"Thank you, Teacher. I brought Sister Su here." Chen Youshan dragged Su Nan to the training room without stopping.
"Then let's start now. Everyone stand in the starting position." Teacher Xie didn't say a word. After looking at Su Nan gratefully, he didn't want to waste time and started rehearsing directly.
Teacher Xie was doing the movements in front, and Su Nan followed suit. At first, his limbs were stiff and looked messy, but his body was flexible and coordinated, so overall, it was not particularly bad.
In this way, Su Nan began her two-day dance career, practicing until the early hours of the morning every day. However, thanks to her good memory, she finally memorized all the movements and positions before the last day and was able to dance them out completely.
At least it looks smooth and good to outsiders.
Time passed quickly, and finally it was the Lantern Festival. Early in the morning, the canteen served soft and glutinous rice balls, which symbolized reunion and happiness.
After eating a bowl of glutinous rice balls, Su Nan took advantage of the time when others were still eating to call the supply and marketing cooperative on Wutong Street from the communication room and asked the operator to help call Zhou Rang to answer the phone. Not long after, the other party said that no one was at home.
Su Nan called Zhou Rang's workplace again, but still couldn't find anyone.
After hanging up the phone, Su Nan took a deep breath and secretly told himself that Zhou Rang must be busy with something important, otherwise he would not be available for several days in a row and would not answer the phone.
While she was organizing her thoughts, she heard Chen Youshan's voice calling from outside, urging her to go to the rehearsal room quickly.
Su Nan suppressed her depressed expression, picked up the makeup box beside her and ran towards Chen Youshan.
When the two arrived at the rehearsal room, they found that most people had already changed into their performance costumes and were queuing up waiting for Su Nan to put on makeup.
The essence of stage makeup lies in two aspects: base makeup and eye makeup.
First of all, a clean and tidy makeup face is indispensable to a flawless base makeup. Basic skin care should be done first. For this part, I asked them to squeeze a little toner and primer on each of them and apply them first, which can save a lot of time.
Then apply primer, liquid foundation, concealer, and loose powder, and the base makeup is completed after all these operations.
The second is eyebrows. For eye makeup, you can draw eyebrows according to your own eyebrow shape and what suits you best, but the eyebrows should be thicker, darker and more obvious than the daily makeup.
The eyeshadow used is an earth-tone orange-brown eyeshadow. Use a color-painting brush to blend it over a large area. The overall shape of the eyeshadow is slightly upward along the corner of the eye.
Because the dance costume is a bright red gauze skirt, Su Nan chose to use a dark red eyeshadow to deepen the tail of the eye, and then used some large glitter eyeshadow to overlay the eyes and the eye corners, which looks both charming and elegant.
Next is the very important eyeliner part. Use a black eyeliner pencil to draw an eyeliner from the beginning of the eye to the end of the eye along the root of the eyelashes. The thickness of the eyeliner can refer to the width of the eye folds. There must be a clean and sharp tip at the end of the eye.
For the lower eyeliner, you can use eyeliner cream, or eyeliner gel pencil. Start from the lower two-thirds of the eyeball and draw along the lower eyelash to the lower eyelid. Then use a cotton swab to smudge the tail to make the line smooth and natural.
Then use a black eyeliner to draw two small pointed triangles at the corners of your eyes, making them as symmetrical as possible.
Then use a white eyeliner to draw a pointed white line below the tail of the eyeliner, close to the black line. Do the same at the corner of the eye, draw a pointed eyeliner below the small triangle, and extend it to the bottom of the eyeball.
Then apply mascara, brush each eyelash several times to ensure the curl of the eyelashes.
The diamonds can be applied at the corner of the eye, one below the eyelid, one at the end of the eye, and one on the brow bone. When the light shines on them on the stage, they will sparkle and be particularly eye-catching.
You can add more highlights and shadows to make the face look more three-dimensional on the stage. Use a stippling brush to apply blush on the face and adjust the position of the blush according to each person's facial features.
Choose bright red lipstick with a higher saturation. The color can better enhance your complexion and make you look brighter on stage.
The makeup for the first dance area was completed. For the other three programs, Su Nan applied different makeup according to their performance styles.
By the time the last girl's makeup was done, there were only twenty minutes left before the party started. However, Su Nan herself had not put on makeup yet and had no time to change her clothes. Chen Youshan couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
But Su Nan herself was very calm. After quickly wiping her face with a wet towel, she began to make some changes to her face. She was very familiar with her face and would not make any big mistakes even if she closed her eyes to put on makeup.
So it is a very easy thing for her to get her full makeup done in ten minutes.
Chen Youshan was stunned watching from the side. This was when she truly felt Su Nan's makeup skills. The previous makeup artist in the art troupe was not only slow in doing makeup for others, but also for himself.
Besides, compared with Su Nan's makeup technique, it's hard to describe, it's extremely crude.
In the rehearsal room, everyone gathered around a large mirror, staring at their own faces without blinking. Only then did they realize that they could be so beautiful, so stunning, and truly beauties.
Moreover, everyone's makeup looks exactly the same at first glance, but if you look closely you can see subtle differences. That's because Su Nan made adjustments based on each person's face shape and facial features.
Everyone noticed this detail, and immediately felt grateful and caring. This makeup artist Su is really a top-notch makeup artist.
They saw professionalism in her, which was completely incomparable to other half-baked people.
Although she has a beautiful face that looks unapproachable, she is approachable, gentle and amiable when talking to people and doing things.
As the lights came on and night fell, the auditorium, which was quiet during the day, became bustling with people and lively today. Big red lanterns were hung around the auditorium, which also reflected the Lantern Festival scene.
The male and female hosts in neat military uniforms slowly walked onto the stage, kicking off the Lantern Festival Gala.
"The full moon in the sky symbolizes reunion, and the festive season on earth adds to the joy. Dear colleagues, I declare the Lantern Festival Gala officially open."
"First of all, let us warmly welcome all the cadres and leaders who have come to express their condolences."
Then, he mentioned the names of a group of big guys.
Standing backstage waiting, Su Nan listened to the endless applause outside and clenched his hands nervously. After taking a few deep breaths, he regained his composure. However, Chen Youshan beside him did not respond. Her eyes were red and her lips were trembling slightly.
"What should I do? I'm so nervous that I might forget the movements later, right?" Chen Youshan grabbed Su Nan's sleeve and wailed with a bitter face.
"Don't be afraid. Haven't you participated in many performances before? It will be the same as before, right?" Su Nan patted Chen Youshan on the back and comforted her with a smile.
"How can it be the same? This is the biggest performance I've ever participated in. There are leaders and officials sitting outside, but even our troupe leader has to flatter him." Chen Youshan put her hands on her hips and took deep breaths, trying to suppress the trembling feeling.
"Besides, as the host, we have to be the first to go on stage. Woohoo, I need to go to the bathroom."
"It's too late, it's our turn now." Su Nan grabbed Chen Youshan, who was about to retreat, and pulled her to follow the crowd to the stage.
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