Face Charts

Producing Face Charts is a very important thing when designing a make up look. They give you the chance to put down in front of you what you want to do and to see if it actually looks okay and if the idea works before you start practicing on a model.
There are many different face charts available the main one is the MAC face chart which is the same face you see on popular social media like Instagram.

You don't have to use make up on a face chart you can use any material you like as long as the look you want to create is suitable to put on the face.

When using make up though, it is best to use small harder brushes rather than bigger softer ones. This makes it much harder to get the product on to the face chart and to build the colour up, where as the smaller harder ones its much easier to get more colour pay off on to the paper.

This is my first face chart that I have ever produced

I was very happy with the outcome as I have never done one before. I wasn't sure on what to do or how to use the products on the paper but I just experimented with a few different brushes and products to see which ones I like the best on the paper and which ones I felt more comfortable using.

I decided to do a smoky eye with e fierce contour on the cheeks. I think this is a look most girls are going for, the strong cheek bones and the striking smoky dark eye. I wanted to create something that I know I would wear myself rather than doing something totally adventurous and messing it up.

I was really pleased with the outcome of the face chart, I tried my best to get the eyebrows even which is quite tricky sometimes even on a real model. I liked creating the strong contour on the face, trying to get both sides even and trying to give the paper some structure instead of having a flat face effect.

The only thing I didn't like doing was creating a nose! I really struggled as I cant really draw noses with a pencil so trying to recreate one with make up was proving difficult. But I got there in the end and the out come wasn't too bad.

Creating new looks and experimenting on a face chart is very good practice for you. Before you go wild on a model and wasting more product than you would on paper, try out new things on a face chart and see what you like and what works best first, and then go in for the kill on your models face.