Help! What should a makeup portfolio look like?

[kiwicleopatra]

I'm going to start one and was wondering what format etc..
Before and after pics?
do you have to list what makeup you used?
and so on?

Thanks!

 

[kissablethoughts]

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[aeni]

Images should be 8x10 or 9x12. Any other images can be smaller, just as long as they're all on one page. Get a nice portfolio with sleeves in it already. Dont hand cut photos, use a paper cutter. And don't use colored paper behind the photos, that tends to look bad.

Typically you dont need to list materials you used on there. Keep that in a personal binder for yourself.

 

[Demosthenes]

I just started mine, but I'm using a report holder to keep the pages together for now. When it's "done" I'll probably get it professionally bound and duplicated at a Kinko's or something. I've gotten the photos printed on glossy 8x10's which is on the right side of the portfolio, and on the left side is the title of the look, a small face chart with breakdowns of the look, and a little information about the inspiration behind it, the model, etc. It looks kind of like a magazine type layout, but it takes a lot of work on photoshop to do that.

(which is why I'm taking so freaking long on it...)

 

[mrskloo]

Demosthenes: I would love to see a sample of your layout.

 

[Demosthenes]

No problem.

I'm still working on most of them (LOL, it takes a really long time for me) but when they are all complete I'll email them to you as .jpegs (the .pdf files would be too big, I think). Just pm me with your regular email account, ok?

 

[kiwicleopatra]

Thanks guys!

 

[China-Lilly]

I think 9 x 12 inch is standard. If you get an 8 x 10 book, it will be too small to fit magazine tear sheets into - which means it will be hard to showcase your published work.