White Face Makeup experiment

In class, we tried out different ways to create a white face using the foundations we were given in our kit.

We had Illamasqua Skin base in 01, Kryolan Aqua Colour and Kryolan Supra Colour. We worked in a group of 3, we used Illamasqua on one girl and did a half and half face comparison of the two Kryolan foundations. This is what I thought..

Illamasqua Skin Base in 01:

I thought that this foundation was really easy to apply, it didn't go on dry or streaky and it was good to blend to the skin. We applied it with a Zoeva rose gold brush which was like a rounded buffing brush. We didn't use a primer on the skin before hand so the skin looked a little dry. The bad thing about this product was that it doesn't build up, the colour stays the same and only the coverage built up.

Kryolan Aqua Colour:

Out of all three foundations, this was the worst one I found. When applying it, it went on really streaky and when you tried to apply more product over it, it went patchy. I found that this foundation was more for applying small detail to the face rather than for the whole face as a base. This product was very white and it looked almost like a face paint.

Kryolan Supra Colour:

This product was quite easy to apply, I thought it was easy to build up the layers on the face as well. The good thing about it was that it doesn't go patchy on the face unlike the aqua colour, it only goes patchy if you buff it into the skin but I don't like doing that technique anyway. This shade of foundation isn't too face paint like and it isn't too light either.

(Aqua colour on right and Supra colour on left)

Out of all the foundations, I think my favourite one to use for Elizabethan face makeup is the Kryolan Supra Colour as the Illamasqua Skin Base is too light looking on the face and doesn't have a full coverage look to it and the Kryolan Aqua Colour was too face paint like on the face and too bright but the Supra Colour was the perfect colour for an Elizabethan style. This product was also the easiest of all the three to build up layers and was the least likely to go patchy. To achieve a full coverage look, you can use a flat foundation brush to paint it on the skin.