Colour charts

There are 3 different types of colour wheels, the primary, the secondary, and the tertiary.

The primary colour wheel is made up with 3 different colours:

-Red
-Blue
-Yellow

The secondary colour wheel is made up with 6 different colours:

-Red
-Orange 
-Yellow
-Green 
-Blue
-Purple

And the tertiary colour wheel is made up of 12 different colours, all these colours are mixers of:

-Red
-Orange
-Yellow
-Green
-Blue
-Purple

These colours are in 2 different shades, so red will be in 2 different shades of the colour and so on with all the other colours.





Colour wheels, and being able to use colours were very important, colours can compliment each other by using the colours opposite each other like, red and green, purple and yellow, blue and orange etc.
This can help with applying eye shadow by the colour eye, so if you have blue eyes and you want to make them stand out you'll use a orange/ copper eye shadow and so on. 
You can also use the colours to counteract curtain things such as acne/redness in the skin by using a green underneath and using a salmon-ish colour to cover up under eyes.

Being able to use a colour wheel is very important as a makeup artist, all colours from foundation to eye-shadow to lipstick all have these as bases, a colour from here can be lightened and darkened by adding white to lighten and black to darken. As an example foundations normally have 2 different tones is, either a yellow based for yellow based skins and then a pink tone for pink toned skin, as a makeup artist you have to be able to look at a colour and see what base colour it is to then mix and counteract to apply a perfect finished makeup look.