3 Top Mistakes During Professional Make-up Class & How to Solve Them

Learning something new can be a challenging process especially if you’re just starting out. In our experiences teaching new students on our professional hair and make-up course, we have encountered these specific issues that we see the most amongst our students just beginning their career. Here are our top 3 mistakes and how to fix them!

Problem 1: Eyeshadow that is too large and spread out

When doing someone’s eyeshadow, it can be very easy to spread the area of eyeshadow too far out. We see this when the eyeshadow makes the eye look punched or it’s too winged out for the particular eye shape you’re doing.

Solution: Don’t exceed the socket. The eye socket of the eye is the eye ball cavity of the eye – it is different for everyone so you should press along the cavity to identify your client’s socket. Notice that the socket is in an arched shape. Make sure that you keep eyeshadow under, on top but not too far outside of the socket. This is why we never suggest eyeshadow to go up to the eyebrow or brow bone area for natural bridal make-up – this is way too far up outside the socket already.

In our professional hair and makeup course, we teach exactly where to place the eyeshadow on the eye for every eye shape, acting like a border to tell you where to stop. By following this, you will never have eyeshadow that looks too spread out and punched.

Problem 2: Cakey and Patchy Foundation

A common problem for beginners is that the foundation looks too heavy, cakey and patchy and most bridal make-up clients will request a natural look. There are several reasons why this is so but the top reason is a base that is too dry. When the base is too dry, your foundation will not be able to be applied smoothly as the skin needs to act as a hydrated and damp sponge for the make-up to last and look great throughout the day.

Solution: Switch up your moisturiser for your client. Use a hydrating serum like a HA serum to start, and push in a ceramide cream into the face evenly and smoothly before anything else. Do not use a jelly or gel water like moisturiser because it will leave a film on the skin. When you try and blend it out, you will see flakes forming around the sides of the face. Also, it is not strong enough to last the whole day.

Think of hydration as a meter. Especially with dry skin, the meter goes down as the day goes on. When the meter decreases, your foundation, powder and concealer products dry up. When they dry up, that’s when cakiness or patchiness occurs where the product shrinks up and settles into pores. There is a lot to understand about this topic and maybe we will save it for another post soon!

Problem 3: Sticking too much to Structure

When you learn something new, it’s only natural to stick to the structure of your learning. However, I think a lot of students may need to consider being less rigid in their approach to make-up. After all, make-up is an art, it is a skin of the person and needs to adapt and change according to what looks best on the individual person. You cannot really learn and draw one shape and expect to draw the same exact shape on every single client. It simply won’t fit.

Solution: When doing the skin prep part, look at the facial features of your client. Think about what looks best on your client during this time. Does she suit a winged liner or a more Korean tight line with lashes (both you will learn in your Professional hair and makeup course with us) – client profiling is really important and it is something that we emphasise during the course too. After this, then do the make-up that fits best with the shape of her eye and face shape, skin texture and skin tone.

Most of all, keep looking at a lot of pictures of make-up. Even for myself, if I have a spot of spare time, I will go on Instagram and look at make-up – Korean and western style – save pictures of hair as well on my phone and build up my own personal library of images in my head. If you have no idea what something should look like, how will you know what to do? You need to build your own personal library of images and the only way to do that is just to keep looking at pictures of makeup and hair.

We really hope you had fun reading this post and that it is helpful to you!

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Love, Roseanne