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old age makeup

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hair up and slop shirt obtained I added a layer of cold cream to my face to act as a barrier  I added green to color correct redness (I don't have as many pimples as last time) and yellow to correct darkness, which is only under my eyes this is the color correction blended I put a layer of foundation on - I used the medium shade in my kit I used the eyebrow pencil to map out my wrinkles. I used my old person picture and transparency as reference, but I also made a bunch of faces to create more and made them look more natural I added highlight over the wrinkles and then put a little on the tip of my nose and my chin. I put the highlighter above the more horizontal wrinkles and then on the outside (from the center of my face) on the more diagonal/vertical wrinkles.   I darkened the wrinkle outlines and added a jaw contour (which I now realize I didn't picture, but it was like the shape of a 3 on each side). I also added contour around th...

old age tracing

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I don't have access to a printer so I had to trace it off my computer lol I'm so sorry

a *natural* look

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Shout out to Miss Halle for sharing her blog post so early so I could follow along :) I put green on blemishes to cancel the red and yellow under my eyes to cancel out the under eye bags. The yellow is from a little quad I have of color correctors which is why it looks blended, but I promise it isn't. This is the yellow and green blended. I always struggle blending the green because I have a difficult time finding the balance between keeping it too green or blending it so much that it doesn't cancel out the red.  I put on my medium foundation shade. At this moment I realized that I might have used too much cold cream, which is why I look a little oily.  These are the contour lines. Using lines makes it look more natural once blended. I contoured the areas of my face that I want to appear deeper (cheekbones, forehead, temple, under lip). This is different than how I normally contour, as this isn't super complimentary to my face shape.  These are...