Features of watercolor makeup
There are a lot of makeup options. Fashionable watercolor make-up looks beautiful and original on girls. It is not difficult to create, but it looks amazing. In today's article, we will understand all the features of such a make-up.
What it is?
The watercolor technique in makeup is becoming more and more popular every year. It uses special paints. With their help, it is possible to create a very rich, bright, catchy and sustainable make-up. It has a thorough shading of different shades, the absence of clear transitions.
Watercolors (face painting) are allowed to be used both independently and in combination with subsequent fixing by means of shadows of a certain color in a dry form.
Watercolors, which are commonly used to create dramatic watercolor makeup, can be in dry format. These ingredients are sold as special pills. To use them, just add a drop of water. There are also options that are available in the form of an emulsion.
Watercolor makeup has a lot of advantages that attract many girls.
- Such a make-up is characterized by pronounced brightness and originality. If you want to emphasize your bright personality, then face painting will be a very good solution.
- Face painting is great for all kinds of festive events, fashion shows. Moreover, you can safely refer to this non-standard make-up when it comes to a children's party.
- Modern cosmetics that are used to create a non-trivial watercolor make-up are of high quality. They are absolutely safe for the skin and human health in general.
- Even the brightest and most colorful face painting, applied according to all the rules, can be easily washed off with ordinary water with gentle soap components.
- When creating a gorgeous watercolor make-up in the conditions of photo shoots, the color transfer is preserved by about 90%. Ordinary decorative cosmetics are able to convey the used palettes by only 50-60%.
- The drawings provided by the makeup in question demonstrate an excellent level of durability.
Choice of cosmetics
The fashionable technique of applying watercolor makeup provides for the right choice of a suitable face painting. This name is given to cosmetics that have a water or wax base. They are applied either with a special brush or with a sponge. As mentioned above, dry face painting is found, as well as in emulsion format. Both options are great for creative makeup.
Modern professional cosmetologists recommend applying face make-up to the skin, previously covered with a thin layer of foundation. To make the make-up more persistent, it is allowed to apply powder over the watercolor.
The main disadvantage of face painting is that its textures dry out in a short time. Because of this, any adjustments can only be made by moistening with soda. It is required to carry out such manipulations with the utmost care and accuracy.
The best for the implementation of a bold make-up is considered to be watercolor, which has a wax base.
Such cosmetic components are characterized by a soft and elastic texture. They can be shaded very easily. Due to this, watercolors can be applied not in one, but in several layers.
Matte, pearlescent and fluorescent cosmetics are suitable for creating a spectacular face painting. The latter option is one of the most popular today, because it reacts to exposure to sunlight and looks incomparable. You can apply this kind of watercolor on your own so that it looks almost transparent in daylight or electric light.
It is also permissible to apply other types of watercolor makeup to enhance the colors used, to give the colors even more saturation.
Matching shades
Face painting looks incredibly attractive and original on the face. However, in order for such a make-up to turn out to be really high-quality and aesthetic, to create it, you need to correctly select shades that match each other. Consider a few recommendations on this issue.
- Watercolor makeup of a monochrome type, created from all the colors of the rainbow, looks very bright and expressive.
- Combinations of colors from one triad look good. For example, it can be a juicy combination of red, orange, yellow or pink.
- A good solution would be a delicately exposed accent on smooth transitions, which are most often found in watercolor technique. Due to this technique, it is possible to create a rainbow effect on the eyelids.
- One of the trendiest colors suitable for face painting is yellow. It looks especially attractive when combined with a shade of fuchsia or orange.
- If you want to give the image more romanticism, it is advisable to give preference to bright yellow-pink combinations. If the view is to be more dramatic, then an original blue-gray combination of colors will be an excellent solution.
Application technique
Let's consider step by step the technique of applying an interesting watercolor makeup using a specific example.
For work, you should prepare:
- high-quality wax-based watercolor (you should choose materials in blue, black and white);
- matte shadows in white and black;
- base shadows;
- black kajal;
- mascara.
Using the listed components, it will be possible to make a gorgeous make-up, which is suitable for an evening out or even for a stage.Instead of the above blue color, it is quite possible to choose another one that you like better. But you need to take into account that this color scheme will mix with black on one side, and with a snow-white shade on the other.
- First you need to thoroughly cleanse the skin. The moving zones on the eyelids are covered with a thin layer of the base base, fixed with shadows.
- The shape of the future makeup is carefully painted with a watercolor shade that suits the eyes. It is worth working well with a damp brush. It is necessary to create corrective arrows on the upper eyelid, connecting them with the upper folds and the lower eyelids.
- All lines drawn should not go beyond the pupil area. On the outside, they will form a kind of petal with a corner on the line not lower than the eye corner.
- Watercolors are tempered by about 1-2 cm.
- Further, with a watercolor of a snow-white shade, the area under the eyebrow is summed up, the corners of the eyes are highlighted. Then they combine white and the main colors so that all lines and borders are completely invisible.
- It is necessary to well tone down the white shade with the main color in order to get brighter scales. The lower eyelids are shaped in the same way.
- White matte shadows cover areas with white watercolors. The shadows lead to the gradient transitions slightly.
- Neat black arrows are drawn along the upper row of cilia. They should show a gradual thickening from the midpoint of the eyes towards the tail.
- In the same way, you will need to bring the eyelids down from below. The applied parts are connected with the arrows at the top.
- The black color is carefully shaded according to the main range, covering it with dark matte shadows.
- With the help of a black kayal, they carefully draw the area of the mucous membrane. After that, the eyelashes are dyed with mascara. It is permissible to use fancy false eyelashes.