Make-Up, Hair and Costume for Film and Television

Straight Corrective Make-Up

It is important to realize that the use of lighting and cameras affects the make-up.

Shading and Highlighting

After many hours of studying faces on a screen, a make-up artist learns to recognize these effects. For example, top lighting will exaggerate any shadows on the face, such as under the eyes and the nose-to-mouth lines. These are the areas that generally need highlighting.

The principles of highlighting and shading are:

  lightening an area on the skin will bring it forward, therefore highlight a feature or lighten a shadow;

  alleviating lines and shadows on the face will give the effect of health and youth; ...