Makeup for Photography: What Are Your Favorite Tips? - Makeup and Beauty Blog

Good morrow, my Liz Lemons. I have a confession. Prominently displayed all around my parents' business firm are pictures from my loftier schoolhouse years, and my makeup looks GAWD Awful. The worst one picture show is on the fridge, a snapshot of me sitting adjacent to my mom at my 16th birthday political party.

That night I decided to clothing a translucent face up pulverization, and in every flash picture my skin was an unearthly shade of grayness.

Tragic!

Since and so, I've learned a thing or two well-nigh makeup and flash photography…

And I bet you've got some tricks upwards your sleeve, too. 🙂

Are y'all ready to put on your makeup thinking caps to help out a fellow beauty junkie in demand?

MBB reader Lesley wrote in yesterday asking for aid with photography makeup tips for a few upcoming events.

I'thou graduating next week (on the 22nd to be exact), and I'll exist having my graduation AND appointment pictures taken presently in an indoor studio.

It's been swell that you have been putting upwards a lot of tutorials and how-tos lately, and then I've been getting ideas, but I was wondering if you have any recommendations or tips for makeup options and/or absolute dont's for portrait makeup?

Any help would be greatly appreciated every bit I've merely really gotten into makeup this past year.

What'due south up, Lesley? Congrats on graduation and getting engaged. Talk nearly 2 mega milestones — WOOT!

Last November my BFF Jen asked me to be ane of her bridesmaids, and I did my own makeup.

Here are a couple handy tips regarding makeup and photography:

• Accomplish for your mattes. Opt for matte, rather than shimmery finishes for heart and cheek makeup. Shimmery eyeshadows and powders can give pare a greasy look nether wink.
• Utilize your makeup in natural light. At Jen's wedding, I noticed that the first thing her makeup artist did was prepare shop next to the window with the brightest natural calorie-free. I've applied makeup in both bathroom and natural lighting, and I think I wait my all-time in pictures when I apply makeup in the latter.
• Opt for a powder with a xanthous tint, rather than a translucent pulverisation, to prepare your makeup. I learned this from my friend Melissa Street over at In My Professional Opinion. Transparent powders tend to leave a white cast when the flash goes off. I utilise MAC Select Sheer Loose Pulverisation in NC 30 for pictures.
• Practice your await and takes pics with a digital camera before your outcome. So you can evaluate your work beforehand. Yous'll exist able to see and right your mistakes. Before I started doing face of the day posts and taking a ton of pictures I never realized my tendency to apply heavier makeup to my right eye (I'thou right handed and usually start with my right side), and I wasn't lining my bottom lip evenly.
• If you plan to wear undereye concealer, blend the hell out of it to remove whatever harsh lines. For serious. Even if yous feel like you've composite out all the edges, blend some more; otherwise, you risk your concealer looking too obvious. I learned this the hard way, sigh!

For even more makeup tips, check out the interview I did with my friend Jen's wedding makeup artist, Lynette. The tips are labeled equally Nuptials Makeup Tips simply apply to all occasions where photography is upward in the mix. Also, cheque out How to Look Your Best in Pictures, which gives communication on how to pose for pictures. 🙂

Ladies, I know you lot've got some good advice for our girl Lesley. When it comes to doing your own makeup for pictures, what are your favorite tips?

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

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