Set out ready for use:
Towel / cape
Tissues
Cotton buds
Cotton wool pads
Eyebrow Brush
Before starting, you ensure your hands and nails are well cleaned. File your nails if necessary, so that there are no snags. By doing this you prevent damages on the face and risk of infection.
Always work using clean materials (sponges, brushes, spatulas, water bowls) and change the water regularly.
Get the subject to put on any clothes beforehand that have to be put on over the head. Protect your models clothing with a hairdressing cape or a towel.
Apply the make-up on clean skin, after the usual daily care (day cream or Grimas Under Make-up Base). Apply a base with Grimas Crème Make-up Pure.
Take the Crème Make-up Pure out with a clean spatula and work from the spatula. Apply it with a slightly damp latex sponge or make-up sponge onto the skin. Work the base out properly, up into the hairline, and do not forget the ears and neck. This is how you avoid a mask-like effect.
The waxes and oils allow Crème Make-up Pure to be blended away easily, making it excellent for highlights and shadows, both for beauty (shaping, modelling) and theatrical purposes (ageing, creating various characters, effects).
Emphasise the red cheeks by drawing a line in red from the naso-labial fold. Extend this line upwards and to the side, and let it merge into the base. If necessary, blur the segments and lines that are to be faded using a dry make-up sponge. You do this with a dabbing action, without wiping.
You draw the lines with a flat sable-hair brush. By placing it obliquely on the skin you get a sharp edge on one side and a fading effect on the other side. To determine which side should be sharp and which side faded, you start from the centre of the face (nose). Create a fading effect towards the outside.
To create a round effect you need to make all the elevated parts of the face stand out more. You emphasise these parts (nose, chin, brow bone and cheekbones) using a light colour.
Crème Make-up always needs to be powdered off. Apply the powder on top of the make-up. You can do this with a Make-up Sponge or a Velour Powder Puff. Allow to settle in and remove the excess powder with a Powder-Rouge Brush.
You draw the eyebrows using Grimas Eyeshadow/Rouge and a little Cleansing Lotion.
Because of the higher eyebrows you enhance an open effect.
Take the Lipstick (Pure) onto a spatula (even if you are working from a stick) and apply it with a lip brush. First colour the middle of the lips and then colour the edges, working from the outside inwards.
Crème Make-up Pure is based on waxes and oils and can therefore not be removed with water. For removal you can for instance use Grimas Cleansing Cream, Afschmink, Make-up Remover or Multi Remover Pure. Then you remove the last residues with Cleansing Lotion.
The sponges are disposable so you can throw them away after use. If you do want to reuse them, first rinse them under the tap with some soap or shampoo or wash them in the washing machine (in a net bag or pillow case), set to at least 60°C. You can also wash the (Velour) Powder Puff in the washing machine.
You can clean brushes with water and soap or shampoo. The Powder and Blusher Brush is cleaned like this too. Put the moist hairs of the brushes back into shape by hand after washing. Dry the brushes lying flat on a towel and do not place them upright, since that causes the moisture to run down into the shaft.
