Editorial makeup for Black&White photography

Editorial makeup for black and white photograph.

Tone, adjust, shape and create texture for editorial beauty and focus on glowing skin.

Some tips ;

If you want your models face to appear more sculpted and with more definition to it, use a bronzer which is a bit darker than you would usually use. This will really stand out in the photos and it will look absolutely beautiful. It's black and white, so the color won't show up, meaning you can go a little bit darker with the bronzer than you probably normally would.

There aren't going to be any colors in the photo, so you can end up with varying shades of gray instead. That means, if you want the lips to stand out, you've got to make them a bit darker. Choosing a darker color will really make the lips appear a lot darker and more dramatic and If you're going with something more natural then go lighter.

Unless you are looking for something super dramatic, make sure that the eye makeup is really neutral. This will actually make the models eyes stand out that much more in the black and white shot. Just a little eyeliner and some neutral colors can go a long way.

Finally, remember all of the different colors that show up really dark in black and white photos and be aware of them. Purples, dark reds, blues and obviously blacks are all colors that show up dark in black and white photos.

Starting off prepping the skin perfectly, possible mixing strobe cream into the foundation to give the skin a glow. When doing lips or eyes for black and white photography, don't look at the colours, look at the tones.

Holly first applied the strobe cream all over the face using a flat foundation brush. She then used Bourjouis healthy mix foundation, working it into the skin focusing in the middle to give it more of a highlight. She then powdered the T zone. In the right photo below, she used the Charlotte tilbury bronze and glow using a 130 max round brush which works perfectly as it sits great underneath the cheek bone. She then checked it in a black and white photo, the highlight looked great however she wanted to add some more contour to make it appear stronger. On top of the Charlotte tilbury highlight she added Mac gold highlighter, thia just gave it the extra glittery look. In the left photo below, she used pawpaw just to see the difference (similar to vaseline). She then used very neutral eye shadows just to define the crease. She then used mac white acrylic to create a thick liner in the right photo, this was just to show something different. She then added in mascara. This looks really effective in black and white.

I then went onto creating a similar look myself.

<-- Here is my final result in a coloured photo. I did this just to show the diffrence and how this kind of look is much more effective in black and white photography.

Below is a picture of my final look in black and white photography

Prodcuts I used ;

Foundation - Loreal infallible 24hr foundation shade vanilla, mac full coverage foundation shade NW20

Concealer - Derma palette mix of D2 & D4

Contour & Highlight - mac full coverage foundation shade NW40 and makeup revolution ultra contour palette and paw paw on the hight points of the face including the bridge of the nose, cupids bow and cheek bones.

Eyes - Mac white acrylic for the liner, Haute and Naughty mascara, estee lauder black liner, Mac eye shadows in the shades cork, kid and carbon. Pawpaw in the centre of the eyelids.

Lips - pawpaw

I then tried out the more natural black and white look out of school hours on my friend ;

Below are some professional photos -

I loved this look. It looks so effortless are beautiful. I used more highliter and also lined the lower lash line with a white liner and this looked gorgeous.