Yummy Fall Makeup

 

Fall equinox is here and with it a dramatic shift in light and color.

Fall is the excuse/reason for wearing higher intensity/more dramatic makeup.

Please refer to this article, Fall. Color In Transition.  to better visualize what fall makeup color means.

As to looks, here are some to feed your inspiration.

 

I have assembled a video playlist for a high contour eye look.

It is 6 videos showing each step of the complete makeup look and highlighting the eye makeup.

This playlist is a great example of how to wear dramatic fall makeup.

There is also another video for a more natural fall makeup further down the page.

Below this first video playlist are suggested fall color trend sets to easily get a coordinated color story for fall.

You may use the techniques in these video and replace the colors shown with your new colors.

 

Watch Now

 

Based on the color trend report for fall 2017, here are three Makeup Gourmet curated color stories.

They are all available here.

Each set is offered with a 25% reduction in price.

Eye shadow quintets are also available exclusive of the full color story set with the same 25% price reduction.

 

 

 

 

Click here to see them all.

I find these collections very exciting. I hope you do to.

Sidenote/confession
Fall makeup is my favorite makeup

A word about trend colors

With each season comes a fashion color dictate. This dictate comes from a council that agrees upon colors for each season years in advance.

It allows time for designers, manufacturers, and retailers to plan ahead and be on the same ‘fashion page’.

Colors of the season may seem arbitrary, however they are a well thought out design to keep fashion moving forward.

For those who enjoy not only wearing season appropriate makeup and wardrobe and want to wear this season’s color palette, it is good to know the palette. This video shares a colorful example of fall/winter 2017 colors.

 

This fall makeup video is an excerpt from my Makeup Gourmet TV show.

 I prefer to share videos when it comes to showing how to do makeup

as makeup is highly visual, both applied and in the application.

Here is my most recent episode on Makeup Gourmet Live.

I share this as it asks the question: ‘What is fall color?’

I urge you venture into some new colors and fall forward into this season of transition.

 

Warmly,
Chris Scott

21st of September, 2017

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Please let me know if this blog was of value to you and share your own Authentic Beauty Makeup tips in the comments box below. I would love to hear how you get on trying this new method of makeup application – tell me how useful you find the tutorials and how you found the results. You can also use the comments box to tell me what interests and concerns you when it comes to which makeup colors to choose. Please let me know so I can fashion future blogs that are relevant and interesting to you.

Want to know more? My new book, Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup is available on Amazon now.

Makeup Gourmet Chris Scott’s new series of how-to video tutorials based on his
#1 international best seller Face with a Heart Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup

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CHRIS SCOTT, M.A. is the creator of San Francisco-based Makeup Gourmet®. Over his nearly 30-year career, in addition to doing makeup for top models from every corner of the planet, he also had the honor of working for legends like Paul McCartney, US Vice President Al Gore, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Shirley Temple Black, Maya Angelou and Olympic Gold medalists Oksana Baiul and Kristi Yamaguchi. He was the creator and host of the TV show ‘Makeup Gourmet’ from 2008 – 2010. He was a leading Chanel Beauté national artist for over two decades, and is also the creator and guest teacher of Fashion Makeup at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He created his unique Makeup Gourmet line to ensure his clients and the public could have access to high-quality, ethically produced, ‘green’ makeup and skincare with a low-carbon footprint. Chris is also the author of Cosmetic Counter Survival Guide: How to Buy the Right Skin Care and Makeup and the international #1 bestseller Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup.

‘The grass is always greener where you water it.’
CS

Color in Transition

Disclaimer: However you want to wear your makeup, and the colors you choose to use, is obviously entirely up to you.  I find the ‘Rules of Makeup’ restricting and often contradictory. This week’s blog is meant to share some reasons for fall colors. How you apply your makeup does not need to change (unless you want it to). This is a discussion of colors that you may transition into from your current makeup color wardrobe. It is that simple to have your makeup transition with the seasons.

Fall & spring are the 2 best examples of nature leading the way as it applies to makeup and fashion.

Both seasons deliver a dramatic shift in both foliage and the light of day.

As fall approaches, nature experiences a deepening of color and daylight.

Although subtle up to now, once we pass the fall equinox, light will soften more rapidly during the day, as will the total hours of daylight. (Northern hemisphere perspective. The opposite happens in the southern hemisphere).

With less light there is less contrast of color, and color can appear muted.

This effect translates into the transitional colors for makeup and wardrobe.

 

Quick Styling Deconstruction

Whether we are conscious of it or not, we choose what to wear and how to wear it based on:

• Weather
• Time of Day
• Destination

We do this to be comfortable and to be appropriate (or not, depending on your personality).

Like spring, the season of fall provides a clear shift of color, light and temperature.

Take this shift (color, light and temperature) and apply it to your makeup colors and you easily and stylishly transition with the season.

Here is a visual example of the transition of color, light and temperature.

 

Transition the color, light and temperature of your makeup wardrobe to reflect the season in which you find yourself.

 

A word about trend colors

With each season comes a fashion color dictate. This dictate comes from a council that agrees upon colors for each season years in advance.

It allows time for designers, manufacturers, and retailers to plan ahead and be on the same ‘fashion page’.

Colors of the season may seem arbitrary, however they are a well thought out design to keep fashion moving forward.

For those who enjoy not only wearing season appropriate makeup and wardrobe and want to wear this season’s color palette, it is good to know the palette. This video shares a colorful example of fall/winter 2017 colors.

For a thoughtful discussion/demonstration of fall color,

Please join the Second Season Premiere of Makeup Gourmet Live

Tuesday September 19th 2017 at 6pm PST

@ Makeup Gourmet YouTube Channel

 

 

Warmly,

Chris Scott

14th of September, 2017

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Please let me know if this blog was of value to you and share your own Authentic Beauty Makeup tips in the comments box below. I would love to hear how you get on trying this new method of makeup application – tell me how useful you find the tutorials and how you found the results. You can also use the comments box to tell me what interests and concerns you when it comes to which makeup colors to choose. Please let me know so I can fashion future blogs that are relevant and interesting to you.

Want to know more? My new book, Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup is available on Amazon now.

Makeup Gourmet Chris Scott’s new series of how-to video tutorials based on his
#1 international best seller Face with a Heart Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup

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CHRIS SCOTT, M.A. is the creator of San Francisco-based Makeup Gourmet®. Over his nearly 30-year career, in addition to doing makeup for top models from every corner of the planet, he also had the honor of working for legends like Paul McCartney, US Vice President Al Gore, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Shirley Temple Black, Maya Angelou and Olympic Gold medalists Oksana Baiul and Kristi Yamaguchi. He was the creator and host of the TV show ‘Makeup Gourmet’ from 2008 – 2010. He was a leading Chanel Beauté national artist for over two decades, and is also the creator and guest teacher of Fashion Makeup at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He created his unique Makeup Gourmet line to ensure his clients and the public could have access to high-quality, ethically produced, ‘green’ makeup and skincare with a low-carbon footprint. Chris is also the author of Cosmetic Counter Survival Guide: How to Buy the Right Skin Care and Makeup and the international #1 bestseller Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup.

‘The grass is always greener where you water it.’
CS

 

You Are Always Welcome

 

 

Forever Thankful

 

 

Warmly,

Chris Scott
24th of August, 2017

 

Want to know more? My best seller, Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup is available at Amazon now.

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CHRIS SCOTT, M.A. is the creator of San Francisco-based Makeup Gourmet®. Over his nearly 30-year career, in addition to doing makeup for top models from every corner of the planet, he also had the honor of working for legends like Paul McCartney, US Vice President Al Gore, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Shirley Temple Black, Maya Angelou and Olympic Gold medalists Oksana Baiul and Kristi Yamaguchi. He was the creator and host of the TV show ‘Makeup Gourmet’ from 2008 – 2010. He was a leading Chanel Beauté national artist for over two decades, and is also the creator and guest teacher of Fashion Makeup at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He created his unique Makeup Gourmet line to ensure his clients and the public could have access to high-quality, ethically produced, ‘green’ makeup and skincare with a low-carbon footprint. Chris is also the author of Cosmetic Counter Survival Guide: How to Buy the Right Skin Care and Makeup and the international #1 bestseller Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup.

‘The grass is always greener where you water it.’
CS

Shadows & Highlights

In honor of the dramatic solar light show on Monday August 21, 2017, the last episode of the Summer Season of Makeup Gourmet Live is dedicated to the rare Total Solar Eclipse.

 

We will be treated to a grand example of shadow & light which is an essential component to makeup generally and contour specifically.

heightening angles and shapes of our face has primitive roots. What fascinates me is how this primal style is often used now as an undercoat to beauty and Fashion makeup.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Historically astral events like a solar eclipse also triggered fear and doom alongside hope and joy.

I wonder what connection, if any, is there between primitive face paint and modern contour makeup.

Anyway…

The techniques used on the women in the above images are primarily reserved for photo shoots, fashion runway, film and video.

Thankfully, contour is so much easier (and so much less product) than those images.

The same concept we use to minutely contour our eyes, we enlarge to contour our face.

The primary area of contour for most makeup is the underside of the cheeks. This creates a heightened lift to the cheekbone and slim the face.

Other parts of the face subject to contour are the nose, jawline and forehead.

 

In the Face with a Heart technique, I refer to contour as where the face turns the corner.

 

The red arrows indicate the heart line which is a straight line that borders the outer corner of the lips and eyes.

Within these 2 lines are your main attractions, eyes and lips. To heighten contour it is best to keep the skin within these heart lines clear of any coloring excluding foundation, powder corrector/concealer.

The blue arrows indicate where the face ‘turns the corner’.

Here is where shading/contouring begins. Blush, contour, bronzer all live outside the heart lines, and in the best scenario, rest just outside the heart lines.

These contrast colors outside the heart line heightens the contour effect. It is, in essence, how to highlight the heart of the Face.

The best way for me to share contour techniques is to share this video tutorial contour playlist.

Here are 20 short contour tutorials on faces of all ages, ethnicities and makeup intensities.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is a video worth?

Enjoy!

Makeup Gourmet Chris Scott’s new series of how-to video tutorials based on his
#1 international best seller Face with a Heart Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup

Please let me know if this blog was of value to you and share your own Authentic Beauty Makeup tips in the comments box below. I would love to hear how you get on trying this new method of makeup application – tell me how useful you find the tutorials and how you found the results. You can also use the comments box to tell me what interests and concerns you when it comes to which makeup colors to choose. Please let me know so I can fashion future blogs that are relevant and interesting to you.

Want to know more? My new book, Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup is available on Amazon now.

Warmly,

Chris Scott

17th of August, 2017

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CHRIS SCOTT, M.A. is the creator of San Francisco-based Makeup Gourmet®. Over his nearly 30-year career, in addition to doing makeup for top models from every corner of the planet, he also had the honor of working for legends like Paul McCartney, US Vice President Al Gore, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Shirley Temple Black, Maya Angelou and Olympic Gold medalists Oksana Baiul and Kristi Yamaguchi. He was the creator and host of the TV show ‘Makeup Gourmet’ from 2008 – 2010. He was a leading Chanel Beauté national artist for over two decades, and is also the creator and guest teacher of Fashion Makeup at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He created his unique Makeup Gourmet line to ensure his clients and the public could have access to high-quality, ethically produced, ‘green’ makeup and skincare with a low-carbon footprint. Chris is also the author of Cosmetic Counter Survival Guide: How to Buy the Right Skin Care and Makeup and the international #1 bestseller Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup.

‘The grass is always greener where you water it.’
CS

To Smoke Or Not To Smoke…

 

Continuing on in eye makeup techniques, this week is the Smoky Eye.

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If you watched Classic Contour Eyes last week, I demonstrated the anatomy of the eye as it pertains to eye shadow placement.

If you missed it, it as at time mark 8:01.

I strongly suggest watching this. Reason being is that this information applies to all eye shadow application regardless of the technique.

Getting eye shadow in the right place is mandatory for great eye makeup. As the intensity of the look increases, the more crucial it is to get color in the right place.

We will use this same anatomical placement of eye shadow for the smoky eye, only where the highest intensity (darkest) eye shadow color goes has changed.

 

SMOKY EYE MAKEUP DEFINED:

Smoky is a technique, not a color. It is a shadowy gradient, extending away from the eye line, dark to light.

Any combination of colors may constitute a smoky eye.

Smoky Eye Works On Everyone

One cool thing about a Smoky Eye is that translates to all eye shapes, sizes and ages. Done properly, it is truly one of the easiest eye makeup looks to do that can really be a show stopper if that is the intention.

 

High Contrast Smoky Eye

Smoky, however, does not necessarily mean dramatic (high contrast). Smoky is a technique that may also be used with any variety of contrast and color.

Low Contrast Smoky Eye

 

Medium Contrast Smoky Eye

 

 

A Colorful Smoky Eye

As you can see, the Smoky Eye technique manifests itself with a wide variety of results, depending on the colors and intensities used.

 

What a Smoky Eye is not

A High Contour Eye is often referred to as a Smoky Eye, but it is not.

A High Contour Eye is an extension of a Classic Contour Eye and looks like this.

The crease color is blended up onto the outer brow bone and creates a heightened look to to the eye. The ball of the eye still shows a lighter contrast intensity to the crease. We will learn this in a later episode.

 

Here are 3 video tutorial versions of a smoky eye to better familiarize yourself with what is really a smoky eye.

 

Clean Smoky Eye

 

Dirty Smoky Eye

 

Sultry Smoky Eye: Clean to Dirty

 

As a reminder

Follow your eyes anatomy and eye shadow will always look perfect!

 

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Makeup Gourmet’s products are developed alongside the Face with a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup® method of application. They are customized to give you the best results when applying your makeup.

Makeup Gourmet Chris Scott’s new series of how-to video tutorials based on his
#1 international best seller Face with a Heart Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup

Please let me know if this blog was of value to you and share your own Authentic Beauty Makeup tips in the comments box below. I would love to hear how you get on trying this new method of makeup application – tell me how useful you find the tutorials and how you found the results. You can also use the comments box to tell me what interests and concerns you when it comes to which makeup colors to choose. Please let me know so I can fashion future blogs that are relevant and interesting to you.

Want to know more? My new book, Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup is available on Amazon now.

Warmly,

Chris Scott

2nd  of August, 2017

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CHRIS SCOTT, M.A. is the creator of San Francisco-based Makeup Gourmet®. Over his nearly 30-year career, in addition to doing makeup for top models from every corner of the planet, he also had the honor of working for legends like Paul McCartney, US Vice President Al Gore, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Shirley Temple Black, Maya Angelou and Olympic Gold medalists Oksana Baiul and Kristi Yamaguchi. He was the creator and host of the TV show ‘Makeup Gourmet’ from 2008 – 2010. He was a leading Chanel Beauté national artist for over two decades, and is also the creator and guest teacher of Fashion Makeup at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He created his unique Makeup Gourmet line to ensure his clients and the public could have access to high-quality, ethically produced, ‘green’ makeup and skincare with a low-carbon footprint. Chris is also the author of Cosmetic Counter Survival Guide: How to Buy the Right Skin Care and Makeup and the international #1 bestseller Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup.

‘The grass is always greener where you water it.’
CS

Makeup Gourmet Chris Scott’s new series of how-to video tutorials based on his
#1 international best seller Face with a Heart Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup

Classic Contour Eyes

 

Now How:

There are three basic parts of an eyelid that separate and define the shape of the eye.

They are:

• Ball: The ball of the eye is the skin that has the eyeball immediately underneath it when the eyes are closed.
• Bone: The bone is any part under the eyebrow that has bone underneath it.
• Crease: The crease, and this is important, is the area under the curvature of the brow bone where it meets the ball of the eye. It is a sunken groove that is highly rounded as the eye sockets are highly rounded.

Think of this crease as a groove or track where your contour brush is designed to slip into and follow the natural curvature of the eye socket where it meets the eyeball. When applying eye shadow (and most color for that matter) always add and buildup to the desired effect. Try to avoid getting too much of anything on the face and having to rub it down or off. That is the essence of makeup gone wrong. As long as the intensity is always building up away from the face, the makeup appears connected to the person wearing it and gives the greatest control when applying any look.

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Follow your eyes anatomy and eye shadow will always look perfect!

 

Get what you need by clicking on the products below.

Featured Products

• Custom 5-Pack Eye Shadow Set
• Felt Tip Eyeliner Pen
• Mascara
• Disposable Mascara Wands
• Eye Shadows
• Gel Eye Liner Waterproof

Featured Products

• Eye Contour Crease Brush
• Eye Brow/Angled Liner Color Brush
• Corrector/Concealer Brush
• Eye Liner Brush: Mini Detail
• Deposit Eye Shadow Brush
• Bullet Brush
• Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup – Paperback
• Quick Dry Brush Cleaner: 3 sizes

Makeup Gourmet’s products are developed alongside the Face with a Heart Authentic Beauty Makeup® method of application. They are customized to give you the best results when applying your makeup.

Please let me know if this blog was of value to you and share your own Authentic Beauty Makeup tips in the comments box below. I would love to hear how you get on trying this new method of makeup application – tell me how useful you find the tutorials and how you found the results. You can also use the comments box to tell me what interests and concerns you when it comes to which makeup colors to choose. Please let me know so I can fashion future blogs that are relevant and interesting to you.

Want to know more? My new book, Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup is available on Amazon now.

Warmly,

Chris Scott

31st of July,  2017

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CHRIS SCOTT, M.A. is the creator of San Francisco-based Makeup Gourmet®. Over his nearly 30-year career, in addition to doing makeup for top models from every corner of the planet, he also had the honor of working for legends like Paul McCartney, US Vice President Al Gore, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Shirley Temple Black, Maya Angelou and Olympic Gold medalists Oksana Baiul and Kristi Yamaguchi. He was the creator and host of the TV show ‘Makeup Gourmet’ from 2008 – 2010. He was a leading Chanel Beauté national artist for over two decades, and is also the creator and guest teacher of Fashion Makeup at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He created his unique Makeup Gourmet line to ensure his clients and the public could have access to high-quality, ethically produced, ‘green’ makeup and skincare with a low-carbon footprint. Chris is also the author of Cosmetic Counter Survival Guide: How to Buy the Right Skin Care and Makeup and the international #1 bestseller Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup.

‘The grass is always greener where you water it.’
CS