How To: Light a portrait for photography
Portraits come in all shapes and sizes, but follow a few basic guidelines and you'll set the scene for a beautiful and professional shot.
Portraits come in all shapes and sizes, but follow a few basic guidelines and you'll set the scene for a beautiful and professional shot.
This how-to video shows a colorful rainbow look, for high drama or even just for cheer and kicks. Use these cosmetics or similar colors and textures for comparable results: MAC shade stick beige-ing, MAC pro pigments: true chartreuse, primary yellow, chrome yellow, genuine orange, marine ultra, and clear sky blue, La Femme red blush, MAC orange e/s, MAC grape pigment, MAC parfait amour e/s, MAC ricepaper e/s, Make up for ever glitter, MAC mixing medium for face and body, MAC pro gloss in viol...
This makeup how-to video shows a fast and simple way to achieve a flawless, luminous complexion and bright eyes! The tips are specifically geared toward Asian girls with monolids or eyes with small creases. The cosmetics used to create this look are Smashbox Photo Finish Primer, The Body Shop Glow Enhancer #1, Sephora Concealer Palette Kit, Maybelline Matte Mousse Foundation in Nude, The Make Up Store Duo Creme Blush in Shine, UDPP, Hard Candy in Fringe #4, Hard Candy in Suede #4, Lancome Tre...
The colors demonstrated in this how-to video are especially flattering on brown eyes and making them pop. Use Pur Minerals's color correcting primer in peach, 4 in 1 pressed mineral makeup in medium dark, mineral split plan in mineral glow/mineral light, blush in plum adalite, universal pencil in natural (eyebrows), eye prep, beauty in numbers eyeshadow palette: numbers 10, 8, 3, MAC kohl power pencil in feline, Revlon Colorstay liquid liner in blackest black, Model Co. lashes, MAC zoomlash m...
This video demonstrates how to make natural fiber rope using Douglas iris, a plant which is found along the Pacific coast from Santa Barbara from to Oregon. Before beginning, you should know that Douglas iris is poisonous when eaten, but it should be safe when you are handling it. The plant blooms every spring and dies every winter and has a brighter green color on top and a duller green towards the stalk, with a dark purple tint near the roots. You should collect plants which have died from ...
Natural cures are usually the best cures. Aloe vera gel is used to cure huge burns, scrapes, and even puncture wounds. But the best use of it is to "cure" those breakouts! This video will show you exactly how to treat those facial outbreaks with pure, all natural aloe vera gel.
Youtipis4u has come up with a few tips to reduce your menstrual pain in a natural way. Many of us ladies opt for painkillers or other medicines to reduce menstrual discomfort. Here is a way that is natural and has no side-effects. One of them is raspberry tea leaves. During the menstrual days, we can opt for a raspberry leaf tea instead of a normal one. Raspberry leaves relax uterine muscles. That way, uterine contractions reduce and hence the pain decreases. This tea is perfectly harmless, h...
Apply foundation in a shade close to your natural skin color or slightly darker. Make sure it is even and smooth. It is very important to remember when sculpting your face with makeup that highlight creates the illusion of an area coming out, while shadow causes it to recede. Both are necessary to create authentic looking wrinkles. Using a fine-tipped brush and dark brown cream makeup, carefully trace the natural lines on your face (around mouth, eyes and forehead) and neck. If you have no wr...
Relieve symptoms of indigestion and hear burn with some simple remedies. You Will Need:
Clean your basement like a champ. The hardest part of cleaning a basement is working around all that stuff you’ve stuck down there. This game plan will help. Check out this Howcast video tutorial on how to clean your basement.
I will Show you in this Video How I dust my Ends... PLEASE NOTE:
If you look at the label on your favorite processed snack, there's a good chance you have no idea what half the ingredients are. It's nothing new, but with natural and organic foods becoming huge trends, we're hyper-aware of all the "chemicals" we eat.
Hello! Today I would like to share the process of making your own natural marigold cream. The product does not contain any (artificial) chemical elements and therefore can be called natural. Step 1: Ingredients
P!nk's new music video for "F**kin' Perfect" may veer on the sad, angry side, but her makeup is all feminine and chic.
Tinting your eyebrows is unlike drawing your brows in with pencil or shading them in with brow powder and wax. Tinting create a much softer, more diffused look that makes your brow hairs look naturally defined.
This mini class shows you how to correctly perform the backbend in yoga, which helps you restore the natural curves in your spine. It also helps energize you. Always make sure your breathing is slow and measured, and don't overextend your muscles.
Fall means an abundant supply of beautifully colored autumnal leaves, acorns, walnuts, and other nuts. Harness the natural beauty of this season and also preserve it for years to come by crafting this beautiful fall wreath.
Ear tips are a versatile part of any science fiction or fantasy costume - make yourself look like a Vulcan, elf, fae or any other creature with pointed ears. Not only are you shown how to attach the ears, you can make blend in with the skin of the wearer to look as natural as possible.
In our opinion, the best kind of curly hair is the kind that looks the most natural. So rather than tight ringlets that look like they've obviously been twirled around a curling iron, we're talking about loose, carefree waves that are slightly undone.
This may not work for everyone, since each person has a different pH balance. Or you may need to alter the recipe a bit. What you need is: shea butter, baking soda, corn starch, cocoa butter, Vitamin E gel caps and your favorite essential oil.
Concerned about the unpronounceable chemicals you see on tubes of toothpaste? Clean your tetth and keep your breath fresh without having to introduce unpleasant chemicals to your system! All you need is some baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, essential oils (mints are best) and a few drops of stevia (optional). Combine together, and smile! You have homemade toothpaste!
If you don't want to use toxic or environmentally unfriendly ant poisons and bug sprays to control your ant problem, you can make a greener bug repellent using household items and natural ingredients. Salt, chalk, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, white vinegar, oranges and petroleum jelly can all be used to keep ants out of your house, yard, garden or picnic.
Even if you dread lugging around an ever-increasing pile of books this fall as you return to classes, you have to admit there's one great thing about going back to school: Looking great on that first day back!
This video is not so much about the technical aspects of outdoor photography (desert photography, specifically) but rather about what to look for when taking pictures out in the wild.
Blinking is one of the most basic things that mammals do, and making your animated characters do it properly will make them look much more natural and expressive. This Flash CS5 tutorial video will show you how to make an animated character blink using movie clips. Trust us, this is definitely worth doing. People WILL notice if your characters don't blink.
How does taking photographs outside differ from taking photos inside? Well, unlike indoor photography, which boast easily adjustable artificial lighting and lighting effects, with outdoor photography the light you get is the light you use.
In this tutorial, learn all about our most controversial food dye Yellow number 5 is linked to conditions like cancer, ADHD and is believed to actually remove the essential nutrient, Zinc, from our bodies. Get all the facts about Yellow 5 and know which foods it is in. A vast majority of children's snacks contain this ingredient, so watch out! And learn what natural ingredients you can use to substitute for this artificial intruder.
Surface tools are a powerful part of 3D Studio Max, allowing the creation of more realistic textures for organic and natural forms. This video demonstrates how to use them as a part of the process of modeling a human leg. The legs may not be as important as the face models, but they are still essential to creating a good-looking figure and are a good tool for practicing the use of surface tools.
We believe that makeup is a total facial picker upper and confidence booster, but we also believe that sometimes, when a gal has to choose between getting a few extra ZZZs and putting on smokey eyes, the ZZZs have to come first.
Shirley Temple curls aren't the only way you can curl your hair. Forget those iron-fisted curls of your childhood and make your hair curly and beautiful the adult way by watching this video.
Here in civilization, any sign of a cold can be instantly erased with a trip to the doctor and the right medicine, but when you're stuck out in the wild without any pre-packed meds, you're in major trouble.
What do you do with origami flowers after you've made them and they're just sitting limply on the table? Stick them into a flower stem!
Angelina Jolie is known for her beauty.. and for dating Brad Pitt and her acting skills and saving the world one orphan at a time.. but mostly her good looks.
Knowing just the basic steps in any form of dance can get you by if you are going out to a dance club/event that plays music you have never danced to before. In any form of dance you can apply a count to as to how many steps there are to perform a basic move. To perform a basic step in salsa dancing, there is a 7 step count. Practice and you will look like a natural
In this makeup tutorial, learn how to apply the makeup look of movie character "Marla Singer", the badass chick from Fight Club, played by Helena Bonham Carter. To achieve the misty, dirty smudge look applied in this video, the following products were used:
When it comes to pest control, why work against nature when you can just as easily put it to work for you? In this insect control how-to, you'll learn how to use fossilized algae ("diatomaceous earth" for the highfalutin) to keep bugs away from your organic garden the easy, natural way.
With the average woman a 36C, it can suck being the flattest girl in the room. Here’s how to make the most of what you’ve got! You will need better posture, the right clothes, the right bra, exercise and eye shadow. Small breasts age better, so don't feel bad about your flatter chest. Use these tips to enhance your natural flat chest.
Jordan shows us a simple way to remove the red eye created by the flash of a camera using Adobe Photoshop. No matter where the red eye came from, you can remove it easily from any picture after watching this Photoshop tutorial. There are many ways to remove red eye and some are dirtier than others, but this method will give you a nice natural looking pupil in the end.
Learn detailed cone-rolling, an important skill for the hand appliance of henna. This is an fine art using natural dyes to decorate the skin.
Watch this short video on how to make pine-pitch adhesive (a natural hot-melt glue using dry/solidified pine sap as its main ingredient).