"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 back to 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 immediately.
Teacher Xie was doing the movements in front, and Su Nan followed suit. At first, his limbs were stiff and looked terrible, but at least his body was flexible and well coordinated, so overall, it wasn't that bad.
In this way, Su Nan began her two-day dance career, practicing until the early hours of the morning every day. Fortunately, she had a good memory and finally memorized all the movements and positions before the last day, and was able to dance them out completely.
At least to an outsider it looks smooth and pretty good.
Time passed quickly, and finally the Lantern Festival arrived. Early in the morning, the canteen served delicious soft and glutinous rice balls, symbolizing reunion and happiness.
After eating a bowl of glutinous rice balls, Su Nan took advantage of the time when others were still eating to go to the communication room and call the Supply and Marketing Cooperative on Wutong Street. He asked the operator to help go to Zhou Rang to answer the phone. Not long after, the other party came back and said that no one was at home.
Su Nan called Zhou Rang's workplace again, but couldn't find anyone there either.
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 nowhere to be found for several days 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 lost expression, picked up the makeup box at hand and ran towards where Chen Youshan was.
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. Do basic skin care first. For this part, let them each squeeze a little toner and primer 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 this work.
The second is eyebrows. For eye makeup, just draw your eyebrows according to your own eyebrow shape and what suits you best. However, the eyebrows should be thicker, darker and more obvious than those in daily makeup.
The eye shadow used is an earth-tone orange-brown eye shadow. Use a color brush to blend a large area. The overall shape of the eye shadow 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 darker red eyeshadow of the same color at the end of the eye, and then used some large glitter eyeshadow to overlap 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 two-thirds of the eyeball and draw along the lower eyelashes to the bottom of the 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 the eyes, making them as symmetrical as possible.
Then use a red eyeliner to draw a pointed red line under the tail of the eyeliner with black. Do the same at the corner of the eye, draw a pointed eyeliner under the small triangle and extend it to the bottom of the eyeball.
The next step is to apply mascara, apply it several times on each eyelash to ensure the eyelashes are curled.
The diamonds can be applied at the corner of the eye, one under 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 apply more highlights and shadows to make it look more three-dimensional on stage. Use a stippling brush to apply blush on your face and adjust the position of the blush according to each person's facial features.
Choose bright red lipstick. This highly saturated color can enhance your complexion and make you look more gorgeous on stage.
The makeup for the first dance area was completed. For the other three programs, Su Nan applied different makeup according to different performance styles.
By the time they finished putting on the makeup of the last girl, there were only twenty minutes left before the party was to begin. However, Su Nan herself had not put on her makeup yet and had not had time to change her clothes. Chen Youshan couldn't help but feel 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 while putting 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 group was not only slow in doing makeup for others, but also for himself.
Besides, compared with Su Nan's makeup technique, that makeup technique is hard to describe and extremely crude.
In the rehearsal room, everyone gathered around a large mirror, staring at their own faces without blinking. Only today did they realize that they could be so pretty, so stunning, and truly beauties.
Moreover, everyone's makeup seems to be 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 great makeup artist.
They saw professionalism in her, which was completely different from the half-baked ones.
Although she has a beautiful face that doesn't look approachable, she is very approachable, gentle and amiable when she talks to people and does things.
The lights are on and night falls. The auditorium, which is quiet every day, is bustling with people today. Big red lanterns are hung around the auditorium, which not only looks beautiful but also fits 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 brings reunion, and the festive atmosphere on earth adds to the joy. Dear comrades, 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.
Su Nan, who was standing backstage waiting, listened to the incessant applause outside and clenched her hands nervously. After taking a few deep breaths, she regained her composure. However, Chen Youshan beside her was not like that. Her eyes were red and her lips were still trembling slightly.
"What should I do? I'm so nervous. Will I forget the movements later?" 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? Just do it like 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. Leaders and officials are 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 appear. 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 back out, and pulled her to follow the crowd to the stage.
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