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practicality ([personal profile] practicality) wrote2009-10-13 11:07 pm
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For the Cosplayers on my F-list

Make-up: how do you get good at it? Just practice? Or is there some sort of great secret I should know? Because I like to think my sewing skills are pretty good, but my inability to style hair or apply make-up makes most of the photos look varying amounts of 'average' to 'fail'.
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[identity profile] whiskeynshinra.livejournal.com (from dreamwidth.org) 2009-10-14 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I totally fail at makeup. XD But practice helps, yes, particularly with the speed of application. There are tutorials, but I'm betting most of them aren't for Rufus XD For him I'd just go with enough foundation for your skin to look pretty much flawless and maybe a bit of blush to make him look less dead, but that's just extra, and if you suck at applying blush like I do, I wouldn't worry XD

[identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org 2009-10-14 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's my big problem - almost all the tutorials I've found are for somewhat feminine-appearing people aiming to look more feminine, which is not my direction. I actually totally hadn't thought about blush, but now that you mention it, that would solve my 'flourescent lights make me look like a zombie in photos' problem

[identity profile] whiskeynshinra.livejournal.com (from dreamwidth.org) 2009-10-15 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
XD Yeah, it would. When you use foundation and it makes your skin ALL ONE TONE, sometimes a little pink to give it natural color that is taken away by the foundation is good. I mean, unless you're going for broken!Rufus, in which by all means do the dead skin thing. :D And some black eye makeup smudged on your hand, of course. ahahaha.
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