COLORS |
- Use stronger colors, not more, in eyeshadow, blush, and lipstick as stage lights will fade the colors.
- Always match your makeup to your skin tone; if you have a pink undertone, pick a foundation with a touch of pink to it.
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Patricia Lane, Stage Makeup Tricks, The Crescent Moon magazine, 1994. |
FOUNDATION |
- Use loose powder to set your foundation as pressed powder can streak it. After dotting loose powder all over the face and neck, with a large makeup brush or cotton ball, brush the excess powder off with a downward motion as the fine facial hairs grow in that direction.
- Remember your complextion does not stop at your chin. Blend your makeup down on to your neck and powder your neck as well as your face.
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Patricia Lane, Stage Makeup Tricks, The Crescent Moon magazine, 1994. |
BLUSH |
- Avoid frosted blush if at all possible because, like frosted shadows, the stage lights will fade the color while intensifying the frost.
- If you normally wear cream blush, try applying blush over your foundation with an exexpensive makeup sponge that is moist, not damp. Apply powder and check teh effect under as strong a light as possible. If more color is needed, use a light dusting of powdered blush.
- The rule is: cream on cream, powder on powder.
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Patricia Lane, Stage Makeup Tricks, The Crescent Moon magazine, 1994. |
EYES |
- If using a frosted shadow, use only as a highlighter on the brow bone. The frost will be intensified under the stage lights.
- A deeper matte shadow can be used as a simple eye contouring technique. Using a fine brush and a deep neutral color (like deep plum) make a sideways V at the outer corner of the eye, working it in the crease to just over 1/2 way. Sweep the color under the lower lashes to just short of of 1/2 way. Fill in the outer edge of eye lid. This can also be done with an eyeshadow pencil, but be sure it is sharpened. Depending on your skin tone, use a pale pink or pale beige over the entire upper lid and crease. As this will soften the look use a matte white on brow bone.
- Placing a small red, or deep rose, dot on the inner corner of the eye lide, not in the eye, will make the eyes brigher and the whites whiter. (This is a trick used by every stage actor and actress world wide).
- By placing a few single false lashes at the outer corner of the eye lid you not only open the eye, but will give the eye added shape and definition. If using a full lid of lashes, pick the ones that are not the solid line. If the lashes are very longyou maywant to trimthem a bit with a manicuring scissor.
- While sticking to deep neutrals in your eyeshadows, especially for contouring, (deep brown, dark grey, soft black, strong taupe) do not hesitate to try the newer ones; navy blue and plum.
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Patricia Lane, Stage Makeup Tricks, The Crescent Moon magazine, 1994. |
LIPS |
- The lips should not only be defined with a sharp, non-waxy lip pencil, but filled in with the same. A clear true color is best whether using red, plum, pink, or brown. Then apply lipstick over the pencil. To customize your own look try using a slightly lighter shade of lipstick than the pencil, being sure to keept it in the same color group. No pink with red liner, please!!
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Patricia Lane, Stage Makeup Tricks, The Crescent Moon magazine, 1994. |