How to face chart?

Face Charts 

In this blog I will be writing about how to create and make your own face charts. As I had never done make-up professionally before I was unaware of how face charts were done/made. Therefore in this lesson we were tolled the basics of how to create your own. Face charts are used by makeup artists to test out or plan a look. They are also used to record a look that has been tired out on someone, like for a fashion show or photo shoot, so they are very important to make-up artist to practice and achieve their perfect looks. Other uses to face charts are that they keep a record of all the products used for different parts of the face by listing it on the side as when creating a face chart it is done with real make-up rather than art supplies. During this lesson we were shown a video on you tube on how to create a face chart by going through some basics like the skin, shadows and contours. I learnt some key techniques when creating my own face charts which where:

- use smaller and stiffer brushes when creating detail or eye shadows

- buff the powder in circular motions

- to create eyelashes you can use black eye liner or pencils 

- use darker shades to create contour and shadows

Examples:  

Reflection:

Then after learning about all this information we were given the chance to create our own face charts. I did find this a lot harder than expected, as it was harder to move the products around on the paper as we were just using normal paper. On the other hand, in the future when I create my ideas into designs I will have different paper to use which is design to make it easier to move the make-up. Over all I found this really helpful as it gives me a better understanding on why the face charts are used and how to create them for my work. 

By Amelia Richmond-Knight