So these days I?m a little bit married to my skincare favourites ? it takes quite a bit for a new entrant to muscle its way into my makeup kit. You have to test it, first on yourself, then on a few shoots, then on a few more and most of the time they don?t make the final cut.
Not so Alpha H?s Liquid Gold, which I?ve been using more and more lately. It?s a liquid glycolic acid skin polisher, which I?m starting to swear by as part of my skin prep on jobs. I first came across it some time ago through the UK makeup artist Kenneth Soh
Models always look like they have amazing skin, don?t they" Well I?ll tell you a secret ? they often don?t. That?s what makeup is for! Quite often models have the same skin concerns that the rest of us do ? spots, hormonal breakouts, hyper pigmentation, excessive oiliness, excessive dryness, rosacea ? you name it, makeup artists have to deal with it. One of the trickiest things is when a model doesn?t take good care of her skin and it?s all weirdly dry yet congested, and a big part of the problem is that just don?t exfoliate enough. Before Liquid Gold I?d use a YSL or a Dermalogica scrub ? I?m talking a full facial with hot water, applying the product, buffing it off and then clearing all the product off to leave baby soft skin beneath. This works really well but does take quite awhile, which so often you don?t have on a hectic day?s shoot. Now I keep a bottle of Liquid Gold in my skincare bag, and actually pretty much everyone who sits in my ...