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Great Stage Makeup! photos by Dance Spirit |
1) Proper cleansing and tonng are essential and should be followed with light moisterizer before you begin to apply your makeup. 2) Cover entire lid with eye shadow base to prevent creasing 3) Using a pointed liner brush, line eyelid with black shaddow. 4) Contour with dark brown shaddow halfway across lid and up to crease. 5) Define crease with a light bronze or orange/brown shadow, blending into the darker shade (cotton balls are helpful). 6) Line entire lid with black liner and line under your bottom lashes with brown. To make eyes appear larger, don't connect the lines at the corners. 7) Highlight inner half of lid and beneath the brow with white or shiny, cream colored shaddow. 8) Dust off any shadow under eyes with a cotton ball. 9) Widen eyes by using a white pencil along ridge above bottom lashes and at inner/outer corners for more definition. 10) Apply foundation a shade darker than your neck color, making sure to blend some onto your throat. Dab on concealer where necessary, blending into foudation. Set makeup by pressing loose powder into foundation using a professional puff or sponge. 11) Apply at least three coats of long-lasting, waterproof mascara. 12) With a brow pencil that matches your hair color, draw a line through shaped brows and blend with a brow brush. 13) Line lips with red/brown lip pencil and apply a matte lipstick in a warm red or red/brown shade. 14) Highlight center of lip with shimmer cream or white shadow. 15) Contour cheeks with a brown tone by applying near the cinter of your ear and blending toward base of nose. Finish with strokes of red/brown rouge on the apples of your cheeks. |
This great look works with virtually any costume! |
This girl is the same as the girl in step one! What a transformation! |