Thursday, May 17, 2012

10 Tips to Perfect Portrait Makeup

So lately we have had a lot of questions about what to do with your make up for portrait sessions, whether they be for your wedding, engagement, senior portraits, or even for your family portraits.  We have compled the following recommendations to help you get started!


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10 Tips to Perfect Portrait Makeup



Every woman wants to look her best on portrait day day. Here are 10 makeup trends women should avoid for their portrait day.
1. Glitter: It can catch the light or camera flash and create ‘stars’ in photos.
2. Dark or smokey eye makeup: it can make your eyes look small and/or look messy in pictures.
3. Matching your eye shadow or lipstick to your clothes colors: Very 80s and unnecessary.
4. Not wearing a lip stain with red lipstick: It’s a beautiful color that isn’t maintenance free unless you wear a long lasting lipstick that stains your lips and allows you to kiss, eat and drink without smearing or needing to touch up.
5. Forgoing foundation: Whether you need it or not, use it because it creates an even skin tone.
6. Unmatched foundation: Your face and neck should blend, so use a foundation that is your exact skin tone to eliminate the obvious two-tone appearance of foundation.
7. Letting your au-natural friends go without makeup: Every woman whose picture will be taken needs to have makeup on. Period. It brings color to your face, covers imperfections, and makes you look better in photos. And not to mention makes my job a heck of a lot easier. (wink)
8. Disco eyes: Eye makeup that resembles every color of the rainbow is distracting and unattractive in photos.
9. Bronzer over-load: The effect is meant to mimic where the sun would naturally kiss your face — down bridge of nose, across the forehead, tip of chin and highest part of cheeks. It is not meant to be worn over every inch of your face to look like a tan.
10. Not feeling comfortable in your makeup: In order to look beautiful you need to feel beautiful, so having a trial run of your portrait day look prior to the big day is important. This gives you the opportunity to see how you will look but to also make changes if necessary so you are comfortable with what you’re wearing.

Remember, looking good in portraits means wearing a lot of makeup. Beauty starts from the inside out, and the right makeup will enhance what’s naturally there.

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