One Line Of Advice Part 2 Make-Up Keep it Balanced

Primary Colors © Benjamin Kanarek Harper’s BAZAAR

In Make-Up Balance and Contrast is the Key

To you New Make-Up artists out there a little bit of advice from my +25 years in the Fashion Biz,…”Top Heavy…Bottom Light” or “Bottom Heavy…Top Light”…Rarely Both! Want Lips? Ok but…keep the eyes Minimal (Perhaps Eyebrows Only) Want Heavy Eyes? Okay, but keep your lips Low-Fi. In viewing so many New-be Make-Up Artists out there, there is just too much of everything.  Keep it Balanced.  Don’t try to do everything in one image.

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About Benjamin Kanarek
Fashion and Beauty Photographer. Some of the magazines I have shot for include: VOGUE (China, Portugal, Brazil, Italia, Paris and South America & Mexico editions), RG VOGUE Brazil, Harper’s BAZAAR (China, en Español & Latin America, Hong Kong, Italy editions), L’Officiel Paris, ELLE (Spain, Portugal and Greece editions), Madame Figaro (France), Cosmopolitan (France and Italy editions), Glamour (France), Votre Beauté, Jardin des Modes, Dépêche Mode, New York Daily News, Fashion District News, New York Times Magazine, W (British edition), WWD, Fashion Magazine (Canada), Flare (Canada), Oyster, Tank, WestEast…