Makeup Basics, and Costume Suggestions and Tips

As a performer, your makeup becomes an essential part of creating your character and allowing your character’s facial features to be seen from a distance. The extra demands created by being under lights or while up on stage require a makeup that is not only high performance but is also enduring. Stage makeup not only needs to look good with true and vibrant colors, but it also must go on easily, while resisting melting and streaking. One of the most common mistakes that stage performers make when doing their makeup is to go too light with their makeup application. The point of stage makeup is to make your features very visible from afar, which may mean that your makeup appears very heavy when you are looking at it up close in ordinary light.