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Light can be your best friend or your greatest enemy when it comes to applying makeup. If the room is too dark or too bright, you can easily use the wrong colors — something that only becomes apparent when you step outside.   Since no one wants a face full of poorly blended foundation, make sure that your makeup light is right with these tips.   Set your makeup table in front of natural light     If you do your makeup in a room with a window that gets plenty of natural sunlight, set up your table and mirror in...

All beauty gurus, whether they are makeup artists or hairstylists, agree that good lighting is at the forefront of their operation. As such, a lot of their business budget is invested in quality lighting.   You should consider makeup application lighting as a key tool in your makeup skill set. Without proper lighting, your makeup will eventually be blotted out by shadows and the colours will lose their intensity. Having the right lighting can dramatically improve your makeup application skills.   As Mariah Carey once said, “Bad lighting is toxic”. She wasn’t wrong. Here, we go over some of the...

It’s the same case every time: You look a certain way in your bathroom mirror and then completely different everywhere else. But the problem isn’t your makeup skills; it’s your lighting, which, when done wrong, seriously affects your makeup routine. Fluorescents can make us put too much makeup on, and pink-tinted lights can make us miss spots. Our makeup studios (aka bathrooms) deserve better illumination, and so do our faces. So we talked to some makeup artists and did a little research of our own to figure out how to trick out your bathroom lighting. Fortunately, with just a few tweaks...