Advanced makeup tip, if you're going to be doing a lot of television, and you want to look your best, you can't count on the makeup people at the TV studio. They're there to just have things flowing. They may be great, they may be talented, but you're not their client. The TV network is their clients so only you have the most interest in you looking great. So my recommendation, figure out what works for you. Always take your own makeup kit as a backup in case the main network makeup person isn't there and be ready to tell the makeup person exactly what you want.
If you have evidence to suggest what's going to work best for you. So for example, when I go to a major TV network and they have a makeup person, I'm very explicit. I tell them powder the top of my head, it's not going to make it look like I have a beautiful head of hair but It reduces the shine and reduces the focus off the top of my head. I have powder on my head now, also and I apologize this may be gross to some of you but I'm just sharing everything with you to help you the most I'm not worried about trying to make myself look good. I also tell the person to darken my eyebrows because my eyebrows have gotten thinner and they disappear and they look a little squirrely so I actually have a little bit of eyebrow pencil on here that I've done myself in this case because I'm not on a major network.
I'm at my own studio. Beyond that, I don't really have any particular ised makeup needs I have a little foundation under my eyes covering the the five o'clock shadow and then a mosaic makeup and most professional makeup people are going to do that. I do know that some real media pros. For example, the most famous psychologists Just in America, from the late 1950s until not that long ago when she passed away was Dr. Joyce brothers. And she famously did her own makeup. It didn't matter how big the network was, how respected the makeup staff was, she was used to doing it herself.
She knew how she wanted to look. And she did it herself. Not saying you have to do it that way. But you need a system in place. You want to come across your best every time whether you're doing it or you're having someone else doing it. Someone else is doing it.
Give them advice, and tips on what you think will make you look your best because they don't want to insult you. If you are a man or for that matter, a woman and your hair is thin. The average makeup artist at a TV network isn't going to want to touch the top of your head. They're going to feel that it's almost too personal. might offend you. You gotta get rid of all that.
I just tell them hey, do the whole time top of my head and then they do it. It's no problem.