Styleyes Season 2 Episode ‘When Kelly Meet Stephanie’ Excerpt: Julie Tussey Makeover Part 1
Steph from Styleyes learns the secrets of make-up mastery with make-up artist Julie Tussey. In Video Part One, Julie demonstrates the importance of eyebrows and how to create an arch/ Says Tussey, “The first thing I look at when I look at a face is brows. You have good brows, good skin and nice teeth, those are the three essentials for great looking make-up and appearance. I like the brows on the natural side and we want to keep them as big as possible.” Julie makes Stephanie’s brow long and finds the angles in the eyebrow rather than making it rounded. “I like a brow that starts of the nose, falls off the corner of the eye and any eyebrow that the arch hits on the color,” Julie tells us.
What about girls waxing their eyebrows?
Julie Tussey encourages and advises girls NOT to wax their eyebrows: “I’ve seen women who have done it over years, and it breaks down the tissue.”
Julie Tussey gets a Juicy Nickname
Steph suggests that “Juicy” should become the nickname for Julie Tussey who’s response “I think my boyfriend, my fiancé may have called me that,” makes the veteran make-up artist herself blush the all-natural way.
Where does good make-up begin?
“Good make-up starts with good skin and then by putting on all the proper ingredients.”
TIP: “When you clean, you cleanse up because the pores slope down so you always cleanse up and you do make-up down.”
Julie then applies a serum with vitamin C, minerals and oils to promote good healthy skin. Then comes the moisturizer for the day with an SPSF in it for protecting the skin. Says Julie “When it comes to skin, you kind of have to be your own doctor.” Next comes a primer: “Our New York women always use this product because their days are very long. They know that their make-up will last all day long.”
Following that, Julie takes a tinted moisturizer (“sand”) and cuts it to mix it with the foundation: “You’re getting a little coverage but not too much coverage from the foundation because we’re cutting it with the tinted moisturizer.” It’s neat how Tussey mixes the moisturizer and foundation on the back of her hand then using it like a pallet in the way painters do with their paints. Well hey, they do call them make-up artists after all…
“And maybe when you pick up a little color in the summer, it’s kind of a suntan look for you, and it’s pretty and has a little color to it.”
TIP: Because of the chin, women don’t get color from the sun on the V of their neck. Julie pulls down some of the foundation/moisturizer mixture to add color to that area of Stephanie’s neck.
Concealer: Make-up for the skin around the eyes
Julie applies concealer to the skin beneath Stephanie’s eyes. She pats it down do that it melts in and looks very fleshy. She also uses another concealer that is oil-free to erase a red spot on Steph’s forehead that she got from when Julie was using tweezers a moment ago. Says Tussey “This is our version of White-Out.”
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