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Summary: Apply foundation makeup to the face with a stippling motion, not a stroking or petting motion. Learn to apply foundation makeup for television and film in this free cosmetics video with a movie makeup artist.
Eva Marie Denst burst onto the world of makeup artistry in the early 1990s. Her dream of becoming a makeup artist began as a child, where she spent countless hours putting makeup on...read more
"We're doing the foundation coverage on Amelia and we've matched her skin tone be KO2 by RCMA and we're just doing a full coverage here. I like to call this technique "stroking" and this actually moves the makeup around and this is called "stippling" when you're kind of like tapping the makeup onto the skin and when you're using cream foundations, the advantage of them is that they have a high pigmentation. Which means, basically, high coverage and they're great because you can knock out all the discolorations on the skin very easily which you could not do with a liquid. But you may need to stipple to create coverage and then just blend it off. So really the true way to do a cream foundation is a mix between the stippling and the stroking, you can see I'm kind of doing both on Amelia. You can go right into the eye area with this sponge; it won't hurt them at all. If you need more coverage remember to stipple and that's how we'll finish our foundation."
eHow Article: Apply Makeup Foundation With Stippling Technique