eyebrow color because it will look the most natural. So we've got a nice eyebrow in here and it really just frames the eye nicely and it looks like you're an actual human being on stage."
eHow Article: Stage Makeup Eyebrows