Light & Dark Skin Tone Concept for Makeup

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We're doing the basic beauty makeup for film, television and everyday. We have done the coverage of the face. We have measured and marked and done her eyebrows, we used pencil like strokes. Now we're going to work on her eyes and this is where I like to introduce the concept of light and dark. Anything that's lighter than the skin tone will bring forward. Anything that's darker will push back, so it's very important where we put light and dark. It's only based on the skin tone that you're working on. If your working on a darker skin tone, anything darker than that skin tone becomes the contour color anything lighter. So it's not just like a contour color that we see in the store and it says contour, it's different according to every skin tone. Amelia is very fair so we can use something pretty light to actually push back on her. We're going to have her look straight ahead, and we're actually, with her eyes open, we're going to mark where we want the contour on Amelia's eyes to be. I've just used kind of a, taupe color in here, and I'm just going in, I know that's where I want her crease to be. Amelia's very, she has a high bridge on her nose so she has a lot of depth in this area of her eye, so I know that I want to keep that area very, very light. Once I mark the eyes, we're going to go in and we're going to start working with powder.

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