Showing posts with label how to cover a tattoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to cover a tattoo. Show all posts

Monday, April 23, 2012

How to Cover a Tattoo

I recently started QC Makeup Academy, and one of the assignments was to cover up a blemish. As I cover up blemishes on my own face everyday, I thought something a little more challenging would be in order and asked my friend Julie to let me try and cover her tattoo.

The tattoo:




Step One

I first primed the area and used a light colored cream concealer from my Make Up For Ever palette. This takes the edge off the dark colors though you can still see the outline pretty clearly.



Step Two
On top of the cream concealer, I stippled Kat Von D's Tattoo concealer in several layers. This largely covered the tattoo, but you could still very faintly see it so I decided to use a third step.


Step Three

Lastly, I sprayed it with my Dinair airbrush machine using the special paramedical solution and tried to blend the area so that it wasn't an obvious patch of concealer.


After: