Family Portrait Outfit Ideas

What is the best thing to wear for a family portrait?

Families

  • Dad – Facial hairHave a fresh shave or trim, and use a new razor to limit bumps and redness. Make sure nails are clean and trimmed. Wash your hands. Clean up your shoes. Moisturize and scrub away flaky facial skin (see above General advice). When you wash your face, pay attention to eye boogers and sleep crusties. For wardrobe, go for jeans or pants, polo or dress shirt with a belt, or go casual with just a T-shirt or untucked polo or dress shirt, etc. In general, whatever your wife tells you to wear. Again you don’t have to perfectly match the rest of the family, just wear something that coordinates.
  • Mom – Women know what to wear, but in general, unless you are extremely thin you may want to wear something that covers your upper-arms. Long or 3/4-sleeve tops are very flattering. If you wear jewelry, aim for subtlety, and be aware of it twisting or turning.
  • Kids – Same advice as above, but again, everything needn’t match, simply coordinate with the parents’ outfits. If Dad’s in a T-shirt, don’t put the kids in dress shirts – make it make sense.

Makeup Ideas: 

 

Cleanser

 

Toner (astringent for the oily skin and freshener for the normal to dry)

 

Moisturizer

 

Liquid Foundation

or powder based foundation that can be applied dry or with a sponge 

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Contouring and highlighting powders or cream sticks

 

Concealer in natural tones (not white)

 

Loose transparent face powder

 

Liquid eyeliner black or brown

 

Brown eye pencil

 

Eyebrow pencil

 

Pencil sharpener

 

Lip pencil (nude or skin color)

 

Lipsticks and lip pencils to match eye and cheek selections

 

Eye shadows (brown-beige palette)

 

Eye shimmer pale beige

 

Mascara

 

Blush

 

Brushes (2-3 for the face)

 

Eye Drops (Visine – Also helpful for zits – it does “get the red out”)

 

Eye Make-Up Remover

 

Cotton Balls or rounds and cotton swabs

 

Travel size nail kit (including cuticle cream, hand lotion, nail buffer, base and top coat, cuticle clippers, orange stick emery board, three neutral nail colors, a clear red and an off-white for French tipping

 

Eye cream, eye gel for puffiness and body lotion

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The beautiful young ladies are wearing Any season dresses, the Mom staying warm and fancy in a really nice long coat and pants, dad is wearing navy blue pants with a brown belt and a polo or dress shirt, they are all bare foot.

 

 

 

 

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