If you've been following along with our blogs you've learned the best ways to start edifice your brand and step into the pro makeup industry. At present while all of that is incredibly important, you certainly are not going to get far without the right kit.

Having been a makeup artist in the manufacture for over 30 years, Camera Set up Cosmetics' founder Mary Erickson knows quality and value. She understands what an creative person needs.

Important things to consider when building the Holy Grail of makeup kits is Quality, Multifunction, and Sanitation.

Quality

When we say quality we are talking well-nigh products fabricated to work with a pro in heed. Now while YouTube and Instagram will have a ton of suggestions for how to build your kit, keep in mind that beauty bloggers and celebrities are oftentimes being paid to push certain products, and quality does not always play a factor.

Proficient quality makeup is not going to be the eyeshadow palette you got with 20+ shades for $15 on Amazon. You lot should consider the ingredients, what is the color payoff, and is it going to lay on the pare well.

Packaging is besides important. Information technology needs to be able to withstand wear and tear, or at to the lowest degree be able to be broken downwards and redistributed into empty palettes for ease of travel.

Multifunction

Non everything in your kit is going to be able to accept a variety of functions, but the more than items you accept that can serve different purposes the better. This will help streamline your kit, save space and reduce weight.

Examples of this would exist brushes that tin be used on eyes or lips, shadows that can be used wet or dry, or fifty-fifty lip colour that doubles as a chroma. It's really upwards to you and your imagination equally to how you can use items in dissimilar means.

Sanitation

Remember that you're going to use this kit on many unlike people and not just yourself. You must go on not only your brushes and tools clean, just also your makeup.

It's important to not merely cull disinfecting sprays and easily cleanable packaged products, just too disposable items. Never double dip into your tubes of mascara or lip color.

How y'all build a kit can vary based on your primary area of focus within makeup. Whether you're looking to work in bridal, fashion or movies, this Pro Kit will fulfill your basic needs. At present let's outset shopping.

Skin Intendance & Prep

As a pro artist you volition be working on many unlike skin types. The ameliorate prepped the skin the better your application and longevity of wearable.

Remember the mantra of Cleanse, Tone and Moisturize…these steps will aid you to better sympathize the pare y'all are nigh to work on, and also fix your canvas.

Top products to accept in your kit for this crucial step are:

Alcone Make-Off Makeup Remover Cloths

Inglot Muti-Action Toner Combination to Oily Pare 25ml/.84 fl oz

Embryolisse Lait-Cr̬me Concentre Р24-Hour Phenomenon Cream Р30ml (1oz)

Bioderma Atoderm Lip Stick

Mehron Peel Prep Pro

Camera Ready Oil Complimentary Makeup Remover 1oz

Foundation

Equally a Pro your kit must accommodate a wide range of skin tones. Cream palettes are a great way to take a diverse selection of color, and they work well with about pare types. Not to mention they are compact, so they take upwardly less space than x liquid foundation bottles.

While Camera Ready has many high quality options, we have narrowed it downwards to the RCMA VK Foundation Palettes for this kit. What is great about this product is its versatility. Utilize them as concealers, blend them down for foundation or mix with skin prep to create a sheer/tinted moisturizer. The sky'due south the limit!

RCMA VK Foundation Palette in Ko #10 RCMA VK Foundation Palette in Shinto #11

Powder

Set it and forget it! If you have not been living under a rock for the terminal two years, and then y'all have certainly heard of RCMA No-Colour Pulverisation. While again, we carry many comparable high quality setting powders, RCMA has been a staple in pro kits for many years.

Forth with an all over setting pulverisation, you will too desire to accept some tinted options for contour and highlight. We recommend a space saving palette with a range of shades. Mehron Celebre Pro-Hard disk drive Pressed Palette Highlight & Contour is multifunctional and includes all their most pop shades.

RCMA Makeup No Color Pulverization 3 oz.

Mehron Celebre Pro-Hard disk drive Pressed Palette Highlight & Profile

Blush & Bronzer

Allow usa not forget the importance of color, and in keeping with the theme we have some other dandy palette that offers some of the all-time colour payout on the market. La Femme has so many shade options you could probably find a utilize for each, but to get yous started we suggest our Camera Ready Cosmetics'Exclusive Le Femme Blush Palette. The best part of this is that yous can easily switch and swap with their huge choice of refills.

Non every confront needs shimmer and smoothen which is why we recommend matte blush or bronzers. However, to proceed your Pro Kit versatile, always have some shimmer on standby. For this nosotros included Ofra - Beverly Hills Highlighter. Only add over superlative of your matte colors to create glow and radiance.

La Femme Blush Palette (Exclusive)

Ofra - Beverly Hills Highlighter

Optics

When it comes to eyeshadow a good pro knows less is more. You DO NOT demand every shade of shadow in your kit. There volition exist times that a job calls for unique color options, but if you are working with professionals you will be informed in advance. Then keep your kit streamlined and stick with the basics.

Being one of our nigh adaptable palettes, Ben Nye Glam Shadow Palette includes 12 versatile shades. Enhance eyebrows, highlight brow bones, create the perfect smokey eye or dip into Inglot Duraline to transform into a cake liner. One stop shopping!

For a long lasting smudge-proof liner in classic black, nosotros've included the cult favorite, Inglot AMC Eyeliner Gel.

Finish off the eyes with Inglot Volume & Waterproof Mascara. Think to use your dispensable wands! Save space by stocking up on the straight wands and just bend as needed. Add extra "oomph" with some falsies. Ardell Demi-Wispies are another pro kit favorite.

Ben Nye Glam Shadow Palette

Inglot Duraline

Inglot AMC Eyeliner Gel 77

Inglot Volume & Waterproof Mascara

Camera Ready Dispensable Mascara Wands (pack of 50) – Straight Wand

Ardell Natural Lashes Multipack Demi Wispies

Duo Lash Adhesive (articulate)

Lips

Create the perfect pout with the combination of liners and a slap-up lip palette. Graftobian Super Lip Color Palette offers 16 long lasting shades. Mix them together to up your color game.

Employ your RCMA No-Colour Powder for binding and tiptop it off with shine using Graftobian SuperSeal Intense Smooth Lip Gloss.

Graftobian Super Palette - Lip Colors

Ben Nye Lip Colour Pencil

Graftobian Super Seal Intense Shine Lip Gloss

Camera Ready Disposable Lip Wands

Brushes & Tools

Brushes are a hard one to narrow downward, and every artist has their favorites. For the purpose of simplicity we accept chosen Bdellium Tools Maestro Series Complete 12pc Brush Set. This synthetic brush fix has a piddling something for everything, and fifty-fifty includes a curl-up pouch.

Go along in heed, only considering a brush is meant to be used for i purpose does not mean it cannot be used for many more. Find what works for you. Plus, the less brushes in your kit, the less y'all have to clean after the chore is done.

With that existence said do not forget some of the virtually important tools of all, your brush cleaners. If you lot are new to Camera Ready Cosmetics, then you lot may have non notwithstanding heard of Crazy Merman Castor Soap. With a few like shooting fish in a barrel steps, information technology can pretty much clean annihilation out of your brushes (even that stubborn Inglot 77). We recommend unscented, because yous never know if a client is sensitive to smell.

When it comes to the brushes that are doing double or even triple duty with no fourth dimension to dry out, make sure you lot have Movie theatre Secrets' Castor Cleaner on manus for quick a switch.

Finally, to round out your tool kit, don't forget a mixing palette and spatula. This is the greatest way to stay sterile and also mix shades for more than variety. Esum was squeamish enough to create a Palette Ready that as well includes a double ended spatula. Thank you Esum!

Bdellium Tools Maestro Series Consummate 12pc Brush Set

Picture palace Secrets Brush Cleaner

Crazy Merman Brush Lather Unscented

Esum Palette Ready with Spatula

BeautySoClean Cosmetic Sanitizer Mist 30ml.

Final Touch

But similar this blog, we are going to finish off the look with a bully Setting Spray. Pros differ betwixt their favorites when it comes to setting sprays. For this kit, we are going to include Skindinavia Conjugal Makeup Terminate Spray. The laurels-winning formula perfectly balances skin for decision-making excess moisture and leveling out temperatures, and so your hard work stays fresh and flawless for up to sixteen hours.

Now let'southward put information technology all away. Bigger isn't better. Recall that we kept this Pro Kit streamlined. No demand to dig for what y'all need with the Large Zuca Stylist Case. It'due south easy to keep everything in gild, with customizable cushion foam dividers which deed every bit a buffer to protect your kit. Cleaning is super piece of cake.

Skindinavia Bridal Makeup End Spray

Zuca Stylist Instance – Large

Total Kit Toll $922.81*

Depending on where y'all are in your Pro Makeup Artist career, a $1000 tin seem like a lot of coin, simply only remember you are investing into your future. Now, go frontwards into your career with your head high, because with this kit y'all Shopped Similar A Pro!

Feeling Inspired?

Every bit you can run into, we've been busy here at Camera Ready to ensure we bring you the all-time new brands and kit essentials. If you need assistance finding a few new products to try from the brands we've added, our Beauty Advisors are here to help! Click here to drop them a line, and from all of the states here at Photographic camera Ready Cosmetics, we wish y'all a cute and happy holiday flavour!

Feeling Inspired?

As you can see, we've been decorated here at Photographic camera Ready to ensure we bring you lot the best new brands and kit essentials. If you need help finding a few new products to endeavour from the brands we've added, our Beauty Advisors are here to help! Click here to drop them a line.