Hi, I’m Natasha Severino, freelance makeup artist.
I’m going to demonstrate to you foundation highlighting, contouring, and bronzing of
the skin.
I’m going to use Clé de Peau Radiant Fluid Foundation on Madison today to start our look.
I like to apply the foundation to all areas of the face before I start working it in.
There's nothing worse than getting halfway down your face once you mixed up a color and
realizing that you really needed to mix up some more product.
So I gently spread it out around the face first.
What you should be using is a stippling motion because what you want to do is press the foundation
into the skin and into the areas that you've actually applied it.
The only time that I would actually start dragging the sponge is when I’m wanting
to blend down onto the neck.
So I want the majority of the product to remain on the face, but I want it to effortlessly
blend into the neckline.
I then press the foundation into the skin.
Next is what I call a polishing technique—using Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage, wherever
I can see any redness, I apply the product, and then I polish it with a fluffy brush.
So, generally, the areas of the face that redness come out in is the forehead, the nose,
the roses of the cheek, and the chin.
I don't use the concealer all over the face because I don't want it to look mask-like,
but I want to have a flawless finish to the skin.
So you can see even with just the slightest amount of product, which I’ve used on this
side, the difference it makes.
I'm going to continue with highlighting, and then I’m gonna go and conceal anything that
Madison needs concealing on, and then I’m just going to, like, contouring.
I’m using the Nars The Multiple Copacabana, and I’m applying it with a damp sponge because
I want to create a veil of light along her cheekbones, over on the eyelid up on to the
temple bone, do a little bit in the middle of the nose, and a slight amount just on the
tip of the chin.
I’m sort of using the back of my hand as a palette just to remove any excess so I’m
not putting too much product.
I’m going to go and spot-conceal any blemishes or any irritation that Madison has on her
skin with Clé de Peau’s concealer.
So using a really fine-tip brush… and now I’m going to go in and slightly sculpt underneath
her already-gorgeous cheekbones just with a light top, and I’m also going to softly
contour around the eye to bring some definition back into the eye.
I’m using the MAC sculpting powders: use sculpt.
I generally like to use a contour in an upward-sweeping motion.
If you drag your brush down instead of lifting the features up and out, you're actually bringing
them back in.
I just like to soften the edges, especially if I want something super natural.
Contouring underneath the jaw—the area to do it is right underneath the bone—it's
not actually on the neck you want to create where that natural shadow is.
It’s right there, and it's very soft.
I’m going to use Laura Mercier Secret Brightening Powder underneath the eyes.
This product is fantastic for underneath the eyes.
It's very fine in texture, and it also has a reflecting property, so it bounces the light
back, giving a very luminous and smooth feel to underneath the eyes.
I just really want the powder where the hot spots are going to be because we've already
sort of highlighted and given this gorgeous glow.
You really just want to leave that highlighted area and matte down the areas around it so
you really get this threedimensional feel to the highlighting and contouring.
Back to our MAC sculpting powders—and now I’m going to slightly contour the eyes and
just bring them out a little bit.
So at this point here, if I wanted to put any eyeliner or color on the eye, mascara,
I would curl the lashes, but this is sort of a general place of where I'd start before
I started introducing color and different looks to the eyes so this is kind of our complexion
perfection I guess you could kind of call it.
I’m just going to put a little bit more shine onto the cheekbones in the center of
the nose and the chin just to give an extra highlight.
And I’m going to put a little bit on the center of the eye.
My go-to product; eyebrow gel.
I think it’s a very underestimated product.
I really love the lightness of madison's eyelashes and eyebrows.
This is a way more of a modern look for me.
So now that we've got the perfect base, we're now going to go and warm up the skin tone.
I’m going to use the Chanel Soleil Tan.
The key with this product is the layering—so you start off with a little bit, and then
you build the consistency of it where you want it to actually fade on the face.
When you get suntanned, the whole face doesn't get suntanned, it’s the areas that protrude
from the face.
So it’s your cheekbones, it's like the front of your forehead here, you get sun-kissed
on your eyes, it's your nose, it's your chin, so using bronzer, like, all over the face
is going to make you look like an Oompa Loompa.
The key is the subtleties of where you actually apply your bronzer.
I’m now going to finish up our look with just a very simple easy to wear eye and lip
stain.
I’m going to use MAC Groundwork in the pink parts, and I’m going to apply it to the
lid of the eye.
Softly gonna blend it in to that contour.
And then a mascara, using a curling mascara from Sisley.
I'm using a black one here.
I’m going to use a product on Madison which is a multipurpose product, which can be used
on the eyes, the cheeks, and the lips, so I’m going to use this rosier color.
So I’m going to apply this with my fingers so it creates a stain of color so something
which is quite translucent but adding a little color to the face, and I want the majority
of the pigment to be centered around that Cupid's bow area so it actually really brings
the lips up and in and then feathering them off at the sides so there's no hard edges.
Thanks so much for watching.
I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial.
If you have any questions or if I've missed anything else, please leave your comments below.