Demo: Black and White editorial

So for this lesson we had an amazing cover teacher called Holly who also works in the industry and helped the skills following while Branka was away. And holly demonstrated to us all this lesson a black and white editorial with a natural side and then an creative eye side.

Natural side

Firstly making sure that the models face was clean of any make up and prepped ready before she applied any make up as if this isn't done it can ruin your application. First cleansed the face making sure she's working with a clean canvas, next onto moisturising the skin taking away any dryness because in black and white images this will show up the dry texture in your image so once all applied Holly then applied MAC strobe to the face with a foundation brush making sure this is all spread out evenly applying this will help give that dewy skin even more a glow as strobe cream holds a shimmer in its self so this will help give that glow through the foundation! For the foundation she used Bourjouis healthy mix that gives more of a dewy finish which is a great base to use for this look and you can even add strobe to your foundation to give that extra dewy finish ! Buffed all into the models skin making sure all areas are applied and going in with MAC medium concealer palette taking out any darkness under the eyes or any blemishes that are coming through the base, once Holly was happy with her base she lightly powdered with translucent powder in the T-zone area only as she wanted to keep rest of the face powder free as she wanted to keep the skin looking dewy for camera and wanting the cheekbones to really shine out on camera she applied vaseline with her ring finger to the areas she wanted to highlight and give a glossy look so when she takes a picture it will capture those highlighted areas just how she wanted them! For the natural look in black and white contour isn't really needed as highlighting with the vaseline this will bring everything out with a natural look to it.

For the eye Holly applied MAC omega all over the lid and then applied vaseline to give the gloss glow! finishing this natural look with small amount of mascara but just enough so it gives the lashes definition and then vaseline top the lip for final touches!

                                                                    ( Without flash )

( With flash )

Heavier side

The skin had already been prepped and the foundation has been buffed into the skin so Holly went straight on with eyes with this eye being a bit more creative rather than the natural side, she applied black all over the lid and to ensure the black was applied to whole of the lid she buffed the shadow into the lid making sure was well blended and winged the shadow up to bring the eye up using MAC carbon to blend out the shadow with  buffering brush with adding a small amount of MAC brule so that the black blends out to nothing. Leaving the brow bone without shadow on it and started with contouring the skin with MAC sculpt pro powder applying a small amount around the hair line and jaw line then going into the deepest part of the of the cheekbones to add depth and then taking Charlotte Tilbury film start bronze and go on the cheekbone finishing with the highlighting the features with MAC silver dust to create more of an intense highlight to the brow bone, cheekbone, bridge of the nose and bow of the lip. To add contrast to the make up Holly applied MAC white acrylic as a liner to the models eye as it's high pigmented product and so she used this to create her winged liner.

( Black and White )