If you are doing any kind of beauty work, you know that skin is one of the hardest things to deal with. You want to make the skin look good, while not ending up with a porcelain face that looks too smooth and textureless to be real.

There are many tricks of the trade for beauty retouchers and Stefan is sharing three of his favorites: 1. How to remove Peach Fuzz (turns out that this is how you call those little facial hairs). 2. How to remove goosebumps. Yea, I know, the easy answer is heat the room up. If you don’t have control over the room temperature, and your model looks like a duck (or a goose), not all is lost. And 3. How to eliminate bruises.

Removing Peach Fuzz

Removing Goosebumps

Removing Bruises

As we wrap up, let me say that: Of course, it’s always best to work with a great team, an MUA who hides the bruises, a location that his not too cold, and a model with the smoothest of skins. Sadly, we not all shoots have that luxury.