How To Build A Professional Makeup Kit Effectively And Efficiently

Professional Make-up kit is defined as a kit which will never be enough no matter how much you invest. Market is filled with 100s of brands with 1000s of makeup products and I must say they are getting better and finer in every passing year.

If you want to setup your professional make-up kit then I am assuming you are a makeup artist who going to be working professionally.

There is a lot that can be discussed about Professional Makeup kit however in this article we will stick with the basics and categorize the kit with some brand recommendation that we believe will give you the professional edge.

1. Skin Prep Related

Even before you begin makeup you need to prepare the skin for it and this is an extremely important step which will decide the overall finish of your work. You must carry top quality moisturizer for all the skin types (Dry, Oily or Combination), you may also want to carry serum, vitamin E based cream, under eye cream and rose water. This gives you a fresh kick start of your session, a good skin ensures quality makeup outcomes. This is specially crucial for bridal makeup services.

Brand Recommendation: Cetaphil, Body shop vitamin e cream, smashbox face serum, Neutrogena toner

2. Primer & Base

  • You need a minimum 3 kinds of primer – for oily skin, dry skin and of course for minimizing the pores.
  • Correcting stick or you can have a correcting and concealing palette

Brand Recommendation: Smashbox pore minimizing primer, photo finish, oil control primer

3. Foundation

  • Minimum shades of foundation and concealer (this should of a good quality HD brands) Foundation as the name suggest is going to be decisive factor of the quality of makeup you will be delivering.
  • Selecting the foundation shade is very important, you need to understand your region, what kind of common skin tones you find in your area at large. However keep in mind if you are in a metro city then you may get combination of all tones as people across country are settled. Also consider what is the bridal makeup trend in your sub region and what clients prefer.
  • Maintain a minimum stock of commonly used shades.

Brand Recommendation: MAC studio fix, Too faced, HUDA Beauty

4. Concealer

• One correcting stick or you can have a correcting and concealing palette

Brand Recommendation: MAC concealer and correcting palette, HUDA beauty

5. Setting Powder

• Banana power is very important, even if you keep one setting powder it’s more than enough.

• Pressed powder , how can we forget that , it’s to give more coverage and it controls oil and helps to give a finished look

Brand Recommendation: HUDA Beauty (Banana Bread), MAC: Studio fix foundation powders (keep all minimum 5 to 6 shades as per your foundation shades)

6. Contouring, Highlighting and Blush Related

Again contouring one department that you need to understand depending on your client’s demand. Contouring can be extremely important however there are clients who may not understand or may not be comfortable, irrespectively you should keep one medium shade, cream base foundation stick or concealer and top it with a bronzer to give an natural finish

As far as Blush goes which adds life to your makeup, you must keep a minimum of two shades which is sufficient – pink and peach. Definitely do not forget the highlighter which is a finisher and gives your client a photo finish.

Brand Recommendation:

Contour: HUDA, MAC

Bronze: MAC, Too faced

Blush: MAC skin finish, Jeffrey star cosmetics

7. Eye Makeup Related

  • For Eye Palette you must have at least two pallets, one with all fresh and bold colors and other one should be consisting of neutral colors. This will cater all your needs.
  • Carry black, brown, blue eye liners, you can also create liners of your choice by having colored eye pencils.
  • You must also have a brow gel, brow pomade & brow pencil for that perfect and neat finish.

Brand Recommendation:

Eye Palette: HUDA beauty rose gold palette & Nude palette by The Balm cosmetics.

Liner : Inglot (Black) , colour eye pencils – Color bar

Brows : MAC , NYX

8. Lips Related

Keep an empty palette and depot all your lipsticks , doing this will save your space and your makeup kit will be manageable , this will help you to mix colors and use the colors in a right way , which will suit on your clients face.

When it comes to liquid lipsticks then you need to have few especially red, pink, peach and nude

Brand Recommendation:

MAC, Huda beauty

9. Setting Spray

Setting spray will set your makeup and keep your makeup for longer hours

Brand Recommendation :

MAC , Urban decay , NYX

10. Tools

A complete set of pro Brushes, blender, lash curler, cotton buds, tissue paper, cotton pads, Makeup removers, sanitizer , face mask , ring light and makeup chair is a must for a premium makeup artist to be working with a client.

Hopefully now you have a good idea what makeup artists needs to have in her/his professional makeup kit. Do not get overwhelmed with number of makeup products in the market. If you are a professional makeup artist then you must procure makeup products considering your accounts book.

Do not buy products in bulk, they have expiry date and second you never know when the prices will be slashed down and you will be cursing the moment you decided to spend all your hard earned money over a flashy advertisement.

Keep yourself current with the makeup trends and fall in the line.

All the best for your new project!

Frequently Asked Question

How many types of primers should makeup artist carry?

You need a minimum 3 kinds of primer – for oily skin, dry skin and of course for minimizing the pores.

Why is selecting foundation shade important for makeup artists?

Selecting the foundation shade is very important, you need to understand your region, what kind of common skin tones you find in your area at large. However keep in mind if you are in a metro city then you may get combination of all tones as people across country are settled. Also consider what is the bridal makeup trend in your sub region and what clients prefer.

What is the use of setting spray?

Setting spray will set your makeup and keep your makeup for longer hours