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Cream vs Powder Contour: Differences, Benefits & How to Choose the Right Sculpting Products for Your Skin

Cream or powder contour – which one is right for you? With the cream sculpting comeback in full swing, it’s easy to feel unsure about when to choose a creamy, skin-like sculpt or a matte powder contour.

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Dewy vs. Oily Skin: How to Set Sculpt & Glow for a Radiant, Shine-Controlled Finish

For oily and combination skin types it’s still possible to achieve a dewy radiance without it looking greasy. Many with oily skin worry creams will slide or add more shine to the skin surface.

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Glow That Lasts: Our Global Head of Make-up’s Experience with High Glow

When Kryolan set out to create High Glow, they aimed to redefine the highlighter game with a product that delivers all-day radiance and a glossy, luminizing finish.

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What’s the Difference? Cream Blush vs. Powder Blush and Why You Should Use What

Choosing between cream and powder blush can make all the difference in your make-up look, and each has its own benefits depending on the effect you’re going for, your skin type, and the occasion. Let’s dive into the key differences and when you might want to reach for one over the other.

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Why Cream Blush Is the Secret Weapon for Flawless, Natural-Looking Skin on Set and in Everyday Life

In the world of make-up, certain products stand out for their ability to deliver that elusive, flawless, natural-looking glow. For make-up artists working on photo shoots or women looking to simplify their everyday beauty routine, Cream Blush is a top pick—and for good reason!

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Double-Duty Beauty: Using Cream Blush for Both Lips and Cheeks in Pro Make-up

When it comes to achieving a fresh, natural look with minimal products and effort, Cream Blush is truly a multitasking hero. Not only does it give that beautiful warm glow on the cheeks, but it also doubles as a lip color!

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Pro-Approved: Mastering the Art of Seamless Blending with Cream Blush

You’ve decided to embrace the glow-from-within magic of Cream Blush— Now, let’s take your skills to the next level with blending techniques that will give you that professional, smooth-satin finish.

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Kryolan Blood Q&A

It's time to give Kryolan blood the honor it deserves and dedicate an in-depth Q&A to it. Our SFX designer Gregor Knape has already done make-up for film productions and explains in more detail which blood is best suited to use.

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How to color silicone parts

One processing advantage of silicone, namely that it hardly bonds with other materials, is a major issue when coloring the finished parts: hardly any paint lasts on the cast parts. What does not apply to encapsulated prosthetics, where you paint the capsule film (e.g., made of Syncap) quickly becomes a problem with cast body parts made of firmer silicone.

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Where to place Highlighter, Blush, and Bronzer?

Applying blusher, highlighter and bronzer correctly

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Most common blush mistakes and how to avoid them

What are the typical mistakes when applying blush? We explain the biggest pitfalls and how you can avoid them.

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Eye Hacks Q&A

We asked our experts all around the world and collected some interesting eye hacks for you.

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Which Blush for which skin tone?

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Eyebrow Q&A

As we have pointed out in our brow history, the definition of perfect eyebrows is always also a reflection of the specific time. In recent years, the trend has been towards naturalness with a slight tendency towards bushier brows. But even if trends play an important role, a perfect brow is always an individual decision.

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Last-Minute Easy Halloween Make-up: Spider and Clown Look

We’ve all been there: the date has been in your diary for weeks. Somehow, you’ve managed to get to the Halloween party, but you’ve had no time to plan your look! Halloween literally creeps up on us each year, and whether it’s a last-minute decision to go out to a theme night or you simply haven’t had the time to order in a costume – don’t panic; we’ve got you covered!

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Fake Wounds Special Effects Make-up for Halloween

Preparing a real-looking wound isn't as hard as many might think. Especially as an SFX make-up artist to-be or a Halloween junkie, it's a super skill set to convince others with your talent. We will show you how to make up two different types of real-looking wounds with different products.

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Halloween Make-up Tutorial with a Face Mask

Since last year we all know the problem: an event or party is coming up, but nothing is working without a face mask – for your own protection but also for the protection of others. Now Halloween is very close and you are worrying that no make-up would suit to a face mask?

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Primer Q&A

A good primer can really boost your make-ups appearance to the next level, making you look flawless like using a filter in daily life. We asked our Kryolan experts on everything related to primers – from finding the right one to the best application technique and even if you really need a primer.

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How to get perfect
shaped Eyebrows

Are natural eyebrows perfect eyebrows? Not quite, but very close. Eyebrows are often too light, too bushy, or even too narrow by nature so that they do not perfectly round off the overall impression of the face. The starting color and shape and your natural facial features play a decisive role in the perfect brow.

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Multi Priming: How to use Primer for Combination Skin

In one of our last blog articles, we explained everything about face primer and showed you how to apply it correctly. We also introduced you to our two new Digital Complexion Primers - one for dry skin and one for oily skin. Now we'll dive deeper into the topic and introduce you to an often-underestimated face priming technique called multi priming.

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The History of Eyebrows from the 1920s until Today

Each decade has its own typical eyebrow style. Every make-up enthusiast can tell just by looking at brows in which decade the photo was taken. While women in the 1920s had very thin, long, and downward-shaped eyebrows, the trend went back to the natural look for ladies already in the 1940s.

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Dewy Skin Make-up Tutorial
by MUA Paul Merchant

Dewy skin is originally a make-up trend from Korea. It means to give your eyes, cheeks, lips, or cupid bow a high-gloss, wet-look appearance. Especially in the summer months, this make-up trend always has a revival as it makes your skin appear fresh without it looking like being oily – at least that’s what everyone is trying to achieve.

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How to Lip Gloss

We love lip gloss! It forgives small mistakes, can even be applied without a mirror, and makes the lips instantly look juicy, moisturized, and – if it contains plumping ingredients – even fuller.

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Zonnebrand èn Make-up - Alles wat je moet weten

Laten we het hebben over zonbescherming en make-up. De zon zorgt voor een mooie kleur en voor ons lichaam essentiële Vitamine D, maar zij kan ook een grote bedreiging zijn.

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How to Beach: Glow Make-up –
Look like you have spent the day at the beach

Especially during summer times, we wish our skin to look like we have spent days at the beach, wanting that summer glow. But as not everyone is blessed to live next to the seaside or go on summer vacation every year, a beach glow can also be achieved by simply using make-up.

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Color Theory - Advanced

When it comes to make-up it’s easy to forget the importance of the science behind it all when distracted by the latest release of glitzy pigments or fad applicators. Don’t get us wrong, there’s definitely room for all of that, too! However, nothing is more important than understanding color.

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Set. Fix. Blot.

When it comes to powder it can get confusing to know what to use and when. There are so many variants when selecting which powder is suitable. We want to break them down for you and explain all the options and their particular unique functions.

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Dermacolor D31 + D32

There are many multifunctional products within our range. Two particular icons are from the Dermacolor Camouflage collection. Dermacolor Camouflage Creme D31 and D32 are shades predominantly used for color correction, they are crucial in achieving the impression of realistic skin during the cosmetic camouflage process.

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Skin Tones

For many make-up artists, one of the most exciting discoveries on their professional journey is the moment they can truly identify the full range of hues in every individual’s skin tone and undertone – it’s only then they can understand the distinct differences between the two, and why it’s crucial to get this right.

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Color Theory - Beginner

Colors… or your brain’s interpretation of assorted frequency light waves hitting your eyes… are our world at Kryolan. Our scientists’ work with over 170 pure pigments to bring you every shade you could possibly need.

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Going Bald

Gone are the days of pre-conceived ideology that bald caps are used to simply make a person look older. Bald caps have now become a technique of make-up artistry not confined to theatrical and aging constraints.

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Color Correction

Mastering color correction is fundamental for any professional MUA, and without a good understanding of color theory, you simply can’t correct. Color correction uses the basis of color theory to rectify discoloration, and therefore, the opposites on a color wheel will counteract each other.