Makeup artist Eryn Halpern shows how to do camera-ready makeup at home with just six colors and a few core products. She walks through concealer, a three-shade eyeshadow method, eyeliner, mascara, and blush, emphasizing blending and keeping it simple for any skin tone.
Hey there, Paula Rizzo here, and I'm joined by my friend and makeup artist, Eryn Halpern. We worked together for years at Fox News Channel, and she has graciously agreed to do a little demo for us and show us how to do makeup now that everybody is working from home and doing lots and lots of video. So she's gonna help us to see how, how to best look on camera. So Eryn, thank you for doing this with us. This will be fun.
My pleasure, nice to be here. I have a little model here that I'm going to do a quick demo for you. Just the basic things you should have in your kit before you get on camera. So I'm going to get off the seat and put the model on. Alison, you want to join us?
Perfect. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. All right, Irene, so tell us, what are you going to do here?
We're going to start as we talked. With the concealer, we are going to— close your eyes— we are going to block the eyelid first. And you know what, do it nicely, and especially also in the corners here. So you want to cover everything and start with a clean palette. As you can see, this is nice and clear, and this one has her skin tone still on it. Then we are going to use only, you know, basic colors, 3 basic colors that everybody should have in their kit. Something light, a medium tone, and a dark tone. You need only 3 things to work with. You take the light color first and you just apply it all over the eyes. This way powder on powder glides on better when it comes to the shadows. Next, you take the medium color and You just apply it into the crease. If you don't know where your crease is, open your eyes. The crease is right here where her eyes is open. You want to stay up with the color and then stay in this corner. You don't want to go further down because then you are going to close your eyes more. Third color Is the darker one. You go in the dark, go on the tissue a little bit, and apply it in the corner here. Take your brush, just blend everything in. And lastly is the eyeliner. I usually like to start in the outer corner, a little bit up, and just go in halfway, and then very close to her lash line. You want to come back, join the colors together, and then take a slanted brush and just smooth it out. You can also take whatever is left on the brush, look up to the ceiling, and just use it very lightly underneath to frame the eyes. Look up. Take a Q-tip and just smooth it out. Next is mascara, and you want to make sure you get the mascara all the way to the bottom. And just work it up. She is blessed with very nice long lashes. Now concealer, you want to take the concealer, if you have a brush even better, and then you, you take the brush or a sponge and just go really nicely. If you end up with shadows underneath, clean up first and then go back. You can use the concealer here, you can use it around the lips a little bit to bring light to the mouth. And then if you don't have a foundation, you can also— and you are not a foundation person, you can always use these powders. They give you a little bit finish. A lot of companies have it. MAC has it, Lancôme has it, and it's very easy. If you don't want to take a sponge to go in and make it blotchy, just go into colors and just brush it on. It gives you a nice clean finish without being too much foundationy. If you have blemishes, you can cover with the with the concealer and just go over it. And now you have a nice clean finish.
It looks great. That looks great. And you can really see the difference between the two eyes. I mean, look at the big difference. Just in a short while.
Come a little closer.
Yeah, it looks fabulous.
And she's done. She's ready for camera. She needs a little bit lip gloss. We can put a little lip gloss on her. She's ready to go.
Perfect.
And if you are going to use a blush, which I do all the time, I would say get a softer tone. I have— I only work with 6 colors, no matter what skin tone you are. This you can use for any women of any color, from, you know, the lightest to the darkest. Go into the color, shake it off., and this is where you want to apply the color. Turn your face toward here. Where this is, you want to stay up. You go like this and then stay up with the color. Turn this way, smile. From the apple of the cheeks going up. And she's done.
Beautiful, it looks great.
Thank you.
Yeah, amazing. Well, thank you. Thank you for sitting in for us. Everyone, if you want to take another seat and we'll just say goodbye. But this was awesome and so quick. I mean, that's the thing. I always thought like, oh, doing makeup is so hard.
It's—
there's a skill to it. But if you have to do it yourself, you could get by, you know, it's not like I'm, you know, I was always very intimidated by the colors or what do I pick, but you know, you've made it really, really easy to be able to say, hey, you really only need 3 colors. To, you know, and you can use it on any face really.
Absolutely. Just take the time to blend it. The key is blending. You don't want to have a block of color, but as long as it's well blended, you do a liner that is nice and clean, lots of mascara, a little bit under the eyes, your eyes is framed, you're good to go.
Amazing. Thank you, Irene. I appreciate it.
My pleasure.
