I love doing a full glamor look, but it legit takes me like 2-2.5 hours. My eyes alone take an hour. I used to only do makeup for special occasions but lately I’ve wanted to do it more frequently or daily. 2-2.5 hours a day on makeup seems crazy. Do I just need to keep practicing to get faster, or is it normal for big looks to take a long time?
It makes a big difference.
My makeup all fits in a bag thats basically 5x8". I actually put the makeup away the same every time too. Liquids & creams laying down like pencils in a case, and the powders all stacked together at the “head of the bed”.
So literally, when it’s makeup time… it’s like setting the table for dinner. Everything has a spot.
To find a good system for yourself, start with everything off to the left side, and as you use items… line them up on the right.
So for me, the first thing I use is my beauty blender and foundation. So those get picked ip from the jumble, and placed as the “line leaders” on the right.
The beauty blender will become where I put the brushes, the foundation will become where I put the makeup.
Usually my next step is contour, so the brush and powder go from the jumble on the left to the lineup on the right. The contour brush next to the beauty blender, the powder next to the concealer.
Just keep doing that until you have a tidy line up of each brush and each makeup & your facd is done. Any products or brushes that you didn’t use goes away to the storage drawer.
If it’s brush cleaning day, I clean my brushes (rubbing alcohol and swirling on makeup wipes), then leave them out to dry. Otherwise they go right back in the brushes bag. Makeup goes into the makeup bag.
Then depending on where I’m going to be that week, the bags go in a plastic shoebox on my desk shelf, or they go in my work backpack.