Video: Beauty Tips for Applying Makeup to Cover Acne for Tan Skin

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Chantelle Nicole Tarride

http://www.ChantelleArtistry.com

Chantelle Nicole Tarride is a professional certified makeup artist, in Miami, Florida. She's known for her unique style in both areas where she's proud to be set apart from the crowd. Tarride's passion for makeup and the arts surrounding it began at a very young age. Her clients have included Louise Aguirre for Miss Teen Florida 2009, rock band Le Blorr, Latin music singer Alejandra Alberti for the Latin Billboard awards, work on the set of the upcoming Telemundo movie, "Gabriel," starring Chayane and Jose Luis Rodriguez, Comcast segments for the president of Johnson & Whales University (North Miami Campus), Art Basel Miami 2010, and various publicity shoots for other artists.

Transcript

Hi, I'm Chantelle Tarride, and I'm a professional makeup artist, and today I'll be showing you how to apply makeup for tan skin to cover acne. Step one is you want to take your concealer. With a concealer when you're going for tan skin, you still like any other shade or tone, you want to go at least a shade or two lighter. This is about like a nice caramel color, a little bit lighter than what I actually am. Go in with your foundation brush, put a little bit on the brush there and for example I have a little bit of an acne scar here and I'm going to go directly over that and I'm going to stipple that color and start blending it outwards all around that area but mainly focusing in the center where the acne scar or pimple might be and then you want to blend that around the area so that it doesn't look like you have one spot on your face that's a little bit lighter than the rest, just like that focusing again in that main area. That stippling is pushing that color or concentrating it right wherever you're pressing it down and then wherever you're pressing it down and then you're going to want to go with your actual skin tone foundation. This again will probably be a liquid is best, a powder foundation, anything works. You'll want to go directly with that liquid foundation onto your palm, nice direct access, go over it with your stippling brush, warm up that color on your skin and now stipple and buffer that color right over that concealer you just did. Now keep in mind ladies this is simply trying to cover up that redness or maybe the size or whatever it is that you're covering up. It's not going to completely take it away but it's definitely going to help the effect. You just want to keep blending it in so you don't see any spot lighter than the rest of your skin and you can go on to your next step. You'll want to take now your powder brush and a loose powder or pressed powder of your choice, whichever one works for you, dab a little bit of that color onto your cap, swirl your powder brush in there, take off any loose powder and press that color right over that area you just worked on. You don't want to more so start buffering like I've told you before. Now, you're actually going to stipple that actual powder into the skin because you don't want to take away that foundation or that concealer that you just put on. You really want to press it in there and that's setting it and wallah, no pimple. I hope you enjoyed these tips on how to cover acne for tan skin. This is Chantelle Tarride. Thanks for watching.