Using cold cream base, Palladio Rice Powder, carmine rouge on cheeks and lips, modern liquid eyeliner (but similar look to period-correct wet kohl) and burnt matchsticks for darkening the eyebrows.
It's amazing to me how rouge tends to disappear in photographs -- any amount that looks natural in person just vanishes from view in pictures. I wouldn't guess myself to be wearing any based on these pictures, but in fact both cheeks and ears are well-reddened here.
One thing about using a thick, heavy moisturizer like cold cream for the base, is it draws up a greater amount of powder and makes it cling more heavily, creating something similar to the effect of modern foundation makeup for evening-out the skin tone and mattifying the complexion. As we've discussed before, face powder was one of the few kinds of makeup women in the Victorian and Edwardian era were not just allowed, but virtually expected to wear.
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