Light's Effect On Makeup
- Pink tends to gray the cool colors and intensify the warm ones. Yellow becomes more orange.
- Flesh pink flatters most makeup.
- Fire red ruins makeup. All but the darker flesh tones virtually disappear. Light and medium rouge fade into the foundation, whereas the dark red rouges turn a reddish brown. Yellow becomes orange, and the cool shading colors become shades of gray and black.
- Bastard amber is flattering because it picks up the warm pinks and flesh tones in the makeup.
- Amber and orange intensify and yellow most flesh colors. They turn rouges more orange. Cool colors are grayed.
- Green grays all flesh tones and rouges in proportion to its intensity. Green will be intensified. Yellow and blue will become greener.
- Light blue-green lowers the intensity of the base colors. One should generally use very little rouge under this type of light.
- Green-blue washes out pale flesh tones, and will gray medium and deep flesh tones, as well as all reds.
- Blues gray most flesh tones and cause them to appear more red or purple.
- Violet causes orange, flame, and scarlet to become redder. Rouge appears more intense.
- Purple affects makeup like violet lighting, except reds and oranges will be even more intense, and most blues will look violet.
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