Hello, I'm Roger Bennett Riggle license and professional make-up artist. Today we are showing you how easy and effective it is to apply airbrush make-up and now I'm going to show you how the airbrush works.
The airbrush does work off of electricity so it just has a simple electrical cord that you plug into the wall. There is also a battery pack available that you can wear on your belt let’s say if you need to use the airbrush filming a jungle scene and you are in the jungle. So it can work off of battery as well.
This is the compressor and it basically has diaphragm in it that goes back and forth very quickly and creates air pressure. And the air pressure runs through the hose and into the bottom of the gun. Okay and this screws on here and screws on here when you want to transport the airbrush.
Inside of the airbrush is a needle and this is the pistol that controls the needle. So the pistol actually moves the needle backward so you can have a small amount of air going through there and the more you pull it back the more air and the more make-up that sprays out of the gun. This is the cup to put the make-up into the foundation make-up and this is the cup that goes on top of that cup which has a hole in it that allows the air to flow through it, and that is just a safety feature so you don’t spill the make-up on yourself or on the client.
There's a protective tip on the needle that you just use when you're storing it and this is basically the head of the airbrush and you can feel the tip of the needle coming actually out of that little, little tiny hole.
Okay I’ll show you how the airbrush works with witch hazel. Witch hazel is a natural astringent, this is what we use to thin down the make-up because witch hazel dries very, very quickly, and it really helps to hold the foundation onto the face. So I'm going to turn on the airbrush there's a little turn on valve right here and I'm going to take a little of the witch hazel and I'm going to pour it into the top cup. Okay. I won't put the cup on it right now because I can hold and control it and I'm going to show you—this maybe hard for you to see but I'm going to show you that if you just press this pistol you can feel the air coming out but you don’t have any make-up coming out yet. And you pull that pistol back you can hear and I feel the spray and the more I pull it back the more air and foundation actually flows out through that brush and I can feel it on my hand. And this is how I normally test the airbrush just to make sure that it’s working properly.
The next thing that I do is to check the viscosity of the foundation. This is a water-base foundation and you don’t really have to hold your breath or anything while the airbrush make-up is being sprayed unto your face or you're applying your own. And we watered it down with the witch hazel when it’s necessary. Checking the viscosity is really pretty easy because you’ll get use to how it actually works.
I'm going to pour a little of this foundation make-up on my hand just a couple of drops and I turn my hand this way and when it drips like that really without dripping and falling to the floor it is really the right consistency. So I know that this make up now is the right consistency and that I do not have to dilute it down. Before you airbrush you want to make sure you shake your foundation very, very well. A sterling silver ball is included in the make-up so that it stirs the make-up extremely well because there is some settling of the make-up while it sits in the bottom. So you want to make sure that stirred up very, very well.
By the way these foundations do come in an assortment of colors from very, very light all the way down to darker pigment tones for dark skinned people. Okay, the next thing we will do is actually show how to prep the client and to spray on the make-up and to show you really how easy it is to do.
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