Retouching Techniques
Why Your Makeup Retouching Looks Painted On (And How to Fix It in Photoshop)
The first time a client told me my retouching looked “plastic,” I was mortified. I had spent three hours on that image. The skin was smooth, the lipstick was clean, the eyeshadow was perfectly blended. To me, it looked polished. To the client, it looked like a wax figure wearing her face. That comment sent me down a months-long rabbit hole that eventually changed how I approach every single makeup retouch I do, and it started with understanding one uncomfortable truth: most makeup editing fails not because of bad technique, but because we erase texture while trying to fix color.
