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Bronzer

Bronzer further redefines the shape of the face while adding a ‘first sun’ look.

‘First sun’ means that color you start to notice on your skin soon after being in the sun.

Bronzer can mimic the appearance of a tan without ever being obvious. This means it works for those who tan naturally to those who never tan (do not allow skin to see sun) or are unable to tan (sun exposure goes straight to a red burn).

To know where to apply bronzer, look in the mirror and lift your chin up. Where you see light wrap on your face first is where you will naturally tan first.

These areas that get light first are primarily the crown of the forehead and the shelf of the cheekbone. Secondarily light strikes the bridge of nose and chin.

Apply bronzer the same way, primarily on crown of the forehead and the shelf of the cheekbone. Then apply secondarily (meaning half as much) on the bridge of nose and chin.

By wrapping bronzer around the forehead and onto the shelf of the cheekbone, the areas within the heart of the face appear brighter and lighter. Beyond bronzer looking pretty on its own, this added dimension to the face is helpful for those who want to lessen the appearance of a high forehead and/or a round face.

Bronzer is effective and appropriate for any age and ethnicity.

Just for sheer contrast, bronzer is effective for most skin tones except for medium-dark to dark skin tones. For these skin tones, using a highlight product rather than bronzer will have a nice contrasting effect.

Which Bronzing Product Do I Use?

Makeup Gourmet of course.

The shade is called sunkissed and imparts a perfect balance of warm and cool tones to blend flawlessly with your skin.

Here is a video demonstrating bronzing powder application.

The videos are a complimentary resource created by Makeup Gourmet.

Face with a Heart is a clear and precise method to apply your makeup specifically. It clarifies all your questions about what goes where and why.

If you want to look specifically good without ever being overdone, Face with a Heart Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup will  show you the way. Along with the book, there are online videos to visualize the application so you too may master your makeup!

A complimentary e-book comes with every
paperback purchase from Amazon.

This contour series will feature the following topics.

Part one: The heart is off limits.

Part two: Finding and enhancing your cheekbones.

Part Three: Bronzer & how it applies to contouring.

Part 4: Blush- A happy pill for the face.

Note: This series of video tutorials is organized in a specific order of application. It is not necessary to do every step when you do your makeup but I do suggest you follow the order of the videos and skip the steps that don’t apply to you.

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

27th of July,  2016

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, 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

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Contour  Contour  Contour

Contour is all the ‘buzz’ in makeup talk these days.

I even had a Sephora executive whisper in my ear “Contour is the next big thing”.

Contour is no secret, no ‘next big thing’, and really no big deal as far as how to apply it to yourself.

However, contour, when applied properly, can transform face shape to heighten your visual appeal.

Contour works literally ‘in the shadows’. It needs to be that unseen influence that heightens everything we want to highlight, mainly eyes and lips.

First off, what to use for contour.

The temperature of a shadow.

In the world of color temperature, the three most used terms are warm, cool, and neutral.

All shadows are a cool color and can also appear neutral.

In order to simulate shadow on your face (contour), be sure the product you are using is neutral to cool in temperature.

The biggest mistake made is using bronzer as contour. Most bronzer contains some yellow and is therefore warm. A warm contour shadow is unnatural and thus looks artificial.

I use translucent powder as contour as it mimics skin tone best and the pigment is loose enough that it is easy to control the intensity of the application.

Where is the cheekbone?

• Shelf- This is the top of the cheek bone where it first starts to round outward away from the center of the face and catches the most reflection of light.

• Crown- This is the outer edge of the cheek bone a quarter circle down from the shelf.

• Contour- This is where the cheek bone begins to roll back under from the crown. This is where contour is applied.

• Contour stops being applied at the base of the cheekbone as it rolls back down to meet the hollow of the cheek.

• Do not apply contour in the hollow of the cheek. This creates a sunken, unhealthy look. The purpose of contour is to lift the cheekbone and taper the face towards the heart of the face.

• Put a small amount of contour product on face contour brush.

• Start at the cheek and contour about one inch forward from the ear.

• Brush along the underside of cheekbone.

• For most anatomy, the brush goes towards the outer half of upper lip.

• Do not allow contour to pass the heart line.

• Apply methodically to both sides of the face to strike a balance. Go back and forth from side to side until balance is met.

Often after applying the contour, there are visible edges along the upper and lower borders of the contour application.

It is necessary to buff out these edges to make the contour appear natural.

• Put translucent powder used to set the model’s foundation on the tip of a clean blush brush.

• Squeeze the base of the blush brush hairs to make the brush firmer.

• In a back and forth motion, buff along the upper and lower edge of the contour application to soften the edge of the application.

Here are 2 videos demonstrating contour application and blending

The videos are a complimentary resource created by Makeup Gourmet.

Face with a Heart is a clear and precise method to apply your makeup specifically. It clarifies all your questions about what goes where and why.

If you want to look specifically good without ever being overdone, Face with a Heart Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup will  show you the way. Along with the book, there are online videos to visualize the application so you too may master your makeup!

A complimentary e-book comes with every
paperback purchase from Amazon.

This contour series will feature the following topics.

Part one: The heart is off limits.

Part two: Finding and enhancing your cheekbones.

Part Three: Bronzer and how it applies to contouring.

Part 4: Blush- A happy pill for the face.

Note: This series of video tutorials is organized in a specific order of application. It is not necessary to do every step when you do your makeup but I do suggest you follow the order of the videos and skip the steps that don’t apply to you.

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

20th of July,  2016

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, 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  series of how-to video tutorials based on his #1 international best seller
Face with a Heart Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup

The Heart is Off limits

One of the chief purposes of  Face with a Heart is to isolate eyes and lips to feature them as main attractions.

The first three steps in the Face with a Heart order of application is eyes, skin, then lips.

It is after the first 3 steps is where I say the Heart is off limits (except when using bronzer)

The heart of the face is the area within the red lines.

This ‘heart’ shape (the eyebrows being the top of the heart and then straight lines extending between the outer corner of the eyes and lips being the side of the heart) Is where lies your eyes and lips. This is the heart of the face.

Eyes and lips are your main attractions so we isolate them within a field of neutral skin tone so there are no facial coloring distractions within the ‘heart’ to take focus away from the eyes and lips.

This is a subtle distinction and goes unnoticed unless you train your eye to see it.

Here are some examples from public domain pro print work respecting this distinction:

Notice how the area inside the dotted line towards the nose is clear of any color/distractions.

Then notice how shading such as contour and blush start just outside this line.

This invisible heartline is the premise for maximizing your eyes and lips as well as face shape.

Think of the invisible heartline as where the face turns the corner. It is just outside the heartline where shading and blush begin to pull the area outside the heartline back and away from the heart of the face.

Here are examples of my clients using the Face with a Heart technique to reduce distractions and enhance attractions.

All of these clients took a hands-on makeup lesson from me which means they did half of the makeup.

These images illustrate that regardless of age, ethnicity or desired intensity of makeup, the Face with a Heart method of application translates to every face.

Most people apply their makeup generally, and they look generally good. Let’s face it, a little mascara brightens up the eyes.

However there are some people who apply their makeup specifically, and although we cannot put our finger on it, they look specifically good.

Face with a Heart is a clear and precise method to apply your makeup specifically. It clarifies all your questions about what goes where and why.

If you want to look specifically good without ever being overdone, Face with a Heart Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup will  show you the way. Along with the book, there are online videos to visualize the application so you too may master your makeup!

A complimentary e-book comes with every
paperback purchase from Amazon.

This contour series will feature the following topics.

Part one: The heart is off limits.

Part two: Finding and enhancing your cheekbones.

Part Three: Bronzer and how it applies to contouring.

Part 4: Blush- A happy pill for the face.

Note: This series of video tutorials is organized in a specific order of application. It is not necessary to do every step when you do your makeup but I do suggest you follow the order of the videos and skip the steps that don’t apply to you.

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

14th of July,  2016

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, 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

This bugs me.   Get This. Get That For Free!

Have you ever seen an offer where you get what you want, and you also get something you don’t want for free.

It appears to give greater value to what you are getting by getting more for free.

More often than not, the free thing is worth what you paid for it. 0!

I have shuddered to make such an offer as I only wish to offer true value with every correspondence I send.

Lightbulb on!

Instead of enticing you with free stuff, I decided to raise the value of what I already offer.

Makeup Gourmet currently pairs Value Bundles. Value Bundles are pairs of items that naturally go together. These Value Bundles are offered at a lower combined cost as a value to the Makeup Gourmet customer.

I believe in the Value Bundles as I painstakingly paired them to make your life a little easier and affordable.

Here’s my crazy idea!

For the month of July, I selected a handful of popular Value Bundles and am making them Summer Specials. Instead of reducing the combined cost, I decided to give the lower cost item free!

I cannot do this forever and stay in business, I just wanted a way to make this kind of offer without insulting your intelligence by giving something of no value as a way to encourage a purchase.

These are GREAT offers. Check them out. Pass them around. This is good until July 31, 2016.
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GET LIPSTICK & GET LIP LINER FREE. REALLY!

Offer expires July 31, 2016
Full cost $32.  Your cost $20.  You save $12.
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• You pick 1 Lip Liner – Free!
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GET TRANSLUCENT POWDER & GET POWDER BRUSH FREE. REALLY!

Offer expires July 31, 2016
Full cost $40.  Your cost $24.  Save $16.
• Translucent Powder – You Pick 1 shade
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GET LIP GLOSS & GET LIP LINER FREE. REALLY!

Offer expires July 31, 2016
Full cost $27.  Your cost $15.  You save $12.
Bundle includes:
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• You pick 1 Lip Liner – Free!
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GET ONE DAY MOISTURIZER & GET ONE EYE CREAM FREE. REALLY!

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GET FACE CONTOUR POWDER & GET FACE CONTOUR BRUSH FREE. REALLY!

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• You pick 1 Translucent Contour Powder
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GET CREAM BLUSH / LIP STAIN & GET LIP GLOSS FREE. REALLY!

Offer expires July 31, 2016
Full cost $35.  Your cost $20.  You save $15.
• You Pick 1 Cream Blush/Lip Stain color
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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.

Warmly,
Chris Scott

6th of July,  2016

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, 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  series of how-to video tutorials based on his #1 international best seller
Face with a Heart Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup

Gloss Attracts Attention

Gloss reflects light.

Light attracts attention.

Wear Gloss.

Attract attention.

Gloss is to lips what mascara is to eyes.

These two simple additions pull focus to your faces main attractions, lips and eyes.

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Gloss can be glaringly obvious and distracting when over used. Unless you are trending lips (what you want people to see first), here is some gloss advice.

To maximize light reflection on the lips, apply vertically with the grain of the lip’s skin tissue. Light will bounce best off the lips when applied this way. Keep gloss slightly within the edge of the lip line to allow room for gloss spread, which inevitably happens when lips rub together.

Gloss Tips

One of the easiest, long-lasting and impact producing techniques
is to fill in lips with a lip pencil first…

…and then top with a clear or very sheer color lip gloss.

Hair gets in gloss

This is a pain. I always use to blame thick gloss until I understood the higher purpose of thick gloss.

Thin gloss evaporates quickly taking color with it. That is why thinner lip gloss needs to be reapplied so often.

Thicker gloss acts as an environmental seal by not evaporating quickly, and keeping lip color underneath it in place.

Press a very thin layer of a thicker gloss and color will last longer and hair will stick less to lips .

Please remember

Gloss has oil in it. Oil is used to remove makeup. If you spread gloss over lip color, it will break down that color very quickly. It is better to press gloss with a lip brush over lip pencil and/or lipstick than spread it around.

Here are some Lip Gloss Value Bundles to make using gloss easy and affordable.

CREAM BLUSH / LIP STAIN + GLOSS VALUE BUNDLE

Regular price- $35    Value Bundle price – $28

Lip Liner & Gloss Value Bundle

Regular price- $27    Value Bundle price – $19

GLOSS APPLICATION VIDEO TUTORIAL

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 This is part 4 in the 4 part lip series which includes:

• Modern Lips
• Tall Lips are Full Lips
• Invisible Lip Liner
• Lip Gloss

Note: This series of video tutorials is organized in a specific order of application. It is not necessary to do every step when you do your makeup but I do suggest you follow the order of the videos and skip the steps that don’t apply to you.

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

29th of June,  2016

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, 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  series of how-to video tutorials based on his #1 international best seller
Face with a Heart Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup

Photoshop Perfect Lips In Real Time

After lip color is applied, here is a quick and easy technique to achieve perfection with the appearance of your lips.

All you need is a:

Fine angled brush (preferably synthetic, like an eyebrow color brush)

Any one of these types of products:

Foundation

Corrector or Concealer

Powder

Here is all you do:

After lip color is fully applied, use the thin crisp edge of the angled brush to ‘clean up’ along the outer edge of the lips.

This surprisingly easy technique takes lip color application from good to perfect.

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Invisible Lip Liner APPLICATION VIDEO TUTORIAL

The videos are a complimentary resource created by Makeup Gourmet.

 This is part 3 in the 4 part lip series which includes:

• Modern Lips
• Tall Lips are Full Lips
• Invisible Lip Liner
• Lip Gloss

Note: This series of video tutorials is organized in a specific order of application. It is not necessary to do every step when you do your makeup but I do suggest you follow the order of the videos and skip the steps that don’t apply to you.

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

16th of June,  2016

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, 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  series of how-to video tutorials based on his #1 international best seller
Face with a Heart Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup

Tall Lips Are Full Lips

Just as with eye makeup, there are multiple ways to approach lips.

To enhance your Face with a Heart think ‘Eyes Wide – Lips Tall’.

Many desire to have their lips appear more full and/or balanced in size between the upper and lower lip.

Most of these people do not want it to appear they have drawn lip liner outside their natural lip line to enhance the appearance of their lips.

Let me share a little secret. The trick is to make lips appear more tall by enhancing the ‘pillow’ of the lip.

The pillow is the center of the mouth where lips are most full in the first place.

By enhancing the ‘pillow’ of the lips, lips appear more full without appearing falsely applied.

How:

Lip liner is used to define the shape of the lips. It can simultaneously re-define the shape of the lips plus provide asymmetrical correction.

Bottom Lip Liner

The concept is to make the bottom lip appear as a glass of water that is being tipped so that the water has come right up to the edge of the glass. It appears at any moment the water will spill out of the glass but it doesn’t.

• Begin by using a lip pencil to enhance the center of the mouth.

• Trace along the natural lip line at the center of the bottom lip.

• Then allow the lip liner to drop just below the center of the lip line to create the appearance of fullness to the center of the bottom lip.

• Where the bottom lip begins to curve upwards towards the outer corner of the mouth, sketch a strong straight line to the inside corner of the outer corners of the lips.

• Fill the interior of the liner into the lip a little to really connect the new shape liner to the lip.

• This illusion will push the center of the mouth more forward and keep lips from looking too wide.

Top Lip Liner

The concept here is to create a slightly swollen appearance to the upper lip from just outside the center ‘V’ to halfway down the upper lip. This will create height and fullness to the upper lip.

• Start by sketching in the ‘V’ shape at the center of the upper lip. Strive for symmetry.

• Next sketch the top lip line from the peak of the ‘V’ of the upper lip to the inside corner of the outer corners of the mouth.

• Then, if more fullness is desired, slightly round above the lip line from the peak of the ‘V’ to halfway down the upper lip.

• It is vital that the lip line appear connected to the actual lip line so build up from the existing lip line will create this effect successfully.

• Fill the interior of the liner into the lip a little to really connect the new shape liner to the lip.

• Finally, sketch with a lip brush along the lip liner to soften the interior edge and marry it to the lips.

Click here to learn a new away to apply the lip color after lip liner to create the Modern Lip.

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Lip Liner APPLICATION VIDEO TUTORIAL

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Note: This series of video tutorials is organized in a specific order of application. It is not necessary to do every step when you do your makeup but I do suggest you follow the order of the videos and skip the steps that don’t apply to you.

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

15th of June,  2016

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, 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

Skin Thin © 2016

a new book by Chris Scott

(currently under construction) 

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

Warmly,
Chris Scott

9th of June,  2016

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, 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  series of how-to video tutorials based on his #1 international best seller
Face with a Heart Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup

A Modern Lip Means Your Lips Are That Color

Just as with eye makeup, there are multiple ways to approach lips.

The next 4 blog posts focus on lips alone.

A technique that most boasts the Face with a Heart  method is The Modern Lip.

In short, it appears your lips are that color and not wearing that color.

Rethinking Lip Liner

Lip liner pencil is a thirsty formula designed to absorb creamier pigment (lipstick).

Lip liner is traditionally designed to frame the shape of the lips and absorb lipstick so it does not bleed past the frame of the lips.

By using it in the Modern Lip Method, lip liner acts as a sponge and pulls lipstick down into the lip for a more natural and longer lasting stain on the lips.

Here is how I get it to work.

• Pick a lip pencil similar to the lip color you want to use.

 • Fill in the entire lip with lip pencil.

• Brush the lip pencil pigment vigorously into the top layer of the lip skin with a lip brush.

• Next apply a thin layer of lip color (lipstick) in the same fashion with the lip brush.

• Apply as many layers as needed to achieve the density of lip color desired.

You will experience longer lasting lip color that appears as your lips are that color and not wearing that color.

Lip Color Value Bundles

Modern Lip Video Tutorial

Makeup Gourmet tutorial videos are a complimentary resource to maximize your expertise.

Note: This series of video tutorials is organized in a specific order of application. It is not necessary to do every step when you do your makeup but I do suggest you follow the order of the videos and skip the steps that don’t apply to you.

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

9th of June,  2016

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, 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  series of how-to video tutorials based on his #1 international best seller
Face with a Heart Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup

Translucent Powder: The Key to Enduring Makeup

• Allow the powder to set/dry the foundation completely

• Brush the excess powder off from the center of the face outwards leaving smooth, clean brush strokes to direct the traffic of light on the skin so that it will heighten skin brightness and luminosity.

Powder Application Video Tutorial

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The videos are a complimentary resource.

Note: This series of video tutorials is organized in a specific order of
application. It is not necessary to do every step when you do your makeup but I do suggest you follow the order of the videos and skip the steps that don’t apply to you.

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 June,  2016

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, 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