How To Keep Cosplay Makeup On Your Hands

Hi, resident beauty adept Katie here, back with a post on how to keep your cosplay makeup on all day long! If you follow these simple tips, I can assure you your makeup volition not slide off throughout the long con 24-hour interval.

Let each layer of makeup dry.

Past letting the layers of makeup set earlier applying a 2d layer, you are getting better coverage, every bit well as better staying power. If yous keep applying cream on top of moisture cream, it won't stay as well or offer the coverage/colour yous are looking for.

Waterproof makeup.

Using waterproof makeup, especially mascara, is going to assist greatly in keeping your makeup on all day. Trust me, having to scrub off the mascara at night is well worth not having raccoon eyes in photos! Also, if you are looking for an splendid mascara, I suggest 50'Oreal Double Extend Tubes. This mascara non just has incredible staying power, just to take it off, all you have to do is concord a warm washcloth over your eyes for approximately 10 seconds and the pull down. Voila! All that mascara is off! For other mascaras, I would suggest using baby oil or, of course, makeup remover.

Exercise NOT touch on your face up.

Aside from an impromptu ice saucepan challenge, the fastest way for your makeup to come off is past touching your face all day. This may seem like a no brainer, but even resting your chin on your hand, or rubbing your eyes, is a surefire way to become rid of cosplay makeup. If you absolutely MUST be touching your face, whether information technology'south a bad addiction or just function of a pose yous do, I suggest keeping a small bag with y'all for touch ups.

Continue a small bag for touch on ups with you lot.

If you lot know you will be too busy during the day to go back to your hotel room and affect up, keep a small handbag with y'all property the essentials for when your makeup starts to skid off. This doesn't accept to be a big, clunky purse by any means. Information technology merely needs to be big enough to hold some concealer, pulverization, mascara, and your lipstick. Having these three items with you lot all twenty-four hours will prevent whatever "oh my gosh, my makeup looks terrible" meltdowns.

Powder, pulverisation, Powder.

Any cream makeup y'all use MUST exist followed upwards with a powder, or else information technology volition not stay on as long. This not only applies for foundation, but past applying powder over your eyeliner or even your lipstick will go along it on much longer. For face makeup, to eliminate the look of cakiness, use a translucent powder. If yous look like Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, yous have too much powder on. As far every bit eyeliner goes, if y'all are using black, take an angled castor and utilize black pulverization over tiptop. The same goes for every other color. Finally, for lipstick, a play a trick on is to take a tissue, place it over your lips and grit powder through the tissue onto your lips.

I hope these tips helped you ready for con season! I unfortunately never really cosplay (unless you count the fourth dimension I wore a ducky necktie to DashCon), I'1000 usually too busy doing panels. But being a girl who wears a full face of makeup every day to work, I know how important it is for makeup to stay on. If you have any questions, experience free to comment and I will definitely answer those for you. Have a great twenty-four hours!

Katie is a makeup artist/blogger from the Peachy White North (AKA, proficient ol' Canada). She spends her time creating YouTube videos, writing about anything that crosses her mind, and living vicariously through episodes How I Met Your Female parent. Y'all tin can check out her videos here. Other Social Media: You can find besides Katie on Twitter and at her Web log.