Miss Missouri Hopefuls

Recently we did headshots for contestants in this summer’s Miss Missouri America and Miss Missouri Teen America pageant. These are before and after candid shots.  Remember, all makeup application colors and techniques are for on-camera.ERICA

 Lovely Erica is a fantastic dancer, lively personality and a ham to boot.  She was a lot of fun to work with.   First noticeable thing was the difference in her skin tone on her face versus her chest.  We used her foundation by Makeup Forever and I mixed it with Nivea creme in the small blue tin.  This turned her foundation into more of a tinted moisturizer and also makes it much easier to glide over the neck and chest.  I use my hands to warm up the foundation and massage it into her skin.  I set with MAC studio fix powder and then contoured her forehead with a much darker shade of MAC studio fix, dragging the makeup brush from her hairline into the highlight section of her forehead.  Her skin needed more coverage to even out her skin tone due to self tanning lotion. Self tanning lotion can read orange on-camera.She has a high forehead which puts her browline, not her eyes, more in the center of her face.  To balance this out I put more drama in her eyes using charcoal and black gel liner and lots of mascara.  This gave the appearance of a bigger and more wide set eye.  Her lips had a nude pink pencil to line, blended the pencil line into the center of the lip with a lipbrush then nude gloss in the center.  No lipstick.

Katie is a striking dark beauty with cinnamon eyes that are slightly deep set and strong angular features.  Her skin had little issues so I used Maybelline Mineral Power concealer under her eyes to brighten, pulled the edges of her eyebrow out to make her eyes appear rounder, used Urban Decay gold from inner corner to middle then frosted black from middle to outer edge.  I was careful in pulling the black softly up into the beginning of her brow line which, again, makes her eyes appear bigger.  I used a gel black eyeliner on top and halfway from outer on the lower.  She has fabulous eyelashes that curl naturally and were enhanced with  3 coats of mascara.  Her lips are lined with a pink nude liner, blended into the center and then nude gloss.

McKENSIE

McKensie is only 15 and is competing in the Teen division.  A stunning girl with fantastic eyes and smile.  Again, great skin.  Her eyebrows needed the most tweaking.  I love using eyeshadow for the brows and a precision angle brush.  This application gives the softness of a real brow versus a pencil which can look hard and somewhat fake.  As a teen, dewy eyes have a feeling of youth, so I used shimmery brown and golds.  The liner was Teddy by MAC (coppery dark brown with shimmer) smudged and pushed into her lash line with an angle brush and then under the eye halfway to the center.  I dabbed a shimmery highlight into the very inner corner of her eye.  Her eyelashes are intensly curled with lots of mascara.  Her eyelashes required some comb through during the applications.  I bronzed her cheeks with a darker MAC studio fix (C7) then highlighted the apples with a reflective mineral powder blush in bright pink by Wet n Wild.  A teens makeup needs to reflect youth so a brighter color on the apple of the cheek captures that.  Lips are lined in nude, blended into the center and then MAC Pink Clash Lip Glass over the lip.

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