Paint Realistic Eye Makeup in Photoshop Using Actual Makeup Artist Principles

Paint Realistic Eye Makeup in Photoshop Using Actual Makeup Artist Principles

I do a lot of portrait retouching. Skin cleanup, dodging and burning, the occasional dramatic color grade. But for years, whenever a client asked me to “add some makeup” to a shot, I’d fumble around with a brush tool, slap some color on a normal layer, and wonder why it looked like I’d painted the model’s face with Microsoft Paint. Which, yes, I have experience with. It wasn’t pretty. The real problem wasn’t the tools.