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Advanced Airbrush Art
30 clock hours
Airbrush art dates back as far as the caveman, who blew colour through hollow bones on stone surfaces, creating
textures and images for his time. Modern airbrush techniques have taken decades to evolve; from set design and
illustration, to body art and now traditional beauty makeup. This advanced method of makeup application has
evolved as the result of high definition broadcasting. HDTV, now in the forefront, has placed demands on the
makeup artist to be more precise and lighter handed in achieving the same flawless, transformative results.
In the past, television recording and broadcasting was more forgiving to the host or actor and the makeup artist.
If a little more makeup was required, one could discreetly push the envelope and no producer or viewer would have been the wiser.
With High Def being five times sharper than a regular television, this respected method is no longer an option.
Airbrushing is the tool that brilliantly meets these new requirements. It offers a natural translucency while
at the same time delivering impeccable, flawless coverage. Translucency and great coverage rarely go
hand-in-hand, but this new technology makes it possible. Airbrushing not only provides a great finish to detail;
it opens the artist up to products and formulation choices not compatible with traditional methods of application.
For example, certain airbrush foundation and eye treatment colours are too watery to work with on their own.
However, when they are thinned out even further, and blown through the airbrush gun, they take on new characteristics.
The gun consumes the tiniest, most fragile foundation molecule and oxidizes it into a high opacity. In other words, one
can wear the sheerest of sheer foundations, have a minimal amount on, and have perfect coverage. In many cases,
achieving the same coverage without the airbrush could take twice the amount of foundation.
This heavy-handedness would look contrived and artificial in a high definition setting. A skilled artist can take
the application past foundation, adding cheek, eye and brow treatments with the subtlest nuances of colour.
Although airbrushing is not the new kid on the block, it's found new ground on the beauty side of the fashion and film industry.
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