Senior Makeup Guide

All Senior students must use spray tan, to ensure your skin looks good under the stage lights, go for a natural colour a couple of shades darker than your normal colour. Go for a natural look. Please Avoid orange!!

    1. Foundation: Starting with a clean face apply and blend foundation to the outer edges of the face. For the stage it is recommended that the shade used is 1-2 shades dark er than your natural skin tone, this will ensure your face looks natural unde r the strong stage lights.
    2. Powder: To ensure shine free long wear, apply translucent powder over foundation with a large powder brush. Please ensure that this is translucent powder and not pressed or tinted powder. Lightly apply bronzing powder to your face-forehead cheeks and chin, think of applying in the shape of the number 3. This will start to give your face definition.
    3. Blusher: A guide to blusher shades for the stage is more brick than pink/red. Use a good quality blusher brush a apply the colour in a few light layers, as it is easier to build up colour than to remove excess and start over. Smile and apply blusher on the apples of the cheeks, blend up towards the hairline then downwards to soften the effect. Finally apply a shimmer powder or highlight er powder on the top of the cheekbones.
    4. Eyeshadow: Use a natural shades eg light brown or golden sand, and sweep it over the entire lid from lash line to brow bone. Then dust a light medium brown on the lower lid from the lashline to the crease. Finish with a darker brown at the outer edge and along the crease, using a large eyeshadow brush to blend. You can get a single pallet with these shades in.
    5. Eyeliner: Dancers of all ages need eyeliner to define there eyes and make them stand out on stage. The eyeliner shade MUST be black. Use a pencil or gel eyeliner and line the upper lash line. Then line the lower lash line, this is better done with a pencil, making sure the lines meet at the outer corner of the eye. If you are using a pencil please make sure you bring a sharpener with it.
    6. False eyelashes: All seniors MUST wear false eyelashes, this will make your eyes stand out on stage. Size A is the size most commonly used, you can get them from chemists, or even Energetiks in Essendon. The most commonly used brand is Manicare, but there are plenty of others. The lashes don't need to be overly thick and long.
    7. Mascara: Finish the eyes off with a couple of coats of Black mascara.
    8. Lipstick: A guide for shades that work well on the stage is to go for a colour that is more maroon or brick than orange, it suits all the girls and looks completely natural on stage. Use a lip brush to apply a coat of lipstick, blot with a tissue, then apply a second coat to ensure it lasts.
    9. General:
      • Hair must be in a bun. Please use natural or clear hair ties and pins together with lots of hairspray.
      • Almost all of this available at the supermarket, quite inexpensively.
      • Shoes:
        • Cabaret- camel chorus heel or cabaret shoes
        • Ballet-Normal ballet shoes / Pointe
        • Tap-Tan tap shoes
        • Jazz-Black split sole jazz shoes
      • Tights: Tan dance stocking or for ballet pink ballet tights, these must be purchased