Sunday, 12 October 2014

Foundation Application

Foundation

You will need:

Cleanser
Toner
Moisturiser
Tissue
Cotton wool pads/ cotton wool buds
Shoulder cape
Clips/headband
Primer
Foundation
Concealer palette
Loose powder
Palette
Spatula
Foundation base brush
 2 Small rounded brushes
Kabuki/buffer brush
Powder puff

Method:

- Wash your hands and arms , cover the client’s clothes with the shoulder cape and put hair back using clips or a head band.

- Cleanse, tone and moisturiser the face- see previous notes.

- Hold the foundations up to the clients face and choose the colours you think will match their skin tone.

- Place a small amount of the foundations onto a palette or the back of your hand.

- Mix them together using a spatula, mix well to avoid streaking.

- Tilt the clients head and apply the foundation to the jaw line and blend into the skin. Make sure you go down onto the neck also as it is often slightly lighter than the face.

- The colour should almost disappear into the skin if it’s right. If not mix whichever colours are needed to make it perfect.

- Remove any foundation than was not the correct colour with a tissue and cleanse, tone and moisturise that area again if needed.

- Write down the colours and quantities that you have used if you will need to make the same colour again.
- Make enough of the colour to cover the whole face.

- Apply a primer or mix your primer into the foundation and apply all over the face and onto the neck.

- Tilt the clients head up and apply the foundation using a foundation base brush starting at the nose and use sweeping strokes all over the face

- Use cotton wool pads to hold the skin around the eyes and any other skin that needs to be held. Don’t touch the skin with your hands as you will take foundation off the face.

-Make sure you apply foundation onto the ears, down onto the neck and over the crease in the neck, into the hair line but not into the hair, you can also go over the lips and into the eyebrows.

- Get you concealer palette and chose a concealer one or two shades lighter than the foundation or you can mix a light shade into the left over foundation. You can use a tinted concealer for colour correction e.g. green tint cancels out redness.

- Use a small rounded brush to apply the concealer onto blemishes and imperfections, softly dap it onto the skin and blend into the foundation you can use another clean brush to do this.

- Use a kabuki brush or buffer brush in a circular motion all over the face to blend in the foundation and concealer and buff it into the skin.

- Put powder onto a palette or your arm using cotton wool or a puff and apply the powder in a rolling motion to set the foundation if you are doing a powder make up e.g. using powder blusher and eyeshadow. If you don’t use powder they will not work as well on just a foundation base. If you are going to use cream based products apply any powder afterwards otherwise the products will not set properly.



In this first attempt I found it difficult to blend the concealer with the foundation so I need to use a smaller brush to apply the concealer and buff it into the foundation to get a flawless coverage.

It is important to chose the correct colour of foundation otherwise it will not match the skin properly.
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Today it is usually more fashionable to have tanned skin because of its connotations of being in the sun on holiday, where as in Elizabethan times it was more desired to be pale as it showed you didn't have to work outside.
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Foundation Types

Tinted moisturiser is good for men as imperfections are covered but the skin still looks natural as it isn’t a heavy coverage. Tinted moisturiser also works well on normal skin that has few imperfections to give a light coverage and can work well for daytime looks.

Grease and cream based foundations or highly moisturising foundations are good for dry skins. Also apply a little more moisturiser than you would on a normal skin to help combat the dryness.

Grease and cream foundations give a heavy coverage which is good if the client has a skin problem that needs covering, especially if the problem covers a large area of the face.

Oil based foundations are good for mature skin as they work well to fill in fine lines and wrinkles.
Liquid foundation works well on combination skin as many adapt to suite the different areas of the skin. On areas of the skin that are prone to becoming oily more powder can be used or added throughout the day.

Liquid foundation can also be used on oily skin especially mattifying liquid foundations. Powder should be used to set the foundation and many need to be added to through the day if the skin becomes oilier.


 Pressed powder foundations are good for creating a matte finish to oily skin however usually don’t give as full a coverage as liquid foundations and don’t work as well if you are planning to use non-powder based products for the rest of the make-up, such as cream blushers.


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