Egh!
Sorry my ex-boyfriend just texted me.
Hey guys, it's Mi-Anne.
And Nikita.
And this is Beauty With Mi.
[smooch]
You guys might've noticed that I'm here with
Nikita Dragun-
Hi!
YouTube extraordinaire, activist,
now makeup brand creator.
Oh my god.
Yeah, you're like the first person to say that.
I guess it's true.
Yeah, dude.
The line's called Dragun Beauty.
We're gonna use some of it today, but first
Nikita's going to show me how she gets ready
the entire routine from start to finish.
Yes.
I'm really excited because this is the most product
that I think I'll ever put on my face.
Thank you so much Refinery29 for having me
and thank you so much for having me
on your show.
Ahh I'm so excited!
First we're gonna start off with brows.
I brush and then I'll just start doing little
brow strokes. I mean, I feel like it's such a beauty guru like,
"Oh my god I'm just gonna do little brow hair strokes.
And then you're gonna brush through the brow
to like make it look like just more natural."
Tell me about Dragun Dragon and the persona
that that is that you have become basically
and how that kind of started.
Basically, when I grew up in Springfield, Virginia
it was a very predominantly white caucasian
community.
My dad being an immigrant, my mom also being Mexican,
you know coming from two different mixed races-
Yeah.
I stuck out in the classrooms-
You were bullied?
so everyone would say I look like a dragon
cause I was Asian.
I kind of turned this dragon essence into this
kind of character.
So in my mind I like created this like inner fire,
that dragon being and I feel like over the years
now I've been able to release that and I like
always just see that as kind of like my alter ego.
After I do my brows, I like to carve it out
with concealer.
Okay.
Stick with the Makeup Forever one because it's
actually self-setting so-
Whoa.
yeah.
My trick is to do the lighter one underneath
the brow.
The darker concealer, the Makeup Forever
just kind of to get like an even-
Even base. Hide those veins.
Actually you know what's funny? The only reason
why I have lid space is because I like
trained my brow to go up.
So you like gave yourself more of a lifted-
Mm hmm.
You are right that you really have crafted your brows.
Yeah, I crafted- I mean I've crafted my whole face.
Let's be real.
My whole body at this point.
I kind of always done things "selfishly" in my mind
because I have been documenting
my whole transition
just as a part, to be able to watch it back.
And I really never thought anyone would watch it.
It's like a diary.
Yeah, it really is.
This is the Mario X KKW moment.
I literally use this palette for this shade right here.
This mid tone brown.
Now you being a beauty guru.
I was like, "We're using the KKW palette.
Not sure if you guys can see it, if it's focusing."
Oh my god. Mi, stop.
I know how to do it.
Use code BRI, that's Bri for 10% off.
Do an outer corner, I'll blend it into the
kind of crease area that we're kind of creating.
This was like the step that I was most excited
about when I started learning about how to do
makeup on YouTube.
It changes-
I was like, "Windshield wiper motion."
Windshield.
Now we're gonna take a brown pencil.
What I like to do is lay down pretty much
a liner before the liner.
Mm hmm.
So I'm gonna follow the lashline very close and tight
especially in the beginning area.
And then I'm gonna kind of thicken it at the end.
Okay.
And then we're just gonna blend it.
With the same KKW palette, I'm gonna take a good
darker expresso moment.
Now we're just gonna intensify and blend out
this situation that we have going on here.
I wasn't even getting into how good you're looking.
You're following so well.
Now you're coming for my whole career.
Now it's time to cut the crease.
Okay. Never done this before but I've seen it-
Never?
on Instagram a lot.
This is what makes you an IG baddie.
Let me tell you, after this girl, you are officially
an Instagram beauty guru, okay?
Okay.
We're just gonna focus the product kind of
towards the center here and then pull it up
and then blend it out with a different brush.
Got it.
Now we have to set it.
I would use the Huda.
Use the Huda palette.
The Huda.
[ding]
This is the Huda beauty nude palette.
I take this shade right here, tap it right here to
kind of blend in these two shadows
between like the light and the dark
that we have going on.
I know you love liner so much, so-
I love a liner moment.
It's time.
Following that same line, how we laid down that
brown color, very close to the lashline
in the beginning, and then I'll get thicker at the end
and I'll just do like a slight little wing at the end.
A little wing.
Boom. Magic.
Oh my god.
Is it time-
It's time, it's time, it's time.
for Dragun Beauty?
Oh man, it is enormous.
[pop]
Okay.
The egg!
Ahh!
I'm gonna open it.
No yeah go open it.
Okay.
It's yours.
Oh my god.
[ding]
Hi.
A little goes a very long way.
Kind of dot it all around.
Notice how it's super creamy.
It is so creamy.
Very soft.
And it's self-setting, so now that we applied it
everywhere it's
don't you feel it's like it's completely dry.
It's like-
We look nuts.
Okay foundation.
This is the warm honey Hourglass stick.
Apply it straight onto the skin.
With the Dior foundation, I layer this on
top of my already foundation.
Like, I would do this and you're gonna die.
And then give it to there.
You're saying more.
Yes.
Yeah, okay there we go.
You're dying. You're like,
[gasping]
I'm like, "Ahhh! How am I gonna blend it all."
This is so much foundation.
I love her on you.
Now I'm jumping into concealer.
This the Makeup Forever HD, the same one that we were
using for our brows earlier.
I love concealer.
They're so, so easy to blend.
This is when dragon starts to come out a little bit,
let me just tell you.
She's like hatching a little bit.
Like a little like
[crack]
like a little crack in the egg.
Now we're going to be setting our face with
a skin tone powder.
First go in probably with the Huda.
Boom, bam, wham, bam, thank you, ma'am.
First layer of powder on.
Getting the under eye.
This smells so good.
Smells like the bomb.
Right now we're bronzing.
Follow the contours of our face here.
I like to do cheekbone, jawline.
Do you do forehead moment?
Yes.
I love to like leave the baking powder on
just to marinate and really soak up in the skin.
That's half the nose.
Okay, let me see.
Hold up, girl.
I'm not gonna let you play yourself.
So I start from here on the brow bone.
The trick is to focus the product up here.
So you have to really shadow in this
area in particular and then bring it down.
But your nose is so good.
Your nose is good.
No, but I mean well it better be good
after all the nose jobs that I've had.
I like a really-
Like a pinky.
pinky, coral-y blush.
I love taking the bake off, it's so fun.
It's so nice, right?
Sometimes I even like love how like the bake
looks on. It's just so pretty to me.
Spray time.
I like to just melt everything into the skin and
just get it going.
Now we're getting into lashes.
We're gonna prep the lashes.
It's so funny, I've gotten ready with some people
and until I put on the lash, "Oh that's Nikita."
Yeah.
Okay, yeah maybe I look different without makeup
but baby just remember how I look with makeup.
[beep]
Hmm.
Oh.
Do you know how to do?
Are you sure?
Okay.
Let it-
Let her get a little tacky for a second.
Sticking to me
in a weird way.
I'm here. Your safety line at any moment.
Did I do that right? Or did I do that wrong?
[beep]
That's right. Oh my god.
I was like, "I don't know. I'm not used to this."
Ahh!
And then it's over for all of you.
Damn.
Oh my god. I'm finally here.
Hi.
Now we can move on to lip.
This is my tried and true Morphe sweet tea lip liner.
I... I'm obsessed with this thing.
For me, I over line the top just in the middle.
I bring the cupid's bow up, and then the rest
I'll line normal.
This is the Dose of Colors in the shade A Mauve Story.
It creates the perfect little pink situation.
I personally don't like to highlight all over
cause I get very, very oily, so I just only highlight
down the center of the nose and kind of like the
inner corner area.
[ding]
Now it's a lip gloss moment.
Alright, final step.
Are you ready?
This is my Dragun Heart transformation powder.
In the palette I have two gorgeous shades.
I have my pink opal and my yellow topaz.
Pink opal is less intense and the yellow topaz
is a little bit more intense.
I would use the pink first and then we can do
the yellow.
Again, a little goes a very long way.
Okay.
It doesn't have a sort of highlight to it
but it does have a slight luminousness.
Yeah.
It's not gonna-
Is it matte? It looks kinda matte.
It's pretty much matte.
It's very micro-powder.
It's like a face filter.
And then now I'll dip into the yellow shade a little bit.
It just really allows you to be like the architect
of your own beauty.
Boom.
Ahhhhhh!
Welcome to the house of Dragun.
I like it. I wasn't sure.
I was like, "It might be like a lot because I'm not used to it."
I mean, I think you looked absolutely beautiful
when we started, but right now to me
you look like an actual goddess.
Thank you for answering all my weird, invasive
questions.
I love it.
And showing me how to get the look.
Thank you for sitting here for almost three hours
and getting ready with me.
It's been a process, but I'm so happy that you got to
live your Dragun fantasy and you look
absolutely amazing.
See you guys next time.
Bye!
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