Thursday, April 15, 2010

Contour Colors

Here are a few suggestions that have worked well for me as contour colors. You can mix them up. Use alone or use as a product to warm the skin tone. I would also use these colors for any skin tone adjusting the brightness or depth of color to better suit the actor or actress.

Bobbi Brown:Sheer Color Cheek Tint, Sheer Mauve,Blackberry
Bobbi Brown:Pot Rouge for Lips and Cheeks, Milk Chocolate,Blushed Rose, Powder Pink.
Chantecalle Aquablush: Frivolous, Charming.

Laura Mercier Mineral Cheek Powder:Amberstone,Coral(I loved a combination LM use to have but has no more a loose powder creme blush duo.This worked well for me because I like to use a loose over the cremes during touch ups during the day. But you can find the cremes alone like Canyon to work with their loose powders).

YSL Creme De Blush#3, #2

Iman Blush: Fard a Joues Rubor #03

Guerlain Terracotta Bronzing Powder#4

Le Metier De Beaute: Creme Fresh Tint for Lip and Cheek, Tenne

Frends put together a beautiful blush palette which ended up to be a good contour palette for the Trauma Trailer. Z palettes were filled with colors like Nector, Peach, Scarlet, and Adobe. You will have to ask Paul at Frends for the names of other colors. Or Nicole at NaimIes. Both are located in LA.
If you are on a budget take a few samples on a sheet of paper at the department store to compare to another product at Walgreens.You can also wait to purchase products untill you are on a job that has a makeup Budget or Makeup Kit fees.
Look through our book The Makeup Artist Handbook for suggestions on how to apply contour colors.

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