underpainting
noun
un·der·paint·ing
ˈən-dər-ˌpān-tiŋ 
: preliminary painting
especially
: such painting done on a canvas or panel and covered completely or partially by the final layers of paint
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For example, underpainting applies your contour under foundation for a more natural look.
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Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 6 Aug. 2024
Later on, much of the show’s visual language—muted color emerging from an underpainting of chalky grays—depends on an aura of wild urban unpredictability: Chicago as a hothouse of violent horrors and dark insinuations.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
It can also be applied ahead of a tinted moisturizer—as a form of underpainting, or simply to avoid harsh bronzer lines.
—Hannah Coates, Vogue, 22 July 2024
In addition to the impasto fireworks, subtle red underpainting is glimpsed beneath the greenish brown color of the back wall and the black jacket, yielding smoldering life to what could have been just tired passages of dark flat color.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
La La Anthony’s Guide to Crease-Free Concealer and Bronzed Makeup
While her underpainting may have caught the attention of a younger audience, Phillips is keen to share the virtues of make-up tricks that work at any age.
—Georgia Day, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
The hack is somewhat similar to underpainting—the application of highlighter and contour ahead of foundation—a method re-popularized (with help from TikTok) by makeup artist Mary Phillips and favored by the likes of Jennifer Lopez.
—Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2023
Mary Phillips, the celebrity makeup artist known for the viral underpainting trend on TikTok, has done it again, this time taking siren eyes to the next level by using a poppy pink liner that plays nicely with Bieber’s buttercup yellow mani.
—Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 7 Mar. 2023
Their research was initially hobbled by the pandemic, and other factors, but last spring MacDonald-Korth used high-tech equipment to study the underpainting and trace the elements of the paints used in the original in Philadelphia.
—Ralph Blumenthal, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
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Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 6 Aug. 2024
Later on, much of the show’s visual language—muted color emerging from an underpainting of chalky grays—depends on an aura of wild urban unpredictability: Chicago as a hothouse of violent horrors and dark insinuations.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
It can also be applied ahead of a tinted moisturizer—as a form of underpainting, or simply to avoid harsh bronzer lines.
—Hannah Coates, Vogue, 22 July 2024
In addition to the impasto fireworks, subtle red underpainting is glimpsed beneath the greenish brown color of the back wall and the black jacket, yielding smoldering life to what could have been just tired passages of dark flat color.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
La La Anthony’s Guide to Crease-Free Concealer and Bronzed Makeup
While her underpainting may have caught the attention of a younger audience, Phillips is keen to share the virtues of make-up tricks that work at any age.
—Georgia Day, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
The hack is somewhat similar to underpainting—the application of highlighter and contour ahead of foundation—a method re-popularized (with help from TikTok) by makeup artist Mary Phillips and favored by the likes of Jennifer Lopez.
—Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2023
Mary Phillips, the celebrity makeup artist known for the viral underpainting trend on TikTok, has done it again, this time taking siren eyes to the next level by using a poppy pink liner that plays nicely with Bieber’s buttercup yellow mani.
—Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 7 Mar. 2023
Their research was initially hobbled by the pandemic, and other factors, but last spring MacDonald-Korth used high-tech equipment to study the underpainting and trace the elements of the paints used in the original in Philadelphia.
—Ralph Blumenthal, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
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