Teen/Adult Stage Makeup Guide Use the following guide to help you decide what to buy, how to apply, and more hints for completing stage makeup! Pick and choose the products you feel comfortable using. We recommend at least using foundation, eye liner, mascara, eyebrows and lipstick. Please note that whilst we strongly encourage our male students to wear makeup (to avoid looking washed out by the bright stage lights – this is particularly important this year as we hold our first virtual show), it is not compulsory. As a minimum, we suggest foundation, bronzer and a little mascara. The products listed below are examples of cheaper products – all available at Priceline Pharmacy. Please keep in mind that they may not be the best products on the market and that they may no longer sell these products. If you wish to purchase different products or if you have similar products at home, feel free to use them! What you need Where to purchase How to apply Handy Hints Foundation Maybelline Fit Me Matte and 1. Pour/squeeze/pump a pea • Applying a moisturiser Foundation is Poreless foundation is a great size amount of product before applying any sort designed to even option. onto the back of your hand of foundation will ensure skin tone and and dot it onto the face, the application is even correct any This product is particularly focusing it mainly towards whilst also prepping the blemishes. great as it is not only cheap, the centre of the face. skin and increasing the but it is pore minimizing and 2. Use a beauty sponge to longevity of the has a matte and full gently bounce and blend makeup. coverage finish so it won’t be product evenly and • Blending the product in shiny or reflective on stage. outwards towards the edge quickly ensures it doesn’t of face. dry on the face and is easy to blend out. • When colour matching in store, put the product on your neck as the goal is to blend the makeup from the neck to the face to avoid any makeup lines. • Keep in mind the undertone of your skin, is it yellow, pink or a mixture of both? • Blending a little of the product down the neck also helps to make the product blend seamlessly. • Go for a product without SPF to avoid a white cast in photos. Concealer We recommend The 1. Dot the concealer • Blend the product in Concealer will Maybelline Fit me concealer as underneath the eyes and quickly to avoid it drying correct any it is quite affordable and is part any blemishes (such as on the face. intense blemishes of the same range therefore it pimples). • When colour matching and used works well with the Fit Me 2. Bounce beauty sponge to in store, put product on specifically, to foundation. It is also medium blend out product or use a neck and match or go cover dark coverage and not cakey concealer/foundation one shade lighter to give undereye circles (however it dries reasonably brush. an awake and or to spot quickly so be ready to blend it brightening effect (just conceal. out!) don’t go too light). Setting Powder We recommend the Australis 1. Tap brush into product • Go for a colour that Setting powder is Fresh and Flawless powder. This using powder brush and matches your skin tone important as it powder is a life saver! It’s pat it evenly over face to avoid looking cakey increases the affordable and sets down (don’t swirl or swipe as it or having flashback longevity of the cream makeup products. It may cause the foundation • Apply product shortly foundation and can be built up from a medium underneath to become after application of concealer, coverage patchy). foundation and prevents oiliness with shine concealer to avoid showing through control to giving the products time the makeup, sets a full to settle into fine lines makeup, adds a coverage (especially under the bit of extra that is eye). coverage and creates a completely shine free. It also smooth base for doesn’t contain oils or contour, bronzer, fragrances which is always a highlighter and bonus! blush. Contour/bronzer Contour: When it comes to contour 1. Place finger underneath • Applying contour before Contour is your best bet is to go for a cheek bone (this is where bronzer will make the designed to more high-end brand you apply product) Tap makeup look less cakey accentuate however if you are not willing Powder brush in Contour and muddy. cheekbones to pay for a more expensive powder and sweep in the • Using a light hand with and the jawline product, there are also hollows of the cheeks. contour helps to avoid and create the countless cheaper products 2. Now apply on the jawline, patchiness, as it is very illusion of a too (just be aware sometimes border of the forehead and easy to apply too much smaller forehead these can be patchy). An down the sides and bottom in one area. and nose. It option is the Models Prefer of the nose. • Apply product up to, creates a contour palette. and slightly in hairline to shadowy look. Bronzer: give a more natural and 1. Apply product using a blended finish. Bronzer is similar technique, this time designed to applying only across the warm up and cheekbones/cheeks and give colour to the forehead, where the the face. sun would tan a face most. These products are important when it comes to There is almost no going performing as wrong when it comes to the bright stage bronzers so we recommend lights wash out any! facial features. An example is the Savvy Mineral Baked Bronzer Highlighter 1. Swirl brush into product and • Don’t apply too much of Highlighter is used We recommend the e.l.f Baked sweep onto cheek bones, this product all over the to accentuate Highlighter as a great option. bottom of chin, bridge of face as it will give a very and draw forward the nose and cupids bow unnatural look and will the high points of (NOTE: this product is from (top of lip). be visible from the the face; Target not Priceline). audience. accentuating them. It also makes the skin look healthier and gives a natural finish. Blush A favourite is the Savvy 1. Lightly tap brush into • Don’t smile when Blush is used to Classic Blush as it does the product and carefully blend applying product as the give some colour job, has multiple colours to product from cheekbones product will be lower to the face, blend choose from and is super backwards towards the when the face relaxes, the contour, affordable! ears. giving a less natural and bronzer and blended look. highlighter, and • Use a light hand when give the illusion of applying product as it a more natural will prevent applying too rosy look. much product on one area. Eyebrow Product An all-time favourite brow 1. Draw a line underneath the • Using a light hand will These products product is the Covergirl Easy brow. make application much are crucial as they Breezy Brow Micro-Fine + 2. Use product to fill in tail easier define and fill in Define Pen. The small size of (end of brow). • Some people may wish the brows. This is the pencil allows you to 3. Carefully fill in the centre of to purchase a brow gel important to create natural hair-like the brow using light hairlike (clear or coloured) to avoid facial strokes. strokes backwards towards hold the brows in place features looking the tail of the brow (in the all day (an alternative is washed out. direction your hair naturally using hairspray on an Eyebrows frame grows). eyebrow brush. the face and 4. As you reach the front of • Any brow product can make it easier to the brows, use a really light be used (powder, create even hand to draw hairlike pencil, pomade, wax or looking strokes upwards (again in crayon) however, we eyeshadow. the direction hair naturally recommend pencil as it goes). is the cheapest and easiest option. Eyeshadow The Maybelline The Nudes 1. Use a lighter brown shade as a • Use a fluffy eyeshadow Eyeshadow is Palette has a great range of transition colour to blend brush rather than the crucial, as eyes colours to create the perfect between the darker shades small foam brush that are the main brown smoky eye and the skin. Apply in the comes in the pack or features of the crease of the eye and a tiny bit your fingers to achieve face and above the crease and blend the best results. Only a therefore must be generously. brush can do the accentuated blending you need! under the bright 2. Place medium to dark brown in • If you must, only apply stage lights. your crease and blend it with vary sparingly beneath the transition shade. the eyes as close to the 3. Place the darkest brown in the lashes as possible. Any outer corner of your eye. more will look heavy and Again, blend up. make the eyes appear smaller. Eyeliner Maybelline Master 1. Using an eyeliner brush (if • Applying eyeliner before Precise Liner in Blackest Black using gel liner) or the pen false lashes will ensure a Eyeliner again is a felt pen, which makes it itself, draw a line carefully blended look and avoid accentuates the easy to handle and use neatly as close to the natural a line of skin between eyes further and and precisely. lashes as possible.