Three reasons you need a makeup artist

Working with a make-up artist (MUA) for the primary time is a memorable expertise. I used to suppose an MUA simply put make-up on folks, however that’s like saying a photographer simply takes footage. An excellent MUA is really an artist, and their work makes your images leaps and bounds higher. Listed here are three causes you might want to work with a make-up artist.

1. Armorer

Why is it that individuals don’t wish to be in footage? I wager 87.3% of individuals studying this weblog have mentioned, “I purchased the digicam so I wouldn’t need to be in entrance of it!” Nicely, the make-up artist is marvelous as a result of she (or he) offers folks a layer of armor which often helps them really feel extra assured in entrance of the digicam.

There’s some rationale: I should be prepared since knowledgeable MUA has achieved her work on me and permitted me for footage. It’s virtually like I’m going to be photographing the make-up, not the particular person, and so they’re pleased with that. It’s bizarre, however I feel you’ll discover equally that an MUA offers folks armor and confidence.

Take the picture on the high of this publish, for example. Ashlee is a graphic designer who directs me and makes use of my pictures to place her works collectively. Nicely, Machelle satisfied Ashlee to let her make her up and be in some footage herself, and we had a good time and Ashlee actually got here alive whereas we shot.

Ashlee has stood in for gentle testing for me many instances and had seen Machelle’s work do wonders with others, however till she placed on the armor herself, she didn’t consider she’d look so terrific in footage, too. It was actually a enjoyable time collectively, the three of us making some pretty portraits of Ashlee.

2. Icebreaker

Not solely does the make-up artist assist give confidence, however he additionally helps get the shoot underway and breaks the ice. An enormous a part of the armor comes within the type of straightforward dialog. A relaxed MUA helps my topics to settle down and really feel prepared for the digicam. He’s the primary particular person they work together with, and he’s a grasp of getting folks prepared each bodily and emotionally.

3. Personalizer

As I start making footage, the MUA is able to hand to assist modify hair and clothes for every new pose. Once I ask for her assist inserting one single hair in simply the appropriate spot, it helps my topics see that I actually care about serving to them look their greatest in footage, resulting in extra belief in me and my expertise.

I feel I’m not explaining this with as a lot significance as this deserves, however she actually makes issues run extra easily, and rapidly, and comfortably, which all provides as much as higher footage (and repeat purchasers!).

Along with serving to folks really feel assured, snug, and attended to, she additionally speeds issues alongside on the shoot and in post-production. I’ll get a a lot larger proportion of fine footage as a result of the hair is at all times in place and wardrobe straight, and I’ll spend much less time touching up footage as a result of the blemishes are coated and the hair isn’t flying across the backdrop.

These items all make the MUA value her weight in MAC merchandise.