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Digital Makeup & Beauty Retouching – Editorial Post-Production (Portrait Study)

This project demonstrates a complete digital makeup and beauty retouching workflow, transforming a clean-faced model (with minimal lip color only) into a polished, campaign-ready image suitable for marketing and advertising applications.

Workflow / Elements edited from scratch digitally:
• Eyeshadow application (color blending and placement)
• Blush / contouring (facial structure enhancement)
• Lip color (full digital application, not just enhancement)
• Skin retouching (texture preservation, blemish removal, even tone)
• Hair color and texture enhancement
• Clothing color adjustment
• Background color transformation

The result is a visually striking, high-end beauty image suitable for cosmetic brand campaigns, fashion editorials, perfume advertising, or retail marketing materials (posters, banners, social assets, in-store displays).

Workflow: All editing was done in Photoshop. No AI was used in this project. The editing work is mine. Source image rights belong to the respective owner (Hywel Jones / Pexels).

Digital Make-Up by John Cave

Digital Make-Up by John Cave

Digital makeup Workflow by John Cave

Digital makeup Workflow by John Cave