Product Match
Know Your Tools
Clean Station
Ask Before You Apply
Professional Judgement
100

This product family is often selected for buildable complexion coverage and may come in sheer, medium, or full-coverage formulas.

What is foundation?

100

This part of the brush holds the bristles together and connects them to the handle.

What is the ferrule?

100

This must happen before touching the client or beginning station setup.  

What is hand hygiene?

100

This consultation topic tells the artist whether the makeup is for work, photographs, a wedding, or another setting.

What is the occasion?

100

The station should be fully prepared at this time.

What is before the client sits down?

200

This describes how a complexion product looks on the skin, such as matte, satin, natural, or radiant.

What is the finish?

200

These two tools remove cream or liquid product from its original container without contaminating it.

What are a sanitized spatula and clean palette?

200

Returning a used applicator to the original product creates this infection-control problem.

What is double-dipping or cross-contamination?

200

This consultation detail can change shade evaluation, finish, intensity, and product placement.

What is lighting?

200

A client says she wants “natural makeup.” The artist should do this before selecting products.

What is clarify what “natural” means to the client?

300

This product is used selectively to disguise discoloration, blemishes, or under-eye darkness.

What is concealer?

300

This single-use tool prevents a mascara applicator from returning to the tube after touching the client.

What is a disposable mascara wand?

300

A brush that has touched the client belongs in this area—not back on the clean towel.

What is the used-tool or contaminated-tool area?

300

These must be discussed before products are placed near the skin or eyes.

What are allergies, sensitivities, reactions, or eye concerns?

300

A clean brush is dipped into cream product, used on the client, and dipped back into the container. The product has now experienced this.

What is contamination?

400

This product may be applied selectively to reduce unwanted shine and improve wear.
 

What is setting powder?

400

A large soft brush is generally better for this than for applying precise eyeliner.

What is applying or blending powder?

400

A used disposable mascara wand should receive this treatment after the application.

What is discard it?

400

Asking what coverage and finish the client normally wears helps the artist understand this.

What is the client’s routine and comfort level?

400

Before the client leaves, the artist should step back, check the result, and obtain this.

What is client approval?

500

A client has dehydrated cheeks but an oily T-zone. The most professional complexion plan uses this type of product placement.

What is targeted or combination product placement?

500

The artist chooses a small controlled brush instead of a large fluffy brush when this is required.

What is precise placement or spot concealing?

500

Even if the artist plans to use a brush again during the service, it should never be returned here after client contact.

What is the clean setup area?

500

In this service, the instructor explains and guides techniques; in the other, the artist performs the look for the client.

What is the difference between a makeup lesson and a makeup application?

500

A technically beautiful application is not successful when this essential requirement has been ignored.

What are the client’s preferences or agreed service plan?