Best make up for ballet (dd 3)

[Nicpem1982]

My dd is due to be in a dance show, we've been given her list re hair etc for the show and there's make up on there this year which is not a problem just new.

So what brand is best it needs to be bright and long lasting

Blue eyeshadow
Blue liquid liner
Red lipstick
Red lip liner

Thanks in advance

I went for Rimmel.

Did it last well

Does if you put the lipliner all over ten put the lipstick on

This makes me so sad. Are the boys required to wear makeup?

Cinders - yes, they will be. People look like featureless ghosts under stage lights with no make up.

It’s stage make up, as has been said, you look very featureless under the lighting. Boys wear it too.
If it’s just a one off with the make up use something hypoallergenic and inexpensive and use a fixing spray.

Yes, you need make-up on stage as the strong lighting makes you look washed out and like death warmed up otherwise.

Boys wear it as well, but not the same shades obviously, just subtle colour. The aim is to look as though they aren't wearing make-up at all from the audience point of view.

It doesn't really look like 'normal' make up either does it. Close up with some of the make up, the exaggerated lines around the eyes, it can look odd close up, but looks fine from the audience.

Exactly. It's the impression from a distance that you're aiming for. I've done the make-up for a pantomime dame before, it's unbelievably god-awful close up

It's like with costumes - some costumes can look really horrible close up or a dreadful colour, but put them on a stage under the lights and they look fine.

Dd's school specifies Rimmel eyeshadows & blush & Maybelline, Rimmel & Max Factor lipstick.

I just used the cheapest! Miss Sporty or similar. I did choose not to do it when they were 3 and 4 though and can honestly say I noticed no difference to their appearance on stage during the performance or on the DVD, with or without make-up. They only wear it now because they think it's fun.

Used to use rimmel on my DD.

Boys wore makeup on stage at DD's dance school too - it's about them being seen on stage, nothing to be sad about!

Cinder- as pp have said it's so she's not featureless on stage she'll be 'made up' for around 1 hour each show there's nothing to be sad about. The boys have a make up list too.

They haven't specified a brand but I'll give rimmel a whirl

Ffs, they're on stage; of course the boys will be required to wear it too, cinder. Don't do that. Nothing remotely sad about it.

Children in west end shows like Matilda wear no make up at all so I think the 'looking featureless' under stage lighting thing is a bit of a myth!

Singing - that may be the case but dds performing arts academy have instructed us in what is expected and required in her first show she wasn't required to wear make up but she was 18 months old but as she's gone up a class there is now a requirement for show make up

I think the 'looking featureless' under stage lighting thing is a bit of a myth!!
It isn't a myth. And the make up itself can look different under the lights, stage dance make up tutorials often show how it looks under stage lighting.

One of our friends children was in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and definitely wore make up. If we're talking RSC's Matilda the Musical then that's a different theatre and lighting set up to our church halls etc and the need for string make up will be less so.

Strong, not string.

Children in west end shows like Matilda wear no make up at all so I think the 'looking featureless' under stage lighting thing is a bit of a myth

Yeah this has always confused me. Ds2 has never worn make up in any of the West End tours he’s been in. He was horrified to find himself caked in it when he did his stage school show. I have spent years wondering whether professional theatre lights are just millions of times better. If anyone who works in the theatre can enlighten me it would answer one of the questions on my ‘must find out one day’ list.

Yes it is, as I just said: "If we're talking RSC's Matilda the Musical then that's a different theatre and lighting set up to our church halls etc and the need for strong make up will be less so."
Though, again, child of a friend of mine definitely did wear make up in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (West End)

Possibly because the Cambridge is a smaller more intimate theatre than Drury Lane & aldo the style of Matilda is very different than Charlie.

Oh ds2 has just told me he did in 2 of the tours (not the third). One was ‘hardly any’, the other was ‘lots’. I had no idea (the advantages of a chaperone who takes it off I guess.

He was in a film and had to wear lots for that (but I remember that).

I take it back - and the person able up answer my question was in the house all the time

From ds2 I have decided it must depend entirely on the production company, rather than have anything to do with the theatre because some of the theatres overlapped between the three tours.

we have a max factor blue eyeshadow which is really very good, strong pigment and wasn't too pricey. blusher I have always got from boots natural collection, nice natural shades, cheap. red lipstick I get MUA from Superdrug for £1. my girls get eczema but have never had a problem with these makes.

Thanks