Make-up artist
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A make-up artist, also called a makeup artist, and often shortened to MUA, is an artist whose medium is the human body, applying
Makeup techniques
Fashion
Fashion makeup is used in magazine photography as well as on the fashion runway. Avant-garde makeup is also an applicable technique used for projects that require experimental themes. Fashion makeup is also commonly used in television and film ranging for the natural prime look to more sophisticated applications such as color balance.
Theatrical makeup
Stage makeup is used as a method in conjunction with stage lighting to highlight the actors' faces in order to make expressions visible to the audience from moderate distances. This often includes defining the eyes and lips as well as the highlights and lowlights of the facial bones.
Special make-up effects (FX makeup)
The use of special effects techniques enhancing physical features to exhibit metaphysical characteristics[clarification needed] as well as fantasy makeup. The use of prosthetics and plaster casting are also required for projects that entails non-human appearances. Accents such as theatrical blood and ooze are also techniques applicable to this type of makeup.
Airbrushing
An
High definition
This is an art which involves the use of light
In Bollywood
In 1955 the
In June 2014, the Cine Costume Make-Up Artist & Hair Dressers' Association (CCMAA) authorised an official protest on the movie set of
Notable make-up artists
- Kevyn Aucoin
- Rick Baker
- Way Bandy
- Sir John Barnett
- Bobbi Brown
- Linda Cantello
- Marco Castro
- John Chambers
- Lon Chaney
- Lisa Eldridge
- Nina Flowers
- Joanne Gair
- Kelly Hanna
- Nikkie de Jager
- Huda Kattan
- Michael Maron
- Pat McGrath
- Jack Pierce
- Ve Neill
- Dick Smith
- Charlotte Tilbury
- Gucci Westman
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