- Hey guys, welcome back
to the Adore Beauty YouTube channel.
I'm here today to try out some TikTok beauty hacks.
Let's just get into it.
I'm fresh faced, I have nothing on my face.
And we're gonna start with hack number one,
which is a DIY beauty
BB cream.
Okay, I've got each of the videos pulled up on TikTok.
I'm gonna watch them.
I'm gonna see if I can recreate them.
Keep in mind I am not a makeup artist,
just someone who really enjoys TikTok, and scrolling,
and loves beauty.
So let's just jump into the first one.
(mischievous music)
I had to pause the video because
she's putting foundation,
primer, and then SPF together.
Don't do that.
Just don't do that.
Wear your SPF first
because if you mix it in with your foundation, primer,
any other product,
it's going to lessen the effect of the SPF,
like, it's just not gonna work as well.
(mischievous music)
Okay, it's simple enough.
Just don't do the SPF thing, like just don't do that.
Don't follow everything that Gen Z says on TikTok.
Gonna pop my SPF on right now
because there's absolutely no way I'm mixing it in
with the products, it's gonna lose the efficacy.
I'm gonna keep an open mind.
I'm using this coaster as my mixing container
and I'm going in with my glow drops.
So this is pretty heavy-duty glow.
I've just gone in with one drop.
Now I need to find my primer, which is here.
Now, I'm... (Alisha sighs)
So I went in with a blurring primer,
but it kinda squirted out.
I'm finishing off with a dollop of moisturiser.
Just got my spatula and I am blending it up.
I want a really light coverage.
So it's gone like a really moussy texture.
You can obviously add more foundation
if you wanna make it high coverage,
but I'm just gonna keep it really, really light.
So I'm just using a brush to buff it in,
and then I will go over it with a damp sponge
just to really fuse that into the skin.
I think from afar you can't really see what I'm seeing,
but up close,
I can see my pores are really visible and I don't love that.
Okay, this is this side blended.
It actually looks really, really nice,
like, it looks quite glowy,
but it's definitely emphasised my pores on the cheek area,
which is naturally what's gonna happen with highlight.
I had a feeling this would happen.
It's probably not something I would recreate.
Just opt for, like, a BB cream or a CC cream.
But it's definitely given me like dewy, glowy,
like, summer vibes.
If you're someone who just wants
a really, really light coverage
and has never been able to find the right
kind of BB or CC cream for them,
then this is definitely a great kind of,
like, trend to jump on and try because you can customise it.
I think that's the beauty of this trend,
you can customise it to suit you.
I'm just too lazy to actually do that,
and I would much rather buy a product.
Okay. So I didn't plan this very well.
And I've actually had to come back another day
and do the tan-touring hack.
I'm going to watch the TikTok video,
so I understand what I'm in for.
I do have it here.
She put the tan onto a brush,
applied it where you would contour your face naturally,
and then went to bed and woke up
with a naturally bronzed face.
Now, that's something you could do...
Or (Alisha giggling)
you could just take a less risky approach.
'Cause I feel like leaving it on for eight hours
or overnight is like a lot,
especially considering I don't have
a lot of tanning experience,
I've tanned twice in my life, like fake tan.
I'm gonna just only leave it on for like an hour,
and I'll show you guys the results but this is fresh faced,
all I've done is moisturise my face.
I hope that this will work out otherwise my poor face
and the poor person that has to look at me at drinks tonight
and then, oh my God, my dates next week.
But it's fine. It's fine. It's fine.
I am using the Loving Tan
2 HR Express Deluxe Mousse in Dark.
This could be disastrous.
I'm gonna use a brush
that I will usually use for my contour,
so it's quite dense and it's angled.
She put it directly onto her brush,
but I am not going to do that.
Oh no, the fake tan is, like, sliding.
I did not prepare this very well,
I'm moving the remainder of the fake tan onto this.
Guys, I already feel like this hack is not worth it.
Like, this is just really stressful for me.
If you see panic in my face it's because I am panicked.
Please be bronzed.
Please, please, please, please, please do not look awful.
So far, so good.
I'm just going to just do very little,
because I'm a little concerned.
Am I supposed to blend this out? This isn't blending!
Aw.
No!
Guys do not try this at home.
Oh God, I just feel like
this is just gonna go horribly, horribly wrong.
I'm not doing my nose because
if I mess that up, I can't come back from it.
I think I can still come back from the cheekbones.
Actually think it could be quite nice
for, like, the chin area.
I don't know why there are not more instructions
on this TikTok video.
I'm really confused if I just like keep blending,
like, am I making it worse?
Should I do some on my eyelids?
Am I really going rogue here?
Hmm...
Don't do it. Don't do it.
I think this is the best I can do.
It just looks like a really bad unblended contour.
And I think it might make my pigmentation worse.
I'll be back.
It has been an hour.
I took off the tan because I couldn't leave it eight hours,
I just couldn't.
Here's what the side looks like.
I think it's gonna develop.
It's looking okay, like you can definitely see
it's a little bit deeper, chiselled the cheek bone.
And this is what the other side looks like.
I kinda don't like that my pigmentation mark,
to me, looks a little bit darker.
I definitely will not do this again.
I'm not gonna lie. I won't.
What I did notice is that
it has stained my beautiful coaster.
That's my fault because I forgot tanning stains.
And also I have a darker kinda splotch on my hand,
which is my own fault too.
I just think you can achieve the same look
with a cream bronzer,
and if you just blend it out with your hands.
I don't necessarily think you need to go through
all of this effort,
and if you're like me, stress and anxiety,
just to get like a slightly more chiselled cheekbone,
like, nah, no thank you.
It's a no from me.
Now it's time for the final hack.
The easy eyeshadow hack,
where essentially you take a darker colour,
lighter colour, shimmer, shimmer and you just put them on
as like vertical stripes on your eyelid
and then you blend it out using a buffing brush,
and it's supposed to give you a really easy colourful eye.
So, because I hate blending, I think everyone does,
but everyone also wants a really snatched eye,
I have high hopes for this,
but it could also go horribly wrong
because I feel like this may only suits certain eye shapes.
So, I'm gonna go in with some colours
from an Anastasia Beverly Hills palette,
and we're just gonna see how it goes.
Maybe I'll play it safe
and I'll do like a brownie-pink look.
(mischievous music)
TikTok made it look so much easier
just to put the stripes on.
So far this is looking okay,
I think this colour story could really work together.
Just got a fluffy brush
and now we just blend, blend, blend,
blend, it literally just kept saying blending.
This does not look very good.
If I keep blending, will it get better or muddier?
What if I take it down?
I'm gonna put mascara on,
maybe it'll look better with mascara,
like, let's not give up just yet.
Okay. I put mascara on
and I don't actually think it looks any better.
The glitter has, kind of, like,
gone into the darker shades. It looks really, really muddy.
No, no, I dunno what this TikTok girl did,
but no, I don't.
I think the problem with these TikTok trends
is that they're only 15 or 30 seconds
so it's really, really difficult to understand
if there's any other technique that they're doing.
All I was doing was copying what she did in the video,
but maybe there's more to it than that.
And they just haven't said anything.
So how are you supposed to know?
I'm gonna say out of the hacks,
let's, like, go through them.
The BB cream is okay.
I probably wouldn't do it because I'm lazy
and it feels like a lot of effort.
Never, never, never, never, never mix your SPF in
with your makeup products.
I would give that a 6 out of 10,
depending on how you made it.
The tan-touring, I would give a 5 out of 10, 4 out of 10.
It's just, it was so much effort for not much payoff,
and basically I was stressed the whole time.
So I wouldn't do that again.
And I wouldn't do this again.
Actually, every single thing is a no for me,
but I still love TikTok
and I'm still gonna probably spend five hours
on it later tonight because I'm addicted.
Let me know if you guys have tried some hacks below.
If I was doing this wrong,
if I should be doing this another way.
I'm very, very open to feedback.
This looks so bad.
It's like the glitter has, like, scattered
from, like, one and it's so patchy.
I look like I have a black eye,
like, a blue-black eye with some glitter just chucked on.
It looks like a kid...
It looks like a child did your makeup.
It looks like what you would do
when you're playing with your mom's makeup
when you were, like, five.