Hi Amiga, In this post, I will tell you what should be in a Basic Makeup Kit to be able to do professional makeup jobs. If you want to be considered professional, you need to be well prepared and have these 45 Makeup Kit Essentials.
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This post is all about Makeup Kit Essentials for Professional Artists.
What you need as a Makeup Artist
Without your makeup kit, you can not work, if it gets stolen from the car or if you drive your car into a pond with your kit in it, you can not work, every makeup artist’s nightmare!
Therefore it is wise to ensure your kit.
With your kit being the most important part of your business you have to treat it like that.
If you would buy the most expensive products because you like them so much, you are lowering your own rates,
You also can’t work with the cheap brands, read this post Difference between Cheap vs Expensive Makeup to learn why.
My advice is to research the brands and see what audience they are targeting.
For example, Charlotte Tilbury is really wonderful, I would love to work with it, but I know I am paying part of the price for their packaging, as a business owner that is not interesting for me.
I have colleagues working with Charlotte Tilbury but they get sponsored by the brand and these colleagues mostly work with Dutch celebrities.
Charlotte Tilbury targets higher-paying customers who love the look of the brand on their vanity table.
MAC Cosmetics targets Makeup Artist, so does Kryoan, Make-up Studio, and Ben Nye. Most of them give a discount to professionals, MAC as a 40% discount, this obviously makes it interesting to work with.
As Makeup artists of course we love makeup products, and I can get very excited about a new palette.
MAC knows this, they only give you discounts in the PRO stores if you visit them, and you’re most likely to leave with more than your shopping list.
In my article Shop my Makeup Kit, you find every single item and colors I have in my kit and work with on every job. This is what you need:
Makeup Kit Essentials
Makeup essentials:
- Mascara,
- Pencil black, brown, and every other color you like,
- Lipliners, red, nude, every other color you like,
- Lipglosses,
- Lipstick pallet(s),
- Any brow products you prefer,
- Brow gel,
- Foundation with yellow (cool) undertones at least 4 shades so you can mix every other color,
- Foundations with red (warm) undertones at least 4 shades so you can mix every other color,
- Concealer with yellow/green (cool) undertones at least 3 shades,
- Concealer with orange (warm) undertones at least 3 shades,
- Loose powder,
- Compact powder at least 4 shades,
- Highlighters, light, medium, dark,
- Bronzers, I also have a matt version bronzer, light, medium, dark,
- 8-hour crème,
- Moisturizer,
- Eyeliner, cake liner and or liquid liner, crème liner,
- At least 2 eyeshadow pallets, one with warm tones and one with cool tones,
- Blush, cream and/or powder,
- False lashes,
- Lash glue,
- Foundation brushes,
- Brush set,
- Spatula,
- Mixing pallet.
Non-makeup essentials:
- Mouth masks,
- Plastic gloves,
- Mirror,
- Lights,
- Towel,
- Tissues,
- Cotton tips,
- Cleaning wipes,
- Disinfectant soap,
- Alcohol,
- Iso proxy alcohol 70%,
- Cape,
- Body lotion,
- Safety pins,
- Fashion tape,
- Tweezers,
- Pencil sharpener,
- Primer,
- Setting spray.
This post was all about what you need to carry in your makeup kit for professional makeup jobs. Cheers Amiga.
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