This document provides steps for finding your undertone and selecting the proper foundation color. It discusses determining if you have pink/red or yellow undertones based on how your skin reacts to the sun, the color of veins on your wrist, and the underlying color of your skin. It then explains how to use foundations that are 1-2 shades lighter or darker to contour and highlight areas of the face. Applying highlight under the eyes, center of forehead, and down the nose brings features out while contouring below the cheekbones, in the eye crease, sides of the nose, and sides of forehead slims features for a chiseled look. Loose powder is recommended for blending areas together seamlessly.
3. Finding your
correct
undertones ,
Yellow or Red?
1. Do you Burn or Tan in
the sun?
If you burn, you have pink
or red undertones. If you
tan, you have yellow
undertones.
2. Do you have more blue
or green veins on your
inner wrist?
Turn your wrist upwards
and take a close look. If
you have blue veins, your
skin has more pink
undertones, and a cool
skin tone. If you green or
teal colored veins, then
your skin has yellow
undertones, warm skin
tone.
3. What is the underlying
color cast of your skin?
Do you have a pink or
yellow cast to your
skin? Looking on your
inner arm or the side of
your face is easiest. Find
the color that naturally
comes through this part
of the skin – pink or
yellow.
4. The Foundation is
Key
1. YOUR BASE FOUNDATION SHOULD
HAVE THE SAME UNDERTONE OF YOUR
SKIN
2. YOU HAVE SELECTED THE PROPER
FOUNDATION BASE COLOR, WHEN
YOU PUT IT ON YOUR CHIN BONE AND
YOU CAN’T TELL THE DEFFERENCE
BETWEEN YOUR SKIN AND THE
MAKEUP
3. YOU SHOULD HAVE A HIGHLIGHT
COLOR WHICH IS TWO TO THREE
SHADES LIGHTER THAN YOUR SKIN
WITH THE SAME UNDERTONE OF YOUR
SKIN.
4. YOU SHOULD HAVE A CONTOUR
COLOR WHICH IS TWO SHADES
DARKER THAN YOUR SKIN WITH THE
SAME UNDERTONE AS YOUR SKIN.
5. YOU CAN USE CREAMS, POWDERS,
OR LIQUIDS, BUT YOU CANNOT MIX
THEM. I RECOMMEND POWDERS FOR
OILY SKIN (CRÈAM TO POWDER ALSO),
CREMES FOR DRY SKIN, AND LIQUID
FOR ALL TYPES OF SKIN.
6. Using
Foundations to
Contour &
Highlight
1. First Apply your base
foundation evenly to
your entire face
including your eyelids,
lips and neck.
2. Your highlight is the
foundation that is
lighter than the base
foundation and is used
to bring an area out.
3. The contour is the
foundation that is
darker than you
foundation and is used
to make an area recede
or come in.
4. The diagram to the right The contour goes below the cheekbone
shows you where to
apply your contour & In the crease of the eye , down the sides
highlight. Of the nose and the sides of the forehead
And along the cheek bones. This slims the
If you notice the picture to Nose, the cheeks the forehead eyes and
the right, the highlight
goes under the eye area on Jawline, giving the face a more chiseled
the center of the forehead Look.
and down the front of the
nose to bring these areas
out giving the cheek bones
a higher look and the eyes a
little lift and also giving
them the appearance of
being bigger.
7. Finishing the look
TO FINISH THE LOOK, I LIKE TO USE
LOOSE FACEPOWDER THE SAME COLOR
AS THE BASE FOUNDATION AND DUST
IT ALL OVER THE FACE TO SEEMLESSLY
BLEND THE HIGHLIGHTING AND
CONTOURING AREAS TOGETHER.
YOU CAN ALSO USE A BROZER
INSTEAD OF THE LOOSE POWDER TO
GIVE THE FACE A NICE GLOW.
REMEMBER YOU ONLY WANT A LIGHT
DUSTING OF BRONZER, OTHER WISE, IF
YOU USE TOO MUCH IT GIVES AN
ORANGE OR RED HUE TO THE SKIN.
FOR EVERYDAY MAKEUP THE KEY IS
LESS IS MORE. YOU ONLY WANT TO
LAYER UP FOR PHOTOS AND I
RECOMMEND USING A MAKEUP ARTIST
FOR PHOTO SHOOTS TO GET THE
PROPER ACMOUNT OF MAKEUP UNDER
THE PORFESSIONAL LIGHTING.