facial hair – TransOutLoud https://transoutloud.org Empowering the Trans Community Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:15:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://transoutloud.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/favicon.png facial hair – TransOutLoud https://transoutloud.org 32 32 Covering Up Beard Shadow for Trans Women https://transoutloud.org/covering-up-beard-shadow-for-trans-women/ https://transoutloud.org/covering-up-beard-shadow-for-trans-women/#respond Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:30:55 +0000 http://transoutloud.com/?p=308 Beard shadow is a problem for just about every trans woman. That bluish hue that lingers for many even after the closest of shaves. But you can cover up your shadow quite easily if you look to our friend, the color wheel.

Beard Shadow and the Color Wheel

See, the color wheel is the great tool that can be as simple or complex as you like. For our purposes we want to look across the color wheel, from one color to its opposite. For us that means we need to take a look at the blue and see what color is opposite of it.

beard shadow on the color wheel

As you can see, the blue we are dealing with is opposite shades of orange. Much like you can use a concealer or cream in green to cancel our redness or zits, you can use an orange color to cancel out the stubborn blue.

So by introducing a concealer or a cream makeup, or even lipstick, in a shade of orange; you will be setting a base that can be covered by foundation and camouflage the blue of your shadow.

Here you can see a great demonstration by Chelsea Jade Conroy

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