Hi, Byrdie.
My name is Matin, and I'm here with Lauren to show you this beautiful look that I did
for Angelina a little while ago in New York City.
Hope you enjoy!
So whenever I start makeup, I always start with a good face massage.
Sometimes I use a face mask, depending on what the condition of the skin is.
This one is an oil that I'm using.
The oil is by Leonor Greyl, and it's called Beauty Secret Oil, a beauty oil that keeps
the skin glowy, and it's wonderful during the wintertime to keep everything looking
fresh.
So I usually massage the oil all over the face, neck, and décolleté, depending on
how much skin they're showing, and go right into a mattifying moisturizer just to get
rid of the shine on the T-zone and wherever the skin tends to get shiny.
A little bit of lip oil lip balm—this one is a lip oil from ChapStick—and I usually
let the lips soak the oil while I'm doing the makeup so it's always nice and fresh.
Foundation I use a little bit differently than most people.
I use it only to even out the skin tone and not to really cover.
The problem with covering too much is that you get that masky-looking skin all over the
face, so it's very important to use a smaller, detailed brush or a sponge and only use it
where you need to even out the tone to get rid of some redness, take some of the sun
damage out, but the foundation is not supposed to be used as a cover-up.
That comes later with concealer.
That's all the foundation she needs, literally just a pump, and I blend it with the brush
and then just work it on the skin.
Don't forget to use the foundation wherever you're exposing the skin because when the
camera hits and the flash goes off, the skin needs to read the same, and it bounces off
differently if you don't have the foundation.
Next step is a concealer, and this is an important step also.
You want to choose a concealer that not only matches the skin but also a concealer that
doesn't cake and it doesn't get too heavy, under the eyes especially.
Concealer is used anywhere that you need to perfect the skin.
I usually use it under the lips where the shadow is cast a little bit.
As you can see, it just lifts right away.
You don't want to put it on the line but right where the shadows are, and that's how you
get a nice lift.
And you don't need to resort into heavy contouring and highlighting if you do the skin right.
When you're doing concealer under the eyes, you don't want to put it all under here.
It’s usually what you see on the tutorials: They just kind of put on too much concealer
all the way.
It's very important to put as little as possible in order to make it last all day and also
in order to make the skin look youthful.
One of the biggest mistakes is using too much concealer, especially on the outer sides of
the eyes.
What happens when you do it on the outer sides?
When you smile, it goes into the creases.
It goes into the creases.
Right now, you're very young, so you don't really have the lines, but once you have the
lines in, you know, this area moves all the time, the laugh lines, so it always moves.
That eye area also gets warm, it melts the products, and it just kind of settles into
the lines and makes you look older.
So concealer is applied only where it's needed—it's where the shadow is.
You want to get rid of that, you know, the blueness and the redness under the eye, but
again, the more real the skin looks, the prettier the outcome would be and not that plastic
doll look that we see on social media a lot.
I'm using a little brightening powder by Laura Mercier here.
I'm using a very fluffy synthetic brush so it doesn't hold too much powder, and I get
rid of the powder on my hand, then very lightly set the concealer immediately.
Before we do anything for the eyes, I'm gonna curl the lashes.
A good lash curler is very important to have, or a few of them, in case you're a makeup
artist, because they have different kind of curve, and it's very important to get the
right fit for the eye.
And then I'm using black gel liner from Laura Mercier with a flat brush just to thicken
the lash line.
So you press right here, and it just exposes the root of the lashes, and you go right where
the lashes grow.
I want them to remember this is not applied on the waterline.
It's only applied at the root of the lashes.
That way when you blink, it doesn't transfer on the bottom.
So as a base, I used MAC Chilled on Ice.
It's like a nice little cream with a tiny touch of shimmer, but it has hidden shimmer,
so it just looks like satin when you put it on.
You could just use your fingers with it.
And then to open up the inner corner of the eyes, I always use this beautiful RMS cream
shadow.
It's called Living Luminizer, and this could be used anywhere on the face.
The glow on the cheek I always add on, so I start with an oil, then I go into that,
and at the end, I can use even some liquidy serum that has shimmer in it to make sure
that the cheekbones come out beautiful.
And now I'm using a Kajal that I have made for myself in Afghanistan, and this is like
a cream.
You can use a cream black eye shadow or a black eyeliner along the lashes to create
a definition.
You don't have to be very careful with this.
You can even be a little messy at first.
Because it's a cream and it has enough playtime, you can just blend it.
So we're creating a smoky eye, but at the same time, it's still a clean look for the
eyes.
This is just the remnants of the concealer on my brush, and I'm just kind of cleaning
up the way I want the line to be.
It's always good to fix the creams with powders in order to make them last longer, so I'm
just using a little bit of the translucent powder where I use the cream.
So you can use any black eye shadow.
I'm using this beautiful black one from Laura Mercier—it's a baked eye shadow—and I'm
basically pulling the color from the lashes up and out not too much in the middle, because
we want to open up the eyes a little bit.
And just to create a little bit of shadow on the crease, you can bring in the color
and just wipe it off so there's a ghost of it left to create the shape without actually
looking like you have a cut crease there.
Lining the bottom of the eyes is a personal thing: Some people like it, some people don't.
For a very smoky eye, you can just leave it alone and just do the top, but for this particular
look, we did kind of halfway on the bottom and then all the way on top.
Some women, they prefer not to put too much liner on the bottom if they have very dark
circles.
This is just whatever is left on my concealer brush, just picks up all of the pigments that
I don't want.
I'm gonna add a little mascara.
What mascara is that?
It feels thick and good.
This one is Nars Audacious.
Thick and good is good.
We want lashes good.
It's a good basic one to have.
You need to open the eyes.
I'm gonna put a little bit of mascara, especially on the center at the very end of the lashes,
and that just kind of opens the eyes this way.
So a lot of times, instead of doing heavy makeup, I usually try to layer lashes in a
certain way to create shape for the eyes.
That way you can cheat and not use a heavy liner on heavy makeup, and it looks very fresh
and clean without looking like you have a lot on.
And also another tip is to blend in different length lashes, so I go from a medium to a
short in order to make it look seamless.
She's ready for a red carpet.
Thank you for watching!
If you have any questions, put it on comments below, and I'll be glad to answer them for
you.