With what kind of make up can you make dark skin lighter?
We have a project that involves fashion, we made a Haute Couture piece and the material on the Haute Couture piece is really bright such as neon green but our model is dark skinned. We notice that the Haute Couture piece with it’s color would look horrible on her since she’s dark skinned so we thought that we can lighten her skin up with make up but what do we have to use(powder, foundation, cream etc)?
We want to lighten her face, arm, neck and back.
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My wife the cosmotologist says you can use foundation, but it is very difficult to do this evenly. You would be better off getting a paler model.
I’m with @oratio change the piece and not the model.
@RedPowerLady Lol, I changed my answer cause I thought it sounded snippy.
@oratio @RedPowerLady Haha yeah, would either change the piece color or the model but it’s way too late for any of them. The piece is already made with the color & the model size so yeah. We didn’t thought about that before hah.
@xTheDreamer Well just some information to consider. Many people believe that darker skinned women look the best in Greens and bright colors (vs. light skinned people).
sally hanson ‘spray on legs’ perfect for a fashion show
Hilarious..
You can’t do that effectively. It won’t look right. Use a different girl or get different product.
@ facade yeah you can. for a fashion show. she just has to wash it off after. it would work, for a few hours
My son has dark skin and looks just fine in bright neon colors. Sometimes it is just one person’s opinion.
You might consider what else you could do with make up to make your model an artistic statement. Since this is haute couture you can go for all sorts of effects with make-up, like this or this or even something as far out as this.
Michele Obama likes to wear green and it looks good on her.
And here are a couple of other dark-skinned models (one of whom is Iman) in a bright green dress.
And this girl doesn’t look too bad.
And even Rhianna goes for neon green sometimes.
Quite frankly, haute couture isn’t about making someone look pretty; it is about making an artistic statement, like this.
@Darwin I know it isn’t about making someone look pretty but we just saw that the greens(yes, plural, different green) that we bought didn’t look that great on her.
Maybe the way we saw it at that time it looks awful but we just have to wait and see how she really looks in the whole haute couture piece.
Also consider the lighting on the runway. It may affect how things look.
There is make-up for burn victims and people with bad scars that has very good coverage. we used to sell it at Bloomingdale’s don’t know if hey do now, but you can probably google related words and find it. Short of that Chanel has a very heavy coverage foundation that is very good with Lancome Dual Finish on top you should easily be able to lighten skin two shades. But, I will say that coming from the fashion world I think it unnecesary to change your models skin color.
How odd, I usually find that brighter colors look better on darker skin. The contrast can be striking, and it seems that the undertones of darker skin aren’t as inflexible as those of paler skin.
I agree with @Darwin that your judgment should only be based on how it looks under the actual lighting and set that will be used for the show.
Maybe, the Michael Jackson family could advise you.
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