How do i do my make up for a dance recital?!
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I dance on a drill team and we dance at football games, basketball games, etc. and i just can seem to fingd the right make up to wear! i know dark pink blush and dark lipstick, but its the eyes im having trouble on! i have a fairly light skin tone and i need help!
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Actually, I'd start out with a non-sparkly bronzer on your cheeks instead of pink blush - which will tend to look too fake. As for the eyes:
1) Take a shadow color that contrasts your eyes (blue or purple for brown, brown for blue, purple for hazel) that isn't crazy bright, and apply it to the crease in your lid with your eyes *open* using a small soft brush. Just press the brush in there gently and run it along the *outside half* of the crease. You may need to blend the color up a little bit out toward the corner of your eyebrow and in towards the inner corner of your eye. Remember: start out with less color and add more - it's always harder to take away!
2) Instead of using an eyeliner, find a very fine-edged brush (explain what you need it for and someone at a makeup place can help you find one), and a dark-brown shadow. Put a little color on the edge of the brush and gently draw/smudge a line right at the base of your upper lashes and the half of your lower lashes from the middle of your eye to the outside corner.
3) Last, use a brown-black or black curling mascara or an eyelash curler and a regular mascara on your lashes.
TA-DA!
Also, if your shadow creases or fades, there are some great shadow-primers out there that work great. Try places like Sephora.
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ask the make up man
i used to dance, and i just used lots of really thick dark eyeliner on my eyes, and sort of draw it out farther than your eyes go too, and usually blue eyeshadow, but sometimes it depends on what your costume looks like. oh and lots of mascara too, i usually just use black. just use really bright makeup and lots of it. it might look a little scary up close, but it's important to use makeup when you're performing.
That's weird that your question was the first one on the page today. I just attended a dance recital and noticed after the show how heavy all the makeup was for all the dancers! I mean their eyes were VERY darkly lined with lighter eye shadow, but still heavy. They had a lot of lipstick on and A LOT of blush. I remember thinking, "Wow, that looks really really bad! They shouldn't wear so much makeup." Then, the next day I talked to a friend of one of the dancers and brought that up. She told me that when you are performing for large audiences on a stage or at a distance, you have to wear a lot of makeup to make your features more pronounced and noticeable. I guess that if you wear normal amounts of makeup, then you look dull and featureless from a distance. It looks a bit ridiculous up close but I guess all serious performers do this.
Anyway, I hope this helps. Good luck!
here it is short and sweet:
lots of foundation.
lots of blush.
lots of eyeshadow, mascara, eyeliner.
add sparkles if you're feeling abitious.
my sister is exactly like you and was on a dance team just lik yours and dark exotic makeup made her look washed out (she pale 2) so i recomend a semi matte foundation like urban decay surreal skin mineral makeup and mac fluidline just on the top with a little pinkish mauve shimmery eyeshadow and lots of CLUMP free mascara and nothing on bottom of eyelids only concealer if needed . since you will already get a flush from doing all that dancing just a pinch of bronzer will do .
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trust me i know.
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