5 professional tips for makeup artists

Makeup is an art and acing it requires a lot of effort. Plus, it requires lot of professional etiquettes, tricks and skills too. Permanent Makeup expert and Executive Director of ALPS Beauty Clinics, Ms. Gunjan Taneja Gaur, shares all such professional tips for every makeup artist – budding or established – to not only implement outstanding makeup, but leave a lasting impression on their clients. This will make their work shine, emerge best as compared to their counterparts and rule the world of beauty.

Form a base:

Before you jump into applying makeup – let your client follow a thorough Cleansing, Toning, Exfoliating, Moisturizing and Priming (CTEMP) ritual. For this, start washing your face with a mild cleanser and follow-up by applying a pore-minimizing toner to provide long-lastingness to the makeup. Alongside, exfoliate your skin to make way for a flawlessly done makeup and continue by moisturizing with a gel-based moisturizer for lush glow on your face. The last step is to prime with a silicone-based primer to fill-in the pits of the skin and let your skin ready for a celeb-like makeup.

Consult your client:

Right before starting the makeup, make sure that you have ample time in your kitty. This time should be utilized for making your client comfortable with you and her own skin-tone. In India – there is a lack of awareness and hence, everyone wants to look extremely fair regardless of their original skin-tone (dusky/dark). This is why, most women end-up looking chalky – so advice all your clients to learn to embrace their skin-tone and implement their makeup accordingly.  Besides this, asking about their skin-textures, preferences, preferences of the family, venue, personal favorite color and availability will let you have a better understanding of your client – leaving no room for mistake.

Going overboard prohibited:

 Over-dramatic look in makeup is a strict no-no. So make sure to highlight only one features of your client at a time (eyes or lips) to endow a classy perfection your do. Many of artists tend to over-gloss the pout – which make the lip colors smudge sooner. Apply a thin layer of gloss for long-lasting effect of lip-color.

Alongside, highlighting with foundation also is of prime importance too when comes to highlight your facial features. This will not only slim-down the face but will bestow it with a chiseled appeal.

Show some effort:

 Blending is the key for any makeup – be it blushing, bronzing or applying shadow. So, make sure to blend your product well on the face your client to make it rather look like her second skin itself. Also, remember to implement it using a clean brush only, for a awesome, fresh finish of your base. Similarly, apply the cream product first and follow up with the powder one for an ultra-intensified look.

Conclude it well:

 Last but not the least, sealing makeup is also utterly important to increase its long-lastingness. So, make sure to provide longetivity to the client’s makeup by using a separate makeup fixers for facial makeup and lip makeup. Surprizingly, it will not cost you a bomb and will leave a lasting impression of you and your service on your client!  So every time you conclude your service, do it quality makeup fixer and have a chair back to relax!