- Hey guys, welcome back.
Today's video is about how I've adapted
my makeup techniques to wearing one of these.
A mask.
Now, I guess the first question is,
is it okay to wear makeup whilst wearing a mask?
And I think the answer is the same as it always is.
It's fine as long as you're wearing makeup,
that doesn't promote problems.
So we come back to the non-comedogenic
makeup choices kind of state of mind.
And so I think if that's the case,
then fine, go for it.
Just know that makeup under a mask is somewhat imprecise.
It's not an exact art.
It requires constant maintenance.
If you are taking your mask off and on and off and on
throughout the day.
So, I'm going to give you some of my tips for maintaining it
because in the clinic I'm mostly masked up.
But I might pop out at lunchtime and go for a walk
and I won't necessarily wear a mask for a walk.
So I do want to still look pulled together,
even if I'm largely displaying myself like this
in the office.
So the first question is,
what do I do with my base?
Should I be going long wear?
Should I be skipping it all together?
Is it going to make my skin worse
if I'm prone to maskne?
So, I think one of the easiest ways
to cope with the need to both wear sunscreen
'cause masks don't as far as we know,
offer a significant UV protection,
no one's checked and tested them for that.
So you still need to wear a sunscreen
and we want to minimize the layers
that are on our skin under a mask.
I think it just reduces the risk
of things becoming dry and patchy and moving around.
So one of the best bets is to go for
a perhaps less polished than usual look
with a tinted sunscreen as your base
and use that with concealer just where you need it
for coverage.
So if you go for a tinted sunscreen,
that's non clogging and you go for
non-clogging concealer.
Voila!
You have a mask friendly base
that will give you the confidence you need,
where you need it.
So I'm wearing just a coating of tinted sunscreen,
which I'm trialing.
I'll tell you more about that later.
And I am using concealer NARS vanilla,
the soft matte concealer with my
IT cosmetics airbrush concealer pen
which I'm a bit obsessed with.
And the obsession comes with this lovely swirly defusing
little concealer brush on the end,
which is awesome for under eye concealer,
as well as...
When you just got a large blemish
and you want to conceal it completely,
but the amount of concealer you need,
is more in the middle of the blemish
than it's around the edges
where the concealer then starts to merge
with whatever the skin covering product you have on.
So hopefully it's not too complicated sounding,
but it just allows you to kind
of blend the edges in
so that your concealer and your base merge seamlessly.
So I love this thing.
When I lose them, I get very distressed
and you could even just load that up
with concealer on the go
If you want to keep things minimal.
It's quite an easy thing to keep in the pocket.
And, in my junior doctors, A's,
I would have used an old touche eclat pen
in the same kind of way,
because if I was in the theater wearing a mask,
because you have to go through surgical rotations
as part of your training,
I would have used something like that.
'Cause I feel self conscious if I had a blemish on,
it's typical u zone part of the face
and the mask had rubbed off
the concealer I painstakingly dotted on in the morning.
So, yeah,
really useful tool.
So that's all I'm going to use on the skin
in this part of my face.
No powder please that is just asking for trouble
when it comes to promoting blemishes.
And as I said, try and keep the products non long-wear.
Again, we don't want that occlusive element creeping in
to aggravate blemishes.
Now as far as lips go,
I do wear something on my mouth
that just feels normal to me to do that.
And I've been doing my airbrush concealer pen
as a lipstick brush.
And I've been using up the ends of all old lipsticks.
So my Lipstick Queen nothing but the truth,
which is the best Pinky-Nude I found.
And I can't seem to find it in stores
and I'm not shopping as much.
So I've been just using these up with an old fashioned,
slightly 1980s vibes, pen.
But again, you can tote that around with you
and it's got the little fluffy brush on the end,
if you wanted to buff in more concealer.
So that's all I'm going to wear under the mask.
But what I've found myself doing more now
that I'm concealed from this part of my face downwards.
Doing a little bit more eye make up
for every day just to give my face
a little bit of presence and va va voom.
And so I've sought out a few new eye products.
So a brand I am loving for eye products right now
is Surratt and their liquid liner is just phenomenal.
So I use their lash curlers
and I'm currently using the Surratt mascara
which is the relevee mascara in noir, so black.
And it has this super dainty little brush
if you can see,
probably the kind of brush I would more typically associate
with doing the lower lashes,
but actually if you curl your upper lashes really well,
you can almost paint them just at the roots.
And I find that the less product on the ends,
the more like fresh faced and youthful it looks.
You just get the intensity in the roots by the iris
that makes the eyes pop, but doesn't look too done.
So I'm liking that very much.
And then the liquid liner,
I have it in this one's in brown
and it's a typical pen liner,
but it's amazing how these things can differ.
So it's got a very dainty tip
and it just feels more akin to sort of drawing
and creates a very elegant effortless kind of cat flick.
I'm so loving that in both brown for day
and in black for night.
And then I finally got my first Anastasia product
for browse anywhere I've been.
The tinted brow gel in brunette.
And yeah, it just gives a nice firm hold
and to keep them sort of swept up.
And then the final thing I bought for brows,
which has gone missing,
anyway is the hourglass eyebrow pencil in soft brunette.
I remember having to go into Space NK
and having the lady go,
oh, we haven't got the tester,
but I'm pretty sure yourself brunette,
and I'll swap it for you if it doesn't work for you.
And she was right.
So it's very similar to the Kevin
Aucoin brunette eyebrow pencil.
It's got that same really quite firm,
tiny little fine nib of a pencil.
And it's just great for those kinds of,
creating the sort of mimicking the appearance
of real hairs.
And then the final thing are these blotterazzi
by Beauty Blender.
They're a little blotting sponges
and you can wash these quite easily
the same way you would do with your beauty blender.
And I just find that at the minute
with having to top up the concealer
as I go through the day,
particularly as I said around my nose areas
that were just naturally that the foundation
or the sunscreen or whatever tinted
product you're using would just naturally wear off.
And I'll then blot first with the blotterazzi pads
and then reapply concealer,
especially when going out after work.
So, these are the little adaptations we've had to make
to cope with this sort of brave new world
that we're living in,
where masks are dear rigorous,
but on the whole with the right tools,
it's all quite manageable, I think.
And I find that those are the things
that are really working for me.
So it'd be great to get your feedback
if you've tried any of those tips.
How you find them,
but hopefully this video and my last one
will help you navigate skincare and makeup
with the mask factored in
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Bye for now.