How to Apply Makeup for Photographs

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Kim with Simply Beautiful in Austin Texas. Today we're going to talk about how to go from standard makeup, your everyday makeup and make it a little more intense so your eyes, cheeks and lips stand out for photography. How to, how to do makeup for photography. Sarah has her daily, her every day makeup on. She has brown liner. A little one shadow on her lid. Another accentuating dark color on her, in her crease. A nice soft blush and a soft lip. What we're going to do because in, in photography we want to just make sure that we can really get the eyes to stand out. So I want you to be aware that when you're doing this kind of makeup sometimes it looks a little bit harsh but in the lights it's going to really show well. So if I could ask you to close your eyes. And I'm going to bring the liner; in this case I'm using a black liner rather than the brown. Going to bring the liner into the corner of her eyes where I avoided it before because I didn't want to close her eyes. I'm using light stroking motions. And not pulling the eye. Even professional makeup artists can't draw a straight line really well. O.k., open please. I'm going to ask you to look up Sarah. I am still not going to go into the corner of her eye, even for this. It's just too, too much of a harsh look. So that's eyeliner. So I'm going to take a little brush and I'm going to go and intensify the eye shadow. Using a little plum. Plum looks really really good in, in pictures and Sarah has green eyes so it's going to appear brown but it's really a plum. Going up the brow bone sweeping it down across the eyeliner that I just did. Softening it and intensifying it at the same time. Soften and intense. So, there we go. If you get some eye shadow; can I ask you to look up? If you get some just brush it off with a big full brush. So that is her eye. She's got mascara after that; over the top of that. Top and bottom. She has her nice soft blush on. I'm going to take a flat brush. I'm going to use it in the contours of her cheeks. It's going to highlight her already high cheek bones. And in, in doing this we're going to just give her a little bit of a higher cheek bone. Let me see. Thank you. Now she already has some light lipstick on which I think is a beautiful color but what we're going to do is we're going to take a gold tone gloss and I'm going to bring it right to the center of her lip. Just this. By bringing it just to the center of her lip the light hits it, makes it look fuller. Like a moon shape right here. Now bring it to the side, don't bring to the side. And just a little tiny bit in the lip, in the bow area of the lip. So by just doing just a few little minor changes on everyday makeup, you can intensify so it's more distinct in makeup. Sometimes if we just put our regular day makeup on and just does it, just fades away. So do it a little more defined."