portfolio building

Your portfolio will get you clients and work, with out a portfolio you will not be able to display your work and advertise yourself.  here as are hint and tips on creating a successful portfolio:

Portfolio Building

—  A poorly presented portfolio will not do justice to the hours you’ll spend doing make-up

—  A professional portfolio will reflect your ability to present yourself in an organised manner – no-one wants to look at a messy unstructured and cluttered portfolio

—  Spend time and put thought into the presentation of your work as you’ll be able to use it for future employment

Design Planning – Make-up Plans

—  Your make-up applications need to be recorded onto make-up plans

—  This will provide a reference on how the make-up was designed, planned and applied

—  It will include a face chart that will be coloured in showing the make-up style and you can use colouring pencils or actual make-up to do this

—  It will include a resource list of the products and the colours that were used

Photographic Evidence

—  Your make-up designs will need to be recorded as a series of photographs

1.       Before Photo

2.       Finished Front on

3.       Finished Sides

4.       Finished Specific Elements, i.e., eyes open and closed

Record of Techniques

—  You will need to record a step-by-step process of how you applied specific make-up styles

—  This will include the products that you used, the tool that you applied it with and the technique that you used (for example):

1.       I applied a Ben Nye Matte HD Foundation to the face and neck using a latex wedge in a stippling movement

2.       The foundation was set with a Grimas Translucent powder using a velour powder puff

Presentation of Your Portfolio

—  You’ll need to purchase a White lever-arch ring binder

—  You’ll also need:

v  Plastic Wallets

v  A4 Card to stick your photos onto

v  Glue Stick

v  Small sticky labels for page numbering

—  Additional items that you’ll need will be:

v  Colouring pencils

v  White Paper to use for make-up plans and other records

Keep your Portfolio up to date and it will build itself!!!