Preparing the Face for Airbrush Makeup

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Hello, I am Roger Bennett Riggle, licensed and professional makeup artist and this is my model today, Vanessa Strickland. Today, we are showing you how easy and effective it is to use an airbrush. In this clip, I am going to show you the preparation of yourself or your client before we actually spray the makeup on. The first thing I am going to do is to take a cotton pad and the witch hazel and I just pour some witch hazel on the cotton pad and I wipe the whole face down, just to make sure that the face is really, really nice and clean. It helps to close small pores on the face and I make sure I get off all excess oils or soap scum or anything that the client may have built up during the day.

Alright and then, I am going to take the concealer, my concealer and these come in different colors too, depending on the color that you are or the color of your client and this is a concealer brush. I like the round ones because they are flat and they are round and they fit up underneath the eye very, very well. I go into the concealer and I put it on my hand because I want to warm it up a little bit and I don t want it too thick when I put it on the face. Look up please. I paint this concealer up on an angle on the face and I go all the way down the side of the nose and underneath the eye. This gets rid of any darkness, any redness, it pulls down on the effect of wrinkles being filmed or freckles. Of course, the younger your client is, the less work you have to do normally. Then I take my ring finger which is a softest pad on your hand and I basically, just pat and smooth out that concealer so that it is nice and smooth. I am going to pick up a little bit more makeup, close and I am going to do the whole eye area. The skin here is very, very thin and can show some redness and some blueness from the capillaries and blood flow that is underneath that thin skin. So, I want to block that totally out before I start. The other thing I do is to just do a general check. I can go into this concealer and cover up any little freckles, any little blemishes, anything that maybe red because red is exaggerated quite a bit, whether you are in person, whether you are in television. So, anyway, I am just going to smooth up this area and get rid of what I feel our little tiny imperfections, just to smooth up the face before I go.

Because it is a cream, I am going to want to set that and I am going to use the rice paper and I like to use a brush. This is a large powder brush and a brush puts on just the thinnest layer of powder over the cream concealer. If I used a powder puff, I may get too much powder in there and I want just the lightest bit of powder to be able to set my work. I have the client close her eye and I go in over the eye with the brush and I very, just gently, stroke my work. I just want to lightly, lightly set that. Then I have the client look up and this brush fits in here very nicely, especially when you just roll it in like so. That is the basic, easy, easy quick prep for doing someone s face or doing your own face before we actually spray on the airbrush foundation. It should only take you a minute or two to do the concealer and the preparation. In the next clip, we will actually spray Vanessa Strickland with the airbrush foundation.

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