Apply Powder Makeup for TV & Film

Video Transcript

"In this clip we're going to do the powder finish for the foundation. We want to powder it really well so that it stays on all day. That's a real trick. I've gone through and I've done complete coverage on Amelia and right before you powder, you may want to go in and just check all the different areas. Make sure there's no lining happening. A lot of times it'll happen through here. Just make sure it's perfect before you powder it. If you don't and there's a little crease in there, you'll actually powder in your mistake. The technique for powdering for a cream foundation is to use a powder, loose powder with a powder puff. I like putting about, I would say about a teaspoon, half a teaspoon, of powder. If they're very oily, you may want to use a little bit more. You just put the powder right on the powder puff like that and then you're actually going to fold it and just rub the powder into the powder puff. We're really stacking the puff, full of powder, and this way the powder goes into the puff, and when we need it it's in there but it doesn't go out all over the place, and we can use a loose powder to set the makeup. When we're powdering, we want to really press the powder, it's almost like putting the powder through the skin an attaching the makeup to the skin. If you just powder the top, it's like, not doing anything, you need to go all the way through."