Because this is NOT okay

Okay, so I've talked a lot about what to do, and what to buy, and where to get it. It's probably time to talk about what NOT to do. I'm sorry y'all have to see this, but here's the horrible truth:

This is what mineral makeup does under flash photography. This is TV Actress Joan van Arc. Honestly, this is what ANY powder makeup rich in mica will do. It will make every line on your face stand out making the subject look older, and the face will glow with an eerie zombie-like pallor. The makeup artist (or herself) also tried their hand at corrective makeup, and put a darker color on her nose (which resembles B.E. "Warmth", methinks) to try and make it appear smaller. Her eyebrows and lower eyeliner were done with the same pencil. Her brows are far too harsh, and too red for her hair color, and the eyeliner would have been okay if someone knew what a smudge brush was or had a q-tip handy. Additionally, the "nude lip" is not for her. By that I mean she literally does not have any lipstick or gloss on at all. The nude lip is a notoriously tricky thing, because "nude" is different for every person, and relies heavily on their original lip color, and their inherent skin tone. She would have benefited a lot from a pinky-brown lip-liner to give her lips any shape at all, and sheer matching lipstick, as well as a subtle mauve blush. And her eyelashes need combing out. I seriously would have done plum shadows and grey liner for her.

Who knows? Maybe it looks okay in regular light, or even sunlight. But if the camera adds ten pounds, mineral makeup adds a hundred years. I.E. old enough to be a corpse.

/rant