Editorial.
Festival Makeup
Colour, glitter and graphic elements, built for daylight and movement.
Written by Lamyaa Aissi, professional makeup artist, Casablanca.
Where it sits
Editorial.
Editorial sits outside the natural-to-glam scale entirely. It serves a concept and a camera, and it is judged on whether the picture works rather than on whether the wearer looks like herself.
The technique it depends on
Adhesion. Everything decorative needs a proper base or it migrates within the hour.
On Moroccan skin, in a Moroccan climate
Heat and glitter are a poor combination; expect migration and place it accordingly.
Underneath all of it: most Moroccan skin runs olive or golden, so cool taupes and greyed tones read as dullness rather than depth. Warm bronze, copper and terracotta do the work instead.
When it is the wrong choice
Anything photographed formally afterwards.
Questions
What defines festival makeup?
Colour, glitter and graphic elements, built for daylight and movement.
What is the one technique festival makeup depends on?
Adhesion. Everything decorative needs a proper base or it migrates within the hour.
Does festival makeup work on Moroccan skin tones?
Heat and glitter are a poor combination; expect migration and place it accordingly.
When is festival makeup the wrong choice?
Anything photographed formally afterwards.
The work
Other styles
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