Here’s everything you need to know about makeup basics and how to use them. Foundation: Beyond your skincare routine, foundation is what makes your skin appear flawless; it evens out your skin tone and conceals any subtle blemishes or discolorations on your face. The most important aspect of foundation to consider is coverage.
In order to put apply your makeup properly you’ll need to use the right tools. The Beautyblender is perfect for effortlessly blending foundations, blush, and concealer. For precise eyemakeup and dusting on powders reach for Sonia Kashuk’s set. Beautyblender, $20; sephora.com.
You can use endless color combinations as long as you keep the basic approach the same. To build a dramatic look, use a neutral color on your eyelids, a deeper medium hue in your creases and a brighter shadow on your brow bones and the inside corners of your eyes. Eyeliner: Eyeliner is all about enhancing the shape and color of your eyes.
If you're looking to simplify, Becker recommends The Balm blush, highlighter, and bronzer trio ($28; thebalm.com) that has all your needs in one, on-the-go compact. Before applying any shadow, be sure to prime your lids.
Makeup master Kevin Haney began his career as a lab assistant for Dick Smith on the film Altered States and is a graduate of Dick’s Advanced Professional Makeup Course. Haney won an Academy Award for his aging makeup on Dan Aykroyd in Driving Miss Daisy.
Steve LaPorte is a master of all the classic makeup techniques, thanks to mentorship by Dick Smith, Rick Baker, John Chambers, Ken Chase and Tom Burman. He won the Academy Award for his outrageous creations for Beetlejuice with renowned artist Ve Neill.
By age 13 Alec Gillis had decided to pursue a career in creature effects, setting up his own makeup lab in his mother’s garage. He teemed up with a young James Cameron, building a stop-motion puppet in Cameron’s kitchen.
Tom worked with a number of small effects companies in L.A. in the early 1980s and then joined Stan Winston’s team on The Terminator. That was the beginning of a five-year period that saw Tom become a key coordinator under Winston, with the opportunity to work on such features as Aliens and Predator as well as TV shows such as Amazing Stories.
John Caglione Jr. is a virtuoso of character, beauty and prosthetic makeup. A graduate of Dick Smith’s Advanced Professional Makeup Course, Caglione’s career began when Dick got him a job as a staff makeup artist at NBC, working on all of the network’s shows and with the ground-breaking original cast of Saturday Night Live.
One of the most successful makeup artists on the East Coast, Mike Marino is sought after by top directors such as Martin Scorsese, Darren Aronofsky, Charlie Kaufman, Francis Lawrence and Kevin Smith. A graduate of Dick Smith’s Advanced Professional Makeup Course, Marino founded his makeup lab Prosthetic Renaissance in 1999.
Love Larson is a character and prosthetic makeup artist from Sweden and a graduate of Dick Smith’s Advanced Professional Makeup Course.Obsessed with makeup and monsters from an early age, he spent most of his years growing up making masks and prosthetics, practicing on friends and himself.
The Basic Course covers the 5 basic technical and artistic stages in the creation of such a makeup including making a life mask, sculpting the appliances, making molds, and gluing appliances and applying makeup to them.
Dick Smith (Exorcist, The Godfather, Death Becomes Her) – View Dick Smith’s IMDB.
Mr. Smith has a pre-arranged deal with a top supplier to give his students a %20 discount on materials.
In 1988 Alec had enrolled in Dick Smith’s Advanced Course and found it to be a tremendous help in ADI’s quest for artistic excellence. 1991 was a banner year for the lab with ADI receiving an Academy Award nomination for Alien 3 and an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for Death Becomes Her.
Dick Smith, who passed away July 30 at the age of 92, was one of the greatest craftspersons of the 20th century. First working in television in New York then in film, Smith’s works as a special makeup effects artist were always impeccably conceived and realized, often setting new benchmarks in the process.
Putting together a good makeup kit can be quite challenging and overwhelming for even the most seasoned makeup connoisseur — let alone a makeup beginner. With thousands upon thousands of products to choose from, it can start to get a bit confusing when figuring out which ones work best for you.
NYC-based makeup artist Sharon Becker as well as the Emmy-winning makeup director for HBO's wildly popular show Euphoria Donni Davy, both weighed in on all the essential products for your makeup starter pack.
To build a dramatic look, use a neutral color on your eyelids, a deeper medium hue in your creases and a brighter shadow on your brow bones and the inside corners of your eyes.
Bronzer: Imagine bronzer as sunshine in powder form. When you apply foundation to your skin you even out your skin tone, but you’re also getting rid of the natural shadows and highlights on your face. Think of the bronzer as your way to use shadow to create depth or to give the illusion of moving a part of your face back. This is the first step to adding warmth and dimension back into your face. The “right” bronzer for your skin tone should look like a naturally tan version of you, not too orange and not too dark.
The “right” bronzer for your skin tone should look like a naturally tan version of you, not too orange and not too dark. For extra illumination use highlighter: Highlighter is essentially the opposite of your bronzer.
Typically, beginners will wear powder blush because it’s usually easier to apply for a more natural finish. Pump it up with cream blush: Cream blush is a really fun way to take wearing blush to another level — it’s more pigmented, and therefore a bolder way to wear blush.
It’s your go-to for things like covering blemishes and more apparent skin discolorations, and can also be used to brighten and even out your under eye area. Concealer comes in different mediums like creams, sticks and liquids.
The most important aspect of foundation to consider is coverage. Generally speaking, there are two ways to go.
You can try powders, creams and other variations of mediums, but the easiest way to fill in and shape your eyebrows tends to be an eyebrow pencil that you can get in a hue to complement the natural color of your eyebrows.