Makeup for TV News Reporter

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BILL ALBIN: Hello, I'm Bill Albin. And on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to teach you what you need to know to be a local news reporter. In this clip, we're going to talk about makeup, why you wear it in the first place and how to properly apply it. Now, most women have a great deal of experience with makeup but some men might not. Before I started doing news for a living, I have never worn makeup in my life. So--but the reason you need to wear makeup, its importance is studio lights more than anything else. When you're in the studio, you have thousands of watts worth of light hitting you in the face at all times and it causes glare, brightness. It makes your skin blotchy sometimes even though that's normally a good complexion. Also, in some cases when you have a complexion where there's--you see a little bit of acne or a 5 o'clock shadow or anything, it clears a lot of that up as well. It also blends, and it blends a lot of your features together and makes it more of a smooth clear appearance. Even if you are dark skinned, you need the makeup to reduce the glare or the blend and that sort of thing. So for most men, and this is all I use, I use a basic foundation followed by a powder. It's a rather simple process. There are different sponges and applicators and things like that but I found this more easy and just as convenient just for me to kinda smear it on the little finger. I want to make sure I get everywhere. To the cheeks. Since I'm not going to be turning much when I'm on the set or in the field, I don't need to worry so much about like the back of my head or anything like that, but I want to make sure that every visible surface, everywhere where a light is going to hit, everywhere where the camera is going to see, I just--a nice layer of foundation to blend everything together. You need powder. The powder helps to complete the blending process, and it will reduce glare that's caused by lights or the sun if you're in the field. The sun is obviously a lot brighter than any studio lights. We get into the studio and you'll have like a thousand watts for a bulb or something that you want to make sure that it's not like reflecting off your bald head or whatever, so. And that's really all there is to it. Most women, of course, wear more. They might wear different blushes and lipsticks and eye makeup and stuff. But for a male reporter, this will get you by.

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