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The basics of color are essential for you, as a professional Makeup Artist, to know and understand. You will use this knowledge in every makeup you do. There will be countless times when color issues come up that you will have to be able to problem solve.

You cannot problem solve unless you understand color and its functions. The wrong color choice can change everything about what you as an artist are trying to say with makeup.

Color understanding is used to create mood, to enhance skin tone and character design, and to correct environmental issues such as lighting and mixing of pigments.

Artists can—and often do—select many palettes, ...

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