Good makeup is good detective work.
Rather than be overwhelmed by your makeup options, allow the answers to each of the following 3 questions eliminate
what is not appropriate. What will remain are the best choices for each set of circumstances.
The first 3 questions I ask before starting any makeup application are:
1. Where are you going?
2. What are you wearing?
3. What time of day will you be there?
1. ‘Where are you going?’ dictates the makeup style.
- Work
- Drinks
- Dinner
- Shopping
- Theater
- Indoors
- Outdoors
- Etc.
What Are The Best Colors For Me? Pt 3: What Is My Best Look?
2. ‘What are you wearing?’ dictates the makeup colors.
- Blue skirt and white top
- Jeans and pink top
- Black cocktail dress
- Your favorite scarf
- Jewelry (yellow metal, silver metal, copper metal, crystals, colorful stones)
- Etc.
What Are The Best Colors For Me? Pt 1: Closet, Shoes, Jewelry
3. ‘What time of day will you be there?’ dictates the intensity of the look.
- Daytime
- Nighttime
- Day to night
The other 3 questions/observations that are more constant are:
- Skin tone intensity (light to dark)
- Hair color, intensity (light to dark), and length.
- Eye (iris) color and intensity (light to dark)
This is the given set of circumstances of your organic palette. It is advantageous to understand your organic palette as it relates to your intended makeup effect.
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Let’s get sleuthing.
Warmly,
Chris Scott
7th of February, 2019
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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
