Rosacea & make-up?

[Tiffany Dawson]

Hi Guys,

I have a lady for bridal make-up this weekend.

She has really bad Rosacea, with bumps all over her face. She wants it covered up without looking cakey, I am struggling to find products that work really well.

Obviously it is too late for skincare etc to help improve the rosacea. Can anyone recomend: primers, concealers, foundations etc that will help cover but without looking cakey? I think the main problem is the bumps, you can hide redness but can't get rid of the texture :/

Thanks,

Tiffany

 

[Lady Murasaki]

In all honesty she should of been referred to a camouflage makeup artsit/practitioner who specialises in this type of makeup application and with bad rosacea.

As some who specialises in this area myself normal makeup will not cover the redness for longer periods of time and it does make the bumps look worse on some occasions.

 

[Tiffany Dawson]

Hi Lady Murasaki,

Thanks for the honesty. Do you have any advice as the wedding is this weekend so she has no other option other than to continue with my services.

 

[Tiffany Dawson]

Bump

 

[mollie1985]

I applied a clients make up at the weekend who suffered slightly from this, I applied a green based concealer to the area first x

 

[Sharkster]

Hi Tiffany,

I'm really hoping that the job went ok this weekend?

Did you not cover all this at the trial and find suitable products then?

In all honesty, if this is a job that is outside of your area of training and expertise you should refer it to a more experienced artist or just flatly turn it down and admit that you don't have the product or experience. I'm sorry if that's not what you want to hear but I'm not going to start cutting or colouring someone's hair when I've only been trained to put it up.

I really don't mean to be harsh but if this is a job you want to do then learn by this and go and get some good training and practice. I'm really not trying to be mean, I'm just being honest. I've totally fucked up in the past but it taught me to work within my limits and train in what I need to and not just blag it.

Hopefully you were resourceful and pulled it off so the wedding went well and the bride was happy. So take what I say on the chin and go learn your craft.

 

[Tiffany Dawson]

It went much better than expected. The client was really happy with the result and so was I. I think I'm going to do some training in specialist camouflage make-up for skin conditions. If anyone can recommend some courses that would be great.